No to Hezbollah’s
Terrorism against Lebanon's Cedars' Revolution leaders
By: Elias Bejjani
LCCC Chairman
January 2/07
The Lebanese Canadian Coordination Council (LCCC) strongly denounces all vicious
attempts of terrorism that are carried on continuously since 1982 by
Hezbollah's leadership, armed militia and its media facilities against the Lebanese
State, its institutions, constitution, identity, democracy, freedoms,
culture, civilization and against the peace and coexistence of its multi
cultural, multi ethnic communities..
The LCCC also condemns Hezbollah's sectarian recent
attacks that have been targeting Lebanon's free and patriotic Cedars' Revolution leaders and MPs, as well as
numerous thinkers, and journalists, and few days ago against the living martyr MP and minister, Mr. Marwan
Hamadeh. The failed first attempt against Hamadeh's life was apparently not enough to
quench the thirst of Hezbollah which is trying now to legitimize another attempt
at his assassination by false and fabricated accusations that are far beneath
his ethics and patriotism.
The LCCC again warns against the many successive coup attempts systematically
executed by Hezbollah, culturally, militarily and financially, against anything
that is authentically Lebanese, civilized and constitutional. These venomous
attempts will remain foreign to the very fabric of Lebanese society that is a
distinct mosaic of diverse ethnic and cultural components, and will continue to
be remote from the foundations of the Land of the Cedars and its peoples' mode
of shared living.
Like Hezbollah’s devastating war of last July which was a sectarian one that
Iran and Syria planned, sponsored and directed to serve their own
interests, and like all Hezbollah's false claims to resistance since 1982 which were
no more than deceitful pretenses imported from Damascus and Tehran and never
represented the will of the Lebanese, its latest attack against MP and minister Marwan Hamadeh by legitimizing him as a valid target for assassination is a
terrorist act that should be decried by all the Lebanese and which is doomed to
fail.
The LCCC declares its full solidarity with the dean of Lebanon’s living martyrs, Mr. Marwan Hamadeh, who was the first in the line of
the assassination attempts vicious cycle on September 2004, and
we alert the leaders of the Cedars Revolution, MPs, Ministers, parties and
government alike, that they bear full responsibility for the state of
deterioration, chaos and futile wars in the country, because of their hesitation
from day one of the eviction of the Syrian occupier to take decisive actions,
call things by their names, and make deterrent legal and patriotic decisions.
They perpetuated Hezbollah’s deceitful halo, they allied themselves with
Hezbollah in the lat parliamentary election and agreed to hold it under the
Syrian occupation era tailored law, and they also
brought that organization into the government and legitimized its false
resistance pretenses and the "Shebaa Farms" lie in the government’s ministerial
statement.
We strongly believe that the opportunity is still available and the Free
World continues to stand by a free, independent and sovereign Lebanon, and the Cedars Revolution leaders must
confront Hezbollah, expose its cards, and deal with it according to the
constitution, the laws, and UN resolutions.
Hezbollah’s aims, in seeking a cover from opportunistic groups and leaderships
like the hysterical MP, Michel Aoun who is up to his eyeballs in daydreaming and
the madness of his illusions, are to cause a counter-revolution against the
Cedars Revolution with the aim of returning Lebanon and the Lebanese back to
the pre-independence uprising by hindering the rise of a strong state, maintain
Hezbollah’s own mini-state and weapons, ensure the failure of the International
tribunal, and void all UN resolutions supporting Lebanon's freedom, independence
and sovereignty of their substance and authority.
Lebanon today is at a crossroads: Either hope, resurrection and a return to the
Lebanon we and the world know, or its substitution for a sectarian state similar
to the one ruling today in Iran.
On the occasion of the New Year and the Holidays, we offer our warmest wishes
and most blessed greetings to all the Lebanese communities, both in Lebanon and
Diaspora hoping for a deeper and stronger unity, and for closing their ranks in
the New Year to confront and thwart the suspicious conspiracies and schemes.
We also wish to finally see justice and fairness to the Lebanese Diaspora
emigrant communities worldwide by recognizing and exercising, in words and in
deeds, the full rights inherent to Lebanese citizenship for every individual
Lebanese emigrant, exiled and displaced in the far corners of the world.
Backgroung
Hamadeh to Sue Hizbullah on Charges of 'Inciting' his
Assassination
Naharnet: Beirut, 28 Dec 06, 14:54 Communications Minister Marwan
Hamadeh, a key figure in the anti-Syrian majority coalition, has vowed to sue
Hizbullah and its television mouthpiece, Al-Manar, on charges of "inciting" his
assassination. Hamadeh, who was seriously wounded in a booby-trapped car
explosion on Oct. 1, 2004, said Wednesday evening that Hizbullah also "covered
up" the attempt on his life. He said Al-Manar's news broadcast on Wednesday
evening targeted him with "allegations and false charges that had been
repeatedly spread by Syrian intelligence for months." Based on that, Hamadeh
announced, "I will sue Hizbullah on charges of inciting my assassination and
attempting to terrorize me politically and psychologically." He also said
Hizbullah had "covered up those who tried to assassinate me in October 2004. The
car which targeted me was booby trapped in an area controlled by Hizbullah and
its license plate was forged at a workshop in the same area."
Al-Manar's report claimed Hamadeh had "revealed" to U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey
Feltman the hideout of Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during the
34-day war between the Shiite group and Israel last summer. The war started on
July 12 after Hizbullah operatives kidnapped two Israeli soldiers from north
Israel. The Jewish state threatened to retaliate by assassinating Nasrallah.
Hamadeh said he would respond to Al-Manar's allegations through "the judiciary …
I will deliver a recorded video copy of Al-Manar's report to the international
investigation committee" which is probing the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier
Rafik Hariri and related crimes.Hamadeh's statement was seen as a challenge to
Hizbullah's reported rejection of the Special International Tribunal for Lebanon
to try suspects in the Hariri murder.
Hamadeh, Defense Minister Elias Murr and TV anchorwoman May Chidiak suffered
serious wounds in separate attempts on their lives by booby-trapped car blasts
that are believed to be related to the Hariri assassination.Industry Minister
Pierre Gemayel, MP-Journalist Gebran Tueni, former Lebanese Communist Party
Leader George Hawi and journalist Samir Qassir have been killed in separate
attacks that are believed to be linked to the wave of assassinations targeting
anti-Syrian figures. Hizbullah, which has been leading an open-ended protest to
topple Premier Fouad Saniora's majority government since Dec.1, reportedly wants
the international tribunal's bylaws amended to limit its powers to the Hariri
assassination, without having the authority to look into the other crimes.
*Elias Bejjani
Chairman for the Canadian Lebanese Coordinating Council (LCCC)
Human Rights activist, journalist & political commentator.
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