Doha-based Channel, al-Jazeera broadcast a video on Saturday, showing the Lebanese visitors who were kidnapped last months in Syria.The video, recorded on June 5 or 6, showed the 11 visitors seated in a room as each of them identified himself to the camera, and assured his family he was in a good health.
Toward the end of the video, a statement, written by the abductors, was shown on the screen, stating that the “guests will be handed over to the civil Syrian state after their case is reviewed by the new democratic parliament."
But the kidnappers, who identified themselves in the statement as "all of Syria's rebels," left open the possibility of negotiating the release of the Lebanese men they are holding.
"But given current circumstances, handing them over to neighbouring countries could be discussed," they said in the statement.
The visitors were kidnapped on May 22 in Aleppo province as they were returning home by bus from Iran. Women who were directly released by the abductors, said the visitors were kidnapped by the so-called “Free Syrian Army”.
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