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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Arsal Captors Issue Additional Demands To Release Leb Soldiers
2015-07-20
Checking in on the soldiers captured by Al Nusra on Lebanon's Syrian border almost a year ago.
[AnNahar] The relatives of the servicemen kidnapped by the al-Qaeda-affiliated 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 were allowed to visit their loved ones over the Fitr holiday, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Saturday.

It said that 60 family members were allowed to visit on Saturday the 16 captives held on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal.

The relatives told the daily that the hostages "are in good health and are being treated in the best possible way."

In addition, they revealed that the captors are demanding the release of Saja al-Dulaimi, a divorcee of 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....
chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
, and Joumana Hmayyed, who is affiliated with al-Qaeda-linked groups, from Roumieh Prison.

Another demand, made by Emir of al-Nusra Front in al-Qalamoun, Abou Malek al-Talli, is allowing the safe passage of Syrians in encampments to the Syrian town of Fleita, said the relatives.

The families of the captives accused the Lebanese state of neglecting the case of their loved ones, saying: "Some sides are practicing political spite."

The servicemen were kidnapped from Arsal in August in the wake of festivities with al-Nusra Front and Islamic State gunnies in the area.

A few of the captives have since been released, four were executed, while the rest remain held.

The families told al-Hayat that they are scheduled to meet with General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim on Tuesday to discuss the latest negotiation efforts in the case.

The official had recently visited 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...
to that end.
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