FSA Urges Lebanese Government to Release Col. Rifai
The Free Syrian Army urged on Monday the Lebanese government to release the head of FSA command council, Colonel Abdullah Rifai, who was arrested a day earlier on the eastern border with Syria.
FSA also said the “Lebanese army is not our enemy.”
The army said Sunday that Rifai was arrested at a military checkpoint in Wadi Hmeid on the outskirts of the northeastern town of Arsal.
Rifai was trying to infiltrate Syrian territories with the assistance of Lebanese Khaled Haydar al-Hujairi in a pickup truck, it said.
The suspect had a forged Lebanese identify card and admitted to belonging to an armed Syrian organization, the communique added.
The Free Syrian Army is the Western-backed moderate group fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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