Syrian authorities are not likely to hand over several bodies of Lebanese men slain in Tall Kalakh to Lebanon's General Security on Saturday after Prime Minister Najib Miqati urged Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim to receive them in a single round. Informed sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper that Syria froze its decision to hand over the bodies in what it had promised to take place in three rounds, starting Saturday.

The freeze came most probably after Miqati tasked General Security chief Ibrahim to negotiate with the Syrian authorities the transfer of all the bodies in a single day. But Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said the transfer of the bodies could take place anytime soon and possibly on Saturday. He said at a press conference he held in Tripoli that Ibrahim was in Syria to agree on the appropriate measures to hand over the bodies. [Link]