Apparently Aoun did show those pictures on Manar TV Yesterday.
I cant believe he is that dumb !!
Here is our guy again, during the July war ( Hezbollah security)
Girls screaming and running all over the place. No my friends, they would not be chased by internal security but chasing a man, Jack Bauer.
Girls, don’t deny it. If it wasn’t true you would not have followed the title of this post from aggregators … oh and you too guys. Don’t deny it, you want to be the next Jack Bauer.
Could you imagine what it would be like to have CTU in Lebanon with Jack Bauer?
Yes, I watched the 5th episode, season 6, of 24 this weekend. I am loving this season.
I also watched episode 13 of Season 3 of Desperate Housewives. It’s so and so.
Also watched episode 12 of Season 2 of Grey’s Anatomy. Not much going on there.
Also watched episode 14 of Season 2 of Prison Break. Yawn.
Also watched episode 2 of Seaon 2 of Rome. Enjoying it still.
Taken from Massira article posted on LF Martyrs site.
Riad Mounir Abi Khattar was shot dead by Marada armed men on Tuesday 23rd while he was heading with his comrads from the LF office in Batroun. This is the third LFer in two years shot by Marada and as Pierre quoted, an LF responsible in Batroun, will be the last time we allow Frangieh thugs to harm our comrads here.
His brother was next to him when Riad was trying to save an injured Lfer and got shot in the head. The army surrounded the LF office after that instead of going after the killers.
Here is a small resume on Riad Abi Khattar’s life.
Born in 1969 in Jebla Batroun, he has one brother and 3 sisters, one of his sisters died few months ago from a certain sickness. His father was buried one week before he got killed, after suffering from severe injuries in the head caused by Syrians who had kidnapped him for a whole year during their rule in Lebanon.
He was married but his wife also was taken away cause of a fatal sickness.
He was known to be a polite and committed LFer always serving his family and his friends and most importantly his Cause.
He is the village’s 2nd martyr after Bassem Sarkis who died during the Ilgha war
May He Rest in peace.
In my earlier post , i was arguing if the LF ruined Hezbollah’s perfect plot yesterday, and Nasrallah and Geagea speeches yesterday were good enough to prove me right.
Nasrallah during his speech 2 days ago, quoted the following:
“The opposition has the political, popular and organizational strength to bring down the unconstitutional government tomorrow or the day after,” Nasrallah told supporters in Beirut. “
How can Hezbollah possibly bring down the government except by force ?
From Day1 in Riad El Solh, there were talks about an attempt to invade the serail, but after tensions started to arise and Ain el Teene was threatened indirectly by the Sunnite bloc, Nasrallah refrained from doing so.
On Tuesday, The clashes that erupted btw LF & FPM and the kills that resulted from those fights made him stop as well leaving Aoun as the political victim of this failure.
This is not the first and definitly not the last threat by Nasrallah and for those who are still doubting his true intentions, explain to me how can he topple the government politically ?
All political methods were abused to pressure Sanioura and they didnt work, Tuesday was a different approach, an organized plot to surround Beirut, then probably pressure the serail by moving the Riad el Solh protestors.
It failed and 14th of march are now aware of what the Opposition has in mind the next time it will hit the streets.
Hakim was clear, Nasrallah is not looking for a civil war, though i personally believe Nasrallah and Hezbollah need a war to survive. He added that “he(Nasrallah) wont achieve anything”, therefore making it clear for the Opposition not to try undemocratic methods.
You can read a resume of the speech here and the full speech in arabic under this thread.
The next few days will witness the last attempts for the Opposition to make a serious ‘armed’ move against the government, because time is against them now.
While discussing the recent events with Lebanese living abroad no one seems to understand what has been going on in Lebanon. They seem to wonder why they are seeing footages that remind them of the civil war. They also wonder how the Lebanese, who for a glimpse of moment seemed to be united not so long ago, have come to this. They also wonder if the Lebanese would rather return to unrest than to stability.
They also wonder if they will be able to return home one day and live there in peace…
Looking from the outside sometimes make some things seem clearer.
Manar TV will be showing tomorrow another picture they ‘took’ revealing a Sadam member @ Nahr el Kalb. Apparently they waited for things to calm down to reveal this important picture 
Check out how Manar Caught us in the act !
Here is our guy again, during the July war ( Hezbollah security)
This is what Al-Akhbar did by displaying a false picture of an armed man saying he was an LF. This is how easy it is to do the same ..so i hope some papers will get back to their senses and start posting real stories instead of competing who can lie better than the other !
Well if the Opposition has a million and the Majority has a million, i guess the other million left belongs to that party.
I strongly recommend that you all watch the documentary. Click on the above 3 lines to watch it.
Thanks to Paul
I prefer today’s quote over yesterdays.
“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen”
Ronald Reagan
Pictures courtesy of Blacksmits of Lebanon
What happened today?
- 3 people were killed
- 169 wounded (including 17 soldiers)
- over 200 cars smashed
- a rocket headed towards Mustaqbal newspaper defused
- SSNP office in Tarik Jdeide set on fire
- Tayyar website hacked
- A curfew imposed from 8:30pm until 6am which according to Blogging Beirut is the first time since 1973.
My notes/questions:
1. The rocket that was defused, where was it launched from? By whom?
2. The above pictures tell me this isn’t something that will rest in a few days.
3. Once again, what did 3 people die for today?
4. For a short while today, while watching the riots I felt ashamed to be Lebanese.
Where do they get the stones from on Beirut’s streets? Seriously, I don’t remember stones on the sides of the roads…
Curious Rampurple
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
(posted by reine on The Ouwet Front)
Just noticed the random quote of the day, i really hope Lebanon will finally find peace one day.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stones instead of pens and pencils.
Flames coming from a car instead the sounds of the latest beat.
We’re getting there… we avoided it 3 times this year, but we’re almost there now.
Enjoy it … This is where we took ourselves, no one did this to us. No one we can blame it on.
Posted in ouwet.com
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:
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…
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.
I remember some years ago, not so long ago, I was headed home when the road was blocked by FPMers. They created a body chain across the Jounieh highway in order to be heard. Aoun was due to be on TV, I think on MTV, but it got cancelled because the old government pressured them to do so. If my memory does not fail me, 11 of them got arrested and most universities, including the one I attended, was on strike until all of them were released around 10 days later. The majority of parties respected them for trying to defend the freedom of speech and that is why they went on strike with them. Keep in mind, the LF was one of their major supporters as well.
The FPM students always did the greatest activities, such as selling Lebanese fruits and vegetables out of their own cars on Sundays in order to encourage Lebanese labor and Lebanese products.
I had great respect for them.
Please try to understand where I am going to continue from here. I do not support any political party nor am I a major supporter of the government. I do not like to refer to them as March 14th movement because this is not what March 14th represented either.
Now, back to the topic at hand. I don’t have a problem with the opposition demonstrating. I even visited the tent area on my recent trip and uploaded pictures (can be found in the side bar).
Everyone has their right to demonstrate although I do feel like all parties have been overdoing it recently.
(notice how I am tip-toeing into this topic.. never done that before, it’s a difficult post for me)
When FPM blocked the Jounieh highway a few years ago for around an hour, the point of it was to make a statement, to be heard. Yesterday when the opposition blocked the roads it was to prevent people from going to their jobs or schools. If people wanted to participate in the demonstrations they would have voluntarily chosen not to go to work. You cannot force people to do as you wish.
You see freedom is a beautiful thing as long as it does not affect anyone elses freedom.
When I got home last night and saw footages of the day’s events I was horrified. I started flipping from channel to channel, and honestly speaking, the commentary, the statements, the speeches all made me laugh. I even laughed at the callers on Manar TV. Every Lebanese TV station, ever Lebanese politican, or political analyst is messed up.
5 people died and tens were wounded. What for? That is what I have to ask. If 5 people were “wasted” yesterday (I apologize to their families and friends for that term), for no cause, no reason, nothing then I can easily see the Lebanese people fight another war.
We all seem to be great at making statements and vows about never participating in another civil war, but we don’t seem to act upon it.
I found this on Ad Blog Arabia. Hilarious!
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.
My final contribution to today’s event, on my way to Beirut, i was passing next to MTC where the road was still almost closed, so i went down and removed all the rocks and tyres and opened the road ….
Ya3teene alf 3afye
As 14th of march just said, if the army cant open the roads, we will do it ourselves.
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