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BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- In an incident described as the first of its kind, Hezbollah gunmen surrounded a Lebanese police patrol Friday and held them for "entering a Hezbollah security zone."

Lebanese political and security sources told CNN that three Lebanese internal security policemen in a clearly marked vehicle were on a routine patrol in a southern suburb of Beirut when they were intercepted and encircled by gunmen from Hezbollah.

The Lebanese policemen were disarmed in the vicinity of Bir El Abed and taken to a Hezbollah interrogation center, where they were accused of "entering a Hezbollah security zone."

After the intervention of high-level political contacts, the policemen were returned and handed back their weapons.

Political sources claim this is the first publicly known incident of its kind.


Fuzz says:
I think it is obvious which way things are going.