Another Turkish Citizen Kidnapped in Lebanon
A Turkish man became the second foreigner to be kidnapped in Lebanon since al-Meqdad clan and another obscure group went on an abduction spree of Syrians and Turkish nationals on Wednesday to pressure the Free Syrian Army in releasing a member of the clan.
The National News Agency said Friday that Abd Basset Orssolane was abducted in the area of Choueifat near the Coca Cola factory.
The assailants stopped a Mercedes truck he was riding and took him to an unknown location on Thursday night, NNA said.
Orssolane is the second Turkish citizen to be abducted in Lebanon after al-Meqdad clan announced that it kidnapped Aidan Toufan on Wednesday.
But the clan’s spokesman Maher al-Meqdad told OTV that the family’s military wing has nothing to do with the abduction of Orssolane.
The family, which holds Turkey responsible for backing the Syrian rebels, has stressed that it would not release the abductees until the FSA sets free Hassan al-Meqdad.
On Thursday, it announced a halt to all of its military operations throughout Lebanon.
But the position of the obscure group calling itself Mukhtar al-Thaqfi Brigade is not clear yet.
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