Tara Brown, a reporter for 60 Minutes, has been detained in Beirut along with her Channel Nine crew.
Photograph: Channel Nine. The Guardian
An Australian woman who allegedly orchestrated the abduction of her children from their Lebanese father, and an Australian TV crew who police believe were there to film the incident, have been arrested in Beirut.
A British man who was also detained by the Lebanese police is believed to be the captain of a yacht that was moored near Beirut’s Movenpick hotel, preparing to sail away with the children, police sources said. The detained film crew, including Tara Brown of Nine Network’s 60 Minutes program, were in custody on Thursday and being interrogated by internal security forces investigators.
Reuters, DUBAI
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Ahmed, a Lebanese
worker living in the United Arab Emirates, closed down his Facebook
page and started to shun some of his compatriots. His
intention was to sever all links to people associated with Lebanon's
Hezbollah after Gulf Arab states classified the Shi'ite Muslim
organization as a terrorist group. Ahmed, a medical worker in his early 50s who declined to give his full name, is not alone. Anxiety
and apprehension are unsettling many of the up to 400,000 Lebanese
workers living in the Gulf after last month's announcement by the Gulf
Cooperation Council - Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,
Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.
A Lebanese military court on Friday increased to nearly 10 years the jail term for a former minister convicted last year of smuggling explosives and planning attacks, in a case that has underscored the country's sharp political divisions.
Former Information Minister Michel Samaha, who has close ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was detained in August 2012 and confessed to involvement in a plot for which Damascus' security chief Ali Mamluk was also indicted.
Reuters, Lebanese police
have detained an Australian film crew and accused them of involvement in
a kidnapping of two children from their Lebanese father on behalf of
their Australian mother. "Four
Australian nationals have been stopped on suspicion of kidnapping the
two children," the Lebanese internal security services said on their
Twitter account. CCTV footage
broadcast on Lebanese TV appeared to show the two children, who the
father said were aged five and three, being bundled into a car by
several attackers on a busy street in southern Beirut. The children's
grandmother told media she had been hit on the head with a pistol during
the abduction. The father, Ali
Zeid al-Amin, said by phone that he was scared for the children's safety
but that they were with their mother. "It's their mum that kidnapped
them, and that's what we know. She contacted me and told me she has the
kids," he said.
Population Movements to Keserwan - The Khazens and The Maans
ما جاء عن الثورة في المقاطعة الكسروانية
ثورة أهالي كسروان على المشايخ الخوازنة وأسبابها
Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title
Growing diversity: the Khazin sheiks and the clergy in the first decades of the 18th century
Historical Members:
Barbar Beik El Khazen [English]
Patriach Toubia Kaiss El Khazen(Biography & Life Part1 Part2) (Arabic)
Patriach Youssef Dargham El Khazen (Cont'd)
Cheikh Bishara Jafal El Khazen
Patriarch Youssef Raji El Khazen
The Martyrs Cheikh Philippe & Cheikh Farid El Khazen
Cheikh Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Hossun El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Francis Abee Nader & his son Yousef
Cheikh Abou-Kanso El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou Nader El Khazen
Cheikh Chafic El Khazen
Cheikh Keserwan El Khazen
Cheikh Serhal El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Rafiq El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Hanna El Khazen
Cheikha Arzi El Khazen
Marie El Khazen