Syrian Officer among 8 Charged with Kidnapping Syrian Opposition Members in Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Military Tribunal Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Wednesday eight people, including a Syrian officer, with kidnapping Syrian opposition members in Tripoli in order to transport them back to their country.
Five of the suspects have already been arrested, while the rest remain at large.
The army had announced on Sunday that its intelligence had succeeded in uncovering a six-member criminal gang.
Three of them were arrested in Tripoli as they were attempting to abduct a Syrian opposition member.
LBCI television reported that the army had arrested three Lebanese nationals at a checkpoint on charges of kidnapping Syrian opposition member, Khaled Mustapha.
They had forced him into their car in order to hand him over to Syrian security officials, who had trained the kidnappers.
The gang leader is a resident of the Akkar town of Birqayel.
He was trained by Syrian intelligence and promised financial rewards for each successful abduction, said LBCI.
The report added that some journalists in the North had played a role in providing information to Syrian intelligence on Syrian opposition members in Lebanon.
12 September 2012, 17:07
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The Syrian Mukhabbarat is destroying Lebanon from within along with their Lebanese allies, Hezz, SSNP, etc.
13 September 2012, 06:53
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We really have to make sure from the outset that any new regime in Syria will not be doing the same to us as the old one did.. Even more difficult will be to try to get the filthy politicians-from both sides- we have in Lebanon not to be allowed to try using the future Syrian moukhabarat and sell Lebanon second time to their own personal benefit... I am not too optimistic about that.
13 September 2012, 07:05
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Guys regardless there will be a new moukhabarat system and we have to work from now in order not to allow them to interfere in our affairs and we have to stop our own politicians from selling Lebanon again to the future regime.. Let's not hide behind our fingers, it will happen again, just look at the map of Lebanon and Syria... We need to have a system in place to prevent Lebanese people and politicians from both sides from betraying and profeteering from the new regime in Syria..
