ISF Sergeant Arrested for 'Smuggling' Sister of al-Nusra Jihadist
The army arrested Monday an Internal Security Forces sergeant as he was smuggling the sister of a member of al-Nusra Front from a Lebanese region to another.
“A patrol from the Lebanese army's Intelligence Directorate has arrested ISF Sergeant H. al-Fleiti along with Fatima al-Ahmed, a sister of Hmoud al-Ahmed – one of the members of al-Nusra Front who abducted several ISF members from the Arsal police station” in early August, state-run National News Agency reported.
LBCI television said Fleiti was apprehended in the Bekaa border town of al-Qaa on charges of “smuggling Syrian suspects from Beirut to Arsal in return for money.”
“He was trying to smuggle Fatima to Masharii al-Qaa in a Chevrolet Tahoe SUV,” NNA said.
Several ISF members and army troops were taken hostage when jihadists from al-Nusra and the Islamic State briefly overran Arsal in August and engaged in fierce battles with the Lebanese army.
Four captives have been executed so far, and the jihadists have threatened to kill the remaining hostages unless there is a deal to free Islamist prisoners in Lebanon.
Y.R.
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