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U.N. confirms release of peacekeepers abducted by Syria rebels
REUTERS ^ | Sep 11, 2014

Posted on 09/11/2014 11:03:34 AM PDT by McGruff

The United Nations on Thursday confirmed the release of all 45 Fijian peacekeepers who had been held for two weeks by al Qaeda-linked militants in the Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: unpeacekeepers
Are these are the good guys or the bad guys?
1 posted on 09/11/2014 11:03:34 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Did they just find out Obama wants to give them Much Money ?


2 posted on 09/11/2014 11:05:15 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: McGruff
rebels were the guys we were arming and who were killing all the Christians.

And now we want to do what??

3 posted on 09/11/2014 11:06:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: molson209; McGruff

ISIS in the egg phase. Some of them have already hatched and announced their allegiance to ISIS.

This is a strategic move. Apparently, these “rebels” were the ones that had kidnapped Sotloff and then sold him to ISIS, so I guess they want to let bygones be bygones, in the press, at least.


4 posted on 09/11/2014 11:07:41 AM PDT by livius
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To: McGruff

President 0bama! You didn’t build that coalition.


5 posted on 09/11/2014 11:17:36 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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A little more info here.

Fighters from the Nusra Front captured the Fijian troops late last month in the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights, where a 1,200-strong U.N. force patrols the disputed buffer zone between Syria and Israel. The area along the frontier has since been engulfed in heavy clashes between the militants and the Syrian military.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/11/un-peacekeepers-held-captive-by-al-qaeda-linked-group-released-in-syria/


6 posted on 09/11/2014 11:21:37 AM PDT by McGruff (I'm thinkin.)
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I’ll bet they won’t hand their rifles over the next time.

The UN guy who told them to do that should be fired. I understand that the UN guy was badmouthing the Indians who refused to hand over their rifles a short while later.


7 posted on 09/11/2014 11:21:39 AM PDT by jim_trent
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