Seven Estonians riding bicycles in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon were kidnapped by masked gunmen on Wednesday, security sources said. They said masked gunmen in a black Mercedes and white vans kidnapped the foreigners on a road between Zahle, a mostly Christian town, and Kfar Zabed, a mixed Sunni-Christian town. The cyclists had apparently crossed into Lebanon from Syria. Shadowy groups linked to Hezbollah kidnapped dozens of Western hostages in Beirut in the 1980s during Lebanon’s civil war. But instances of kidnapping have been rare since then.