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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Qatar Halts Mediation To Free Captive Lebanese Soldiers
2014-12-09
[Ynet] Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
has halted its bid to broker the release of Lebanese soldiers and coppers captured by Islamist forces of Evil during a raid on a Lebanese border town in August, saying its efforts had failed after one of the captives was killed.
Any bets that they ever would have succeeded?
Militants affiliated with the Nusra Front and the al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
took captive more than two dozen members of the Lebanese security forces during the August incursion.

The Nusra Front said on Friday it had killed one of them in retaliation for the arrest by Lebanese authorities of women identified as wives of Islamist hard boys.
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