FSA Urges Qahwaji to Release 5 of its Members Arrested in Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Free Syrian Army urged Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji to release five of its members who were arrested in Lebanon earlier this month, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.
It said in a letter to Qahwaji: “The General Staff and the military council of the FSA reject the spike in arrests of members of the army.”
It noted the rise in the arrests at checkpoints in Lebanon, explaining that the detainees have been “seeking refuge in Lebanon away from death and being handed over to Syrian authorities or Hizbullah that has announced its support to the regime and is fighting alongside it on Syrian land.”
“Out of our keenness on our brothers in the FSA and knowing full well that you are just as keen, especially since Lebanon has distanced itself from the conflict in Syria, we urge you to help our oppressed people and brothers in the FSA who seek your country to escape the oppressive regime and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,” continued the letter.
“We call on you to release them and treat them as refugees,” it said.
The FSA identified the detainees as Yasser Ayrout, Mohammed Ahmed al-Khatib, Ahmed Mohammed Khaled Ismail, and Louay Abdul Rahman Zaino who were arrested on November 16 in the Bekaa town of Chtaura as they were headed to the northern city of Tripoli.
They were running away from ISIL, explained the letter.
A fifth detainee was identified as Captain Mohammed Abdul Karim Nassif, of the military command in Reef Damascus.
He was arrested at a Hizbullah checkpoint on November 26, said the FSA.
The letter was signed by head of the FSA General Staff Brigadier Ahmed Khaled Berri.
Al-Manar television had reported on the November 16 arrest of the four Syrian officials.
Security sources told the station on November 17 that a Syrian terrorist, Yasser al-Ayrouti, and three others were detained in West Bekaa as they were on their way from the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal.
The detainees are comprised of two prominent leaders from the FSA, a leader from ISIL and another from the al-Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front.
The army has come under growing attacks across Lebanon by militants who accuse it of colluding with Hizbullah in its intervention in the Syrian conflict on the side of the regime.
The military has been carrying out a major crackdown in several areas across Lebanon, the latest in the Bekaa over the weekend, where it kicked off a major security operation.
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D.A.
29 November 2014, 09:26
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He was arrested at a Hizbullah checkpoint on November 26, said the FSA.
But I thought there were no HA checkpoints in Lebanon? Strange indeed!
29 November 2014, 09:43
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Its so awful to see how the hezbdevil keep undermining the state by setting up checkpoits in lebanon.
And its even worse how they are using the army as its toy. Qahwaji shoul stand up against them when has that position and he should release the fsa prisoners.
29 November 2014, 11:25
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another saturday, another weekend, another article, another millennium as flamethrower embarks on his illusive journey to achieve its childhood dream of posting nonstop propaganda
29 November 2014, 12:31
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This time maybe we need to be discerning. If they are truly FSA and have No links to any terrorist cell, just the good old FSA resistance, then we ought o reconsider after having exhausted all avenues to ascertain well beyond doubt that they are FSA indeed. The FSA has been truly unfairly treated overall and this is what has led the radicals to replace them. Now we are seeing what is happening as a result of that.
29 November 2014, 16:24
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"we urge you to help our oppressed people and brothers in the FSA who seek your country to escape the oppressive regime and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,”
"They were running away from ISIL, explained the letter."
you must have missed that part too....
29 November 2014, 17:15
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funny how hezbollah differentiate between the two... but not you... LOL
29 November 2014, 17:15
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and that is also why alnusra has constantly been attacking FSA as they are allied lol...
29 November 2014, 12:48
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There is no such thing as a FSA exept when hezballa wants to use them as a cover for negotiating the release of Ayyad, then of course there is a FSA and they are not like Al Nusra or Da3esh.
29 November 2014, 15:33
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we know how highly you think of bashr's army, the one that humiliated lebanese for decades... collaborator....
29 November 2014, 20:00
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yes FT yes.... keep up the good work of defending bashar and his regime... for years aoun said that the assad regime is a terrorist one and should be ousted,that Lebanon could never be at peace till it is in place and when he had the opportunity to help the syrian revolution he kept denying there was anything going on and then brought his support to it, saying the total opposite of the ideals he had been pretending to defend! LOL and you as a brave little parrot and braindead sheep you just follow him in his stupidity...
29 November 2014, 20:04
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proteges? oh... well as allies to bashar of course they are proteges! bashar never fought to liberate the golan like his father in 40 years , prefering to "fight" lol israel via Lebanon so that his country is at peace... poor idiot FT....
and you praise them as "résistants" what a joke you and hypocrites M8 are...
29 November 2014, 20:08
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Funny how peace, always talk about Golan, when did your beloved FSA or ISIS/Nusra ever fight Israel, to liberate their Sunni brethren? Never, the only ones that supported the Palestinians, were Iran and Syria. Syrian Army actually fought the Israelis on several occassions, during the civil war. So that is incorrect again, also why does Israel always fire on Resistance targets inside Syria? They never fire on takfiris.
29 November 2014, 20:15
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sure mystic sure.... syria fought to liberate golan, they are currently resisting there, they have launched several attacks in 40 years to liberate it, everyne knows that.... LOL
and FSA are so strong that they can wage two wars one against bashar and the other one against israel.... bravo, what a smart boy you are.....
we know that it does not please you to bring up the golan as it is bad for your propaganda saying that bashar is a "resistant"! LOOOOOL
29 November 2014, 20:17
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"why does Israel always fire on Resistance targets inside Syria? "
because they know that bashar will never fire back, he will just bark out loud so that hezbis believe he is "resisting" LOLLLLLLL
29 November 2014, 21:24
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Your FSA heroes, recieved medical treatment from Israeli field hospitals.
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/24453/Default.aspx
You got anything else to say?
29 November 2014, 21:56
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miss tic, you really have to learn how to read before making a fool of yourself.... the article states that israel is treating syrians that flee the combats , not the rebel FSA... humanitarian aid that's all... nothing to do with your propaganda! LOLLLLLLLLL
