Suspected Ringleader in Estonians’ Abduction Arrested
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Wael Abbas, the suspected ringleader in the abduction of the seven Estonian cyclists, has been arrested, reported the National News Agency on Wednesday.
He was arrested by Syrian security forces as he was attempting to escape to the country through a false ID, it added.
He was arrested and handed over to Lebanon’s General Security Department.
The Estonians were freed on July 14, almost four months since armed men abducted them as they entered Lebanon on a bicycle tour from Syria.
Sources had said that they were released in the Bekaa town of al-Taybi in an operation arranged by French intelligence services.
The abduction has not been officially claimed.
In September, the Internal Security Forces killed two accomplices of the alleged mastermind behind the kidnapping during clashes in the area of al-Bireh in Rashaya.
Later that month, two Intelligence Branch officers were injured when they were ambushed by armed men in the hunt for the kidnappers in the village of Jlala near Shtaura.
One of the officers later died in October from injuries he sustained in the ambush.
Al-Liwaa newspaper reported in September that more than 17 people are members of the “secret organization” that carried out the kidnapping.
The gang is allegedly linked to another network specialized in kidnapping foreigners in Iraq.
02 November 2011, 13:59
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Interesting, the Syrians are the ones who captured him and handed him over to the Lebanese...didn't the abductors move the hostages back and forth from Lebanon to Syria in an attempt to keep them hidden? But the Syrians now captured the ring leader...
02 November 2011, 16:09
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Syrian security forces arrested Abbas and handed him over to Lebanon let's hope they soon arrest and handover Absi another terrorist they sent over to wreak havoc.
02 November 2011, 17:28
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the syrians are just boosting the General security over the internal security. that's all.
after all the syrian have always given up terrorist who worked for them :)
03 November 2011, 02:46
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B.S story, what enters Syria stays in Syria's Mazzi jail or end up on the edge of their roads from the beating. Nothing is freed in Syria especially there is a reward and French or Euro intelligence involved so that they claim being the heroes of the situation as they always did for 30 yrs in Lebanon for the US and Europeans leaders until they lost the Harriri card which cost them to get out of the Ocean.
