In a mass commemorating the two years remembrance of the brutal assassination of Rafi’ Pierre Boulos, his family and friends distributed the following booklet after the service.

Booklet was posted on the Official LF site frontpage:
http://www.lebanese-forces.org/

Wanabka.

Today a mass commemorating the 2 years remembrance of the brutal assasination of Rafik Pierre Boulos will be held in Achrafieh.

Here is a small article from the booklet that is going to be distributed today at the mass:

May God bless all our martyrs and lets hope we’ll hear from our leaders a call for finding the truth behind this assasination, and Ramzi Irani’s assasination and dozens of others. The finest LF members were assasinated in the past 10 years and it is our DUTY to punish their killers.

So are you guys thinking of attending the LF convention in Washington,DC on the 12,13 and 14 of May? Well of course not all of you, just the ones that live in Canada and The US.
If you’re still thinking about it, ill say just be there. Its gonna be ON FIRE like Tony Baroud says

See Yaa

I was attended the Kataeb office inauguration at Achrafieh today. After the useless and meaningless speeches (except Nadim’s one which had a lot of hidden meanings and critiques), the organizers showed us a video on Sheikh Bashir Gemayel.

He was assasinated over 20 years ago yet his speeches apply perfectly to our present day. His honesty and charisma are amazing. I never thought I’d be touched by any person the way EL Bash has influenced me throughout the years.

Adding to that, his tone and his level of speeches surpasses by far any speech any current politician. He was on another level.

No word can describe how great this man was, I never knew him or interacted with him personally but I still feel so bad about his assasination, it was a huge loss!

Di3anak ya Bashir wou di3an hal Kataeb wel Ouwet li be2yo warak… chou na22isna la noussal 3ala 1% min li ken mwassalna 3le el Bash.

Allah yir7amak ya Bash and hope u ll keep on inspiring the new generations.

If anyone remembers Aoun during the late 80s when he was elected head of a temporary government, they would notice how similar his actions are today.

Back then, he wanted to become president too and Syria was his first option. Aoun started sending his personal advisors to Syria and he wasn’t able to get their approval, so he later launched his famous liberation war.

The second time he went to the Americans who also did not want him as president, he attacks the American ambassador during that famous incident in Baabda.

The third time around he turns to the Lebanese parties and his most feared opponent, the LF. He agrees to boycott elections at a first stage with them, but then wants to disarm them and take full control in order to be the sole Christian leader. The LF refuses to surrender so he attacks them.

Nowadays, he agrees with everyone once they support his candidacy and attacks and bashes them when they refuse him as a president. Its ironic how he tells the patriarch he is no more a military man, while his ways and actions are those of a close-minded powerseeking general.

The Amnesty law was issued. The rifa’ are supposed to be cleared and allowed to go back to Lebanon. In reality, this is not the case. Many of the rifa’ are not cleared and if they return, they will be dragged to the Ministry of Defense. 

MP Adwan and all LF responsible said that the Amnesty law covers all LF members and not only Dr. Geagea. True many were cleared as we were told. 

Why then some rifa’ are not cleared? Who is holding their files? Who is working on clearing their names? They also have the right to return and see their families. 

They say an LF group including lawyers is taking care of the issue. When several rifa’ checked with the lawyers, the answer was “we did our job and the files are in hakim’s hands.”  

Hakim, the rifa’ outside want to go back home. Can you please move their files forward? Even if you do not like the political decisions many took while you are in prison, but after all there is a cause and years of struggle you shared together. Remember, you were away for 11 years from your parents. They are still away. They are still outside because they believed in you and the cause you carried. The minimum you can do for them is bring them back home.  

If anyone noticed in the past few months, we barely heard about Aoun insisting on his Audit program. Instead he got closer to the most corrupted politicians and made them his allies.
Starting by Frangieh, he is on his way of joining him in creating a jibha wataniyye.
Then Hizbullah, the one party that made the Daman, the health and electricity government institutions corrupted and broke, and dares to blame it on Christian officials.

We have Michel el Murr and his group, the uncontested kings of corruption.

And above all that, he dares calling Hariri “Rustom Ghazaleh elMassare” and blame the debt on Solidere.

I strongly urge that Aoun starts auditing with his own team and from that point, ask for a general audit, since a group of thiefs cannot possibly ask for Auditing others.

Its been few weeks Hakim has been quiet, not showing on TV, no interviews, and as some rifak told me, giving all his time to the LF internal matters now that it reached a very critical level.

I ve been asking for this for years now, not only months and since its the perfect time, (of course in case that ever reaches Hakim) I will say it again.
- A call to gather all LFers on one table, to listen to each group, understand what they did and what they wanna say.
- A call to resolve our issues not based on who was with Strida and who wasnt.

With all due respect, the LF we want to rebuild must be on strong bases and cannot be shaken by personal issues. The LF should gather ex-LFers, LF fighters, LF activists with no exception.

I have nothing more to say.
I ve read and listened to Hakim before getting to know him personally, Hakim the just leader and wise decision maker, and i do not expect less from Hakim in resolving our problems now.

Hoping for the best.
Wanabka.

Anyone seen This criminal speeching during the Qana memorial today ?
How come no reaction from any politicians on this provocative speech ?

This criminal and head of an armed guerilla goes on TV and talks officially without anyone critisizing him or questioning him ?? wen 3aysheen ?

I am waiting to hear replies tomorrow on this issue, because this pretty much shows how sovereign and independant we are.

Tfeh!

I hate to bring more bad news and negative ideas to this forum, but that’s all i have.

Did you guys have any insight into what happened yesterday when Simon Msalem Visited Samir Geagea? Even in an anonymous blog I’m hesitated to discuss it or post it because its a shameful thing.

God bless our martyrs.
May their souls rest in peace.

If we want to save the cause they died for, we should act soon coz nothing is gonna change. Not today, not tomorrow, not even in 10 years.

Nchouf wejkon b kher

The picture i attached speaks for itself. Aounists along with SSNP celebrating their win in the LU elections in Zahle or Beqaa, i dont recall. Seeing those young people allying with Sheikh Bashir Gemayel killers, the SSNP, is an extermly shameful and degrading act.

I doubt anyone thought Aoun would go to such levels, i expected more from this man, its his followers i dont understand, who keep following him blindly and trust a crazy general.

Anyway, lets not go back in time, let everyone take a good look at this picture and keep in mind the agreement paper with Hizbullah, and conclude where Aoun is leading us by his twisted and destructive politics.

There is nothing more to say.
Shame on M.Aoun and shame on every Christian, (and every Lebanese), who holds an SSNP flag or supports those traitors and criminals.

Where is the LF from Human rights today ?
Mohammad el Maghreby case was ignored by all parties including the LF.
I ve also been told about many rifak in Lebanon that are still being questioned and judged, not to mention the long list of LFers oustide Lebanon who cannot return anymore.

Where are we today from such violations of our most basic human rights ?
We should be the first ones demonstrating and defending those people and asking for justice to prevail.

How about the Lebanese prisoners in Syria ? How about Boutros Khawand that Hakim promised to take care of his file personally ?

We cannot ignore such an important issue and working on it is a must, not to mention it ll increase our credibility.

Ramzi Irani, Pierre Boulos, Fawzi el Rassi, and the long list of assasinated LFers ..
We want the truth for that too ..

Happy Easter to all Christians most specifically Catholics in Lebanon.
May the lord who rose from the dead be a symbol for us to follow and rise from the situation we are in. Let us learn to sacrifice ourselves for a greater cause which is our freedom and our faith and give less importance to materialistic things.

I know Talk is cheap, but the actions being done later r way cheaper.
Regards,

Yesterday was the 31st anniversary of the outbreak of the so-called “civil war”.
Tons of books have been written trying to explain the origins of this war, most of them describing it as a clash between Christians and Muslims, each supported by external parties.

The Lebanese war, in my opinion, was never a civil war but rather a war against the Christians of Lebanon, led at a first stage by Palestinians financed by Sunnites, added to some Druzes and Shiite groups, then followed by Syrians supported by the Muslim political parties, not to forget the US who was applying its Kissinger plan that turned against them at the end of the war.

Greater Lebanon founded back in 1920, was ruled by Maronites who chose delibaretly to join Muslims and minorities within one country. Maronites ruled Lebanon under the French mandate, but it didnt take time before they asked for their sovereignty, eventhough French mandate has done for Lebanon during its period more than Lebanese themselves have done during the past 70 years.

After Israelies invaded Palestine and kicked its people out, Lebanese and mainly Christians were the first ones to welcome the refugees and help them. What they did not realize was that some Palestinian authorities sold their home and came to Lebanon with ambitious ideas. It didnt take much time before Palestinians started invading our free regions and at this point, we saw Muslim groups joining the invadors and supporting them and inciting them to harm us.
The Mourabittoun group is one example of Sunnites and Palestinians grouped into one party.

Sadly, we had few so-called Christian groups and individuals (SSNP party, Baath party etc ..) who were sank in Arab ideologies and were either too blind to see the dangers threatening our freedom, or had become total dhimmists.

Therefore at the mid 60s, the image was clear. Christian regions were invaded by Palestiniains while Muslim regions were embracing them. The first clashes were street-fights and the first Christian militias were starting to organize before the first war erupted in 1976 at Tal El Zaatar.

Throughout the whole war, Christians never allied with any external side against other Lebanese communities. The help from Israel was a military one and never reached the political level. Sheikh Bashir Gemayel’s martyrdom was the proof to that, he stood against the international community and Israel defending the 10452, while he was being cursed and called traitor in non-free regions.

The years that followed also showed the true intentions behind this war, and the putch that Muslim groups supported by Syria did on the Taef agreement turned the military struggle into a political one, and the wars and battles into political assasinations and persecutions.

Regardless of all those facts, Christians stayed attached to their freedom and to their partners in this small country. Hariri’s assasination was a major shock to the Muslim society, but what followed was a major wake-up call, when Christians joined them in demanding the Truth and achieved the historical 14th of March demonstration. Hariri apparently made them realize the rightness of our demands and the true intentions behind those demands, but for how long ?

A feeling of national unity spread among the Lebanese, but politics are politics and the political war against Christians that started way before 1975 is back on. We cannot elect our Mps, an unjust and unequal elections law was proposed, the president seat has been weakened and Christians r unable to appoint a new one ( regardless of the internal fights), everyone respects the Patriarch but no one listens to him, no to mention the monopoles over government positions.

The war in my belief is not over, and it will go on until a decentralized political system is applied in Lebanon, putting Muslims and Christians on the same levels, and removing all sorts of threats between the two communities. But before this happens, Muslims, Sunnites and Shiites, should drop their Islamization plans and accept the fact that Lebanon will never be Lebanon without its Free Christians.

Finally, i d like to address those who still believe we are not Muslims and Christians, but we are one people and confessionalism is behind the civil war, kindly re-read history and its facts and keep your emotions aside.
No one aspires to a secular and unified Lebanon more than Christians, but unless we have a muslim partner recognizing our presence as an equally-strong and influent and free group, we are still in a state of war, but this time it evolved from tanks and guns to what i consider WMD, destruction and brainwashing of the minds and spreading dhimmitude among our community.

Regards,

I don’t usually like to participate in arguments with liars but the other day I posted about the FPM website that at one point copied the website design of LebaneseForces.com. It seems the webmaster of that website replied stating that WE had stolen the design from HIS website since he gets a lot more visitors then LebaneseForces.com (which was shutdown over a year ago). According to him because his site is currently more popular it means we are the thieves not him. I don’t try to understand the logic behind his lies but I just wanted to reply with a fact that should shut him up.

I just want to remind the FPM webmaster that LebaneseForces.com has been open since June 2000 while his FPM website opened in November 2003. Secondly the design he had stolen from our website we have been using since May 2003 which is a couple of months before his site was even open. So my question is how could I copy the design off him if his website didn’t even exist when I designed the site?

The FPM webmaster seems to be happy with his traffic which is really not much, around 3,000 unique visitors a day, even less then that. Back when LebaneseForces.com was open we used to get over 5,000 a day. Even my personal blog currently gets more traffic and ranks higher on Alexa then his FPM website.

Many people have asked me about the LebaneseForces.com logo and what it means and who it was designed by. I usually reply telling them that if they joined the 3 dots they would get the delta, a quick and simple explanation. But there has also been a lot of misconception on the logo and really no documented case online about it. So I decided I would post the whole story on the LF.com logo right from the very begining.

Back in late 2000 while I was studying at LAU Byblos, my best friend was assigned the job of creating a car sticker for the Lebanese Student Front who were the LF students at university. My friend wasn’t a designer and was doing a really terrible job with the sticker. It was looking really crap so I figured if I could do a better job maybe then I would be given some attention by the LF at campus. The only time any LF representative came and spoke to me in university was if they wanted me to vote in the elections. So I decided to design a sticker myself, something that would be simple, straight to the point, easy to produce and look good on the cars. No one wants to stick something on their car if it meant it would ruin the look. Another thing I had to take into consideration is at that time the LF party was banned and any LF logos on the cars would cause problems for the students, so my logo had to represent the LF but not really relate to the LF directly.

With that in mind I started sketching some ideas in my sketch book. A few days later I had to travel to Turkey for a graphic design workshop and while I was there I got an idea for the logo. I was sitting doodling in my sketchbook when I remembered what my teacher once told me about taking an object and simplifying it down to its basic form. I started thinking of LF elements like the LF cross and the delta and I then started to simplify them down to their basic elements, down to just dots.

I started to experiment more and realized that dots by themselves wouldn’t show when stuck on cars. So I decided to use circles and started playing with the thickness of the lines until I was comfortable with it. Finally I decided to drop the logo that represented the cross and go with the one that represented the delta. I showed it to my design teacher who was from Becharri and he suggested that I separate the dots from the circles with an outline. I tried it and didn’t like it so I stuck with my design and the main reason was because my version looked like 3 people holding hands, a strong sign of unity. That day I went down to Jounieh to a store that did vinyl stickers for store windows and asked him to cut me 20 logos. I had a handful of colors to choose from but I decided to stick with silver since it would go well with all the car colors. I took the stickers, left the place and then handed them to a friend with contacts to the LF at campus and waited for the feedback.

Next morning I get a phone call around 10AM in the morning, it was my friend whom I had given the 20 stickers to. He asked me how soon can I get more stickers? Still half asleep I was like why did they like it? He replied telling me they loved it and they wanted 100 more stickers. So I ditched my classes and went and printed 100 more stickers. Two days later they wanted another 100 and then it became 500 and then 1000. The stickers started spreading across all universities like a wild bush fire. Everyone wanted one and the logo started appearing on many cars. For me it was an unreal experience to drive along the highway and spot another car with my designed sticker on it. Even until this day it gives me great pleasure seeing my sticker on cars.

The logo grew out of LAU campus, it didn’t just represent the Lebanese Student Front at LAU anymore, the sticker represented the LF students. Even though it was never supported officially the logo was adapted by a very large number of students. Once I started LebaneseForces.com I decided to give even a greater support for the logo and use it for my site. Today I no longer know how the strong a presence my logo has in Lebanon. Even if its presence is no longer as strong as it was it doesn’t matter. I will not forget the experience and watching it grow from just 20 stickers for some LF members at university to thousands of stickers representing a much greater cause. This is the story of the LF logo that I never gave a name to…

The same FPM website that at one point had stolen the LebaneseForces.com site design has now decided they will also be opening a blog. Instead of innovating they imitate.

I always looked at you not as a leader, you were always my ideal leader.
You were in pain, we prayed for you.
You were in trials, we cried for you.
You were in jail, we’ve been with you.
We’ve wait for you long time, long time…
And we know, you were always you.
I still remember well, during a trial you said that the painter has to go far few steps from his paint to see the whole picture.
Go far few steps from your surround and see the whole LF. See the people that they were ready to die for the cause, for the LF, for you.
Fair you are, and you will always be you.
Gather all the LF, stay my ideal leader, stay you…

When our leader Samir Geagea was released from prison I figured the first person that would get kicked out from his position would be Danielle Spiro. There are many reasons why Danielle Spiro should have been kicked out but my reasons for disliking Spiro are more personal. LebaneseForces.com was one of the best and most popular Lebanese political site covering events in Lebanon and the reason for that was because of some dedicated LF members like RAA who went to the events to take pictures and then spent hours uploading them online. Since I had personal issues with some LF officials they decided to stop anyone who helped my website in anyway. Danielle Spiro started to give orders at every event not to let RAA take pictures. Just because Spiro had problems with me he was denying the thousands of LF members around the world who couldn’t participate in the events to see the pictures.

I found Spiro’s actions very immature and child like. How could the leader of the LF students deny an LF member from taking pictures at an LF event? How could he be so selfish and inconsiderate to disallow LF members world wide from checking out pictures of the events due to personal issues?

I have many personal problems with the LF and I will be posting about them all here. Hopefully someone in a high position is reading this and put things right.

I ve been reading what most of the users are posting here, not to mention LFers on political forums and in discussion groups, there is a general feeling of miscontent and disgust among many, some are hiding it by defending wrong decisions blindly, some are staying quiet, and others are letting go everything.

Of course we should not forget that many are also satisfied with whats happening, and fully agree with the LF’s current actions. I fully respect their opinion, but honestly they are not seeing the whole picture.

What is happening in the LF nowadays is not new, we had several dark years where many comrads left, leadership was deviating from the Cause or simply where internal fights erupted and had to fixed.
However, our current fight is not similar to HK-Hakim one back in the 80s, it is not a military one but a political one and there is no such thing as one team winning over the other in such fights.
Its either both teams meet, discuss and understand their differences or its both teams fighting and the LF being the only loser.

I ve heard many calls for meetings between Hakim and the LFers who are not quite pleased how things are being run. I remember Massira’s call for such a meeting to resolve internal issues almost a year or 2 before Hakim was released, same for Antoine Najm’s call for a general LF convention.

The only way out of this current crisis is through such a meeting, and i urge Hakim to take more time to fix our internal matters and resolve it as quickly as possible, because it will have fatal consequences in the near future if things are kept as they are.

Finally, i d like to ask all LFers who are feeling desperate, disgusted or rejected by the LF to remember an important thing.
The LF is not Bashir Gemayel, is not Samir Geagea, is not Antoine Najm, is not any person’s belonging. Therefore quitting the LF is not really an option, since you ll be dropping your own beliefs. Better fight for the LF you know, you believe in and you feel committed too, and defend its principles and critisize any LFer who deviates from those principles, even if it was Hakim himself.

Finally, i repeat my call for Hakim to organize a general convention dedicated to our internal problems and invite all parties in order to put things in order.
I am sure many people close to Hakim are reading this thread, do it as a favor for the LF and pass the message.

Wanabka.