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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Tue May 7, 2013, 12:10 PM May 2013

Syria crisis: UN peacekeepers seized on Golan Heights

Source: BBC

Four Filipino UN peacekeepers have been abducted by armed men while patrolling in the demilitarised area between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

UN spokesmen said efforts were "under way to secure their release now".

A Syrian rebel group, the Martyrs of Yarmouk, published a photo purportedly showing the four men and said they were being held for their own safety.

It said there had been clashes and heavy shelling in the Yarmouk Valley, in the south of the separation zone.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22435393

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Syria crisis: UN peacekeepers seized on Golan Heights (Original Post) Bosonic May 2013 OP
isn't this the same group that supposedly azurnoir May 2013 #1
Yes, whoever they are, this is their M.O. Bosonic May 2013 #2
There would be a total uproar if pro-government militias did this. David__77 May 2013 #3

David__77

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3. There would be a total uproar if pro-government militias did this.
Wed May 8, 2013, 01:50 AM
May 2013

Somehow, these gangs get a free pass.

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