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Red on red: Negotiations for Release of Hizbullah Members from Nusra Front Captivity
Happy news of the day:
[AnNahar] Negotiations are underway between Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
and al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front on the release of three Hizbullah members taken captive in Syria's Reef Aleppo around two months ago, al-Akhbar daily reported on Thursday.

The newspaper said that the Nusra leadership has tasked Abou Malek al-Talleh, the so-called emir of al-Nusra in Qalamun, with carrying out the negotiations.

The talks are focusing on the release of the Hizbullah fighters in return for the party to set free several al-Nusra gunnies taken captive by the party or tossed in the clink
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
by the Lebanese authorities, it said.

The terrorist group is also trying to pressure Hizbullah to ask the Syrian army to withdraw from a village or two towns that are under its control in the Qalamun region, said the report.

A Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
i mediator is holding talks with the two sides to speed up the negotiations process, it added.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-22
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