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| Jaafar Clan Kidnaps Syrian Opposition Members in Retaliation to their Abduction of Family Member |
| 2012-05-13 |
| [An Nahar] Members of the Free Syrian Army kidnapped overnight two Lebanese citizens and a Syrian national, reported Voice of Leb radio on Saturday. Khodr Hussein Jaafar, Ahmed Medlij, and Syrian Abdullah al-Zein were kidnapped for their alleged role in persecuting Syrian opposition members in Syria, reported the daily al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... on Saturday. The Jaafar clan retaliated by abducting some 50 members of the opposition in the Syrian border towns of Zeita and al-Burhaniyeh, it added. They have been taken to the region of Beit Jaafar near the city of al-Qasr in al-Hermel in the Bekaa, it continued. VDL said that the residents of Arab al-Mojadleh and Abou Jabal have since intervened to negotiate the release of the hostages. The Free Syrian Army proposed the release of Jaafar in exchange for all the Syrians, but the clan refused, it revealed. |
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