Kidnapping Festival in Lebanon and Syria – As‘ad AbuKhalil
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/angry-corner/kidnapping-festival-lebanon-and-syria
It is not clear whether Hezbollah looked the other way while the “military wing” of the Mokdad clan kidnapped scores of Syrians in Lebanon, but a video showed a Mokdad family meeting degenerating into a squabble between leaders of the “military wing” and a Hezbollah deputy from the Mokdad clan who objected to the description of kidnapping by the family as “military operations.” The Mokdads shut him down hard although some in the family were conflicted.
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The Western and the Saudi/Qatari-funded Arab press ignored the plight of the Lebanese hostages in Syria, just as the failed Lebanese government ignored them. But there is something dangerous looking over Lebanon and Syria. The spate of sectarian kidnappings reminded people of my generation of the beginning of the sectarian civil war.