Five gunmen in a Grand
Cherokee SUV on Friday kidnapped Syrian national Ata Hassan Alloush, 32,
state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA said the gunmen
abducted Alloush from his vegetable greenhouse at the intersection of the
Baalbek town of Iaat and took him to an unknown location.
Al-Meqdad clan has
claimed the abduction of around 20 Syrians and a Turkish national in
retaliation to the rebel Free Syrian Army’s kidnapping of a family member,
Hassan al-Meqdad, in Damascus last week.
The clan later said it
was calling off "military operations" and would halt abductions for
now.
An obscure group calling
itself al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi Brigade has also claimed the abduction of several
Syrians in Lebanon.
Lebanon has been
grappling with heightened security fears after the spate of kidnappings that
came in retaliation for the abduction of Lebanese citizens in Syria.
Eleven Lebanese Shiite
pilgrims were abducted in the northern Syrian town of Aazaz on May 22. They
entered Aazaz by bus from neighboring Turkey and were on their way back from
pilgrimage in Iran.http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/51163
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