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Sheikh Adnan Amama of the Muslim Scholars Committee said the Islamist militants still holding Lebanese security forces captive have issued a list of their demands; he said the government has asked that the details of the demands be kept from the media. Amama said the Islamic State holds 11 soldiers and a corpse, and the Al Nusrah Front holds 18 captive security forces after releasing two yesterday. Four members of a criminal gang led by a woman were arrested near Arsal for luring and killing eight people in order to rob them; the gang sold the stolen goods to the rebels. Hussein al Hussein, who operated the Twitter account for the so-called Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigades, has confessed to inciting sectarian violence online and publishing claims of responsibility for terrorist attacks.