Families of Tall Kalakh Fighters Threaten to Close Border, Expel Syrian Ambassador
The families of the Lebanese fighters killed in the Tall Kalakh ambush renewed on Sunday their demand for the expulsion of Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali, reported the National News Agency.
Spokesman for the families Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim said: “We will close the border against your thugs and we will turn to you to expel you from our country.”
He made his remarks during a sit-in staged by the families of the fighters and Hassan Srour, a Lebanese men held hostage by the Syrian regime, at the Arida border-crossing.
“The government and its politicians are still distancing themselves from the violations of the Syrian regime,” added Ibrahim.
He called on the residents of the northern region of Akkar, Bekaa town of Arsal, and other regions to persevere against the violations as “the Baath regime is about to collapse.”
“The day will come when artificial borders are removed and the unity of the ummah will be restored, contrary to the wishes of the United States and West that are supporting the Syrian regime,” he added.
Syrian authorities handed over to Lebanon in December seven bodies of Salafists killed in an ambush by regime troops in the Syrian border town Tall Kalakh in November, among them was the body of Hussein Srour, Hassan's brother.
Their mother, Amina, urged political leaders on Saturday to exert efforts to release her son Hassan.
“My son was never involved in any religious or political movement and he only went to Syria to bring his brother Hussein back to Lebanon,” she told LBCI television.
While there is still discrepancy on the number of Islamists who infiltrated Tall Kalakh to fight alongside the Syrian rebels, media reports have said that several of them sought refuge with the rebel Free Syrian Army while around three others were arrested by regime troops and will be tried in Damascus.
| Copyright © 2012 Naharnet.com. All Rights Reserved. | https://cdn.naharnet.com/stories/en/67279 |