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September 30, 2011

Now Lebanon - Syrian soldiers arrested Lebanese farmers, paper reports, September 30, 2011

Saudi As-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Friday that Syrian soldiers entered Lebanese territory on Wednesday night and briefly detained two Lebanese farmers.
Lebanese activists told the daily that seven Syrian soldiers seized Lebanese farmed Ali Salim Daher and his son Mustafa and interrogated the two before releasing them.
Mustafa Daher told As-Sharq Al-Awsat that the Syrian army asked him to provide information about “armed groups that are infiltrating the Syrian borders from the Lebanese town of Halwas in Akkar and shooting at the [Syrian army’s headquarters] in Heet.”
Daher added that denied having any information on the subject of armed groups.
He also said that the Syrian army “checked their identities and compared them with a list of wanted people.”
The UN says that the Syrian regime's crackdown on protests that erupted in mid-March has killed more than 2,700 people. 

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