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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Army Arrests Head of Hermel-based Kidnap Gang
2012-03-17
[An Nahar] Army intelligence agents on Friday managed to arrest the chief of the gang that had kidnapped a manager of the dairy company Liban Lait in the Bekaa town of Britel on November 30, which was also behind several other kidnappings.

"Army intelligence agents placed in durance vile Mohammed Fayyad Ismail and some members of his gang in the Bekaa town of al-Qasr," MTV reported.

The gang is based in the Hermel District town of al-Qasr and was responsible for the abduction of a Syrian businessman in the Bekaa town of Barelias in August 2011.

Liban Lait manager Ahmed Zeidan was kidnapped on November 30, 2011 as he entered the company's headquarters in the Baalbek District town of Hawsh Sneid.

The kidnappers demanded a ransom back then, but the army managed in December to rescue Zeidan in a raid on Britel's barren mountains.
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