Here are few pictures taken by an FM member of Amal thugs in 7ayy el Lejja .. Now you tell me who’s the militia ..

i just received this via email.

Civil war does not necessarily start the same way every time. For people who are still waiting for the “bus of 75″, it will not pass this time. 3 people were killed on Tuesday and 4 today, until now… It won’t stop. Now it’s in between people; and our leaders didn’t understand yet that they are burning the country. They are still blaming each other and trying to use what’s happening for their political interest.

The war with Israel is easy… we know the enemy. Now the enemy is us.  Welcome to the renewed civil war.

Thirty years ago our parents watched the same thing on TV and said it’s going to stop in few days… And guess what? It stayed for 15! What role everyone of us will play: sit in the shelters, fight with the party/tribe we belong to, close everything and leave the country, sit and argue on who’s responsible… Maybe we need one more war and we deserve it. It seems we didn’t learn enough the last 30 years.

It’s so painful to see our country being destroyed… Our people are killing each other. Now Sunnites and Shiites, tomorrow Christians and Christians and after tomorrow Christians and Druze… Welcome to the jungle of corruption, theocrats, autocrats, war lords, feudalists… Welcome to the jungle of confessions and the consociational democracy, the big lie of the 21 ^st century.

I’m sitting in the office, watching Lebanese TV stations: Fadlallah, Seniora, Karame, Kabalan, Hariri, Berri, Kanaan, Rice and Chirac… How can we even think that this country will go better… when people are killing each other in Beirut, Omar Karame is on TV making a speech and people are shouting: “inta l’mufti ya omar”.

Are we going to argue in 30 years from now if it’s the war of others in Lebanon or if it’s a civil war? Yes, we are responsible of this war. We are responsible of every moment we spent arguing in favor of any of the opposition or March 14. We need to wake up…

When we were able to do something, we didn’t succeed… I’m not sure we can any more. I understand more than ever why youth are leaving the country for good… I’m loosing hope. Can we do something? Can we stop it? Unfortunately, I feel it’s too late. Good luck for all what you will try to do in the first civil war in the third millennium.

Congratulations to all of us for the great work we did to make our country repeat its history.

Congratulations to all our politicians who lead us to this situation. We knew that this is their way to lead and they have no problem repeating the war for the sake of being in power.

Congratulations to us citizens and civil society for still believing that these politicians are still capable of leading this country… and for being divided because of our blind support to them.

If you are waiting for the “Bus” to pass to know that civil war started again… I can assure you it won’t pass again…

Gilbert

January 25, 2007

احراق مركز القومي السوري في طريق الجديدة

The SSNP office in Tareek Jdeede was burned by Hariri supporters.

I simply interpret what happened today as an attempt to trouble the Paris3 conference and to show to all medias in the world that there are riots in Lebanon while Sanioura is in France collecting money.

The opposition failed in stopping the government from going to Paris3, and today also failed from troubling the conference where Lebanon gathered more than 7 billion dollars majorily from EU, KSA, USA & France.

LINK TO PICTURE

Yesterday the ex-general from Rabyeh attacked the LF for using Sadam personnel in the riots…he was basing himself on the above picture taken from the al akhbar news paper…at this point, I would like to ask:

- What in the picture shows that the guy is Sadam? or the name makes the story more horrid and therefore helps them in their separatist tactics to slander the LF more?

- What links the guy to the picture, assuming, and I am saying ASSUMING he is LF at all????all I saw was a guy with an assault rifle in one picture that superceeds another picture of the riots….

- Perhaps the Al Akhbar team should have done their homework in a more detailed fashion for had they done so they would have found out that:

1. AL Sadam never used AK47s…Either SigSauer or MP5
2. Al Sadam always had short cropped hair, never that long
3. Al Sadam never showed their face in public.Always a black ski mask covers the face.

So Mr Ibrahim al Amin…sorry to burst your bubble but it looks like 2007 is just not your year after all…you and your pals are running from defeat to defeat…ila ayn? God knows…

Mail Sent to me by a friend: ( Thanks J)

Une seule caracteristique marque le noir de cette nuit : le silence total a Beyrouth. Je ne m’attarderai surtout pas aux folies meurtrieres de ce 23 janvier, vous les connaissez bien a present. Je me contente simplement de vous retransmettre les evenements qui se sont deroules
dans mon propre quartier a Monnot.

J’avais lu sur Internet lundi soir que le Hezbollah et les oranges preparaient des barrages des l’aube de mardi sur toutes les routes libanaises afin de soumettre l’ensemble des Libanais a leur grevesurtout apres avoir constate d’avance l’echec ecrasant de cettederniere puisque la majorite des organismes civils et economiques ont decrete mardi comme etant un jour de travail normal. J’ai prevu alorsde me reveiller tot le matin et de suivre le deroulement des choses a la tele. 7H et quelques du matin, je sursaute du lit en entendant ma mere crier : elle vient d’apercevoir un enorme groupe (plus d’une trentaine de personnes) des mecs du Hezbollah se diriger en-dessous de notre immeuble afin de bloquer notre quartier. On sort au balcon et on les voit effectivement en train de deplacer d’enormes bacs a fleurs en beton (qu’ils ont soigneusement pris de notre propre immeuble) qu’ils ont vite mis en plein milieu de la route pour la bloquer dans les 2 sens du croisemenent. Ma mere, rage de colere, n’hesite pas a sortir au balcon en hurlant sur le groupe leur demandant de s’eloigner immediatement des lieux et de ne plus toucher aux proprietes de l’immeuble…

Alertes, les voisins sortent a leur tour et regardent bouche bee a une scene de (tres) mauvais gout. Les cris resteront evidemment inutiles devant le groupe bien determine a imposer sa propre loi. On appelle d’urgence le 112 et leur demandons de nous assurer la protection de l’armee,
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I kept asking myself if Hezbollah was that dumb to commit such a deadly error yesterday, and on how quick the Opposition stopped all its movement suddently and packed and went back home.

First of all, it is sad that 5 Lebanese died honestly in vain cause of the clashes yesterday, not to mention the hundreds of injured people and the material damages that the people will have to pay for at the end of the day.

I assume that The Opposition had to stop its plan because of the unfortunate incidents that occured, but what were they really after ? Just closing roads and burning tyres ?
I doubt that ..

The planning for yesterday was impeccable and was planned for few days at least, if not more and its execution could have been perfect if it wasnt for the riots in Nahr el Mot mainly.
Hezbollah blocked all highways and roads ( even the shortcuts) leading to Beirut from the South and from Beirut suburbs ( Hamra for ex).

Added to that, it blocked all highways from the North assisted by Frangieh mainly.

As for the rest of the regions, Aounists were supposed to take care of that, except for Hazmieh where Hezbollah sent its followers ( as shown on LBC tonight) to close the main highway that leads to Achrafieh & Beirut.

So Beirut was isolated from all sides, army was spread all over Lebanon while Riad el Solh was still packed with Opposition members controlled by Hezbollah.

Achrafieh, Ain el Remmaneh, Furn el Chebbak were not concerned with the blocus since the army is already blocking their way to Beirut ( for ex Achrafieh: troops stationed @ Sports Cafe till Nahar Building).

The plot was easy and Hezbollah was after it since the first week, taking over the government by force and with the thousands of members they had in Riad el Solh, not to forget most of them are trained military men.

I dont know if the international pressure stopped HA from executing his plans or the Pro-government demonstrations and tensions during the first week, but it threatened at several occasions of using all ways to topple the government and maybe yesterday was the perfect opportunity IF it wasnt for the riots that occured and the LF intervention in clearing roads on the Jounieh-Beirut highway.

I have no reliable information on this plan, but the well organized blocking of roads in strategic regions is a hint, and Hezbollah’s past actions are a clear proof they could have been after such a plot, specially that we were days from Paris3, which will only give the government more credit and support from the international community and boost its confidence on the local level.

I am sure the LF werent aware of such plots when they decided to clear roads, but they could have spoiled Hezbollah’s perfect plot.

Let us hope demonstrators will be controlled next time before such clashes occur and innocent people die.
Let us hope the army will do its job properly just once in its whole life.

This evening as I was heading back home after a long day’s work, I switched on the radio, only to be flashed back some twenty odd years…

there was Aoun, in a press conference, reusing the same logic and accusations that lead to the Ilgha war in the late 80s…

A wave of anger and frustration took over me as he continued with his accusations and allegations…then as I forced my mind to clear, I realized that Aoun was doing nothing short of reusing the same tactics that got him off the hook back in 89 when, after miserably failing to achieve the targets he had set forth for starting the so called Liberation War, he resorted to attacking the LF, thus creating a diversion and evading being questioned by the people about his irresponsible actions.

Today, history was repeating itself once again.
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منذ 1988 والجنرال اللاهث وراء كرسي بعبدا يقوم بكل ما أتيح له من وسائل لبلوغ هدفه. حرب التحرير ثم حرب الإلغاء – إلغاء المليشيات كما زعم – كلفت المسيحيين ثمنا باهظا جدا. قتل وتدمير وخراب وتهجير والأهم من ذلك هجرة مئات الآلاف من دون أن يعودوا.
واليوم يعيد التاريخ نفسه. يفعل بالمسيحيين ما لم يستطع الفلسطينييون أن يفعلوه بهم ولكنه مدعوم هذه المرة من أخطر التنظيمات الإرهابية حزب الله.
حزب الله عقبة كبيرة وخطرة في وجه بناء لبنان الذي يمكن أن يبقى ويعيش فيه المسيحييون. هذا الحزب قد وجد لغاية واحدة فقط وهو إعادة أمجاد الدولة الفارسية ولكن تحت علم الشيعة. الصراع الدائم اليوم هو امتداد لحربٍ قديمة بين السنة والشيعة، والحل الوحيد لإحلال التوازن وتحقيق السلام في الشرق الأوسط هو القضاء على هذا الحزب قضاء تاماً. وبالتالي يضعف ملحقاتها وأهمهم ميشال عون.
رحم الله من استشهد فداك يا كرسي

Proposed by KENNEDY from lebanese-forces.org forum 

بالأرقام: 24,300 لوحة سيارة برطيل 

سليمان فرنجية 

بالأرقام: 17,000 هوية تجنيس 

ميشال المر 

بالأرقام:تحرير + إلغاء = 2 سنة حرب + 4 مليار دولار خسائر 

ميشال عون 

بالأرقام: خطف 2 جنود إسرائليين = 8 مليار دولار خسائر

As the rod gets hotter for the supporters of Michel Aoun, so does the falsification of history, accusations and digging up the past with a different twist.

Be it on many of the forums I visit daily in my quest for information, or in conversations, I hear many statements that cause me to be amazed at the degree of political amnesia some of my compatriots suffer, at their lack of political and historical knowledge, at the extent some of them will even go to falsify history, twisting and bending it at will, just to show aoun as the knight in shining armor he is not.

What really prompted me to write this was a post I read a couple of hours ago on one of the forums where the poster had listed a series of allegations and accusations he claimed the LF were responsible for doing, and he was using this list to justify his unbound hatred for Dr. Samir Geagea, the leader of the LF.

The list is long and tedious, I have tried to summarize it and, for each allegation, provide an explanation or just the plain truth. Here goes:

• Ehden’s massacre: although this unfortunate event has been wrongly pinned onto Samir Geagea, many of those making the accusations leave out a couple of important points:

• Geagea was hit as he was scouting the western side of Ehden. He was driven from Ehden to Hotel Dieu by the Later Hani Neeme Rahme. Along the way, they were ambushed in Torza by the marada and DSG was even hit further in the leg and in the arm by bullets as their car was sprayed.
• The commanding officer left in charge of the operation was Elie Hobeika. However, I have never heard any aounist accuse Mr Hobeika of anything.
• Geagea was informed of the fate of Toni Franjiyi and his family after he woke up in hospital (having lost a lot of blood, he had passed out and had to receive blood transfusions – O Positive to be precise )
• The Ehden massacre was staged and most probably carried out by Syrian troops in order to further divide the Christian based Lebanese Front.

So to accuse Geagea of this massacre is either plain ignorance or a clear intention to bad mouth the person and spoil his reputation.

• The Safra Massacre: When the Safra massacre was conducted (Monday, July 7, 1980), Geagea was not the commander of the Lebanese Forces. Moreover, the Safra massacre as many choose to call it was an operation agreed upon by both Bachir Gemayel and Camille Chamoun (both their souls RIP) in order to clean out enemy agents that had infiltrated the Ahrar Tigers. Again, this was used and publicized by the Syrians to attemot to create a gap between the Kataeb, the Ahrar and the Lebanese Forces.

• The Hobeika-Geagea war or as it is best known the Second Intifada which took place in January 1986. This was a movement carried out by Dr Geagea along with many other LFers against Elie Hobeika who had by then signed the Tripatriate Agreement with Syria, Amal Movement and the PSP. This agreement was felt by many Christians, to gift wrap the entire country and present it to Syria as a bonus. It was also a movement Hobeika was conducting to shortcut Amine Gemayel with hopes of attaigning the presidency.

• The Ilgha War or as Aoun calls it the war of weapons unification was not started by the Lebanese Forces. It was a concept raised by Aoun who felt that militias were no longer to be tolerated in the country. A noble thought had it not been for the bad timing, especially that Aoun had just come out of a loosing war of liberation against the Syrians and the LF had helped him majorly in that war. The ultimate irony of fate would come when  seventeen years later, Aoun would go out of his way to provide political coverage for the weapons of another militia, Hezbollah. I guess the three thousand people that lost their lives in that moment of folly are not to be considered.

• Sandouk Watani: another of the symptoms of long and short term political amnesia. For the sake of history, it should be said that the period between 1986 and 1988 was deemed by most Lebanese as the golden era of the Free Region as the area under the control of the LF came to be known. The LF, under Dr Samir Geagea, introduced many many reforms aimed at bettering the life of the people of the region. Those reforms were on all aspects and levels of life from social, to medical, to educational.

To fund all those reforms, it was necessary to establish some sort of a tax. This tax was marketed by many of the enemies of the LF as some kind of racket money whereas it was solely for the funding of needed services like open heart surgeries, scholarships for students to study abroad, and the most daring concept of all, the twinning of families in need with families abroad: as such, more than five thousand Lebanese families in need  were paired with better off families residing abroad to help them cope with the economic hardships brought upon by the war that ravaged the country for ten years.

To this day, we have yet to see similar introductions by any of the governments that came from 1988 onwards, including Aouns interim government.

• The Christian Massacres of Eastern Saida: this is the best of the best, and a fine example of the total cross-wire cabling inside the typical aounist head: Back at the time, Aoun was the commander of the Lebanese Army (he had replaced General Tannous Chahine mysteriously asked to step down at the period when the Lebanese Government was getting closer and closer to Damascus. General Chahine was very close to the Lebanese Forces) and he was asked by the LF to send the army to protect the civilians from the vaccum that would be caused by the departure of the Israeli army. Aoun did not send the army till it was quite late, and when he did, it was men he pulled from Tripoli with very tight connections to the radical Islamic groups. Those men, instead of protecting the population, clashed with the Lebanese Forces and proceeded to systematically attacked and killed people thus causing a major exodus from the area.

It is unfortunate that many people have an avertion to reading history and to researching and analyzing facts…

As DSG used to say, “Politics is a science, just like Mathematics and Physics…its unfortunate that here in Lebanon we go into politics as some kind of pass-time or because we inherited a stance from our parents.”

1. Nabih Berri of Haraket Amal: A billionaire without any business to run, his money just populates on its own.
2. Hizbulla ministers: wait a minute we need to ask Nasrallah what to do on this new law, wait a minute Nasrallah needs to wait to ask Bashar what to do on this new Law. wait a minute Bashar needs to ask Najjad what to do, give us a week and if it can hurt Israel we will agree on it.
3. Aoun. AKA runaway bride: Don’t ask me how he got this nickname when all he wanted was french coffee and croissant on the day of the invasion.
4. Franjieh: His army of 200 Kebbe makers think they are enough to elect him, not to mention his ability to carry messages from Damascus, he still thinks they don’t arrive when sent by email.
5. Karameh: Akh min hal karameh, he think he represents the sunnis, and even in his hometown, he can’t get elected.
6. Areslan: Who? when did this guy ever appear on anyones list of anything. He is like truly a zero on the left.
7. Zoubran Batheel: Needs more practice but he is getting closer to pronounce ” Ra ee th Al Zoumhourieh”
8. Ibrahim Kanaan: We are peacefully demonstrating and not allowing anyone to go anywhere, then those crazy people who want to go to work attacked us. Why would someone go to work when Micho told them clearly not to ???????

OK now for the Gov statement.
NO more work for anyone, sit in the tents in downtown, protest against anything, you will get the money.
No need to work, we need to liberate shebaa.
We will put all thieves in jail, as long as they are not ministers or have signed an accord with Hizbulla, or AMAL , FPM and they are not shareholders in OTV(the new voice of freedom, featuring 24 hours per day Aouni music such as the famous Aounak jayeeeee min Hizbulla)

Elect us today and you will get a free entry pass to at least 5 wars in the next 10 years.

A typical conversation with an Aounist …

These days, who hasn’t been involved in a conversation with one of the supporters of Michel Aoun? Especially in light of what has happened yesterday in the country, I am sure that many of the esteemed readers will find that the lines to follow have a very familiar ring…so excuse me if you get a feeling of déjà vu, but I could not resist posting about it because, quite frankly, I am appalled by the obvious lack of historical knowledge and analytical spirit that all the Aoun followers seem to enjoy these days.

The conversation starts in a sitting room with the TV on… I will refer to the aounist as A and to myself as O:

O: Pretty tough those riots…its going to be bad for the country…plus I hope this does not escalate into something out of control…

A: Its all the LF fault…why did they take the streets against the FPM??? All we were doing was protesting peacefully…Why did you have to intervene…its your fault

O: Woooow relax man…you want to go on strike and close your shops, that’s fine, but I don’t…why are you stopping me? I mean I want to go to work, and you are blocking my road…who is messing with who? Who is infringing on who’s rights???

A: The General warned you to stay home…we want to show the government that we re the majority of the people and we can control the country anytime we want…

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The day is over, the demonstrators are home, 5 Lebanese were killed and more than 100 injured.
All roads are reopened, except the airport highway, and tensions are still everywhere.

Did the Opposition succeed today ? Well i dont think we should be asking that question but instead ..

Is this really an Opposition ? Definitly not ..
An opposition in politics are formed usually of political groups opposed to a free elected government’s policy and organize civilized demonstrations and symbolic sit-ins against the current government.

An opposition group cannot be formed of an armed illegal militia … It cannot fight a government but in the same time keep its weapons … Those double standards discredited the Opposition from the beginning and that explained the people’s reactions today ..

The so-called Opposition today failed big time, not only that, but Aoun was the prime victim and couldnt but blame the LFers when he felt he was losing everything.

The people have been holding for 60 days now almost, and were promised something is gonna happen today, but nothing did and the government is staying.

The Opposition committed a political suicide today, it hit a wall and will never recover from it.

I apparently overestimated Hezbollah’s readings in politics, they committed a fatal mistake and that is not the first one at all.

The Opposition stopped its movement because they are politically bankcrupt and cause they know there is a noway back if they dont achieve now, and i doubt they will.