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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
General Security Chief to Nusra Front: We Will Not Negotiate on Corpses
2014-11-09
[An Nahar] General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim stated on Saturday that freeing the kidnapped soldiers and coppers is a thorny file that needs patience and a long time to work out, assuring that he will not negotiate the kidnappers on corpses.

"Serious negotiations are about to begin with a list of three choices that have been set by al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
in preparation for the swap," said Ibrahim in an interview to the al-Akhbar daily.

He stressed that he made it clear to the kidnapper that he will not negotiate on corpses and that the servicemen need to be freed alive.

Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
groups have been holding several troops and coppers hostage since August 2, when they overran the northeastern border town of Arsal and engaged in bloody festivities with the army.

During last week's meeting of the crisis cell aimed at tackling this file, the government decided that "the kidnappers set three choices, not conditions, to release the soldiers. We took the decision and sent it back to them through the 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. We are still waiting for the answer," said Ibrahim.

Al-Nusra Front said that the three-month hostage crisis would end if 10 inmates held at Lebanese prisons would be freed for each hostage or seven Lebanese inmates and 30 female prisoners held in Syria would be released for each kidnapped soldier and policeman or if five Lebanese and 50 women inmates would be freed.
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Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-11-09 02:20  

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