Posted on 08/28/2014 8:54:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United Nations said that an armed group captured 43 UN peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday and that it was doing everything to secure their release.
An additional 81 peacekeepers were "currently being restricted to their positions in the vicinity of Ar Ruwayhinah and Burayqah," it added.
Israel closed off the area around Quneitra on Wednesday after an officer was wounded by stray fire as Syrian rebels, including fighters from the Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra front, stormed the crossing.
No details were released on the nationalities of the detained peacekeepers but six countries are contributing to the 1,200-strong unit: Fiji, India, Ireland, Nepal, Netherlands and the Philippines.
"Forty-three peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) were detained early this morning by an armed group in the vicinity of Quneitra," it said in a statement.
UN officials noted that the peacekeepers monitoring the armistice line between Israel and Syria were detained twice last year and released safely.
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Is this ISIS?
Israel should tell the UN not to use disproportionate force against the kidnappers.
The U.N. observers deserve whatever they get IMO.
They stand by and watch the terrorists fill the area with weapons caches, and then they whine when their own are mistreated.
F’em
Isreal should have given those observers about ten minutes warning before leveling their observer stations, long ago.
Eeeeeexactly!
The U.N., the best friend an anti-Israeli terrorist ever had.
There won't be any force, but there will be a wire transfer of around $200 million.
that sounds disproportionate to me.
Nepal...was this contingent made up of Gurkhas? Could be bad news for the abductors.
Others have been paying a few million per hostage. They might offer group discounts however.
No, it’s their first cousins, the Al Nusra Front. Al Nusra is the part of Al Qaeda in Syria that hasn’t been disowned by Zawahiri as too radical, like ISIS.
So 0bama might bomb ISIS on Al Qaeda’s behalf this time. Or something.
Thanks.
Ah, some good news from the middle east. The fewer blue helmets the better.../sarc tag
Freegards
LEX
If, God forbid, they get their heads hacked off by the moozlums, just what should the UN do? Will the Moon guy give them the “moon”?
How’s that peacekeeping stuff working out for you?
24 Egyptian soldiers were just beheaded near here
The UN pays ransom
You realize that there are US units that deploy to this mission?
Actually I wasn’t aware of that.
What I am aware of is that Israel took out most of the munitions there in the last skirmish about 10 years ago.
Since then the area has been re-armed to the teeth.
If that was taking place on our border, I’d be furious about it.
Those peace keepers are supposed to be preventing the area from being built up again. Instead they simply watch as it takes place.
It’s more of a buffer against Israel putting a stop to it, than it is a defense of Israel or keeping true peace in the region.
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