Kidnappers Set Baalbek Doctor Free
A doctor at Baalbek's hospital of Ibn Sina who was kidnapped on Tuesday was freed Friday at midnight, the state-run National News Agency reported on Saturday.
Doctor Saleh al-Shal, a medical director at the hospital, was freed by his kidnappers in Baalbek's town of Douris, NNA added.
The doctor said the kidnappers had asked for $500 thousand to free him and that he told them that he does not have money.
He was released without a ransom, according to NNA.
Contact with al-Shal was lost on Tuesday and reports suspected that he might have been kidnapped in light of the weird circumstances that engulfed his disappearance.
NNA said that the doctor was watering the trees in his farm on the Amshki hills that overlook the city of Baalbek.
The janitor later saw a pick-up truck drive quickly out of the farm. He ran headlong to check on al-Shal but found no one while the water was still flowing out of the watering hose.
Members of his family kicked off a night search that went on until the early hours on Wednesday but failed to find him then.
On Thursday his vehicle was found burned-out in the outskirts of Bekaa's town of al-Tibeh.
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yes, unfortunately your sectarian bias is still not officially recognized as a basis for random accusations and arrests
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who are you trying to fool irani? The kidnappers were shia just like you and from Brital specifically. Go practice your taqiyah somewhere else.
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Any proof of that? Any source for your random accusations? Any argument to back your claims?
Nope? That's what i thought. Go spread your hasbara elsewhere.
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LBCI: The army is raiding a farm in Brital in search for abducted doctor Saleh ...
but maybe the inhabitants of Brital are not shias.
and as usual nobody from ashraf al nass was arrested.