A Turkish man became the
second foreigner to be kidnapped in Lebanon since al-Meqdad clan and another
obscure group went on an abduction spree of Syrians and Turkish nationals on
Wednesday to pressure the Free Syrian Army in releasing a member of the clan.
The National News Agency
said Friday that Abd Basset Orssolane was abducted in the area of Choueifat
near the Coca Cola factory.
The assailants stopped a
Mercedes truck he was riding and took him to an unknown location on Thursday
night, NNA said.
Orssolane is the second
Turkish citizen to be abducted in Lebanon after al-Meqdad clan announced that
it kidnapped Aidan Toufan on Wednesday.
But the clan’s spokesman
Maher al-Meqdad told OTV that the family’s military wing has nothing to do with
the abduction of Orssolane.
The family, which holds
Turkey responsible for backing the Syrian rebels, has stressed that it would
not release the abductees until the FSA sets free Hassan al-Meqdad.
On Thursday, it
announced a halt to all of its military operations throughout Lebanon.
But the position of the
obscure group calling itself Mukhtar al-Thaqfi Brigade is not clear yet.http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/50317
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