Mossad abducted Syrian general to interrogate for location of Ron Arad, report says

According to the London-based Arabic newspaper Rai al-Youm, the general—who has not been named—was abducted by Zionist troops and then taken to an African country, where he was interrogated and then released.

The alleged abduction and interrogation was conducted in order to acquire more information regarding the fate and whereabouts of the Israeli navigator, Ron Arad, who was captured by Lebanese groups on 16 October 1986 after bailing out of a plane damaged by a bomb.

While the pilot of the plane was saved, Arad was taken into captivity and—after three letters and two photos from him were sent—Israel lost track of him, two years later. Despite Israel officially presuming him to be dead, Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, revealed last month's operation to locate him in a speech to the Knesset yesterday.

The report of the Syrian general's abduction is not the first such attempt to find Arad, but it comes after numerous members of the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, were captured over the years in similar attempts for information. A $10 million reward was also offered by Tel Aviv for the discovery of Arad.