Lebanese Woman At Ease After Being Released

A Lebanese Shiite woman, right, who was released with other women from kidnapping in Syria on their way home from a religious pilgrimage in Iran, is seen hugged and kissed by her daughter, left, upon her arrival at Rafik Hariri international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, early Wednesday May 23, 2012. The Lebanese were on their way home from a religious pilgrimage in Iran when Syrian rebels intercepted their vehicles, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said. The rebels abducted the 11 men and a Syrian driver. The women were released. The leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah appealed for calm Tuesday after people blocked roads and burned tires in Beirut to protest the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shiites in neighboring Syria. <AP/Newsis>

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