Syrian Feats in Lebanon – Part III 
General Michel Aoun

 One of the features of terrorist regimes is the imposition of the Mafia rule of silence (OMERTA) on their people. Many people have come to talk to us about their problems and asking us for help on the loss of property or the kidnapping of a son or the uncovering of a murder. And many of them quickly drop their request for help if it entails going public with the matter or with what they know, because that will expose them to greater harm. The intelligence services warned them that they must keep silent if they wish to limit their losses.

 In the absence of competent judicial and security authorities, these police practices provide a cover for the Syrian security agencies to kidnap, kill, imprison, or falsely accuse their victims, which in turn snuffs out in people any will to resist oppression and subjugation. No one should forget what the Syrian Special Forces did in the Bekaa Val ley on June 26, 1978, in consort with Syrian Intelligence, specifically in the villages of Qaa, Ras Baalbeck, and Jdaidet Alfakeha where they kidnapped and murdered dozens of ordinary young citizens. Only 26 bodies were found and the rest were classified as “missing”.

 This is only one of dozens of similar massacres, which, no matter how much we try to forget them, the Syrian regime continuously reminds us of them to stir fear in our hearts. It has recently been promising us new massacres of the kind by promoting the idea of a renewed civil war through its agents who are expert practitioners of crime and the mutilation of bodies, as they did with the Antonine nun. Our support of our argument with a reference to these crimes does not mean we have forgotten other similar crimes, and we will return to those as the need arises.

 · Where are the families and friends of these young people?

· Can they tell their sad story to the Lebanese people? The Arabs, and the world?

· Why won’t the Syrian security agencies tell us who kidnapped and murdered them, and then left their bodies in testament within a short few hours?

· What crimes were they accused of? Were they collaborators of the Zionist American lobby? Or with the Judeo-Christians?

· And can the criminal agents know that good relations between peoples cannot be founded on crime and blackmail, through baseless accusations that only reflect the perpetrators?

· And can the whore find in her dictionary other than her filth to accuse honorable people with?

 Lebanon will not remain at the mercy of the criminals and the hypocrites, even if they thought for a while that time will forget them. As their end comes nearer, their memory is recapitulating their history, and they are just going mad.

 The Mafia rule of silence has been broken, and no matter how loud the political and media voices of the dark “Addoum-Qandil”* era, they cannot simply prevent the truth from reaching people’s consciences. They can shut down television stations to block the truth. They can bow way down to kiss the boot of the Syrian occupier. But these pseudo-heroes of the Addoum justice system will be the first ones to be charged in the witness box for their responsibility in the excesses, corruption, and delinquency of the judicial system, which they politicized and made selective, relative, and preemptive. They have yet to understand that justice is both universal and fair, or is no justice at all.  

The storm in Beirut will remain contained in the crystal ball of the soothsayers. The despotism enshrined in the Dhimmi policy, as practiced today by the Qandil media, the Addoum justice system, and the Mafia rule of silence, may be harsh and harmful. But it is merely a dark cloud in the summer of Lebanon.

 (To be continued….) 

 * Addoum is the Attorney General, and Qandil is a deputy, in the puppet Lebanese regime

Long Live Free LEBANON

27.9.02