Lebanon First bloc MP Atef Majdalani said on Thursday that the Estonian men who were kidnapped last month in Lebanon did not refer to Syria when they pleaded for help in a video that was sent as a YouTube link in an e-mail to the Estonian Foreign Ministry.
Majdalani told the Voice of Lebanon (100.5) radio station that in the video, the kidnapped Estonians - who called on outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and France to do anything in their power to get them back home - “excluded Syria, as if the latter cannot help in that issue.”
“The video conveys a political message,” the MP said, in a possible reference that the kidnappers do not want to involve Syria in the issue.
On Wednesday, Estonia's Foreign Ministry confirmed that the seven men seen in the video were indeed the tourists from the Baltic state.
YouTube removed the video hours after news of the posting broke, saying "its content violated YouTube’s terms of service."
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