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September 20, 2011

Now Lebanon - Charbel: Estonians were released on a ransom, September 20, 2011

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said on Tuesday that the Estonian bicyclists kidnapped in the Bekaa in March were released in July on a ransom.
The minister added the kidnappers aimed to kidnap more foreigners to earn more ransom money, the National News Agency reported.
The ISF sent two officers to Estonia to learn who Talinn was negotiating with to free its nationals, Charbel added.
He also said that operations to apprehend the abductors remain ongoing until all the perpetrators are apprehended.
Seven kidnapped Estonians were freed in Lebanon in July 14, almost four months after being abducted by armed men as they entered the country on a bicycle tour from neighboring Syria.
The ISF Information Branch said earlier on Tuesday that it ambushed and killed two people involved in the kidnapping of the seven Estonians.
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