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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IS Releases Arsal Residents Kidnapped Two Days Ago
2015-01-23
[AnNahar] 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....
bully boyz released on Thursday two men they had kidnapped in the northeastern border town of Arsal two days ago, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Ali Riyad Ezzeddine and Mustafa Hassan Zaarour were kidnapped in Arsal's outskirts on Tuesday, NNA said without giving further details.

Reports had said that the two Arsal residents were kidnapped over a money-related dispute with a Syrian merchant.

A day earlier, assailants from the IS kidnapped Younes al-Hujeiri, another Arsal resident who owns a stone quarry, in the area of Wadi Hmeid.

His fate is still unknown.

IS and al-Qaeda-linked 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 bully boyz are hiding in the mountains on the mostly non-existent border area between Leb and Syria.

In August, they overran Arsal and engaged in bloody gunbattles with the Lebanese army.

The fighters took with them hostages from the military and police and later executed four of them.
Local civilians must be quicker to pay the required ransom than is the Lebanese government.
Posted by:trailing wife

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