BEIRUT: A Syrian man held hostage in Lebanon by the Meqdad clan said Friday he was trained at a military camp belonging to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in north Lebanon.
The man identified himself as Rajab Alawish in a video aired by the Meqdad family during a press conference in the Roueiss neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs. He said he was sent to Lebanon from Syria to form armed groups that would fight the Syrian army and pro-Syrian elements in Lebanon.
Alawish added that Future Movement MP Khaled Daher and Egyptian sheikhs visited him and his comrades before they were caught.
It is unknown if Alawish made his statements under duress.
At one point, he said that he was among 50 hostages held by the Meqdad clan.
Prior to the video being played, Maher Meqdad, the spokesperson for the Meqdad clan, said that among the hostages was the spokesperson of the Syrian coordination committee in Homs, Abdallah Homsi, and another official identified as Mohammad Hammadeh.
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