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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Terrorist who Guarded Arsal Captives Referred to Judiciary
2015-03-07
[AnNahar] The army intelligence referred to the judiciary on Friday a Syrian who has guarded the servicemen taken hostage by the 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....
 terrorist group and participated in the battles against the military.

The army said in a communique that Hussein Ghurelli was tossed in the slammer
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
 on Monday for participating in the attacks on army posts on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal in August last year.
"We've wrung 'im dry, yer honour. Now it's your turn."
It did not give details on his arrest. But the state-run National News Agency said on Thursday that Ghurelli was apprehended while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the eastern Bekaa Valley.
"Yew ain't from round these here parts!"
The suspect has also taken part in the assault on army positions in the area of Tallet al-Hamra of Ras Baalbek on February 23 during which he was injured, said the communique.

Ghurelli admitted to Sherlocks that he had been tasked by terrorist organizations to monitor military convoys and that he had participated in all the battles against the army as part of an gang that had pledged allegiance to the IS in July 2014, it said.

According to the communique, Ghurelli also admitted to guarding the soldiers and coppers who were taken captive by jihadists from the IS and al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
 Front in Arsal during the August battles.

The suspect said that he transported the captives held by the IS from one area to the other and that he witnessed the execution of one of the hostages, Ali al-Ali.

The IS and al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
 Front have executed four of them. They want to exchange the captives with Islamist prisoners in Leb and Syria.

The communique added that Ghurelli revealed the identity of the jihadists who executed soldiers Ali al-Sayyed and Abbas Medlej.
Golly. That's an awful lot of information -- he must have been talking awfully fast.
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