Syria rebels demand Hezbollah apology to free Lebanese

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Syrian rebels said they were holding a group of kidnapped Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims, and accused some of the hostages of opposing their revolution against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, news channel Al Jazeera reported on Thursday.

The insurgents added they would not start negotiations for the release of the hostages until the leader of Lebanese guerilla group Hezbollah, an ally of Assad’s, apologized for a recent speech.

The rebel Revolutionary Council in Aleppo did not give any more details on their plans for the captives, or spell out what had offended them in the speech by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

The group of about a dozen Lebanese men was on a bus that was stopped by gunmen in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo earlier this month.

“During questioning it emerged that a group of them had a hand in (oppressing the revolt) so it was decided to keep them for a while,” rebel group spokesman Abo Abdullah al-Halabi told Al Jazeera. The men were all in good health, he added.

Syria’s president Assad, who belongs to an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam, has been trying to crush a 14-month revolt led by fighters from the country’s Sunni Muslim majority.

There have been fears of the turmoil spilling over the border into neighboring Lebanon, also driven by sectarian tensions and divided between foes and friends of the revolt in Syria.

Upon hearing the news of their capture residents of the southern suburb of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold where the hostages live, took to the streets in anger, burned tires and blocked roads.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed the abductors on May 25 by saying :” kidnapping innocent people harms your image and contradicts all you say you are working to achieve.”

Commenting on his support to the Syrian regime he told the abductors

“If this kidnapping operation seeks to pressure us into changing our stance, it will not work.”

A possible reference to Hezbollah’s strong allegiance to the Syrian regime .

Syrian rebels have accused Hezbollah of sending fighters to help Assad, a charge dismissed by Hezbollah.

Reuters, agencies

Photo: The Kidnapped Lebanese ( courtesy of Al Jazeera)

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22 responses to “Syria rebels demand Hezbollah apology to free Lebanese”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Making their point nicely. 🙂

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Making their point nicely. 🙂

  3. dateam Avatar

    they really look like hardened fighters dont they????

  4. dateam Avatar

    they really look like hardened fighters dont they????

  5. dateam Avatar

    they really look like hardened fighters dont they????

  6. MeYosemite Avatar
    MeYosemite

    So all these ladies in a bus turned out to be men after all. The opposition unveiled the lies the Lebanese has been fed. The million dollar question is: did Mikati knew on day zero these folks were hizbullah and lied to the Lebanese people that they were a dozen of pilgrimming women. He hoped that they will arrive at the airport incognito, and the lebanese will applaud him for saving the pilgriming women.

    However, there is one last possibility: Unless they were men dressed up in skirts…a good source of confusion…

  7. MeYosemite Avatar
    MeYosemite

    So all these ladies in a bus turned out to be men after all. The opposition unveiled the lies the Lebanese has been fed. The million dollar question is: did Mikati knew on day zero these folks were hizbullah and lied to the Lebanese people that they were a dozen of pilgrimming women. He hoped that they will arrive at the airport incognito, and the lebanese will applaud him for saving the pilgriming women.

    However, there is one last possibility: Unless they were men dressed up in skirts…a good source of confusion…

  8. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    They look older men. Not the sort you would send to make fights as this is the stuff of younger persons. However, if they are Lebanese which by all accounts they are then we should be calling for their release promptly regardless of their religious affiliation. If they are fighters as claimed by some, surely they would be carrying weapons to fight with. Did they have weapons in the bus?

    1. wargame1 Avatar
      wargame1

      They love to kill woman and children and you dont need to send young boys to do that. These old junks with a AK47 is sufficient to do their pilgrim like that of Hula massacre. 

  9. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    They look older men. Not the sort you would send to make fights as this is the stuff of younger persons. However, if they are Lebanese which by all accounts they are then we should be calling for their release promptly regardless of their religious affiliation. If they are fighters as claimed by some, surely they would be carrying weapons to fight with. Did they have weapons in the bus?

    1. wargame1 Avatar
      wargame1

      They love to kill woman and children and you dont need to send young boys to do that. These old junks with a AK47 is sufficient to do their pilgrim like that of Hula massacre. 

  10. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    The video appears on youtube . Please search the following. 
    “The Free Syrian Army captured 12 terrorists leaders of Hezbollah near Aleppo, Syria 31.05.2012”

    It is obvious that when they send these hezbushaitan terrorist they will send them with the genuine pilgrims in order to make a good cover story thus endangering the real pilgrims life this is a dirty trick by hezbushaitan. Now on youtube we can see all their photo ID too. Sooner or later Hezbushaitan will be exposed and also the Syrians will be dealing with them so it is better to take a stance directly and drop this deceptive tactic. Face the free Syrian Army like a man they are waiting for you to make cockroach soup for the Russians to drink. 

    1. dateam Avatar

      and you really think that the hzb who fought the israeli army for 33 days and have a communications system that noone can crack and who to this day noone knows their structure , fighters and infrastructure would be stupid enough to send operatives on a bus via turkey and syria with women and children to do god kinows what??? why didnt the turks pick them up? they would have been checked at the border dont you think? have these rebels got better intelligence than the turks? no wonder the middle east is screwed its because we are so ignorant and stupid and we lack commonsense. ITS BEEN DONE TO INCITE STRIFE plain and simple….they could have been christian,druze or sunni would that make a difference to your thinking? the rebels are killing innocent people as well dont you see that on youtube as well? ive seen clips of rebels slitting people thoats and throwing them off bridges shouting allah akbar….this is not a revolution my friend…the minute you start attacking the army you lose credibility….they are killing troops that are from all ethnic backgrounds…im not defending the regime i couldnt give a shit but noone is seeing the big picture here….they want to drag us into it…

    2. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Wahhabi Terrorists are  killers and murders. Wahhabi Saudi Al Qaeda loves to blow themselves up on Christians Shiites and Alawites.

    3. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Wahhabi how many churches do you plan to blow to kill infidels? or Shiite mosques??

    4. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Wahhabi how many churches do you plan to blow to kill infidels? or Shiite mosques??

    5. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Your Daddy king Saud wants you to kill some Infidels??? and start fitna for Israel right?

  11. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    The video appears on youtube . Please search the following. 
    “The Free Syrian Army captured 12 terrorists leaders of Hezbollah near Aleppo, Syria 31.05.2012”

    It is obvious that when they send these hezbushaitan terrorist they will send them with the genuine pilgrims in order to make a good cover story thus endangering the real pilgrims life this is a dirty trick by hezbushaitan. Now on youtube we can see all their photo ID too. Sooner or later Hezbushaitan will be exposed and also the Syrians will be dealing with them so it is better to take a stance directly and drop this deceptive tactic. Face the free Syrian Army like a man they are waiting for you to make cockroach soup for the Russians to drink. 

    1. dateam Avatar

      and you really think that the hzb who fought the israeli army for 33 days and have a communications system that noone can crack and who to this day noone knows their structure , fighters and infrastructure would be stupid enough to send operatives on a bus via turkey and syria with women and children to do god kinows what??? why didnt the turks pick them up? they would have been checked at the border dont you think? have these rebels got better intelligence than the turks? no wonder the middle east is screwed its because we are so ignorant and stupid and we lack commonsense. ITS BEEN DONE TO INCITE STRIFE plain and simple….they could have been christian,druze or sunni would that make a difference to your thinking? the rebels are killing innocent people as well dont you see that on youtube as well? ive seen clips of rebels slitting people thoats and throwing them off bridges shouting allah akbar….this is not a revolution my friend…the minute you start attacking the army you lose credibility….they are killing troops that are from all ethnic backgrounds…im not defending the regime i couldnt give a shit but noone is seeing the big picture here….they want to drag us into it…

    2. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Wahhabi Terrorists are  killers and murders. Wahhabi Saudi Al Qaeda loves to blow themselves up on Christians Shiites and Alawites.

    3. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Wahhabi how many churches do you plan to blow to kill infidels? or Shiite mosques??

    4. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Your Daddy king Saud wants you to kill some Infidels??? and start fitna for Israel right?

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