PSP Calls for Swap to End Hostage Standoff
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Progressive Socialist Party of MP Walid Jumblat called on Friday for a prisoner swap to secure the freedom of the soldiers and policemen taken captive by jihadists.
Speaking on behalf of Jumblat, who is currently in Paris Health Minister Abou Faour said: “The Lebanese authorities should adopt a prisoner exchange.”
But the jihadists “should first vow that they would stop killing more soldiers as a condition for the (possible) exchange,” the PSP official said.
The militants, who took the hostages from the northeastern border town of Arsal last month, have reportedly set several conditions to freeing the captives, including the release of Islamist inmates held in Roumieh prison.
They killed three of the hostages in August and September and have threatened to execute more if their demands were not met.
Abou Faour spoke after meeting with a delegation from the soldiers' relatives.
The minister said he did not ask the families to reopen the roads that they have been blocking to up pressure on the authorities to meet the demands of the jihadists.
Abou Faour urged the relatives of the hostages to “remain united and keep their protest away from political and sectarian divisions.
He also called for the support of the army, which he described as “neutral” and as standing at a distance from political divisions.
He said the Syrian refugees are not responsible for the attacks on the army. “There should not be retaliatory assaults against them.”
The killing of the soldiers by the militants, have sparked violence against Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
After his press conference, Abou Faour visited the relatives of the captives who have blocked the Dahr al-Ahmar road in Rashaya.
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M.T.
26 September 2014, 14:18
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and after the government should investigate who facilitated to the terrorists filth to leave arsal with the soldiers and hang them for treason
26 September 2014, 15:14
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Prisoners exchange will be a precedent for continuous exchange.
This is a defeat and a give in to criminal acts
Do not fall into the political abyss as you will never get out of it.
Negotiate with strength or liberate at any cost
26 September 2014, 16:10
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yalla yalla abou malek(nousra leader in qualamoun)badna nfout 3ala Beirut this is what so called Syrian refugees (terrorists )were chanting in arsal
hope our government hear this
26 September 2014, 16:28
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Here's a better proposition: Swap the hostages for our politicians. Win-win situation.
26 September 2014, 17:45
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Agreed in swap with our politicians... :)
Then it will be a good readon to pop chupachups for everyone...
26 September 2014, 19:12
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Nope i'm sure that sheker el abssi was freed before his time and "allowed" (to say the least to come to lebanon... Weird no?
I'm sure that smaha got some bombs in his car, and had some weird phonecall talks involving bombs in akar, targetting the patriarche visit for exepmle...
I'm sure assad told officially in televised cobference that he would set the region on fire...
U know those kind of stuff...
26 September 2014, 19:17
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Big john ur idea is great lets get more shia millicia involved in interreligious regional conflict...
Waouw... Take some chupachups please...
26 September 2014, 20:28
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I don't really like makiavel, and i'm not freeing roumieh inmate, but i am with hezos coming back home, making real camps for refugies, securing our borders with un technical help.. Enno live in a real country u know...
Now time for some chuopachup comrad southern?.....
26 September 2014, 22:16
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Shah go play, no excuse to engage us in sunni shiite conflict, no excuse for hezbos to be in yemen (2freed yesterday) no excuse for hezbos to be in irak (wajeb al jihadi), no excuse to be in syria (protect sayedeh zainab?? Protect assad??) and still some retard wants us to enter in stoneage religious conflict...
No excuse, in lebanon no one can defeat the other, we tried it for 16years last time, with the all palestinian army, al rade3 el arabi, el marines, the french guys, the iranian revolution guards, the iraki baathists... And yet they do the same mistake....
Shah go have some chupachups man...
26 September 2014, 22:20
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And no difference between a sunni fanatic, like isis, shiite fanatic, hezbos/iranian revolution guarded/shiite iraky millicia, christian fanatics (central affrica..) u know all the same... But yes moumana3a, moukawameh, imperialism (with great socialist putin and comiunist china) takfir against very moderate secular and progressist iran...
Fine u r happy with ur shiite millicia, good, bravo, but please assume ur thinking and stop making us stories...
Anw now the show beggins, 3years we've been telling u get out of this mess but bc oukab saquer that's an excuse to be in yemen irak syria...
26 September 2014, 23:04
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imagine79
Haram for the Syrian people?? no haram for the Lebanese people? shame on you buddy
27 September 2014, 14:22
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excellent proposal defacto, let's start with jumblat and with M14 politicians in alphabetic orders afterwards (-:
...sure we will find a solution for our beloved soldiers closely after jumblat would have been exchanged(-:
...and i can tell it won't be 'by chance'
