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2025-01-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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2 Americans captured at Dahieh restaurant, handed over to army — Naharnet
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[NAHARNET] Lebanese authorities are holding two U.S. citizens on suspicion of gathering information in Beirut's southern suburbs, considered a Hezbollah stronghold, officials said.
| Even odds they were just tourists with really low emotional intelligence, going where angels fear to tread. Odd odds they really are spies who went through DEI training instead of spy craft classes. Let them be grateful that scary President Trump will be sworn in today, so they won’t have to rely on the Biden administration State Department to advocate for them, whichever is true. |
The U.S. citizens were carrying cameras and smartphones, and drew the suspicion of Hezbollah members who detained them before handing them over to Leb
 ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
's military intelligence for questioning. That's according to two Lebanese judicial officials and a security official.
| They’re very fortunate they didn’t accidentally fall down a highrise staircase on their way to the handover… |
A U.S. Embassy official, when asked whether two Americans have been detained in Beirut, responded by saying: ''We are aware of the case but have nothing further to add.''
All four officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the security matter with the media.
Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar, which is close to Hezbollah, first reported about the detention, saying two Americans in their early 30s were detained Tuesday at a shawarma restaurant close to a compound run by Hezbollah.
Al-Akhbar said the two men entered Lebanon on Monday, rented a car and were staying at a hotel in central Beirut.
The Lebanese judicial and security officials said the men went for two days to eat at restaurants in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Iran-backed Hezbollah has deep support in Beirut's southern suburbs and in the country's south — areas that Israel repeatedly bombed last fall during the war with Hezbollah. A shaky ceasefire has been in effect since late November.
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