... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
command council Colonel Abdullah Rifai is in its custody, denying that he was handed over to Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
to swap him with Imad Ayyad.
"Rifai is still in our custody and his fate is linked to the negotiation process" of the kidnapped Lebanese soldiers and coppers, the General Security said.
The directorate denied that he was handed over to Hizbullah to exchange him, along with another Syrian, with its fighter Ayyad.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr handed over Rifai in November to the General Security without charging him.
Lebanese army tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
Rifai who was trying to enter Syria using fake documents.
The FSA is the Western-backed moderate group fighting to topple Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
An Nahar newspaper had reported earlier that the release of Ayyad last week was in exchange for two Syrians, one of them was in the custody of the Lebanese authorities.
Sources told the daily that the Syrian detainee could have been used in negotiations with the Qaeda-linked 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group to secure the safe release of the kidnapped servicemen, who were taken hostage when the two groups withdrew from the northeastern border town of Arsal in August.
Hizbullah said last Tuesday that one of its members, Ayyad, was freed in exchange for two gunnies who were in the party's custody.
Ayyad had been in the custody of Syrian groups in the mountains of the Qalamun region near Leb's border.
The party has been fighting alongside troops loyal to Syrian President Bashir al-Assad against rebels seeking to topple him.
The matter drew the ire of the families of captive servicemen, who expressed regret at Hizbullah's ability to engage in a prisoner swap with Syrian gunnies and the failure of the Lebanese government to do so.