Saudi freed in Lebanon after kidnapping
Al JazeeraLebanese interior ministry says that nine people had been arrested in connection with Sunday’s kidnapping. A Saudi national who had been kidnapped in Beirut on Sunday has been freed in a special operation by the Lebanese army near the Syrian border. “An army intelligence patrol managed to free kidnapped Saudi national Mashari al-Mutairi during a special operation on the Syrian border and a number of those involved in the kidnapping were also arrested,” the Lebanese army said in a statement on Monday. Unidentified assailants dressed as security personnel in a four-wheel drive vehicle on the Beirut seafront kidnapped the Saudi, who had been in a restaurant, according to a senior Lebanese security source. Saudi Arabia returned its ambassador to Beirut in April 2022, after recalling him the previous October amid a diplomatic dispute that followed a Lebanese minister criticising the kingdom’s conduct in the war in Yemen.
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