Kidnapping of Foreigners by Syrian Operatives Rising in Lebanon

To all foreigners contemplating tourism this summer in Lebanon: DO NOT COME HERE.

- The terrorist organization Hezbollah now runs the government.
- This increases significantly the likelihood of war between Hezbollah and ISrael
- Israel now will hold ALL of LEBANON responsible and will retaliate against any Hezbollah attack with massively destructive force.
- The kidnapping of Westerners is on the rise: The 7 Estonians remain missing. After their kidnapping in Lebanon's lawless Bekaa Valley, they were then taken across the border into Syria where it is believed that the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad holds them to use them later in any deal with the West.
- Similarly, last week, a Dutch diplomat was snatched in the same Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, and again transferred to Syria. The fact that all these Westerners are abducted in Lebanon, then reappear in Syria, is not surprising. The lawlessness that is endemic to the Bekaa Valley and to all Lebanese regions bordering on Syria is deliberately created by Syria and its proxy terrorist Muslim organizations like Hezbollah or the Palestinian PFLP and others in order to maintain anarchy and instability in the country. Syria uses these kidnappings and the instability as a leverage with which it barters favors with the stupid Europeans and Americans.

NO SANE WESTERNER OR SUNNI ARAB FROM THE GULF SHOULD COME TO LEBANON THIS SUMMER ON TOURISM. Do not listen to the propaganda of the Lebanese Tourism Minister... It is all lies destined to get you into the country and spend your dollars on garbage and pollution.

Hanibaal

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Dutch Diplomat Abducted in Baalbek, Transferred to Syria

(Naharnet)

A Dutch diplomat was kidnapped in Lebanon some ten days ago in a development that has raised European fears of the return of the abduction of foreigners in Lebanon that was prevalent during the civil war years.

A European diplomatic source told the Central News Agency on Wednesday that the Dutch diplomat was abducted by tribes from the Baalbek region as he was passing through the area. He was placed in an SUV with tinted windows and no license plates and taken to Syria through an illegal border crossing. Upon arrival in Syria, he was handed over to the Syrian security forces who have been committing all sorts of atrocities and mass murder against their own people.

The Netherlands has informed other European governments of the incident, who intensified contacts with Lebanese security officials to put an end to the abduction of foreigners. However, the Lebanese government, now in the hands of Hezbollah, will have even less incentive to prevent the kidnappings because it is Hezbolah itself and its Syrian allies who are carrying out the kidnappings to begin with.

Meanwhile, European diplomatic sources voiced their fears of the return of such kidnappings in Lebanon in light of March’s abduction of seven Estonian cyclists, the recent bomb attack against a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon patrol in the South, and this latest kidnapping.