| Everybody's kidnapping everybody else now. Whee. |
Sources told the newspaper that jihadists will soon free Sunni, Christian and Druze abductees but will keep the Shiites in their custody.
| Sunnis? Sure. But they swore to keep the Christians, and warned the Christians in the area to stay out of a fight that doesn't concern them. As for the Druze, I imagine they are as much hated by Al Nusra as the Yazidi are by ISIS. |
On Sunday, al-Nusra Front threatened to "kill the Shiite Lebanese soldiers" it had kidnapped should Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
intervene in battles in Syria's al-Qalamun region.
Hizbullah has been taking part in the fighting in Syria to aid
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
's troops.
The Syrian forces alongside the Shiite group have seized control of al-Qalamun in April.
Judicial sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper that a high-level security meeting, held at the Grand Serail on Sunday, was briefed on the cases of the Islamist prisoners held at Roumieh prison.
The sources said that 66.6 percent of the trial procedures have been carried out, pointing out that the sentences will be issued soon and those who are innocent will be acquitted.
On several occasions, the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
vowed to free Islamist prisoners in Roumieh.
Islamist gunnies had kidnapped a number of Lebanese soldiers and security forces from Arsal in light of festivities between Islamists and the army in the region.
The battles began on August 2 and ended five days later.