The so-called Free Syrian Army on Tuesday abducted a number of Lebanese visitors who were on their way back from Iran where they visited the holy sites there

The so-called Free Syrian Army on Tuesday abducted a number of Lebanese visitors who were on their way back from Iran where they visited the holy sites there.
 
Buses belonging to the Badr al-Kobra and Imam Al-Sadr Islamic tourism agencies were attacked by 40 assailants who kidnapped all men from two buses in the northern province of Aleppo shortly after crossing the Syrian-Turkish border. Women who were aboard the buses were allowed to go free.

Protests erupted as the news of the kidnapping circulated with angry people blocking road in the Beirut southern suburb (Dahiyeh) but stopped as soon as Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah appealed for calm and promised families of highest levels of efforts for their release.

Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar appeased people and families of the kidnapped by telling them that Sayyed Nasrallah, Speaker Nabih Berri are personally following this case and making every effort to secure their release. "Women and some men who were in the buses are now safe and under the protection of the Syrian authorities," Ammar said.

"The leaderships of Hezbollah and Amal Movement are following the case at the highest levels moment by moment and minute by minute," the MP added.      

The names of the kidnapped men according to media reports: Abbas Shoaib, Hassan Mahmoud, Hussein al-Siblani, Ali Abbas, Abu Ali Saleh, Mahdi Ballout, Hussein Arzouni, Hussein Omar, Mustafa Yassine, Mohammad Monzer, Awad Ibrahim, Ali al-Ahmar, Ali Zgheib, Rabih Zgheib, Ali Termos and Ali Safa.