The army arrested at a checkpoint in Wadi Hmayed in Arsal, head of the Qalamun front and head of Free Syrian Army command council colonel Abdullah Rifai, while wandering in the outskirts of Arsal, with a fake Lebanese ID.
The National News Agency said that he was arrested, “while he was passing through a checkpoint in a GMC car, and he was undercover with a fake ID.”
The Army: said: “Khaled al-Hujairi and Syrian Abdullah Hussein al-Rifai were arrested in Arsal as the former was smuggling the latter to the outskirts of the town.”
VDL (100.5) said that Rifai, “was arrested at an army checkpoint in Arsal while he was trying to enter Lebanon , with a fake ID.”
"Rifai is one the list of wanted people by the army,” a security source told VDL.
The source also added: “Rifai was accompanied by another person, who was taken to a barracks outside Arsal.”
MTV also said: “Head of the FSA command council Abdullah Rifai was arrested at an army checkpoint in Arsal and he was carrying a fake Lebanese ID.”