Islamic state threatened to execute Lebanese soldiers who were captured

Islamic state threatened to execute Lebanese soldiers who were captured

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Mujahideen require lifting of the blockade to the refugee camps in the Syrian border, which are surrounded by the Lebanese Army posts, and the release of 40 Islamist prisoners from the prison, “Rumia” near Beirut

BEIRUT, 27 August. Islamic state threatened to execute 11 Lebanese soldiers who were captured in the border town of Ersal. As the electronic version of the newspaper Daily Star, Mujahideen required  lifting of the blockade to the refugee camps in the Syrian border, which are surrounded by the Lebanese army posts. In addition, they do not remove previously put forward conditions for the release of 40 Islamist prisoners from the prison, “Rumia” near Beirut.

“We will execute the first prisoner in the next 24 hours, and then we will kill the other one person every three days if there is no change in the situation in the near future,” – said in a communique of the IG.

Mujahideen also warned the Lebanese government that if the men of the Shia “Hezbollah” will try to carry out the operation to free the soldiers, they all will be immediately executed.

Extremists from the group “Dzhebhat en-Nusra” made ​​the other day with a similar threat, demanding that “Hezbollah” to withdraw its troops from Syria, who are fighting on the side of the government army against gangs. In the hands of “an-Nusra” are another 15 Lebanese gendarmes and three soldiers. All of them have been captured during an attack on militants Ersal in early August.

Lebanese troops were able to quickly block the border region in the northeast of the Bekaa Valley and brought up reserves, entered into a fierce firefight with insurgents. The conflict was terminated on August 7 after reaching agreement on a truce brokered by Muslim sheikhs.

As the commander of the Lebanese army, Jean Kahvadzhi, plans IG and its allies include inter Ersalya, capture the mountainous region of Akkar and Tripoli in northern Lebanon, ie transformation into a bridgehead across the northern territory of the country, inhabited by Sunnis.

Militants are currently trapped from several sides. Pass on the Syrian territory of Ersalya in a mountainous region Kalyamun shut them Syrian forces and fighters of “Hezbollah”.

Hostage is believed to local media, most likely divided into groups and may be in the caves in the highlands of Khirbet Yunin or in the Ersale. This city again worrying reports about returning to his armed extremists. Syrian Air Force today attacked the columns of insurgents on the border.

In recent days, more than a hundred families left Ersal, located 90 km from Beirut, and it is expected that the flow of refugees from there will increase. Mujahideen persecuted people “in cooperation with the Lebanese army.”

Minister of Internal Affairs of Lebanon Nouhad al-Mashnuk rejected the ultimatum of the “Islamic state” and “an-Nusra”, saying that the government is not going to fulfill any of their demands. Meanwhile, the chief of the Lebanese security services Abbas Ibrahim, has been actively involved in the development of the transaction, which allowed to release March 9 nuns hostages from the Syrian Monastery in Maaloula again entrusted mediation mission. Ibrahim came into contact with Turkey and Qatar – the countries that are the main sponsors of the Syrian armed opposition, with a view to rescue from captivity Lebanese military.

According to the newspaper “Al-Akhbar”, the Islamists also demanded from Syria to release 1,500 prisoners militants. Damascus is no response to this matter was not followed.

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