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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: ISIL to Release Hostage ahead of Holidays as Goodwill Gesture
2014-12-12
[AnNahar] The relatives of kidnapped soldiers and coppers were informed by an international side that 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....
of Iraq and the Levant group is ready to release a hostage before the holidays as a goodwill gesture.
Or perhaps not... The nice thing about promised is that they raise hopes, which can then be dashed by deciding not to. This reinforces who is ruling, and who is ruled.
According to Ad Diyar newspaper published on Thursday, the relatives said that ISIL's initiative is to press the Lebanese state to change its maneuvers and its techniques in dealing with the abduction ordeal.

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour, who has been highly informed on the case, expressed hope in comments published in the daily that Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid ?Jumblat wouldn't ask him to reveal all the aspects of the case.?

Abou Faour continuously headed to the protest camp of the relatives of the captives in Beirut's Riad Solh Square and persuaded them to open roads, vowing that the state will resolve the hostage crisis.

Sources close to the negotiations with the jihadists told the newspaper that the cabinet didn't receive yet any serious pledge from ISIL or the al-Qaeda-affiliate 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...
Front that they will not harm any soldier or policeman.

The comments come a day after Salafist holy man Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi revealed that he urged Islamist bad boy Anas Sharkas, who is also known as Abu Ali al-Shishani, not to harm any of the remaining captive servicemen in his custody.

Rafehi said that Shishani telephoned him to thank him for the effort exerted by the Moslem Scholars Committee over the case of his wife Ola al-Oqaili.

The relatives of the kidnapped soldiers and coppers called on Monday on the Moslem Scholars Committee to play a bigger role in the negotiations after 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...
withdrew from the case on Sunday.

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
the committee filed a request to be officially tasked by the state to follow up the case.

The committee is touring Lebanese officials to press negotiations forward.

The security force members were captured when the jihadists briefly overran Arsal in August, sparking fierce battles with Lebanese troops.

Four have been executed so far, and the jihadists have threatened to kill the remaining hostages unless there is a deal to free Islamist prisoners in Leb.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Mind games.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-12-12 12:25  

#4  Recognizing another religion's sacred events...sound like apostates to me.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-12-12 11:32  

#3  ISIS members have no goodwill in their hearts; moreover, they are not to be trusted. Act accordingly. Yesterday, they were asking $1,000,000 for the body of Jim Foley--crass.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-12-12 09:51  

#2  This is sad. They're going to taquia like the rest.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-12-12 09:05  

#1  could they all commit suicide as a "goodwill gesture"? Cuz I'd appreciate that
Posted by: Frank G   2014-12-12 09:04  

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