Al-Nusra Front Hands Qatari Envoy in Arsal List of Demands on Soldiers' Case
Al-Nusra Front handed on Saturday to the Qatari envoy three proposals in the case of the abducted soldiers, suggesting to exchange the kidnapped soldiers for the Islamists in the Lebanese and Syrian jails.
Al-Nusra Front said: “We delivered to the Qatari mediator three proposals on exchanging the kidnapped soldiers for the Islamists in the Lebanese and Syrian prisons.”
“The Qatari envoy expressed a semi preliminary approval to release the Islamist prisoners from the Lebanese and Syrian prisons and we handed him a list of some names,” it added.
On Friday, the Qatari envoy who is in the outskirts of Arsal to negotiate in the case of kidnapped soldiers by extremist groups since last August, received the list of demands of the abductees.
The Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front executed captive Lebanese soldier Mohammed Hamiyeh, describing him as the “victim of the Lebanese army's intransigence."
It constantly threatens to kill Ali al-Bazzal and in its last statement it threatened to kill George Khoury, to pressure the government and the army, which has recently clashed with terrorists in Tripoli and the North.
As for the families of the abducted soldiers protesting in Riad al-Solh Square they threatened earlier in a "black day" if they did not receive any reassurances in the case of their children, but they were postponed their escalation after the Qatari envoy went on Thursday to the outskirts of Arsal, waiting for the results of his meetings.
Z.A.
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