Syria starts handing over Arab detainees
Syria-Regional, Politics, 7/26/2005

Syria announced yesterday it had handed Saudi Arabia 12 extremists in the framework of an operation includes handing over several detainees held in Syria of several Arab nationalities to their countries.

The Syrian official news agency SANA said that the "Syrian authorities started to hand over several detained extremists from several Arab nationalities to their countries," noting that those have links "to incidents that took place on the Syrian lands, especially the incident took place on June 22 in which one Tunisian extremist was killed on the Syrian- Lebanese borders, as he was planning to establish a camp for training extremists on the Lebanese territories."

SANA stressed that "the first shift of those extremists were handed over to specialized authorities in Saudi Arabia, tolling 12 extremists," defining not the date of their handing over.

SANA added that "this measure falls in the course of coordination and cooperation among the Arab brothers in the efforts to fighting extremism and terrorism." The Syrian authorities announced that clashes took place on the Lebanese-Syrian borders one month ago that resulted in killing the Tunisian Majdi al-Zubeidi and his wife in addition to a Syrian officer and another wounded. One persons escorted al-Zubeidi was detained in a step that led to acts of detentions that covered 34 extremists. The infiltration attempt by al-Zubeidi was towards the Lebanese territories rather than from Lebanon to Syria.

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