NEWS
December 19, 1988
A Muslim group said it is holding a Belgian doctor, Jan Cools, who disappeared in south Lebanon on May 21. "The Soldiers of Truth," a previously unknown group, said in a statement given to news agencies in Beirut that Cools will be put on trial for spying for Western countries and Israel. Cools, 32, an aid worker with a Norwegian group, disappeared after leaving the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh near the Lebanese port of Tyre.