{"id":15766,"date":"2012-12-23T08:48:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=15766"},"modified":"2012-12-23T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:48:25","slug":"syrian-rebels-demand-700000-for-russian-italian-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/12\/syrian-rebels-demand-700000-for-russian-italian-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian rebels demand $700,000 for Russian, Italian hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/2012\/12\/23\/syrian-rebels-demand-700000-for-russian-italian-hostages\/attachment\/191033802\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15767\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15767\" alt=\"191033802\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/191033802.jpg?resize=360%2C203\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">by<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/themoscownews.com\/authors\/ria_novosti\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">RIA Novosti<\/span><\/a><\/i><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">at 20\/12\/2012\u00a011:28<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Syrian abductors of two Russian citizens and an Italian national demanded a ransom of over $700,000 for their release, Kommersant daily said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Two Russians and an Italian national were abducted on December 17\u00a0near the western Syrian port city of Latakia as they were travelling along the Tartus-Homs highway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;A diplomatic source in Moscow told Kommersant that the sum at the issue is 50 million Syrian pounds (over $700,000),&#8221; the daily said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday issued a statement identifying the Russians as V. Gorelov and Abdessattar Khassun, who also holds a Syrian passport, and confirmed that Italian Mario Belluomo was abducted with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">All three work for the Hmisho steel company&#8217;s plant near Homs, the statement confirms, adding that the company had received a telephone demand from unidentified individuals for payment as a condition for their release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">According to Kommersant, the hostages were abducted by one of the Syrian opposition groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">On Wednesday, Haitham al-Maleh, a prominent leader of the Syrian opposition abroad, said in an interview with Al Jazeera\u00a0that Russians are a &#8220;legitimate&#8221; target for Syrian militants\u00a0as Russia supports President Bashar al-Assad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/themoscownews.com\/international\/20121220\/191033815.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0RIA Novosti\u00a0at 20\/12\/2012\u00a011:28 Syrian abductors of two Russian citizens and an Italian national demanded a ransom of over $700,000 for their release, Kommersant daily said..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[228,197,226,345,277,211],"class_list":["post-15766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-colonialism","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-reactionary-watch","tag-syria","tag-zionism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/191033802.jpg?fit=360%2C203&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}