Sentenced to life in prison for 'complicity in assassinations' in 1987, the Lebanese former militant, who has been eligible for release since 1999, was released after his 12th request. He was immediately put on a plane to his home country.

Georges Abdallah will immediately be expelled to his native Lebanon after his release on Friday.

LANNEMEZAN, France: One of France’s longest-held inmates, the pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, will be released and deported on Friday, after more than…