Hizbullah Denies Ayyad's Swap Deal Involved Suspect Held by Lebanese Authorities

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Hizbullah denied on Wednesday reports saying that the party secured the safe release of a member, who was held by a Syrian rebel group, in exchange for a Syrian who was in the custody of the Lebanese authorities.

“The report that was published in An Nahar newspaper on Tuesday is completely false,” Hizbullah's press office said.

The newspaper had reported that the release of Hizbullah member Imad Ayyad last week was in exchange for two Syrians, one of them was in the custody of the Lebanese authorities.

The General Security Directorate also stressed on Tuesday that head of the Free Syrian Army command council Colonel Abdullah Rifai is in its custody, denying that he was handed over to Hizbullah to swap him with Ayyad.

“Rifai is still in our custody and his fate is linked to the negotiation process” of the abducted Lebanese soldiers and policemen, the General Security said.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr handed over Rifai in November to the General Security without charging him.

The Lebanese army arrested Rifai who was trying to enter Syria using fake documents.

The FSA is the Western-backed moderate group fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Hizbullah said last Tuesday that one of its members, Ayyad, was freed in exchange for two gunmen who were in the party's custody.

Ayyad had been in the custody of Syrian groups in the mountains of the Qalamun region near Lebanon's border.

The party has been fighting alongside troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar 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 gunmen and the failure of the Lebanese government to do so.

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Thumb EagleDawn 03 December 2014, 11:11

Hizbullah said last Tuesday that one of its members, Ayyad, was freed in exchange for two gunmen who were in the party's custody.

but i thought he was an engineer???

Thumb ex-fpm 03 December 2014, 11:12

hehehe!

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2014, 11:30

"hehehe!" what's your point eagleyawn?

Default-user-icon full.discloure. (Guest) 03 December 2014, 15:24

11 up votes? Lol, oooook yea, those multiples accounts DEFINTIELY are legit lmao!!! This site is such a joke

Default-user-icon full.discloure. (Guest) 03 December 2014, 18:06

16 up votes for mowaten? Lol, oooook yea, those multiples accounts DEFINTIELY are legit lmao!!! This site is such a joke

Missing mohammad_ca 03 December 2014, 12:32

yeah man all Engineers in Lebanon pose with guns and militant fatigue LOL

Thumb freedomarch 03 December 2014, 13:29

As an engineer he was doing some duties .. probably that is why he was not a professional fighter and was eventually captured. Let the guy rest with his family.

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2014, 13:50

You know what being an engineer means mohammad? It means having an engineering degree, but it doesnt mean you can't be a patriot and defend your country.

The funny part about all this is seeing how you m14 pre-formatted goons suffocate at the idea that the guy is smarter, more educated, braver and more patriotic than you ever will be. A guy like Imad puts all of you trolls is his little pocket.

Thumb lubnani.masi7i 03 December 2014, 14:25

yes mohammad, listen to the farsi mowaten. This guy was defending his country in Syria when he was captured. If you watch the video of his capture and the way he talks, his grammar, his vocabulary, etc. I can assure you he never went to school.

Missing mohammad_ca 03 December 2014, 16:14

Moowaten you never cease to be irrelevant especially when you are cornered. The comment was on whether he was a fighter or not, you goons are claiming he wasn't a fighter but an "engineer", yet he is posing in militia gear and a gun, so he is a fighter not an "engineer".

Thumb Mystic 03 December 2014, 17:10

Indeed, many people are taking up arms, against the takfiris. Engineers, Doctors, even Bakers etc.

This will only continue, he was captured in Bekaa, not Syria. He was transferred to Qalamoun after his capture.

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2014, 17:11

Nobody said he wasnt a fighter you compulsive liar. Just like imagine_1979, you keep inventing supposed statements and pretenting to answer them. completely irrelevant little trolls

Thumb freedomarch 03 December 2014, 14:23

One of my issues with hizbola and any other armed entity is that nither iran, the west or KSA or any one should be the final decision maker fighting outsude the country or add to that extending your armed wing beyond resisting occupation all will eventually lead to what we have now, problems without control.

Missing mohammad_ca 03 December 2014, 16:13

It is not a resistance it is a shia milita that only accepts shias, again, how many engineers post in milita gear and a gun?

Missing mohammad_ca 03 December 2014, 16:28

really? name one non shia hizbollaat official?

Thumb Mystic 03 December 2014, 17:10

The Army intelligence denied it, and the Resistance denies it. Only ones accusing with no evidence, are the flies from M14.

Thumb Mystic 03 December 2014, 17:14

mohammadca, if you expect to protect yourself against well-equipped takfiris, then you need to be wearing a flak jacket. After all, we see LAF soldiers gets martyred here and there, then the rest of the citizens of Lebanon have every right, to rise up and protect themselves and support the Army & Resistance.

Missing mohammad_ca 03 December 2014, 21:06

more irrelevance from mystic, there was a comment that has been removed that claimed that non-shias can be part of the shiite militia, i asked that commenter to name one non-shiite official in hizbolaat. your comment has nothing to do with mine.

Thumb ex-fpm 03 December 2014, 11:13

HA can deny all they want; it won't be their first and it won't be their last lie.

Missing imagine_1979 03 December 2014, 11:22

U meant like when nassi said hezbos never turned their armed on lebanese during civil war?
Like when hezbos said that officier samer hanna was shot by the israelly enemy?
Like when hezbos said that the now saint was just fixing butros harb elevator?
No it can be....
They never lie, they are so pure, so modern, so progressist, secular, so wawww...
And yet u will find retards defending them...
iSIS hezbos houthy (by the way u know where ISIS khorasam brigades came from?)... All same retards engaging in a midleaged war and taking all the area to stonage...
Yalla flame, southern...chant: Labayka ya nosrollah

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2014, 11:32

eh keep inventing stuff they said and answer them yourself. it must be convenient for you, having a monologue with your imagination.

Default-user-icon cityboy (Guest) 03 December 2014, 11:48

I was thinking the same, exactly the same _mowaten_, but you beat me to it. We are so much alike in everything: we are both shia extremists, both paid to post, both support a sectarian militia, both pretend to be secular, both are harass posters. I just hope people don't think we are the same poster.

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2014, 14:50

stop choking on your chupachups dude, you sound like a mess.

Thumb barrymore 03 December 2014, 15:25

and stop voting yourself up... it is shameful!

Thumb lubnani.masi7i 03 December 2014, 11:51

i agree

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2014, 11:54

yeayea i know, you takfiri groupies have your fantasies

Default-user-icon durzi.irani (Guest) 03 December 2014, 14:31

well said massi7i.sa3oodi

Thumb Mystic 03 December 2014, 17:15

Should be called Saudi.wahabi, this fly.

Thumb Mystic 03 December 2014, 17:16

saudijack, the Rambo wannabe. Why don't you go behead some? See how far you'd last.

Thumb Elemental 03 December 2014, 20:09

I see the fake accounts brigade is in full swing today defending their Iranian masters, hope you're proud of yourselves for using Lebanon.

Missing peace 03 December 2014, 15:01

hezbollah double standards : the state cannot negociate with terrorists but we can....

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2014, 17:17

And yet another one inventing claims and attributing them to hezbollah... Is it an m14 disease? And you guys so deep down your ostrich holes that you can't make the distinction anymore between what is real and what is pure propaganda?

From the day the soldiers were captured Nasrallah said we should negotiate from a position of strength. This, for people able to understand plain speech means we can and should negotiate.
Unless you have such low self-esteem that a "position of strength" is inconceivable for you...

Missing peace 03 December 2014, 20:33

who cares? the thing is that your beloved militia does all it can to weaken the state and act outside of it as if it does not exist... outlaws and proud of it....

Missing peace 03 December 2014, 20:46

"Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Party have repeatedly rejected any idea of an exchange under the pretext that Syrian militants are responsible for the killing of innocent Lebanese soldiers and are therefore an illegitimate party with which to negotiate. “On one hand, Hezbollah impedes negotiations that involves such swaps,” said Amine. “On the other, it carries out swaps of its own with no clear liaising with Lebanese authorities. Hezbollah was the first [party] to reject the swap — when it’s not a Hezbollah affair — and then the first to accept it when it is.”

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/564459-hezbollah-negotiates-with-terrorists

Thumb barrymore 03 December 2014, 15:25

he is and will always be a criminal

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2014, 17:25

comme tu es pitoyable avec tes petites insultes de frustrée :)

Missing coolmec 03 December 2014, 21:15

Moi je vous trouve tous pitoyable vous ne faite que vous accuser M9 and M14, tandis que moi je trouve que les 2 sont nuls et ne cessent de se foutre de votre gueule. Quand allez vous devenir Libanais et malgres les differences politiques ne songer et ne defendre que la Patrie?
Vous ne ferez jamais ca car vous etes fait pour vous blamer mutuellement

Thumb freedomarch 03 December 2014, 23:42

Veve le France