BAALBEK,
Lebanon: A priest was released Monday night and delivered to the head of Hezbollah’s
Shura Council Sheikh Mohammad Yazbek a few hours after being snatched at
gunpoint on the Ansar road in the Bekaa Valley district of Baalbek, security
sources told The Daily Star.
Initial
security reports had said that unidentified individuals riding two black Jeep
Cherokees accosted Father Walid Gharious at 5 p.m. on the Ansar road in Baalbek
and abducted him, taking him to an unknown location.
Sources
said that the atmosphere became very tense in Baalbek after Gharious was
kidnapped over an issue regarding a young woman named Banin Qataya, who is the
daughter of a Shiite cleric in the region.
According to the sources,
the kidnappers believed Gharious knew the whereabouts of Qataya, who had
converted to Christianity and left her parents’ house almost three years ago
after falling victim to torture and mistreatment over her conversion.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/May-08/172657-abducted-priest-handed-over-to-hezbollah-official.ashx#axzz1uFMFWsi9
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