 DAMASCUS - Syria has extradited to Saudi Arabia 12 âextremistsâ linked to a killed Tunisian militant who it said had planned to set up a training camp for militants on Lebanese territory, the state news agency SANA said on Monday. | Normally it's the Saudis running the camps training Tunisian cannon fodder. |
The agency did not state explicitly that the 12 were Saudi nationals or say when they were handed over, but said it was the first of several planned extraditions of an unspecified number of militants to their countries of origin. âThe Syrian authorities have started to extradite a number of extremists who are in their custody and who belong to several Arab nationalities to their respective countries,â SANA said. | I'll take that as a "Yes". |
It said the militants had been involved in a clash on the Syrian-Lebanese border on June 22, when a Tunisian identified by the media as Majdi bin Mohammed bin Said Al Zreibi was killed. The agency, which referred to the Tunisian only by his initials, (MbMbSAZ) said he had âplanned to establish a camp for training extremists on Lebanese territoryâ, without saying if the purpose was to train volunteers for the anti-U.S. insurgency in Iraq. |