BEIRUT—Five staffers of the international aid organization
Doctors Without Borders have been taken in for questioning in
northern Syria, the group said Friday.  The five staffers were
taken "allegedly for questioning" from a Doctors Without Borders
house in northern Syria, and have been out of contact since
Thursday evening, said Michael Goldfarb, a spokesman for the aid
group. He did not say whether the missing staffers had been
taken by government forces or rebels fighting to overthrow
President Bashar Assad, and refused to give further details out
of concern for the missing workers' safety.  Karin Ekholm, a
spokeswoman for the Swedish branch of the organization, said
those seized were Swedish, Danish, Swiss, Belgian and Peruvian
nationals.  The Danish branch confirmed a Dane was among those
taken.  "We are doing all we can to do re-establish contact with
our colleagues," the Danish branch said in a statement.  Rami
Abdurrahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights, said that me