Idhem: Nice quote bro.

They flattened half the country with their precision weapons and still couldn't get him...

thanks for the updates

"The Lebanese daily "al-akhbar" said in its Saturday's edition that Speaker Nabih Berri's visitors reported his annoyance from MP Walid Jumblatt's latest stances. Berri accused Jumblatt of hindering his initiative before its birth in order to keep the current crisis, adding that he has frozen this initiative until there are convenient conditions that enable this initiative to succeed once presented. "Al-akhbar" said that Berri's initiative includes the formation of 10-minnister government: 3 ministers for the so-called majority, 3 others for the opposition and 4 neutral. This government deals with the international tribunal, parliamentary elections and the early presidential election."

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"The Lebanese MP Walid Jumblatt has crippled the new political initiatives by his latest escalation. As a first result for this escalation, Speaker Nabih Berri's initiative, which he was intending to present it at the beginning of the new year, was frozen. The second result is the one related to the fate of the internal discussion over the international tribunal.
Lebanese dailr "al-akhbar" said in its Saturday's edeition that circles close to MP Saad Hariri refused to adopt what Jumblatt said concerning Hezbollah's involvement in political assassinations in Lebanon, although theses circles expressed fears of that bad effect that these accusations reflect on the fate of the internal discussion."

Hizbullah Flays Jumblatt as a Fickle Friend

Hizbullah accused leading March 14 Forces member Walid Jumblatt on Friday of discarding allies when it suits him and embracing new ones on a whim, adding that the MP now has a "new master" in the form of the United States.

Loyalty to the Resistance MP Hussein Hajj Hassan was responding to comments made by the Progressive Socialist Party leader in an interview with Al-Arabiyya television channel.

Speaking during a religious ceremony in the South, Hassan said that when Jumblatt needed Iran he would go and see Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and issue speeches of support.

Addressing his comments to Jumblatt, Hassan said: "Now you no longer need them you are against them and you discard them."

Responding to Jumblatt's accusations that Hizbullah was involved in the string of assassinations that targeted Lebanon's anti-Syrian politicians and journalists, Hassan said: "We demand to know the truth behind the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri and this truth will be determined by the investigation commission and the court, not by Jumblatt."

He said that while the Druze leader accused Hizbullah of being behind the assassinations, in past statements both Jumblatt and the parliamentary majority leader, MP Saad Hariri, exonerated Hizbullah, "so which statements are we to believe?"

In his interview with Al-Arabiyya, Jumblatt accused Hizbullah and its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, of being behind "some, if not all" of the assassinations in Lebanon, accusing them of obtaining weapons from Israel in exchange for the release of Western hostages in what was known as the "Iran-Contra" affair.

Referring to earlier statements made by Jumblatt that he would rather be a trash collector in New York than a political leader in Lebanon, Hassan said that "if Jumblatt's imagination convinces him he would rather be a 'trash collector' in New York, he is free to do so, but to link with Israel ... I do not know how he can do that.

"The Israelis who have admitted to their defeat have not made such statements. It is the strangest thing to say Israel arms us so we can fight them and humiliate their army," Hassan added.

In his interview, Jumblatt said that both Hizbullah and Nasrallah are not Lebanese and receive their orders from Syria and Iran. He said he feared that those who control Hizbullah's decision-making "are pushing for a civil war in Lebanon."

Jumblatt's comments came on the heels of an announcement the day before that Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri would launch a new initiative to end the political standoff between the two rival camps. Jumblatt, in his most scathing attack on Hizbullah yet, said the party

hijacked the Shiite sect, leading it astray and far from its Arab and Lebanese identities, harming the Shiites culturally, politically and economically.

Jumblatt said there is no possibility to work with Hizbullah as it represents the "culture of death," stressing that there will be no resolving matters with the Syrian regime either.

The majority has the right to seek help from any country, he added, except Israel, in facing the Syrian regime.

In response, Hassan said: "We are students of the culture of martyrdom; we differ from you in culture, for we have not called for the invasion of another Arab country even if we disagree with them," referring to Jumblatt's call on Turkey to "sweep Syria away."

As a result of Jumblatt's allegations that footage of Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh's booby-trapped car has disappeared from the archives of the Military tribunal, to later surface in the office of former Surete Generale Chief Major General Jamil Sayyed, the latter's lawyer filed a complaint with Beirut's Court of Cassation demanding an investigation into Jumblatt's claims.
-Source: The Daily Star, 30/12/2006.

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"The Al-Manar report was an investigative piece that included quotes from the families of those killed in the and figures from the Syrian opposition and also included Hamadeh's side and his denial of any relation to report,"

i stole this quote from a friend, thought you'd like it ;o)

"If there was democracy in Lebanon, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, would be the president of Lebanon. But he can't be the president of Lebanon. No Muslim can be the president of Lebanon. You've got to be a Christian to be the president of Lebanon, even though only 20 % of the population of Lebanon are Christians. And how did that come about? Because the United States Marines waded ashore in Beirut, in 1958, to impose that constitution on the people of Lebanon."
--George Galloway

i've read that Hizbullah and Al-Manar TV fired back at Hamadeh, accusing him of "inciting violence" against Hizbullah and revealing the whereabouts of Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to a US official during the July-August war with Israel..which is good.

The Indictment of the Assignation Attempt

"Assafir" publishes indictment concerning Sayyed Nasrallah's attempted assassination.


The Lebanese daily "Assafir" said in its Friday's edition that the military court represented by the first military investigation magistrate in Beirut Rashid Mezher issued an indictment, under which he asked for a penalty that ranges between 3-year in prison and death to members of a network that sought to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah last April. The indictment, which was published by "as-safir", stated how the network was former, how it bought weapons and explosives, the group's characteristics, how its members were mobilized, their funding, their military training and how they rented an apartment and warehouse for their mission. According to the indictment, the "sabotage net" had also nurtured hatred against Muslim Shiites in a bid to mobilize the network's members to confront the Shiites in case of a "confrontation with Sunnis". The indictment added that the net sought to anticipate this "confrontation" and launch a pre-emptive attack to assassinate Sayyed Nasrallah in order to weaken Shiites." The indictment also accused the six defendants, who belong to "Da'awa and Tabligh" band of forming a group of gangsters to undermine the government's authority and of assault attempts aiming at stirring civil war and sectarian strife as well as obtaining arms and explosives." The penalty of these accusations together could reach the death penalty. The investigation magistrate referred all the defendants to a military tribunal. The defendants mentioned in the indictment are Ghassan Shehab al-Soleiman Solaibi (45), and his son Mohammad (20), Youssef Mounir Qobrosli (32), Ibrahim Shehab al-Soleiman Solaibi (36), Ziad Tareq Yamout (26) and Safi Mohammad Ibrahim Arab (35).

Sayyed Nasrallah has repeatedly said, especially in his last speech on December 7, that he forgives this group and asked the judiciary to release them so that they can return to their homes and families and the case is not exploited in a sectarian manner.