Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Tuesday. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.

An-Nahar
Report on Jassem brothers’ kidnapping uncovered

An-Nahar has learned that Internal Security Forces (ISF) chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi has separated between the three kidnapping cases of Middle East Airlines manager Joseph Sader, the four Syrian opposition brothers from the Jassem family and Shibli Aisamy, an 86-year-old Syrian dissident .
An-Nahar has obtained a detailed report about the kidnapping of the four Jassem brothers.
The report, currently in the possession of military authorities, includes statements from witnesses who provided solid evidence that the Jassem brothers were kidnapped outside the Serail in Baabda by 1st Lt. Salah Ali al-Hajj, head of the Syrian Embassy guard unit, with the assistance of four other men.

Two ISF vehicles, put at the Syrian Embassy’s disposal, were used in the kidnapping, the report said.
The report detailed the process of intercepting the phone calls during the handover of the Jassem brothers in Yanta, Bekaa Valley, to an activist of Ahmed Jibril’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command on the Lebanon-Syria border.

As-Safir
Teachers’ strike Wednesday as salaries’ ‘sin’ ongoing
Lebanon ‘Spring’ oil: exploration licenses before April

As from Tuesday Cabinet will debate the 2012 state budget, which includes the funding for The Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the years 2012 and 2013.
A meeting of the joint parliamentary committees under Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and in the presence of Prime Minister Najib Mikati Monday agreed to set deadlines for investment in Lebanon’s oil and gas wealth within its maritime borders. This includes government's commitment to issue licenses for oil exploration before the end of April.

Meanwhile, no breakthrough in the teachers’ strike was in sight. The union coordination committee announced it was going to go ahead with Wednesday’s general strike, which would apply to all public and private schools, colleges, vocational institutions as well as the Lebanese University and public administrations.
In parallel, an attempt by the General Labor Confederation (GLC) to amend the pay raise “sin” failed as it was rejected by the private sector Monday.

Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas told As-Safir that while the private sector introduced new demands, the GLC demanded an amendment to the decision that it had originally agreed on.

Ad-Diyar
STL funding to be rejected by Cabinet, approved by Parliament
Sleiman responds to Aoun: I don’t have thugs, but I support competent [employees]
Cabinet will put the issue of funding for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon to a vote.

However, funding will not pass Cabinet’s vote as the majority has 17 ministers against 13 ministers affiliated with President Michel Sleiman and the centrist force.
This will not prevent Cabinet from referring the state budget bill to Parliament, where the opposition makes up the majority – 60 MPs –in addition to seven lawmakers from Walid Jumblatt’s bloc. This effectively means a vote on the funding for the STL will pass in Parliament.

Separately, the issue of public appointments is a point of contention between Sleiman and Free Patriotic Movement leader Gen. Michel Aoun, particularly in terms of Christian and Maronite positions.
While Aoun wants the lion’s share of the posts, Sleiman rejects this and says he does not have thugs but supports appointing state employees on the basis on whether they are competent or not.

Al-Mustaqbal
Jumblatt asks reform lecturers: Is it true that bids by Arabs on electricity plan were turned down?

Head of the National Struggle Front MP Walid Jumblatt said that “despite the urgent need to increase wages, this move should have been preceded by bigger steps toward administrative reform and a comprehensive study to secure the funds needed to carry out this step so as not to fall into spiraling inflation as in Greece.”
“By the way, where are those elite people who lecture us daily about reform and the fight against corruption?” Jumblatt asked in his weekly editorial. “Is it true that Arab funds submitted bids to the Energy Ministry to finance the electricity plan but were rejected?”