Al-Nusra Front threatened Monday to use force to “liberate” its prisoners in Lebanon's jails, warning that the fate of the captive Lebanese security personnel would be at stake should Hizbullah wage an attack on the Syrian Qalamun region.
“Hizbullah is preparing an assault on Qalamun to obstruct the negotiations to release the captive security personnel who are in our custody,” a high-ranking Nusra leader told Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency.
He warned that any such scenario would lead to the hostages' “death.”
“We kept the captive security personnel in Arsal until we withdrew to Syria,” the Nusra militant noted, adding that “honest negotiations” are “the only solution.”
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