Mashnouq Retracts Remarks, Says Dulaimi in Jail and Oqaili in General Security Custody
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Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq announced Tuesday that Saja al-Dulaimi, a divorcee of Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was still in a Military Court jail, while Ola al-Oqaili, the wife of top jihadist Abu Ali al-Shishani, is “in the custody of the General Security,” retracting an earlier statement that said both women were referred to the security agency.
“The interior minister wrongfully announced that Saja al-Dulaimi and Ola al-Oqaili are in the custody of the Lebanese General Security, and the truth is that Dulaimi is still in prison after the judiciary issued an arrest warrant for her, while al-Oqaili is in the General Security's custody,” Mashnouq's office said in a statement.
In a communique published by state-run National News Agency, the minister had announced that both women were referred to the General Security.
“Any claims to the contrary would be aimed at disrupting the negotiations that (General Security chief) Maj. Gen. (Abbas) Ibrahim is conducting,” Mashnouq said in the communique.
His remarks come following hours of conflicting reports on whether or not the Military Court had referred the two women to the General Security.
Earlier on Tuesday, Military Court chief Brig. Gen. Khalil Ibrahim told the National News Agency that “arrest warrants were issued for al-Dulaimi and her Palestinian husband,” denying earlier reports that said they had been referred to the General Security.
For his part Muslim Scholars Committee chief Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi quoted Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi as saying that “only al-Oqaili” was referred to the General Security.
The Military Court's move indicates that the release of al-Oqaili has become imminent and that she has been cleared of any major offenses.
“There will be no deportation or expulsion of any Syrian brother or sister, whether the sister Ola or any other Syrian woman, as deportation is prohibited in Lebanese law,” al-Rafehi quoted al-Mashnouq as saying after a meeting at the ministry.
“We thanked him for his stance,” al-Rafehi added.
According to Mashnouq, Saja al-Dulaimi is an Iraqi national who had been married to al-Baghdadi in the past. Their daughter, Hajar, was also arrested by the army.
Al-Dulaimi, her Palestinian husband and Hajar were arrested at a checkpoint on al-Madfoun Bridge in the North. The arrest took place last month and was kept a secret until the media put it out to public.
Ola al-Oqaili, the wife of Anas Sharkas, aka Abu Ali al-Shishani, was arrested two months after extensive surveillance.
She was apprehended along with her brother Rakan in the Zgharta area of Hilan in northern Lebanon at a public school hosting Syrian refugees.
In retaliation to the arrest, al-Shishani threatened to start kidnapping the wives and children of soldiers until the Lebanese authorities release his spouse and two children, announcing the suspension of negotiations in the case of the abducted servicemen.
The soldiers and policemen were abducted when militants from the two groups briefly overran the northeastern border town of Arsal in August.
The fighters withdrew after a truce negotiated by clerics, but took with them 30 hostages, four of whom have been executed.
Y.R./H.K.
09 December 2014, 14:53
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another puppet begging for help instead of focusing inwards towards his people and mending the rift that needs to be healed.
09 December 2014, 15:30
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They have nothing on these women so they released them or so they say. They handed them over to abbas ibrahim, an expert at kidnappings, exchange, and counter kidnappings. He masterminded the kidnapping of the turkish pilots and used them in the exchange for our beloved innocent shia pilgrims.
09 December 2014, 18:27
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Those who kidnapped the Turkish pilots among others are known by name. Were they arrested? were they tried? In your jungle, kidnappings, killings, and every illegal activity is halal as long as it is done by your hizb.
09 December 2014, 18:56
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Soldier Bazzal was executed as a direct result of the arrest of the wife and children of a Nusra commander by general security. Now, they are releasing his wife without being charged. What did Bazzal die for? Incompetence or what?!!!
09 December 2014, 19:04
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3anjad you are unbelievable in your sectarian propaganda. What has rifi got to do with it. If you read the article you would know it was the Military Court that made the call and Rifi has no jurisdiction over military courts. You are just blinded by sectarian hatred and nothing else.
09 December 2014, 19:58
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assafir first reported that it's elusive unnamed reliable security source told it that the lebanese security forces caught the wife and three children of abu bakr al-baghdadi trumpeted this as a "big game changing catch". the only change this reliable information caused was turning ali al-bazzal into a reluctant martyr, his wife a widow and his daughter a paternal orphan. any self respecting publication with a little biographical search of al-baghdadi would have known that the information it received from it's unnamed reliable security source was unreliable based on human biology alone. you see madame abu bakr al-baghdadi was married to abu bakr al-baghdadi for only three months. so unless madame had an immaculate conception of at least two of the three children, it was impossible that all three children were al-baghdadi as assafir's elusive unnamed reliable security source claimed.
09 December 2014, 22:40
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KGB tactics to get their hostages back:
http://articles.philly.com/1986-01-15/news/26052630_1_hostage-crisis-soviet-captives-islamic-liberation-organization
10 December 2014, 13:02
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man have u been day dreaming during office hours..u should really know what is happening in the country, specially when it is related to terrorists??
