Hizbullah Kidnaps Policeman in South Beirut

Hizbullah partisans on Thursday attacked and kidnapped a police officer in south Beirut, in the second such development in as many days, security sources reported.

 

The sources said the police officer was investigating an illegal construction site in the suburb of Ghadir when he was beaten up by two local residents.

 

Hizbullah members drove in, kidnapped the officer and whisked him to a Hizbullah office where he was illegally interrogated by party officials on activities of the police force.

 

The officer told his superiors later that Hizbullah officials set him free only because he is Shiite.

 

Hizbullah partisans attacked a police patrol in the eastern mountainous town of Qmatiyeh Wednesday evening and stripped policemen of two wanted criminals, who remain at large.