Assad Hassan Sabra
Terror organization: Hezbollah
Status: Member at unit 121, Hezbollah assassination squad.
Role: Was part of the squad in the assassination team that plotted and executed Hariri’s assassination. His charges included conspiracy aimed at committing a terrorist act and being an accomplice to the felony of intentional homicide with premeditation by using explosive materials.
Sabra was accused of having participated prior to the attack in the selection of a suitable individual – Ahmed Abu Adass, a Palestinian man, to make a false claim of responsibility, and of having participated in his disappearance. Abu Adass has been missing since 16 January 2005.
Oneissi and Sabra acted together immediately after the bombing in order to disseminate statements falsely attributing responsibility, and to ensure the delivery and subsequent broadcast of the video-taped false claim of responsibility to the Al Jazeera news network’s Beirut office.
Al Jazeera received a video in which Abu Adass said he planned to blow himself up on behalf of a what prosecutors said was a fictional Sunni fundamentalist group called “Victory and Jihad and Greater Syria”.
Location: Lebanon.
Charges:
– Conspiracy aimed at committing a Terrorist Act;
– Being an Accomplice to the felony of Committing a Terrorist Act by means of an explosive device;
– Being an Accomplice to the felony of Intentional Homicide (of Rafik HARIRI) with premeditation by using explosive materials;
– Being an Accomplice to the felony of Intentional Homicide (of 21 persons in addition to the Intentional Homicide of Rafik HARIRI) with premeditation by using explosive materials; and
– Being an Accomplice to the felony of Attempted Intentional Homicide (of 226 persons in addition to the Intentional Homicide of Rafik HARIRI) with premeditation by using explosive materials.
Also Known As: SABRA;
Date of Birth: 15 October 1976 in Beirut, Lebanon
Gender: Male;
Address: Lebanon;
Activities:
ASSAD HASSAN SABRA (SABRA) was born on 15 October 1976 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Hassan Tahan SABRA (father) and Leila SALEH (mother). He has resided at apartment 2, 4th floor, Building 28, Rue 58, in Hadath 3, South Beirut, also described as St. Therese Street, Hadath, in South Beirut. He is a citizen of Lebanon. His Lebanese civil registration is 1339/Zqaq AI-Blat.