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| Al Qaeda offers to free Lebanon troops for female prisoners |
| 2015-07-20 |
| [DAWN] Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate has offered to release three Lebanese soldiers in exchange for an ex-wife of the leader of the jihadist 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 and four other female prisoners. Al-Nusra Front, which along with IS has held 25 Lebanese soldiers and coppers hostage for almost a year, issued the offer in a statement aired on Leb's MTV television on Saturday night. "If five of our sisters leave prison... we will hand over three soldiers in exchange," said Abu Malek al-Shami, Al-Nusra's "emir" in the Syrian region of Qalamun bordering Leb. Among the five hostages he named was Saja al-Dulaimi, who was jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Leb in December and is a former wife of IS leader 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... , as well as a wife of an Al-Nusra leader. Dulaimi's background is complicated as she reportedly belongs to a tribe that straddles Syria and Iraq and she was said to have been closer to Al-Nusra than her ex-husband's rival jihadists at the time of her arrest. Shami's face was not shown in the interview, which MTV conducted as part of an arranged visit by family members to loved ones held by Al-Nusra in what it called "a cave in the Qalamun mountains". The channel showed footage of the three-hour reunion between parents, spouses and even children of the hostages, many of them unable to hold back their tears. The hostages, all with long beards, appeared in healthy condition inside a tent. Sixteen of the 25 Lebanese soldiers and coppers who were taken hostage near the border with Syria in August 2014 are in the hands of Al-Nusra. The rest are held by Baghdadi's Islamic State group. Since their capture, Al-Nusra and IS have repeatedly made demands for the soldiers' release, seeking the release of Islamist prisoners or the withdrawal of Leb's Hezbollah movement from the Syrian conflict. |
| Posted by:Fred |