بكركي، التقى البطريرك الماروني الكاردينال نصرالله بطرس صفير زوجات الضباط الاربعة اللواتي حملن اليه جملة اسئلة لا يجدن عليها اجوبة.
زوجة اللواء الحاج سمر الحاج التي تحدثت باسمهن طرحت سلسلة اسئلة عن قبول لبنان الاعتقال التعسفي بخلاف معاهدات جنيف وعن وضع الضباط تحت سلطة فرع المعلومات وليس في السجن العسكري.
واضافت الحاج:هل يقبل عقلاء لبنان ان تُهدد النساء بالقتل من بعض القيادات السياسية واين هو محمد الصديق الذي وُضع الضباط بسببه في الاسر.

As much as i am against threatening anyone for any political stance he/she takes, this woman has no right whatsoever to defend neither herself nor her criminal husband !! Those officers were directly responsible for covering every single assassination the Syrians and their intelligence did, and even participated executing many of them !!

Those are not politicians ! Those are the ones who had the job done! Those are a danger to our society and any society and better stay locked up for good !

I hope she ll join her husband in prison very soon ! thats where she fits best!

Berri is trying to initiate new dialogue sessions between the Opposition & the March 14 alliance, the dialogue is first and foremost about the presidential elections ..

The Opposition kept Michel Aoun a its spokesman while M14 appointed Saad Hariri to speak on its behalf.

Despite my respect to Hariri, It is an issue dealing with the Maronite presidency and Samir Geagea as the M14 Christian leader should be the one in charge. Why Should Hakim have a secondary role in this manner and in many others ??

What really frustrates me is that a simple meeting between Aoun & Geagea will ease the tensions in the streets …
Why cant those two Christian leaders realize the damage being done to our society and to Lebanon and compromise for our sake ?

When will they realize their allies are pushing them to confront each others …

I miss the days when the LF had the initiative in every political move it was involved in..

I will if ordered.”

Quotes by a Hezbollah fighter from the article ‘Hizbollah builds up covert army for a new assault against Israel‘.

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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On the 26th of April 2005, The Syrian army withdrew from Beirut and all regions and repositioned itself in the Bekaa. This “nearly complete” withdrawal stopped there and the Syrians are STILL occupying Lebanese soil.

A report by the UN almost a year ago showed that Syrians are still in the Beqaa and performed several incursions inside the Lebanese territories. Added to that, the borders are still not controlled, illegal paths are still there, drug and arms traffic is still there and we dont have yet an acknowledgment from the Syrian regime that Lebanon is a sovereign country.

Most importantly, we dont have a Syrian embassy in Lebanon, which is for me the only proof that Syrians officially acknowledged our independance.

I refuse to celebrate this day, because it is a fake independance, we are still invaded and under the Syrian regime’s influence.

Here is a nice article on Syria’s continuous occupation.

Another civilized act by the terrorist Hezbollah !!

I wonder how they will justify that !!
In my opinion, they heard him speak french, but considering their illiteracy ( sermeyit el sayyid 7assin abda min el 3elem), they thought it was hebrew so they took him away !

Update: One of our readers ‘c’ pasted an article where it shows HA released them only after he knew they were not Israelis.
So my joke turned out to be real …

A French delegate to a Socialist International meeting in Beirut said on Sunday that he had been briefly detained the previous day by armed men linked to Hizbullah.
Delegate Karim Pakzad told a Beirut news conference that he was stopped on Saturday by armed men who “spoke on behalf of Hizbullah.”

He said they questioned him for five hours before freeing him.

Pakzad said it 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.

He was taken blindfolded to an unidentified location where he was kept isolated for five hours, adding that his captors took away his cell phone, wallet and medicine.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, who hosted the press conference, said he wished that the government “alone” would be in charge of security and of the war-and-peace decision.

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Aoun said Premier Fouad Saniora’s Government “rejects calls to look for those missing in their land (buried in mass graves), that is why we cannot hold Syria responsible first” for the Lebanese missing in its jails.

Did this guy actually go to school ??? who taught him logic ?? Hafez el Assad ??

From Naharnet

I still stand at what i posted since the start concerning this incident and how it was treated and i still believe the original incident was not politically-related as it was portrayed.

I will try to make my post short, and i hope i’ll convince those attacking me of my point of view, that was shared by Sami & Amine in the past few days. Sami was enraged on Sunday but did lower his tone the next day.

Back to the original incident, i will tell you what i heard from people who were there and witnessed the shooting.
After the ceremony was over, Sami and other Kataeb officials left and the army decided to leave as well … the kataeb house was left with no armed presence and this is where El Zouki got into a fight with some supporters and then went to his car, picked up his machine gun and started shooting at people calmly and in cold blood. He was in no rush and one of the victims had 13 bullets removed of its body !!
He fled after that to an unknown destination.

There is no proof whatsoever so far about an organized crime, or him evacuating his family, or even about Hezbollah pulling him away to the South ! Honestly this is an insult to anyone’s intelligence !! Why the hell would Hezbollah get involved in that ?? What interest does he have in sticking his nose in such affairs ??
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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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17 sessions ago, i posted urging M14 to vote for a president at all cost, because if we dont vote on the first time, we will never vote again … The Opposition does NOT want a president and Compromise will only weaken Christians were two other posts where i asked M14 & Christian to vote for a president asap !

Today, Nabih Berri achieved what he has so long been waiting for, he adjourned the session until further notice .. which means we will indeed have a hot summer, as Welch said.

What is the altenative ??

It has always been there and i wish M14 would translate their threats into action, a 50+1 vote that will get us out of this mess ..
What can the Opposition do ?? demonstrate ? organize sit ins ? start a war ??

I believe M14 can confront all of those scenarios …

Unfortunatelly, i still think M14 lack some guts and wont do anything and this is definitly not good news !

I posted earlier yesterday that the Zahle incident was out of personal and not political reasons. Just to clarify one thing, personal does not mean the man had personal issues with those he killed, since he apparently was shooting randomly, but that the fight was initiated after an exchange of insult and curses between the killer and Kataeb supporters.

Joseph Zouki is a thug and a criminal and is very well known in Zahle. From what i heard, he killed his 19 year old cousin in a personal fight long time ago, shot him straight in the head. Later on he commited a crime in 1993 and was jailed for 12 years before being released.

Zahle’s sons are divided between Skaff supporters and 14March supporters and the situation is tense since ever between the two.
Even though Kataeb members are free to celebrate their new office, they were supposed to be more careful and take further precautions and alert the army.

I am sure they asked the army to be present during the ceremony and they were there, but in insufficient numbers and badly spread. They should have surrounded the area and isolated the region until the event is over, and they should AT LEAST waited till everyone left to leave the place, not after Sami Gemayel and few Kataeb officials leave.

There is a huge responsability here on the security forces and their laziness and major incompetence, and i have addressed on tons of occasions the major incompetence and infiltrations found in the army and the ISF.

How to react to this event ?

Sami Gemayel reacted wrongly in my opinion, what is the point of adding more fuel to the fire ??
What is the point of showing off and stretching our muscles ?? We are the biggest losers if war erupts ! we Christians only !!

As Sheikh Amine bravely reacted when his son Pierre was killed, Sami should have calmed everyone and let justice prevail.

Second of all, it should not be turned political because it is not. Its the law of the strongest in some regions in Lebanon and everyone knows it, i am sorry to say that bass fi 3alam rassoun tanke wou bi2awsso 2abel ma ye7ko !

Kataeb & all M14 parties should stay away from such thugish environments and discipline their supporters at all time.
It is shameful to see brave Kataeb members die this way, and it is more shameful to see politicians scoring points on their behalf !

I find it hard to believe that all this was planned .. and i find it ridiculous that M14 leaders are reacting that way !
We have a president to elect, we have deadlines and all of a sudden, such an incident occurs and we all lose our temper and get on the offensive !

If you really want justice to prevail, you elect a president, clean the security forces and track the criminals !
The masses are allowed to react instinctively, but leaders should be the ones leading, the wise ones who know how to calm things down and achieve justice in democratic ways.

Finally, all my respect to those brave men .. may they rest in peace and may God Bless their families.

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.

Inspired from a thread on the LF Official forum.

Feel free to post your stories and experiences.

2i3raf 3adouwak, el souri 3adouwak !

On April 18, 1996 IDF artillery hit a UN compound filled with Lebanese civilians, killing 106 and injuring 116 ( most of the killed were children). Four Fijian United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon soldiers were also seriously injured. [...]

The world condemned this barbaric attack (except the US), but that did not stop Israel from continuing its “Grapes of Wrath” Operation, against the terrorit Hezbollah militia.

Following the attack, Lt.-Gen. Amnon Shahak, Israel’s chief of staff, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on April 18 defended the shelling: “I don’t see any mistake in judgment… We fought Hezbollah there [in Qana], and when they fire on us, we will fire at them to defend ourselves… I don’t know any other rules of the game, either for the army or for civilians…”

Regardless of whether Hebzollah was using the compound as a hideout and the civilians as a human shield ( he did that repeatdly during the 2006 July war), the attack was a barbaric one and Israel should have been punished for it. However, there is another side that should be considered and that will never get those killed civilians any justice, is the fact that the same Hezbollah who is condeming such attacks was supporting similar terrorits attacks 13 years earlier, but this time against the Americans.

On the 18th of April 1983, a suicide bombing was conducted against he US embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, among them 32 Lebanese and 17 Americans.

What is the difference between this bombing and the Qana ?? None.

What is certain is that the main reason for all Israeli atrocitis in Lebanon for the past 20 years has been Hezbollah, and if you dont remove it, we have no reason to ask for justice and we have every reason to hide when Israelis strike.

The solution ? Disarm Hezbollah’s militia and sign a peace treaty with Israel and let the UN monitor the borders.

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Once again, Michel el Murr is re-arranging the political scene to his consent and putting himself in a ‘godfather-like’ position.
After defeating Amine Gemayel in the Last Matn elections and causing a major upset, he meets with Amine and announces days earlier that he regrets going against him …

His aim this time is electing a Maronite president before Michel Suleiman’s time as head of the army expires.
A huge festival was organized in Dbayyeh and another followed in Jbeil yesterday and today more are expected in all regions.

Pressure is building on the Maronite mps from Aoun’s bloc to take a historic step and fill the gap in the presidency !

Will he succeed this time ? Well I dont recall the last time he failed in achieving his goals ( not that i admire his methods) …

A very true article ! Why are Lebanon’s Muslims still stuck behind the idea that Israel is an eternal enemy ??

Dr. Joseph Hitti
April 18, 2008
For four decades, the Arabs have forced Lebanon into being the only Arab war front with Israel, while they themselves embarked on peace overtures and treaties with the Hebrew State.

To the Lebanese fell the role of the village idiots. Their country burned so that Yasser Arafat could “liberate” Palestine, so that Fuad Siniora could brag about being “the last Arab country to sign peace with Israel”, so that the other hypocrite Lebanese Sunnis from Salim Hoss and Rafik Hariri down could uphold “Arab honor”, and so that Shiite Hassan Nasrallah and his herd of Iranian-paid Lebanese Shiites could inflate their gonads in pride at “resisting” and drag the entire country behind them into the dirt. And so, while the Lebanese were forced to agree (beginning with the 1969 Cairo Accord) to get beaten up on the head by Israel, other Arabs like Egypt and Jordan officially made peace with the Israeli “enemy”, the Palestinians´ PLO made peace with Israel and returned to Palestine to start a country, and now in broad daylight, Israeli Foreign Minister Livni pays a visit to Qatar and speaks at a trade and democracy convention there. Mind you, this is the tip of the iceberg. God only knows how much trade and cozy relations are being had by many other Arab countries with the “enemy”, while the idiotic Lebanese, led by Hassan Nasrallah on the Shiite side and Fuad Siniora on the Sunni side, continue to set their country backwards and “resist”, “defend Arab honor” and “liberate” Palestine for the Palestinians, all at Lebanese cost in blood and treasure.

The hypocrisy of Lebanon´s Muslims – Sunnis and Shiites alike – regarding the issue of Palestine and Israel is causing great harm to Lebanon´s future. Having burned Lebanon through 40 years of war on the pretense of “resistance” and “liberation”, they are now letting Lebanon fall behind economically and technologically by keeping the country chained by false and obsolete slogans.

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It is true that i keep critisizing the mistakes done by the government and the M14 group and the incompetence of many many officials and the security forces, and peope ask me why dont i do something about it ?

Well, i hope this post answers your question, because it truly reflects the level of passivness and incompetence we are experiencing. No politics involved though, simply very basic road safety indications that no one bothers to apply.

The picture taken is from the Dbayyeh Maritime road that hundreds if not thousands of cars use everyday to get to Beirut, and you can spot from the picture a sidewalk with a man performing his morning walk .. while a van and other cars behind it ( not showing), decided to take a shortcut and use the sidewalk as another lane on the highway !!!!

Imagine someone jogging in the morning and having to watch out for crazy drivers coming at full speed on the sidewalk !!

Surprinsingly though, not only the policemen did not bother to stop them ( they were 100 meters away only), but i see a policeman on his harley using the sidewalk as well !!

What can i do here ?
Close the road myself ? they ll probably jail me ..
Yell at those passing on the sidewalk ? I ll get involved in a fight and god knows which one is them has a gun.
Yell at the policemen ?? No thank you ..

Post about it ? definitly !

However, i will inform a friend of mine who happens to be a policeman to do something, but i doubt it ll last…

Have a good day and watch out for Lebanese drivers or policemen in ur next morning jog

I was watching Kalam el Nass “Bassel Fleihan” special episode tonight and what caught my attention most was a young lady from Australia named Rebecca Samarani who won a price on her research on implementing the federal system in Lebanon ..

Her proposal was way more different and daring and interesting than others this year, in fact one proposed that we have more public gardens and parks and the other was on social security ..

Even though Rebecca did not advocate her proposal properly, i am glad Marcel hosted her and promoted Federalism.

I wish we could get a copy on her paper .
Anyone knows her back in Australia ?

Dr.Geagea will be visiting for the first time ( if am not mistaken) Mayfou2 and holding meetings with LFers from Batroun, as well as Fadi Saad, Bahij Abboud & Paul Andari ( author of Al Jabal 7akeeka la tar7am & hazihi Chahadati books).

The event will take place on Sunday the 20th of April in Mayfou2, however there is no mention to Hakim meeting with the Ilige league, the one that worked hard fo years to keep the LF mass alive and worked days and nights to restore the Church and the Martyrs’ graves.

I truly hope a reconciliation will finally occur, but i highly doubt it.

لقاء “ذكريات مع الدكتور سمير جعجع” نهار الاحد 20-4-2008 في سيّدة ايليج – ميفوق

تقيم القوات اللبنانية – البترون لقاء ” ذكريات مع الدكتور سمير جعجع ” وذلك نهار الاحد 20-4-2008 في سيّدة ايليج – ميفوق .

يشارك في اللقاء ويتحدث فيه مسؤول منطقة البترون في حزب القوات اللبنانية الدكتور فادي سعد والاستاذين بهيج عبود وبول عنداري . ويقدمهم الشاعر الاستاذ باخوس عساف . ويبدأ اللقاء بقداس الهي تمام الساعة التاسعة صباحاً في كنيسة سيّدة ايليج .