I posted yesterday about the french delegate kidnapping, and after it was confirmed by Hezbollah, here is the full story as told by the delegate himself and published in Naharnet.

A French delegate to a Socialist International meeting in Beirut described his captivity in a windowless cell by armed men who “spoke on behalf of Hizbullah.” Hizbullah justified his detention, saying it was motivated by security concerns.
At a press conference hosted by Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, French politician Karim Pakzad said he was kept isolated in a small cell for five hours.

“I banged against the walls so that maybe someone could hear me,” Pakzad said from the Bristol Hotel in Beirut.

He said that he was taken blindfolded to an unidentified location where his captors took away his cell phone, wallet and medicine.

Pakzad said the kidnapping happened as he was touring the capital in an open-top car with a Lebanese friend and taking pictures of a mosque along the airport road, near Hizbullah’s stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

“Armed men asked us ‘why do you have a camera?’ and ‘what are you doing here?’” before viewing the pictures he had taken with his digital camera, Pakzad said.
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PS:I didnt have time to review that book, the author had one before called guerre maronite or something like that. She is a woman filled with hatred, unjustified hatred though against Samir Geagea and is just pouring it in her books, kinda reminds me of Cobra’s last book

However i did post it to expose some the atrocities committed during war, atrocities btw us Christians, maybe to get some readers to understand the consequences of reacting to the Kataeb members killed on Sunday, and the inner wars that it might start! .

La milicienne a déposé les armes

Jeune chrétienne maronite quand la guerre du Liban éclate en 1975, Régina Sneifer s’engage dans les milices chrétiennes. Vingt ans plus tard, elle affronte ce passé dans un livre, « J’ai déposé les armes ». Une autocritique exigeante à l’image de celle qu’elle rêve pour le Liban d’aujourd’hui

«On n’est pas nombreux à dire “il n’est pas beau notre passé”. Mais on ne passera pas à une autre étape si on n’ose pas regarder ce passé en face. Pendant la guerre, on se voilait la face. Aujourd’hui encore le voile est toujours là.» Ce soir d’octobre, dans un café autour de la gare Montparnasse, dans le brouhaha de la salle, Régina Sneifer s’exprime d’une voix douce teintée d’une légère intonation levantine, mais avec passion.

Même après avoir quitté son pays en 1986 en pleine guerre, le Liban continue de l’habiter. Et pourtant, alors qu’il vient de replonger dans la guerre en juillet, et encore plus à cause de cela, elle voudrait que tous les Libanais puissent enfin regarder leur Histoire en face et parler. Faire ce travail que Régina, l’ancienne combattante des Forces libanaises, a accompli. Vingt ans après, en 2006, elle vient de «déposer les armes », le titre de son livre la fin d’un long cauchemar (1).

Celui-ci commence le dimanche 13 avril 1975 quand une fusillade éclate entre des Palestiniens et des phalangistes libanais. La guerre fait irruption dans la vie tranquille de l’adolescente de 13 ans dont la vie s’écoulait dans « un ennui docile qui paralyse ma pensée », écrit-elle. Pour tous ceux qui le connaissaient, le Liban, « petite Suisse de l’Orient », n’était-il pas synonyme de douceur de vivre ? Ses parents, chrétiens maronites, vivent à Hadath, dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth, entre l’église et le cimetière.

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After the incident yesterday, i spoke to some of my friends from Zahle and they confirmed to me that the fight that occured was out of personal reasons not more. The criminal had already a long record of murders at his name, he had just gone out of jail in 2005 after a sentence of 12 years for murdering someone from the Safar family in the same region.

For more details, Zouki was passing by with his brother when he exchanged some words with some Kataeb members which pissed him off apparently. So he went to his place, got his Rafal machine gun and went back and shot at the people celebrating the opening of the new Kataeb house.

The man MUST be delivered to the police and sentenced to death.

May all the victims rest in peace.

Latest Kataeb PR:
Two Kataeb supporters were killed and 10 injured after an Elie Skaff supporter delibraly opened fire on the house.

Salim Assi and Nasry Marouni are the victims ( noting that Nasry is the brother of Elie Maroni, head of the Kataeb sector in Zahle).

The Skaff supporters are from the Zouki family and according to some sources, they are the sons of Ibrahim Zouki, Joseph and Neemeh.

May the victims rest in peace.

Sheikh Amine Gemayel called for an urgent Kataeb meeting tonight.