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| Army Arrests Syrian Refugees in Minieh Raid |
| 2014-08-15 |
[An Nahar] The Lebanese army incarceratedYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Thursday several Syrians during a raid in the northern district of Minieh-Dinniyeh, the state-run National News Agency reported. The military raided al-Siddiq compound in the town of al-Minieh, which houses Syrian refugees, and arrested several young men, it said. LBCI quoted officials from the Mohammedan Scholars Committee as saying that raids on Syrian refugee encampments and the arrest of the maimed complicate the negotiations with the kidnappers of Lebanese soldiers and security forces members in the northeastern town of Arsal. "Negotiations could not continue this way," the officials, who were not named, said. The Mohammedan Scholars Committee is involved in the negotiations with jihadists to release the hostages. On Wednesday, it handed Prime Minister Tammam Salam a video of seven of the captured soldiers. Committee front man Sheikh Adnan Imama told As Safir newspaper published on Thursday that some of the captors who belong to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... have demanded the release of several Roumieh prison inmates to exchange them with the Arsal captives. They have also called for "guaranteeing the safety of maimed rebels in Lebanese hospitals," and "ending the siege on the refugee encampments and securing humanitarian assistance to them." |
| Posted by:Fred |