A source in the powerful Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah said that academic Elizabeth Tsurkov was released to avoid any “conflicts” in Iraq and facilitate the withdrwal of US forces.
Kataeb Hezbollah did not claim Tsurkov’s abduction but the source told AFP that she “was released according to conditions, the most important of which was to facilitate the withdrawal of US forces without a fight and to spare Iraq any conflicts or fighting.”
“She was released and not liberated. No military operation was carried out to free her,” he said.
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