Report: Kidnappers of Lebanese Pilgrims Promise to Release 2 more Men
The kidnappers of Lebanese pilgrims in Syria have promised to release two of their captives as a goodwill gesture ten days after Hussein Ali Omar was set free, An Nahar daily reported on Monday.
A delegation of the Committee of Muslim Scholars that is in Turkey mediating the release of the pilgrims held talks with several Free Syrian Army officials who are based in Turkey, the newspaper said.
Eleven pilgrims were kidnapped in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on May 22 by the armed FSA while on their way home from a pilgrimage to Iran. But Omar was released on August 25 as a goodwill gesture following the mediation of the Muslim scholars.
The delegation received promises on Sunday night to release another two abductees, one of them is Awad Ibrahim given his health conditions, An Nahar said.
Asked about any positive development on the fate of the pilgrims, Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said he was still awaiting signs from Turkey over its mediation with the FSA.
“We prefer to remain silent at this stage after it was proved to us that talking about the issue has made things more complicated,” he told al-Joumhouria newspaper.
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