Man accused of murdering Irish peacekeepers appears in court
A man has gone on trial in Lebanon charged with the murder of two Irish peacekeepers almost 35 years ago.
Mahmoud Bazzi appeared before a military court in Beiruit, accused of murdering Privates Thomas Barrett and Derek Smallhorne.
The Irish soldiers were killed in April 1980 while on a UN patrol in South Lebanon.
Bazzi was deported from the US to his native Lebanon in January.
