BEIRUT: ISIS is holding former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, MP Walid Jumblatt and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea responsible for the lives of the 25 Lebanese hostages, the jihadi group said in a recent video.
“To France’s allies: Hariri, Geagea and Jumblatt. Listen to me carefully. You certainly are criminals, and today you added a new crime to your crimes through your cooperation with [Hezbollah] and by turning the Lebanese Army into a puppet in [Hezbollah’s] hands, targeting the Sunni people through them,” local newspaper As-Safir Friday quoted an ISIS member as saying in a fresh video.
“ISIS is at a state of war with Hezbollah, which meddles in [Syrian] Muslim affairs and which has killed our women and children,” warned the militant, who was flanked by captors holding knives to the necks of three of the Lebanese hostages, according to the video which was handed over to Tripoli Sheikh Wissam Masri.
“Therefore you are solely responsible for the future of your fellow citizens [hostages], their fate – the decision between life or death – is in your hands," ISIS threatened.
Masri, who claims that he has been appointed as a mediator by militants holding the Lebanese servicemen, said Thursday that he checked on the hostages held on the outskirts of the northeastern border village of Arsal.
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