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DAILY NEWS BULLETIN
July 3/07
Bible Reading of the day-Daily Star
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 8,18-22. When Jesus saw a
crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side.
A scribe approached and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you
go."Jesus answered him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but
the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."Another of (his) disciples said to
him, "Lord, let me go first and bury my father." But Jesus answered him, "Follow
me, and let the dead bury their dead."
Opinions
Hizbullah's clues. By: Agoravox - Paris,France. July 3/07
Will Arab leaders spare a thought for the consequences of their misrule?
Daily Star July 3/07
Why secular parties are declining in the Middle East.By
Marina Ottaway. July 3/07
After Gaza, Is Lebanon Next?theTrumpet.com.
July 3/07
Latest News Reports From Miscellaneous Sources
for July 3/07
U.K. arrests Iraqi, Jordanian doctors in bomb probe-AP
Suicide bombing kills eight at popular Yemen
tourist site-AP
Solana suggests Iran behind Gaza, Lebanon attacks-Reuters
Fuel for Lebanon's next war-International
Herald Tribune
Peretz to attend Second Lebanon War memorial service-Ynetnews
Israel Begins Major Military Exercise In Golan, Reassures
Syria-Combined Jewish
Philantropies
DEBKAfile Exclusive: UN Spanish peacekeepers cut covert
protection ...DEBKA file
Iran using Lebanon's Hizbullah for Iraq attacks, claims US
general-Al-Bawaba
US.: Hezbollah Iran's proxy in Iraq-AP
US Officials: Captured Hezbollah agent helped plan deadly Karbala raid-CNN
Ban Deplores Failure to Arrive at Permanent Ceasefire in south Lebanon-Naharnet
British PM links airport attack, botched bombings to Al-Qaeda.Daily
Star
7 Injured in Blast Caused by Gas Leakage
in Lebanon-Naharnet
Army Commander Urges Warring Sides to
Reach Political Compromise-Naharnet
Beirut Bridge Collapses Again-Naharnet
To succeed, Blair must dance with wolves-Telegraph.co.uk
Israel and certain Arab officials try to kill Hezbollah leader: paper-MehrNews.com
Siniora visits Egyptian and Saudi leaders, tones down anti-Syrian rhetoric-Daily
Star
Red Cross presses for better access to Nahr al-Bared-Daily
Star
Sayyed renews appeal for release, accuses magistrate and prosecutor of abusing
powers of judiciary-Daily
Star
Targets of US travel ban scoff at 'interference'-Daily
Star
Israel keeps pressure on Syria over alleged arms smuggling to Hizbullah-Daily
Star
Court hears testimony in Nasrallah case-Daily
Star
Bridge fails just hours after initial reconstruction-Daily
Star
Mikati urges AUB grads to keep 'dreaming'-Daily
Star
Israel begins partial transfer ofwithheld tax revenues to Abbas-Daily
Star
Leader of Coptic Church in US for medical treatment-Daily
Star
U.S.: Hezbollah Iran's proxy in Iraq
By LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD - Iran's elite Quds force helped militants carry out a January attack in
Karbala that killed five Americans, a U.S. general said Monday.
U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner also accused Tehran of using
the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah as a "proxy" to arm Shiite militants in
Iraq.
The claims were an escalation in U.S. accusations that Iran is fueling Iraq's
violence, which Tehran has denied, and were the first time the U.S. military has
said Hezbollah has a direct role.
A senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative, Ali Mussa Dakdouk, was captured March 20
in southern Iraq, Bergner said. Dakdouk served for 24 years in Hezbollah and was
"working in Iraq as a surrogate for the Iranian Quds Force," Bergner said.
The general also said that Dakdouk was a liaison between the Iranians and a
breakaway Shiite group led by Qais al-Kazaali, a former spokesman for cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr. Bergner said al-Kazaali's group carried out the January attack
against a provincial government building in Karbala and that the Iranians
assisted in preparations. Al-Khazaali and his brother Ali al-Khazaali were
captured with Dakdouk.
Dakdouk told U.S. interrogators that the Karbala attackers "could not have
conducted this complex operation without the support and direction of the Quds
force," Bergner said.
Documents captured with al-Khazaali showed that the Quds Force had developed
detailed information on the U.S. position at the government building, "regarding
our soldiers' activities, shift changes and defenses, and this information was
shared with the attackers," Bergner said.
The Karbala attack was one of the boldest and most sophisticated against U.S.
forces in four years of fighting in Iraq, and U.S. officials at the time
suggested Iran may have had a role in it.
In the assault, up to a dozen gunmen posed as an American security team, with
U.S. military combat fatigues, allowing them to pass checkpoints into the
government compound, where they launched the attack. One U.S. soldier was killed
in the initial assault, and the militants abducted four others who were later
found shot to death.
On Monday, the U.S. military reported the deaths of five U.S. servicemembers
killed in fighting a day earlier, including two soldiers killed in attacks in
Baghdad and two soldiers and a Marine who died in fighting in western Anbar
province. The deaths brought to 3,582 the number of members of the U.S. military
who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003.
The new accusations against Iran raise tensions between the two countries as
Iraq is trying to organize a second round of direct talks between U.S. and
Iranian officials in Baghdad. The U.S.-backed, Shiite-led Iraqi government,
which has close ties to Iran, is pushing the two to ease their disputes to help
reduce Iraq's turmoil, but a February meeting between the two sides made little
headway.
The U.S. military in the past has accused the Quds Force — the external arm of
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards — of arming and financing Iraqi extremists to
carry out attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces. Tehran has denied the U.S.
accusations.
Bergner said Iraqi extremists were taken to Iran in groups of 20 to 60 for
training in three camps "not too far from Tehran." When they returned to Iraq,
they formed units called "special groups" to carry out attacks, bombings and
kidnappings.
"Our intelligence reveals that the senior leadership in Iran is aware of this
activity," he said. Asked if Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could
be unaware of the activity, Bergner said, "That would be hard to imagine."
Hezbollah spokesmen in Lebanon said they were checking into the claims Dakdouk
was a member of the group and would not comment. The group has in the past
denied any activities in Iraq. In late 2005, British Prime Minister Tony Blair
said his government suspected that Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah might be
supplying technology and explosives to Shiite Muslim militant groups operating
in Iraq, but he provided no proof.
Dakdouk was "tasked to organize the special groups in ways that mirrored how
Hezbollah was organized in Lebanon," the general said. Dakdouk was ordered by
Hezbollah's leadership to work with the Quds Force and went to Iran in May 2006
to meet with Quds Force commanders, Bergner said. He then made four trips to
Iraq over the next year.
Hezbollah, he said, helps the Iranians as a "proxy ... to do things they didn't
want to have to do themselves in terms of interacting with special groups,"
Bergner said. He added that Hezbollah did not appear to have an extensive
network in Iraq, saying Dakdouk was "being used specifically as a proxy by the
Quds Force.
Dakdouk was captured with documents instructing the special groups on
techniques, including how to attack a convoy, and a with a personal diary
detailing meetings with Iraqi militants. Al-Khazaali also had documents with
details on 11 separate attacks on U.S. force, Bergner said.
A total of 18 "higher-level operatives" from the Iranian-backed special groups
have been arrested and three others killed since February, Bergner said
Feedback Officials:
Captured Hezbollah agent helped plan deadly Karbala raid
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --1/07/07: A top special operations officer from Lebanon's
Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah has been captured in Iraq, where U.S. officials
say he played a key role in a January attack that killed five Americans.
Ali Mussa Daqduq, an explosives expert, was captured in March in the southern
Iraqi city of Basra, where he was helping train and lead Shiite militias
fighting coalition troops, U.S. intelligence officials told CNN. Daqduq
pretended to be deaf and mute when captured, and his identity was not known for
weeks, the officials said.
Once uncovered, however, they said he began to talk, and they now believe he
played a crucial role in the January 20 attack in Karbala. Watch Michael Ware's
report on Daqduq » Hezbollah fought Israeli troops in a month-long war in
southern Lebanon in 2006, a conflict sparked by a cross-border raid in which
Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers and took two others captive.
The conflict ended with a U.N.-brokered cease-fire, and the Israeli soldiers
remained captive when the fighting ended. Intelligence officials say Daqduq is
one of Hezbollah's top special operations commanders, an expert in the use of
roadside bombs. The Americans say he, along with the Iraqi militia commanders he
worked with, has admitted working with Iran's elite Quds Force special
operations unit.
U.S. commanders have said for months that Iraqi militants have been receiving
weapons and training from members of the Quds Force, an element of Iran's
Revolutionary Guards. Washington has demanded the Iranian government stop the
flow of arms and militants across its border -- which, along with the diplomatic
standoff over Iran's nuclear fuel program, has raised fears of a wider war in
the region.
Iran, which has close ties to the Shiite parties that control Iraqi Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government, has repeatedly denied the allegations. But
U.S. intelligence officials said the Quds Force has been backing the creation of
Shiite "special groups" modeled on Hezbollah, which holds sway over much of
southern Lebanon.
U.N. peacekeepers killed in Lebanon
The U.S. military declined official comment on Daqduq's arrest, as did the Iraqi
government. But documents and forensic evidence, seen by members of the Iraqi
government and shown to CNN, support the claims. Senior U.S. intelligence
officials said Daqduq was captured in a raid aimed at seizing another Shiite
militant leader suspected of involvement in the January 20 attack in Karbala.
U.S. sources and Iraqi militia sources have said the carefully planned operation
was meant to take captives who could be traded for five Iranians held by U.S.
troops since a January 10 raid in Irbil, in northern Iraq. But the Karbala
attack went awry, resulting in the deaths of the five Americans.
Qais Khazali, a onetime spokesman for anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's
Mehdi Army, was one of the men sought by American troops in connection with the
attack. By the time of his March arrest, he had left the Mehdi Army and was
leading one of the "special groups," according to U.S. intelligence.
In searching for Khazali, U.S. and allied troops found computer documents
detailing the planning, training and conduct of the failed kidnapping. And they
found Daqduq, whom intelligence officials said has admitted working on behalf of
Iran.
Contacted by CNN, a Hezbollah spokesman in Lebanon said he would not dignify the
U.S. allegations with a response. And it remains unclear why Hezbollah's
leadership would risk sending advisers to Iraq: American intelligence officers
suspect Hezbollah -- which is indebted to Iran for decades of military and
financial support -- had no choice.Meanwhile, representatives of the Mehdi Army
deny receiving any military aid, though they say they share some of Hezbollah's
ideals.
"I say clearly that we do not accept any logistic, financial, or any other kind
of support from anyone outside the borders of Iraq," said Rassim al-Marwani,
Sadr's cultural adviser. E-mail to a friend
CNN's Thomas Evans contributed to this report.
U.S. Claims Iran Using Hizbullah as 'Proxy' in Iraq to Arm Militants
U.S.-led forces have arrested an Iranian-controlled Hizbullah agent in Iraq,
where he was training extremists, a U.S. general said Monday, accusing Iran of
using the Lebanese group as a "proxy" to arm Shiite militants in the war-torn
country.
A senior Hizbullah operative, Ali Moussa Dakdouk, also known as Hamid Mohammed
Jabur al-Lami, was captured March 20 in southern Iraq, U.S. military spokesman
Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner told reporters.
Dakdouk served for 24 years in Hizbullah and was "working in Iraq as a surrogate
for the Iranian Quds Force," Bergner said.
The general also accused Tehran's elite Quds force of helping militants carry
out a January attack in Karbala in which five Americans were killed.
He said that Dakdouk was a liaison between the Iranians and a breakaway Shiite
group led by Qais al-Kazaali, a former spokesman for radical cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr. Bergner said al-Kazaali's group carried out the January attack against
a provincial government building in Karbala and that the Iranians assisted in
preparations. Al-Khazaali and his brother Ali al-Khazaali were captured with
Dakdouk.
Dakdouk told U.S. interrogators that the Karbala attackers "could not have
conducted this complex operation without the support and direction of the Quds
force," Bergner said.
Documents captured with al-Khazaali showed that the Quds Force had developed
detailed information on the U.S. position at the government building, "regarding
our soldiers' activities, shift changes and defenses, and this information was
shared with the attackers," Bergner said.
The Karbala attack was one of the most sophisticated against U.S. forces in four
years of fighting in Iraq, and American officials at the time suggested Iran may
have had a role in it. In the assault, up to a dozen gunmen posed as an American
security team, with U.S. military combat fatigues, allowing them to pass
checkpoints into the government compound, where they launched the attack. One
U.S. soldier was killed in the initial assault, and the militants abducted four
others who were later found shot to death.
The U.S. military in the past has accused the Quds Force -- the external arm of
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards -- of arming and financing Iraqi extremists to
carry out attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces. Tehran has denied the U.S.
accusations.
Hizbullah spokesmen in Lebanon said they were checking into the claims Dakdouk
was a member of the group and would not comment. The group has in the past
denied any activities in Iraq.
In late 2005, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his government suspected
that Iran and Hizbullah might be supplying technology and explosives to Shiite
militant groups operating in Iraq, but he provided no proof.
Bergner said Iraqi extremists were taken to Iran in groups of 20 to 60 for
training in three camps "not too far from Tehran." When they returned to Iraq,
they formed units called "special groups" to carry out attacks, bombings and
kidnappings.
"Our intelligence reveals that the senior leadership in Iran is aware of this
activity," he said. Asked if Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could
be unaware of the activity, Bergner said, "That would be hard to imagine."
Dakdouk was "tasked to organize the special groups in ways that mirrored how
Hizbullah was organized in Lebanon," the general said. Dakdouk was ordered by
Hizbullah's leadership to work with the Quds Force and went to Iran in May 2006
to meet with Quds Force commanders, Bergner said. He then made four trips to
Iraq over the next year.
Hizbullah, Bergner said, helps the Iranians as a "proxy ... to do things they
didn't want to have to do themselves in terms of interacting with special
groups."
He added that Hizbullah did not appear to have an extensive network in Iraq,
saying Dakdouk was "being used specifically as a proxy by the Quds
Force.(AP-AFP-Naharnet)
Beirut, 02 Jul 07, 09:57
Army Commander Urges Warring Sides to Reach Political Compromise
Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman urged the feuding Lebanese leaders to reach
a political compromise to end the months-long stalemate that has crippled
Lebanon.
Suleiman said that compromise should not be associated with weakness, but rather
with a great feeling of responsibility "away from the culture of conflict or
useless political bickering."Furthermore, he called for national unity and consensus, stressing that the
issue of Hizbullah and Palestinian arms could be resolved through dialogue.
A statement issued by Suleiman on Sunday also offered condolences to the
families of the two men who were killed Friday as a protest by hundreds of
refugees came under fire from Lebanese soldiers at a checkpoint outside the
northern refugee camp of Baddawi.
The statement said the dead men ranked alongside "martyrs of the army who have
also fallen victim to terrorism".
It assured the refugees' "safe return" to Nahr al-Bared once Fatah al-Islam had
been crushed.
The army insists its troops did their best to avoid casualties among hundreds of
demonstrators who were demanding the right to return to their homes.
"They were trying to force their way through the checkpoint, carrying metal
objects and sticks, ignoring warning shots," the military said.(Naharnet-AFP)
Beirut, 02 Jul 07, 06:50
Beirut Bridge Collapses Again
A bridge in Beirut's southern suburbs, which has collapsed in an Israeli air
raid last summer, came down again due to a "work incident" this time, An Nahar
daily reported Monday.
It said the bridge adjacent to Hadi Nasrallah highway in the southern suburbs
collapsed Sunday just a few hours after completion of the initial reconstruction
phase.
The state-run Council for Reconstruction and Development, which is supervising
the project, cited "work incident" for the collapse of the overpass, but
reported no casualties.
It also vowed to continue work on the bridge to meet its completion deadline of
August 17, 2007.
An Nahar said three bridges were to be temporarily replaced on Monday.
It quoted witnesses as saying sounds of cracks began to be heard before the
bridge's collapse.
Beirut, 02 Jul 07, 09:50
7 Injured in Blast Caused by Gas Leakage
Seven people were wounded early Monday from an explosion caused by gas leakage
at a sweets shop in Beirut's densely-populated Tarik Jedideh neighborhood, the
state-run National News Agency said.
It said the 3:10 am blast ripped apart Safsouf Sweets shop and burned down a
nearby sports apparel store.
NNA said the explosion also destroyed two cars parked in the vicinity. Beirut,
02 Jul 07, 09:20
Sensing the
Next Peril in Lebanon
By JAY SOLOMON
July 2, 2007; Page A6
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration, fearing a rupturing of Lebanon's
political system, is ratcheting up pressure on Syria and its Lebanese allies
ahead of what the U.S. believes could be a bid by opponents of Prime Minister
Fuad Siniora to set up a parallel government in Beirut by the fall.
On Friday, President Bush signed a proclamation blacklisting from U.S. travel
any Syrian or Lebanese individuals seen as threatening Beirut's democratically
elected government. It also listed 10 people who the U.S. believes are playing
central roles in seeking to overthrow the current government.
The U.S. moves come as the United Nations reports an unimpeded flow of weapons
into Lebanon from Syria, part of an apparent campaign by Damascus and Iran to
rearm the Shiite militia Hezbollah after last summer's war with Israel. U.S. and
Lebanese officials say these arms are also reaching a growing number of
Palestinian and Sunni militant groups in Lebanon challenging Mr. Siniora's
control in the north and south of the country.
This mix of arms and political polarization is infecting Lebanon with rising
sectarian tensions and the threat of a return to all-out civil war, said U.N.
and Lebanese officials. It is also stoking concern in Washington and Tel Aviv of
another major conflict erupting between Lebanon-based militants and Israel in
the months ahead.
"I am deeply concerned that Lebanon remains in the midst of a debilitating
political crisis and faces ongoing attacks aimed at destabilizing and
undermining its sovereignty," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in a
report released Friday. Mr. Ban said he was particularly alarmed by last month's
bombing in southern Lebanon that killed six Spanish U.N. peacekeepers, as well
as the firing of three Katyusha rockets into Israel from the same region.
Will Arab leaders spare a thought for the consequences of their misrule?
By The Daily Star
Monday, July 02, 2007
Editorial
Lebanese universities have graduated thousands of students over the past few
days. As in previous years, the new graduates were exhorted to retain the
exuberance and optimism of youth. Those among them who appraise the region
around them with an unbiased eye, however, will have a hard time doing that.
Through no fault of their own, they and their counterparts across the Arab world
are beginning their lives as young adults in an era of profound civilizational
distress. Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Somalia, and Sudan are all gripped
by varying degrees of internal and/or external violence. Even where civil war is
neither under way nor imminent, and where economies are not imploding, Arab
countries feature some of the world's least most repressive and undemocratic
regimes, not to mention the yawning gaps between rich and poor that have helped
to create one culture of depravity at the top and another of deprivation at the
bottom.
These and countless other dysfunctions are not the doing of today's graduates.
Nor are they, as some boorish commentators like to pretend, the product of an
inbuilt inability of Islam to coexist alongside modern economic and political
systems. Rather, they stem from the rot that has settled into the edifice of the
Arab establishment since the colonial powers decided to decamp in the middle of
the 20th century. From one end of the region to the other, governments are run
for the benefit of a select few. Apart from the loathsome practice of autocrats
seeking to have their offspring inherit their power and privilege, almost no
thought is given to the next generation. Instead, Arab rulers rob their
citizens, enrich their friends and relatives, jail their critics, and generally
ensure that whoever follows them will have to start from scratch if they want to
build advanced nations with flexible economies and viable political systems.
Given the circumstances, it is easy to see why so many of the aforementioned
graduates will make their lives abroad. They want nothing more than to build
satisfying careers and start happy families, but their opportunities to do so
are more numerous in foreign lands than at home. Those who leave will invest
their energy and talent in places where their rights are protected by
independent courts, where their tax dollars will buy something other than
baton-wielding riot police, where their neighbors are not driven to radicalism
by despots.
Obviously, the current generation of Arab leaders is too far gone to remedy any
of these and other maladies. They could, however, mitigate the long-term effects
of their misrule by acting to end some of the more despicable practices that
contribute to the phenomenon known as "brain drain." If they cannot, at long
last, offer some sense that change is possible without full-fledged revolutions,
the best and the brightest will continue to leave this part of the world - and
the cycle will keep repeating itself unless and until the consent of the
governed is recognized as the only path to political legitimacy.
Leader of Coptic Church in US for medical treatment
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Monday, July 02, 2007
CAIRO: The head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenuda III, left Egypt
on Sunday for the US to undergo treatment for kidney problems, local press
reported. Shenuda is due to be treated in a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, the
state-owned Al-Ahram daily said. It is Shenuda's third trip for medical
treatment in a year. "The pope's health is good," church spokesman Anba Moussa
told the independent daily Al-Masri Al-Yawm. Shenuda's repeated trips for
treatment over the past year have fuelled speculation over the 83-year-old's
succession. In October 2006, he traveled to the US for back surgery. In June of
the same year, he underwent medical tests in Munich, Germany. Shenuda is the
117th successor of Saint Mark, who according to tradition founded the Coptic
Church in the first century AD. He has headed the church since 1971. Copts are
estimated to form six to 10 percent of Egypt's 76 million people and are the
largest Christian community in the Middle East. - AFP
Hizbullah’s clues
By: Abu Kais
Monday 2 July 2007
Hizbullah has launched a probe into Sunday’s attack on UNIFIL troops in southern
Lebanon, and vowed to share the findings with the peacekeeping troops and the
Lebanese army "if they like". Hizbullah has not indicated whether it would share
those findings with the legitimate cabinet, which has yet to release the results
of its own investigations into a multitude of attacks on civilians, army,
businesses, women and children.
While the government relies on press leaks to point the finger at Syria,
Hizbullah will likely point its fingers, toes and other shortcomings in the same
direction of its 30,000+ rockets. A statement two days ago by a coalition of
pro-Syrian Lebanese parties had insinuated that the attackers singled out
Spanish troops for diverging with the US and pulling troops out of Iraq.The
Party of God was the first to denounce the attack, which apparently happened in
a strategic area (for them) near Khiam, their unofficial headquarters. A
Hizbullah statement labeled the attack as "suspicious", which in Hizbullah’s
dictionary means that it’s part of a US/Israeli conspiracy.
Even if Hizbullah’s "investigation" finds ties with "al-Qaeda" or some Sunni
Islamist variety, will it acknowledge the latter’s ties to the Assad regime? The
answer is no. For in Hizbullah’s world, Islamists arrive through the Beirut
airport under the watch of German security experts imported by the anti-Hizbullah
ISF. Or this is what they like you to believe. The word on the "opposition’s"
street is that this Zionist government imported al-Qaeda via the airport and
installed them in the north and other places to curb the Shia party. Haven’t you
read Seymour Hersh? Says a born again Shia salesman who, until recently, had
never heard of the American journalist, who a few months ago accused the
"pro-US" government of arming Sunni fundamentalists, after he heard it from
Robert Fisk, who heard it from someone else, who is nowhere to be found.
This street, which consists of impoverished cab drivers and repressed teenagers
in pursuit of an idol, and a few secular "intellectuals" with no peripheral
vision, forgets that even if fundamentalists had entered the country through the
Rafik Hariri airport, Hizbullah and the Assad regime will have known about their
arrival before the ISF, which has limited access to the Hizbullah-run General
Security.
But oh what fun it is to lie in Hizbullah’s bed. Let them investigate, maybe
they will conclude, as Syria’s information minister did, that it was Antoine
Lahd’s defunct South Lebanon Army that regrouped and killed UNIFIL troops out of
spite for Syria. After all, doesn’t Hizbullah subscribe to the notion that
anything that could harm or appear to harm the Assad regime will harm Lebanon?
Aren’t we supposed to pre-empt any potential harm to that regime by killing our
economy, our soldiers, mothers, fathers and children?
What is Lebanon, if not a battleground for Hizbullah, a warehouse for their
weapons? And what are Lebanese lives, if not feed for the party, who has
transformed itself into a more lethal version of the Guardians of the Cedars?
No, Hizbullah is the new South Lebanon Army. They have gone where the Lebanese
Forces, the Kataeb and the Young Phoenicians never dared go. They have sold
Lebanon to the butcher, and now they want to investigate its collapse.
And they let them. The UNIFIL, which is in Lebanon to support the Lebanese
government, is begging an anti-government militia for information. Why not go to
Damascus? Oh, I forgot. It’s Lebanon first. Meaning: nous, ze French, we sponsor
dialogue for les Libanais to try to split the pro-Syrians from the Syrians
because if we don’t the Syrians will blow us up. We, ze French, say to les
Libanais: vous etes Libanais.
Well, bla bla bla. The Assad regime has the Europeans by the balls precisely
because UNIFIL is a prime target. While the French try to separate the
pro-Syrians from the Syrians, Bashar tries to draw a separate path for the
Europeans, away from the US. So he blows up a few Spaniards, and there’s more to
come.
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