What are we doing ya Hakim ? The past few days took the LF back to the late 1980s.
Let us trace back what happened:

Sheikh Pierre is killed, Kataeb and LFers for some absurd reason start burning Aoun posters …
That was a ‘measured’ reaction and one could understand the situation.

The next three days, clashes between LFers and Fpmers in different Christian regions, Dekwaneh, Jdeideh, Jbeil etc … for freaking POSTERS !!!

On Monday, the big humiliation, Sassine turns into Kabul when LFers and Fpmers start fighting and almost killed each others cause of a poster !

A fight erupts in USJ as well, and yet no LF responsible condemns officially and publically and calls for an urgent meeting to settle those very dangerous fights.

LFers are caught training in Jroud Kisirwan, and after few days of fights and no official statement by Hakim, Assafir and Akhbar papers publish that the LF are getting armed one more time.

I think this is good enough to prove my point.

In the 1980s, even though the LF had build an empire for itself to protect the Christians, its image was badly damaged by thugs who were committing improper and unjustified acts against civilians, and those were not properly dealt with and caused us a huge loss of popularity in the Christian community.

Nowadays, we are repeating the same scenario, thugs are ruining our image and we are not dealing with them properly.

Those thugs should be sent to jail ya Hakim, must be taught a lesson, must be shown some responsability and forced to stay home during demonstrations. The LF since day1 should condemn those acts and ask the police to do the necessary, the student body should control its followers …

What is happening is unacceptable and will cost the LF very dearly.
I urge you ya Hakim to deal with it asap or else you will lose one more time the people’s trust and put your credibility at sake.

Regards,




5 Comments. Add your own...

  • 1. Bacho | November 30th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

    Sincerly, very good point of view..really.

  • 2. karim jamal | November 30th, 2006 at 6:32 pm

    Bravooo, u r 100% right

  • 3. Marc | November 30th, 2006 at 6:36 pm

    People ! Do not judge one or another, i think the whole lebanese politician class is getting out of mind.
    Why the hell should we still believe that Lebanon exists ? why should we dream one day to come back to Lebanon ? why .. while politicians are destroying it.
    If someone tries to help, or he is a syrian agent or an israeli agent, or just a fool !
    We need to sit and discuss freely without US, Israel Iran and Syria. and maybe one day we will be truly independant.
    1st we have to agree on the identity of Lebanon .
    God be with lebanon … and 7aram kell el shou7ada min el tanzim, lal kouwet, lal jeish el lebnene, lal merada, lal kataeb, lal mourabitoun, lal ichtirakié, la amal, la hezballah … leich kell 7al shi and still no inch of development…
    Alla Yer7am el cheikh Bachir bass !

  • 4. Christian Atta | November 30th, 2006 at 7:27 pm

    “stay home while others are demonstrating?” and keep cool while a clown is exploiting our image as a christian community as a whole? I would like to remind you that 17 years ago, what led us as Lfers into our doom was exactly what you are preaching and that is staying cool. We stayed cool 17 years ago and then we were buried alive. We didn’t pluck the mad general 17 years ago out of our community and we were buried alive. We feared confronting aoun-the-clown and his men and we were buried alive. Surprisingly you suggest we do the same now. Sadly, those you call thugs, those brave who are trying to react are minority and sadly the majority will stay as by your advice at home watching our government being toppled. Sadly…

  • 5. John | November 30th, 2006 at 7:48 pm

    Actually there is nothing much that can be done. Some ppl just dont get it! They go around swearing and doing stupid stuff all in the name of the Lebanese Forces. We have to accept that as a fact, and im sure even if the Hakim tells them personally to stop they wouldn’t. Seeing that our (LF)leadership obviously is not able to do anything about it, we must take it into our own hands.
    1st step: Stop posting retarded posts about the weakpoints of the LF on a site visited by many ‘kill ma da2 el kous bel jarr!’
    2nd step: Stop making big deals out of every event that takes place in the streets! It obviously seems that your a drama queen and tend to make a big deal out of everything.
    3rd step:No LFer’s, as you say, were caught training in Keserwan. That story is total BS, and just the other day it was denied completely by Gen. Michel Suleiman. All you are doing is making things worse. Before it was only Al manar and some other crappy bias sources that talked about this story, and now we see people in the LF actually starting to believe it!



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