Arsal Residents Denounce Tit-for-Tat Kidnappings, Urge Jaafar Clan to Avoid Strife
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The residents of the northeastern town of Arsal denied on Wednesday any link to the kidnapping of a man from the Jaafar clan, saying they were ready to hand over the suspect if he was a town resident.
“The kidnapping has nothing to do with Arsal residents,” said municipal chief Ali al-Hujairi at a press conference he held following a meeting of the town's residents.
“If there was proof of the involvement of any Arsal resident in the abduction then we would hand him over,” he said.
The residents decried in a statement read by al-Hujairi the tit-for-tat kidnappings, saying “Arsal is a Lebanese land and its residents are Lebanese so they enjoy the right of movement on all territories.”
It is the role of the armed forces to guarantee such a right, said the statement.
“Arsal residents ask the Jaafar clan to release the kidnapped men and express full readiness to reveal the fate of Hussein Kamel Jaafar,” it added.
The statement also urged the Jaafar clan to avoid acts that lead to strife and called on the state to settle the case of the kidnapped men and punish the perpetrators.
The wave of sectarian kidnappings began on Sunday when Jaafar was kidnapped by unidentified assailants, and reportedly taken into Syria.
In revenge, armed men from the clan have kidnapped several residents of Arsal. Two have been reportedly released.
On Tuesday, the army deployed in the Sharawneh district of Baalbek, where many members of the Jaafar clan live, searching homes for captives.
Arsal is a majority Sunni town whose inhabitants generally support the revolt in neighboring Syria, while most of the population of Hermel and Baalbek are Shiites.
Al-Hujairi said there was unconfirmed information that the number of kidnapped Arsal residents has reached nine.
27 March 2013, 14:10
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the thuggish members of the apartheid terrorist islamic Iranian organization operating in lebanon and their bee2at al 7adinat have gone mad with the overflowing power of their illegal iranian sectarian arms, from the bass mat watan nasrallah sketch spurred attacks on ain el rimmeneh and achrafieh to the mekdad and jaafar military wings to the lessa residents just a month ago threatening the maronite residents of keserwan with sectarian strife following the death of two of their thugs who lost a simple personal dispute by stupidly bringing swords to a gun fight. since their syrian handlers were evicted they've been whiling to bully the people in jbeil and keserwan who protected them during the civil war, kidnap and threaten the people who rebuilt the homes demolished by hassan's ayatollah dictated war in 2006, turn centuries old traditional clans into clowns, blame a whole community for some individual offense and take this country to the brink of sectarian strife.
27 March 2013, 14:49
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Of course the kidnapers of the Jaafar smuggler are not the ones the Jaafars are kidnapping but who cares, hey they're divine, saintly and other similar bullsh!t hammered into bleeding empty heads and self concussed damaged brains yearly on a hijacked holiday. The same idiots defended the Mekdas and the Bass Mat Watan rioters. Iran has sadly turned a once proud sect into a cult. But this too shall pass, Shiism is much bigger than the Ayatollah, his brainwashed minions or his stale archaic ideology.
27 March 2013, 14:49
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Of course the kidnapers of the Jaafar smuggler are not the ones the Jaafars are kidnapping but who cares, hey they're divine, saintly and other similar bullsh!t hammered into bleeding empty heads and self concussed damaged brains yearly on a hijacked holiday. The same idiots defended the Mekdas and the Bass Mat Watan rioters. Iran has sadly turned a once proud sect into a cult. But this too shall pass, Shiism is much bigger than the Ayatollah, his brainwashed minions or his stale archaic ideology.
27 March 2013, 15:09
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Jean Qahwaji should send his finest and arrests the criminals that are damaging the tourism industry among many other.
27 March 2013, 15:24
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These HA supporters have gotten lots of practice since last summer...and of course, not a word from HA denouncing this.
27 March 2013, 23:04
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according to the article,
"The wave of sectarian kidnappings began on Sunday when Jaafar was kidnapped by UNIDENTIFIED assailants, and reportedly taken into Syria."
and they feel the need to kidnap to justify this, and you feel the need to defend them. shows us where this country is headed...
27 March 2013, 17:48
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Those being kidnapped by the jaafars have nothing to do with the matter yet you insist on linking the two. A couple of days ago you even agreed in with "who kidnapped first" when the Jaafar smuggler was kidnapped by his partners in crime not by some dude driving an ambulance. This mob mentality is a direct result of the militarization of the sect and it harms the whole nation and leads to the militarization of all the other sects. Isn't this what happened after 1969, no one was spared the calamity.
"jaafars just like the mekdads play solo.. they are not on good terms with HA - at all", sure they're not, but why does HA keep claiming to have the support of over 97% of Shiia and how did the Mekdads manage to do what they please unmolested until Nasrallah gave his Caesarean thumbs down over a month later.
