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Lebanon, United States
Abbas Ibrahim still in hot water in US despite pulling off prisoner release

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The head of the Lebanese General Security Directorate Abbas Ibrahim.
The head of the Lebanese General Security Directorate Abbas Ibrahim. © Mohamed Azakir/Reuters

Ibrahim has done many hostage and prisoner deals in his day and has now succeeded again by securing the release of a Lebanese detainee in Abu Dhabi. Yet the latest has done nothing to allay growing US anger over accusations that the spy chief was behind the torture of Amer al-Fakhoury.

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