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August 17, 2012

Daily Star - Lebanese businessman abducted for ransom, August 17 2012

BEIRUT: A Lebanese businessman was abducted Thursday and his family said his captors demanded a $1 million ransom. Raja Zoheiry, who owns a gas station in the Beirut neighborhood of Cola, disappeared after heading to the beach Thursday afternoon. His relatives said that two men were seen coming out of his car in the village of Aramoun. The same men were reportedly seen circling around Aramoun in an Envoy the day before, and locals chased them because they looked suspicious. A relative later told The Daily Star that Zoheiry had called another relative and told him: “They want $1 million for my life, see what you can do.” Contacts are ongoing to determine the fate of Raja between Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt, Brigadier Wissam Hasan, the head of the Internal Security Forces Information Branch and Wafiq Safa, a Hezbollah security official.

 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Aug-17/184917-lebanese-businessman-abducted-for-ransom.ashx#axzz23pl5xycQ
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