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.




16 Comments. Add your own...

  • 1. jim | April 21st, 2008 at 7:45 am

    and N u personally think tht this incidense is nt related somehow to politics? U want us to believe tht Elies Scaff suporter shot ppl just bcz he was pissed off of them? and he wasnt send by sm1 knowin tht he has no morals ? haik bl sedfeh law kain fi shi 2iftitai7 markaz lal FPM aw la elie scaff he still would of shot them?? shou hal maskhra hai!

  • 2. sniper | April 21st, 2008 at 8:15 am

    N, kattir alif khairak 3ala hal khabariyei, yi3ni I find your article laughable and very insulting to both of our martyrs, namely, Salim Aasi and Nasri El Marouni. Perhaps you could even draw a parallel here that Pierre Amine Gemayel was also shot and killed for personal reasons because he managed to piss off his killers earlier in the day as a result of his nationalist views LoL

    الشهيد سليم عاصي في الكلمة الأخيرة التي ألقاها في افتتاح بيت الكتائب في حوش الزراعنة في زحلة: اسلم الامانة الى اولادي واحفادي ورفاقي .واعاهد حزبي على ان اظل كتائبيا الى اليوم الاخير من عمري…..تتمة

    My 2 cents: find new friends.

  • 3. Marco (Quebec) | April 21st, 2008 at 8:34 am

    Once Again…. Lebanon targeted :(

  • 4. Rodge | April 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am

    Nothing personal in this.
    He could easily have initiated a problem to justify the shooting.
    The killer was known of being pro-Syrian all that time, and some people even said he was a member of the Baath party.
    N,
    The incident seemed to be for personal reasons, but it was only to cover what was done on purpose to intimidate the movement of the municipalities.
    Nothing is innocent in Lebanon, nothing is non political in Lebanon.

  • 5. maria | April 21st, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    i live in australia, i was born and lived most of my life in zahle, i worry about all the lebanese especially the people in zahle. i heard this very bad news, bas y 3eib el choum 3al masi7ieh, we worry about you and you don’t give a dam about yourselves. i feel sorry for all of you and i will pray especially for the politicians who are leading the lebanese people to hell. God bless you w alla y2awikoun bas mech 3ala ba3edkoun, open your eyes and your brains you lebanese and stop following those devils who are leading you to HELL. enough is enough.

  • 6. Ziad | April 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    The criminal is now very well in Balbeck under the protection of Hizbulla or in Syria having lunch with Rustum, along with the killers of Ziads and the LFers of Bcharre and Batroun.
    N, the way you put it is disgusting and insulting for us and our martyrs.This is a very well planned attack by the enemies of independent Lebanon(Syria, Hizbies and Aouni collaboraters) to send a strong threatening messages to the independence movements pressurizing Aouni MP’s to go and vote for a Christian president.These thugs are very well protected by their godfathers in Dahieh and Rabieh and their moves are well planned and studied.

  • 7. paul | April 21st, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    جوزيف الزوقي مطلق النار على مركز بيت الكتائب في زحلة سلّم نفسه إلى قوى الأمن الداخلي

  • 8. Amir in Tel Aviv | April 21st, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    Typical crusader behavior.
    Fighting each other, rather than the enemy.
    .

  • 9. Tony|ouwet | April 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    N the way it happend he said this road isnt for the kateab to close thats when they started exchange of words then he went and got his rifle and started shooting.

    If he did shoot for personal reasons its obviouse that his personall reasons are for the kateab i mean this guy wouldnt shoot if aoun closed the road or marada or hizbollah would he?

  • 10. Tony|ouwet | April 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    i got this from the lebanese forces forum as a post not sure if 100% true

    Voice of Lebanon (according to juridical sources): Martyr Nasri Marouni had received threats before his assassination, which indicates that he was killed with premeditation.

    According to the same juridical sources of VDL, the families of the assassins had left Lebanon a few days before the crime, and Martyr Marouni received threats of death, which show that the crime was planned and perpetrated with premeditation…

  • 11. Johnny.B | April 21st, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    DON’T TELL ME PERSONAL :@:@:@

    IF IT WAS ONE OF SKAFF’S MEN, THAT ANIMAL WOU;DN’T HAVE OPENED FIRE ON ALL THE GUYS THAT WERE IN SKAFF’S OFFICE …

    IF HE KILLED HIM IN HIS HOUSE, WE WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IT’S PERSONAL, BUT KILLING HIM IN BEIT L-KATAEB AND OPENING FIRE ON EVERYBODY THERE, THE HELL WITH PERSONAL, THAT GUY IS A HATERED AND SENT BY SKAFF, COZ HE WAS PISSED OFF FROM OPENING SEVERAL KATAEB OFFICES IN ZAHLEH.

  • 12. Tarek | April 21st, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    N, he planned it all over with the incident. I don’t need to add to what Tony said …

  • 13. mountain | April 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    shou ma7allo your friend min al i3rab?

  • 14. Tony|ouwet | April 21st, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    And by saying that skaff said he the shooter was shot aswell this is a LIE but this one sentence that skaffs said just proves that he has being in contact with the shooters doesnt this bring some questions up???

  • 15. Tony|ouwet | April 21st, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    And maybe this atack was a msg or an attempt to kill Sami Gemayel?? anyone think of that??

  • 16. Mickel | April 22nd, 2008 at 2:46 am

    جريمة زحلة محضرة والجاني هرّب عائلته قبل تنفيذها

    أشارت مصادر مطلعة الى موقع “القوات اللبنانية” الى أن جريمة زحلة تم تحضيرها بعناية شديدة ما يؤكد أنها بعيدة جدا عن توصيفها بأنها جريمة فردية أو سببها أفضلية مرور كما زعم النائب الياس سكاف.
    وبحسب المعلومات المتوافرة، فإن الجاني جوزف الزوقي، وبالاشتراك مع شقيقه طعمة، كان قد عمل على إخلاء منزله وإرسال عائلته الى جهة مجهولة قبل تنفيذ جريمته، كما كان حضر عملية فراره بالتعاون مع ابن عمه وليد الزوقي بطريقة مدروسة تركزت على أن ينتظره وليد في مكان محدد ليستقل معه سيارته ويتوارى عن الأنظار.
    وتؤكد المصادر أن كل المعلومات التي باتت في حوزة القوى الأمنية المولجة التحقيق تثبت أن التحضير للعملية لم يكن وليد ساعته، بل استغرق أياما أو حتى أسابيع، وبالتالي فإن هذه المعطيات تؤكد وجود خلفيات سياسية وراء الجريمة المعدة بهدوء وبرودة أعصاب.



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