Meqdad Clan Frees Six Syrians as 'Goodwill Gesture'
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Six Syrians taken hostages by al-Moqdad clan earlier this month have been released, the family’s spokesman Maher al-Meqdad announced on Saturday.
“This comes as goodwill gesture,” he told LBCI.
However, he pointed out that four other Syrians and a Turkish national will remain captives until the release of Hassan Salim al-Meqdad, who was allegedly kidnapped by the Free Syrian Army in Damascus in August.
Al-Meqdad family’s, previously unknown, military wing kidnapped several Syrians and a Turkish citizen, Aidan Toufan, in retaliation for the abduction Hassan.
"This has nothing to do with the release of one of the 11 hostages in Syria, clan spokesman Maher Muqdad told Agence France Presse, adding that four other Syrians and a Turkish national are still being held.
Another Turkish national has also been kidnapped but it was not clear who was behind his abduction.
Earlier this month, an obscure group calling itself al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi Brigade has also claimed the abduction of several Syrians in Lebanon, with the aim of swapping them for 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims kidnapped in Aleppo in May.
However, on Saturday media reports said that the group has released four of the Syrian captives.
Unverified reports that 4 of the pilgrims had been killed in an air strike on the northern Syrian town of Aazaz earlier this month triggered a spate of violence against Syrians present in Lebanon.
25 August 2012, 17:56
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@theresistance: who are you resisting? where is Israel in Lebanon? Why are not you in the Golan helping your Syrian brothers if you are truthful in resisting Israel? who snipered the salafist sheikh in Tripoli? admit that you are a robot of Iran and Syria and it's your evil regime that is trying to keep the Lebanese front busy with war and unstable via assassinations/kidnappings so that the terrorist regime in Syria continue the killing machine of their own people and towns.
25 August 2012, 17:59
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Put every Moqdad man on the interpol list so that they learn a lesson on how to kidnap innocent people.
25 August 2012, 19:30
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Meen wakalkon? Oh nobody? OK no problem. Thank you for your service and sacrifice but now we respectfully ask that you surrender your weapons to the legitimate authorities. Ya3tikon alf 3afieh w'kattir kheyrkon bass kholsit wazeefitkon...merci et ciao.
25 August 2012, 21:51
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The idiots should know that the forced of Bashar have him so they cause problems in Lebanon. When they act like they do, Bashar will kidnap more and more Shiites so they start problems like they are. Proof? Kidnappers from the opposition don't wear masks. Instead, they appear on TV even! Kidnappers of Mokdad were all wearing masks. Another Abo Adass production.
25 August 2012, 21:54
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This "government" isn't lifting a finger to control those kidnappers. This makes the "government" an accomplice of those Meqdad baboons. Birds of a feather bunch together.
25 August 2012, 23:56
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Its great to know that the shia community is above the law, I wonder why? I wonder why they have the green light, who could possibly be behind them? Hezbollah is going to bring the end of this country, and its a shame a country built by christians in its earliest days has been dragged to the abyss soon as the shia got a hold of the government
