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One thing I know for sure. Syrian Islamic Nazi rebels are Obama's kind of thugs. |
“They are Iranian thugs who were in Damascus for a field reconnaissance
mission,” said a rebel leader, in a video that the rebels said showed
the captives sitting calmly behind armed Syrian fighters. In the video,
the rebels flipped through what they said were Iranian identification
cards and certificates for carrying weapons, proving, the rebels said,
that the hostages were not religious pilgrims.
The identities and motives of the captives could not be independently
verified, and some rebel groups have not embraced the kidnapping or the
theory laid out by the fighters in the video. Col. Malik al-Kurdi, a
deputy commander of the Free Syrian Army — one of several competing
umbrella groups involved in the fighting — said the brigade taking
responsibility for the kidnapping appeared to have been acting on its
own and did not tell the Free Syrian Army about the operation.
Iranian officials said the kidnapped Iranians were pilgrims, denying
that any of them were members of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s
Arabic-language channel Al Alam reported Sunday, quoting an unnamed
government spokesman.
On Saturday, Iran’s foreign minister, Ali Akbar
Salehi, contacted the Syrian and Turkish foreign ministries, asking them
to secure the release of the 48 Iranians.
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