Defected Syrian Colonel Arrested in Arsal

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The Lebanese Army on Sunday arrested a defected Syrian officer in the Bekaa border town of Arsal.

“Mahmoud Abbas, a Syrian defected colonel and member of the Syrian Revolution Military Council, was arrested in Arsal's Wadi Hmayyed,” state-run National News Agency reported. It said the man was arrested at a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Wadi Hmayyed.

But the army later announced arresting Syrian nationals Omar Mahmoud Othman and Radwan Mahmoud Ayyoush in Wadi Hmayyed.

“As part of the mission of controlling the land borders, army forces in the Arsal area of Wadi Hmayyed arrested Syrian nationals Omar Mahmoud Othman and Radwan Mahmoud Ayyoush for attempting to enter Lebanon illegally,” the Army Command said in a statement.

“The detainees are being interrogated under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities,” the statement added.

OTV had earlier reported that one of the men was a defected colonel and the commander of the jihadist al-Nusra Front in the Syrian region of Qusayr near Lebanon's border.

Amid the Syrian refugee influx Arsal has witnessed since the eruption of the Syrian crisis in 2011, the Lebanese Army has several times seized cars loaded with arms and ammunition in the town and its outskirts.

Comments 14
Missing imagine_1979 09 February 2014, 20:01

OTV us always accurate and always try to calm down things, saying it is an al nosra front comander was so innocent mistake..
Chupachups OTV...chupachups...

Thumb Chupachups 09 February 2014, 23:05

Indeed chupachups OTV, orange flavour?

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 12:49

haram al nusra!! poor victims of OTV libel and defamation! i shed a tear when i heard that OTV report, WHY DO THEY ALWAYS OPPRESS THE WEAK AND CUTE??? :'(

Missing peace 10 February 2014, 14:18

frustrated moowaten? seems you are angry, chill out...
we know that for you it is not right to defect the great democratic and loving syrian army, like it is treason for you hezbi lovers LOL...
but stay cool man...

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 14:32

yes, i am very very angry, the army is oppressing the weak and trying to kill all sunnis. it make me want to blow myself up, do you know any civilian area where i could do that?

Thumb ice-man 09 February 2014, 20:23

On The Verge of truth is always OTV.

Thumb ice-man 09 February 2014, 21:03

Al Nusra publishes regular updated lists of its field commanders in the Yellow Pages.

Thumb popeye 09 February 2014, 21:04

rofl ice-man!

Thumb lebanon_first 09 February 2014, 21:06

Better yet icey. They give them a membership card with photo and magnetic band and they have to carry it with them at all times.

Thumb EagleDawn 09 February 2014, 21:17

good one ice!

Thumb cedars2 09 February 2014, 21:39

"Syrian government in order to ensure justice does take place and people are held accountable for the crimes committed. "

Yes were very familiar with syrian justice.
I repeat again put a sock in it.

Thumb ex-fpm 09 February 2014, 21:50

easy easy cedre! Our Sunni partners' moderation is what's keeping the country in one piece.

Missing --karim_m1--- 10 February 2014, 07:45

If he had any role in the financing and/or support of the FSA-Al Qaeda terrorist organization, he should be tried and imprisoned.

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 12:50

you guys would know about it, you do this every day with your empty accusations and hateful libel.