"Seven Estonian tourists have been kidnapped while cycling in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. The army has now begun searching for the group, who had entered Lebanon legally from Syria earlier in the day. They were in the town of Zahle when they were seized by men in a car and two vans....The Bekaa Valley is a stronghold of the Islamist Hezbollah movement (but Zahle where the tourists disappeared is a March14/Phalange enclave)... The Bekaa Valley is known for lawlessness, drug trafficking and feuds between the powerful clans which control the region's hashish plantations. The tourists' abandoned bicycles were found near the industrial complex in Zahle where they were abducted."
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
BBC stands corrected: "Seven Estonians abducted in Lebanese Phalange enclave!"
Elias Muhanna notwithstanding
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