BEIRUT:
Two of 11 Lebanese kidnapped in Syria in May of this year will be set free,
their captors said in a statement carried by Al-Jazeera television Tuesday.
“In
response to the calls by the committee of Muslim scholars in Lebanon we will
release two of our guests to their families under the auspices of the committee
... and the state of Qatar,” the statement, the third to be carried by the
Doha-based channel, said.
The
11 men were kidnapped in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on May 22 while
on their way back from a pilgrimage in Iran.
The
statement from the captors comes on the same day that President Michel Sleiman
held talks with officials in Ankara on the issue of the 11 pilgrims.
Local
newspapers said Tuesday that Sleiman would likely seek to win the release of
the hostages before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins
Friday.
In their statement, the
captors said they held no enmity toward any sect in Lebanon but only objected
to a speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, “who
justified the acts of Syrian President Bashar Assad and claiming that what was
happening in Syria was just media fabrications.”
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