Onrust in Libanon

[Salah]

Onrust in Libanon. Dit is niet iets dat uit de lucht komen vallen.



Zoals een politici uitlegt: Libanon is onder een defacto bezetting van Hezbollah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu7EqTdQEoM




Goeie docu's:



Lebanon On The Brink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlsdL9ak_Y0



My Neighbour, My Enemy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-IO__Ni7bA

[Salah]

4 Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon at western Galilee

Four rockets fired from southern Lebanon targeted northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, setting off air raid sirens in Acre, Nahariya, and additional areas in the Western Galilee and sending frightened local residents fleeing for cover.

IDF troops at the site of a rocket strike in the Western Galilee, August 22, 2013.

There were no injuries in the attack, Magen David Adom paramedics said.

The Iron Dome anti-rocket system intercepted one rocket between Acre and Nahairya while another rocket hit a built-up area in the nroth. The other projectiles failed to reach Israeli territory, IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said.

One interceptor missile from the Iron Dome fell in a northern kibbutz, causing some damage to a street.

Global jihad elements in Lebanon, not Hezbollah, fired the rockets, according to the army's initial assessments.

The rockets were fired just south of the Lebanese city of Tyre.

The IDF said that it holds the Lebanese government responsible for all activity that emanates from its territory.

The Home Front Command instructed residents of the north to proceed as normal, adding that no special safety instructions are in place. The message is part of the IDF's assessment that the rockets form an isolated incident, and do not mark the start of an escalation.

Two residents suffered shock and were taken to the Nahariya Hospital for the Western Galilee.

The IDF did not return fire.

"I heard a weak explosion, and then in parallel to the siren, I heard a stronger boom," Keinan Engel, a resident of the northern town of Nahariya, told Army Radio. "I went to take cover, in a reinforcedroom."

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Report-...ahariya-323923

[Salah]

Sheikh Siraj a-Din Zrikat, a Lebanese cleric affiliated with Sunni radicals, said Thursday that the "Abdallah al Aza'am Birgardes and the Ziad al Jarah Squadrons" are responsible for the rocket attack on Israel.

In a statement published on his twitter account, Zrikat wrote that "Hezbollah's responsibility of protecting Israel will – God willing – become a difficult task."

[Salah]

Israeli jets bomb Lebanon target

The Israeli air force bombed a target south of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, early on Friday, an Israel Defence Forces spokesman has announced.

The air strike targeted a "terror site" near Na'ameh, between Beirut and Sidon, said an Israeli military source quoted by Reuters.

This comes a day after rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon.

A total of four rockets were fired from southern Lebanon, a stronghold of the Shia Islamist movement Hezbollah.

No casualties were reported in that attack, although news footage showed some minor damage at a kibbutz near the coastal town of Nahariya.

An Israeli military spokesman said one of the rockets was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system.

Rockets have been fired into Israel intermittently by militant groups since the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in 2006.

But an Israeli army spokesman told the BBC he did not believe Hezbollah was behind Thursday's attack.

Lebanese news agencies reported all four rockets were fired at Israel from the Tyre region in southern Lebanon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23806767

[Zipper]

Is er één moslimland waar geen ambras is ??

[Salah]

Blast in Lebanon's Tripoli kills at least 19

At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in two explosions outside mosques in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Friday, security sources and witnesses said.

The explosions, which appeared to be coordinated, went off outside two mosques as Friday prayers ended in the largely Sunni Muslim city.

"I see seven bodies inside several burned cars," said a Reuters witness, speaking from near the Taqwa mosque, which is frequented by Sunni Islamist hardliners, where the first blast occurred.

A security source said several people were killed in the second blast outside al-Salam mosque.

Ambulances rushed to the scene and heavy black smoke covered the sky. Television footage showed crushed cars with their windows smashed. Some cars were burning. People ran through the streets carrying a woman whose face was obscured by blood.

Two bodies could be seen on the ground and apartment blocks had their windows smashed.

"There are many casualties in the two mosques, we still do not have a clear idea of the figures," a security source said.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Israel was behind the blast. "The fingerprints of the Israeli terrorism are all over it. Their goal is to destabilize the region and undermine the steadfastness of the Lebanese people." Druze leader Walid Jumblatt also attributed the blast to Israel, as did a former Hezbollah MP.

However, a Sunni Islamist group calling itself the Brigades of Aisha claimed responsibility for the explosion, saying it targeted the militant group Hezbollah, and promised more attacks.

The blast was the second such incident in just over a month in south Beirut. Groups opposed to Assad have threatened to retaliate against Hezbollah for intervening on behalf of his regime in the Syrian civil war.

The explosion occurred on a bustling commercial and residential street in the Rweiss district, a heavily Shiite area and one of Hezbollah's bastions of support. In July, a car bomb exploded in the nearby Beir al-Abed district, wounding more than 50 people.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.543275

[Nick de Dubbel]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Zipper

Is er één moslimland waar geen ambras is ??

In Borgerhout is het momenteel toch rustig...

[Salah]

Sunni leader says Hezbollah leading Lebanon into 'Syrian fire'

Lebanon's leading Sunni Muslim politician Saad al-Hariri accused Hezbollah on Saturday of dragging the country deeper into Syria's civil war after the Shi'ite militant group's leader said he was ready to go to Syria himself to fight.

Hariri, a former prime minister, was responding to a speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah who said that a car bomb in Shi'ite southern Beirut would only redouble the group's military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"(Nasrallah's) speech takes Lebanon into deeper involvement in the Syrian fire," Hariri tweeted. "It's a pity to squander the blood of the Lebanese in such a way".

The death toll from Thursday's car bomb, already the deadliest attack in Beirut since the 1975-1990 civil war, rose to 27 on Saturday when the body of a six-year-old boy was found in the damaged ground floor of a nearby building.

Hariri's father Rafik al-Hariri, who also served as prime minister several times, was killed along with 21 others in a 2005 bombing. A U.N.-backed tribunal has indicted four Hezbollah members over the killing.

"What happened (on Thursday) was an ugly crime, but Hezbollah's war in Syria is crime as well," Hariri said, criticizing Nasrallah for calling for restraint at home while reinforcing his commitment to the battle in Syria which has polarized Lebanon and sharply raised sectarian tensions.

Most Sunni Muslim Lebanese support the rebels battling to overthrow Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam. Many Shi'ite Lebanese support Assad and Hezbollah's support in the neighboring country has grown from a political to a full military role.

Hezbollah guerrillas led Assad's fight to recapture the Syrian border town of Qusair in June from mainly Sunni rebels, and have also fought in the city of Homs and near the Shi'ite shrine of Sayyida Zeinab south-east of Damascus.

Nasrallah said on Friday the Syrian war was a battle against radical Sunni "takfiri" groups, who he also blamed for Thursday's bomb.

Many Sunni jihadi fighters from Lebanon and other Arab countries have joined the fight against Assad, and some have threatened retaliation in Lebanon unless Hezbollah withdraws from Syria.

The two-year conflict has killed 100,000 people inside Syria and the violence has spread across the Lebanese border, with rocket attacks in the Bekaa Valley, street fighting in the Mediterranean cities of Sidon and Tripoli, and bombs in Beirut.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97G07R20130817

[Salah]

Spiral of violence threatens to spin out of control

BEIRUT: A series of terror explosions that have struck Lebanon recently is a clear sign that the country has stepped into the dark tunnel of tit-for-tat large-scale violence, analysts said hours after a twin bombing rocked the northern city of Tripoli, killing at least 45 and wounding hundreds.

“Last week’s bombing in Ruwaiss stood out as a potential turning point in Lebanon’s struggle with escalating sectarian hostilities, but [Friday’s] attacks in Tripoli concretely underline that a two-way conflict has well and truly emerged in Lebanon,” Charles Lister, analyst at IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre told The Daily Star.

The explosions, one outside the Al-Taqwa Mosque that was soon followed by another outside the Al-Salam Mosque, happened at a busy hour of the day as hundreds of worshipers wrapped up Friday prayers, highlighted the deteriorating security situation in Tripoli, considered a safe haven and transit point for Syrian opposition groups in Lebanon.

Lister argued that the conflict in Syria has been hugely damaging to Lebanon’s delicate political balance.

“Lebanon is on an unstable path fraught with rising tensions and sectarian sentiment,” he said.

The blast came almost one week after a car bomb attack killed 30 people and wounded at least 300 in the Beirut southern suburb of Ruwaiss, a stronghold of Hezbollah – the party that has vowed unequivocal support for embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“We have certainly entered a dark tunnel and there is now a cycle of violence that, if not nipped in the bud, can get out of control,” said Randa Slim, a scholar at the Washington-based Middle East Institute. She added that if the dynamic of violence settles into a pattern, it will be hard to reverse.

Following the explosion in Ruwaiss security bodies carried out arrests linked to an alleged car-bombing ring. Earlier this week, Army commander Gen. Jean Kahwagi revealed that the military was pursuing terrorists involved in creating and detonating car bombs with the intention of igniting sectarian strife in the country. Kahwagi highlighted that the car bombs were not intended to target a specific area or a specific sect.

According to Lister, the targeting of the two mosques in Tripoli was “hugely symbolic” as both mosques have been clearly involved in the heightened sectarian tensions within the Tripoli theater that witnessed intermittent clashes between Sunnis and Alawites related to the more than 2-year-old war in Syria.

Sheikh Salem Rafei, the Imam of Al-Taqwa Mosque, is a prominent Salafist figure in Tripoli and has played the role of mediator between Islamist groups and the Lebanese government on several occasions.

Rafei started his political activism in the 1980s as a combatant alongside Palestinian factions against the forces of late President Hafez Assad during fierce battles in Tripoli.

In Germany, where he preached for several years, he is labeled as a radical imam and since 2005 he is considered persona non grata on German territories, security sources said.

The plump sheikh mediated between Lebanese security forces and Islamists during the battles that pitted the Army against the Al-Qaeda-inspired group Fatah al-Islam in the north Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in 2007.

A staunch critic of Hezbollah, Rafei has long championed the causes of controversial Islamist figures, including firebrand Salafist Sheikh Ahmad Assir, and pleaded for the release of Shadi Mawlawi, a young Islamist from Tripoli accused by security authorities of channeling funds to Syrian rebels.

The sheer scale of the Tripoli attacks and the fact that they took place during Friday prayers will undoubtedly have a national impact, Lister said.

“Tit-for-tat large-scale bombings in Lebanon are now an almost inevitable reality,” he pointed out.

Slim maintained that politicians must “engage in some kind of dramatic action” in a bid to curb the cycle of violence.

“There are political decisions that need to be made,” Slim said. “Let’s start with forming a new Cabinet and reviving National Dialogue sessions.”

But what is more important, according to Slim, is to “free the hands” of security agencies to go after all the suspects, including those inside Palestinian camps, where many are believed to have taken refuge.

Recently, security organizations have taken on specific political labels, significantly limiting their efficiency in combating crime and making arrests.

For instance, the Information Branch – the intelligence arm of the Internal Security Forces – is seen as being affiliated with the Future Movement and the March 14 alliance. Conversely, Lebanon’s Army Intelligence is identified as being backed by Hezbollah and the Amal Movement.

Analysts also agree that it was still early to identify the masterminds behind the string of blasts but tend to rule out that the perpetrators are the same.

Shortly after the Ruwaiss explosion, a previously unheard of group calling itself the “Brigade of Aisha, the Mother of the Faithful” claimed responsibility for the attack. In a speech after the attack, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah accused jihadists of carrying out the blasts.

As The Daily Star went to press, no group had claimed responsibility for the double bombing in Tripoli.

According to Lister, while it is impossible to completely discount the theory that the same actor may be responsible for attacks in the Beirut southern suburbs and Tripoli, it’s very unlikely they are the same. Slim argued that there were several parties that would benefit from mayhem in Lebanon.

“It’s too early to tell who stands behind the attacks and I think the rush now by some Lebanese politicians to blame everybody left and right, including Israel, is unwarranted,” Slim said.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Ana...#ixzz2cpiReQVJ

[Nr.10]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door maddox

Mag ik hier een kanttekening bij zetten? Wat is Hezbollah dan eigenlijk?

Wat de jodenpers je vertelt dat ze zijn, tiens.

[maddox]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Nr.10

Wat de jodenpers je vertelt dat ze zijn, tiens.

Awel, wat is Hezbollah dan volgens U?
Kwestie, ik geloof niet echt in de doorsnee pers.

[Salah]

Assad gelinkte terroristen opgepakt voor de dubbele aanslagen in Tripoli

Sheikh Ahmad Gharib, 40, was arrested by the police overnight in his residence in Minyeh, north of Tripoli. Arms, explosives and maps of the northern city were seized at his home, judicial sources said.

The sources said that Gharib was an affiliate to the Syrian regime-backed Baath Party and had recently paid several visits to Syria. Gharib was studying Islam in Syria but then quit and became a staunch supporter of the Assad regime.


Another suspect in the bombing, Sheikh Abdel Razzak Hammoud, was arrested around noon, the sources said.

The sources said that both sheikhs are members of the Tripoli-based Islamic Tawheed Movement, a pro-Syrian regime group headed by Hashem Minkara.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Leb...#ixzz2cuFh2aS5

[ZION]

Israelische raketten op Libanon.Verdorie het is ze menens.
Had je verwittigd,Salah.
Hoe harder uw oorlogskreten hier,hoe meer raketten op de idiote hoofden van de cannibals.
Terloops,zou den Abou daar ergens rondlopen.De stichter van de AEL oorlogsmacht?

[Max van Dietschland]

Hassan Nasrallah zou een goed staatshoofd zijn van Libanon. Jammer dat het nog niet zo ver is.

[Vrolijk op Vrijdag]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door ZION

Terloops,zou den Abou daar ergens rondlopen.De stichter van de AEL oorlogsmacht?

Die riep in 2006 heel stoer dat hij voorgoed naar zijn trotse heimat Libanon zou verkassen.

In 2007 is hij stilletjes teruggekeerd naar Antwerpen uit schrik voor verlies van z'n uitkering.

[Salah]

Syria behind north Lebanon bombings, suspect confesses

A suspect in custody over last week’s deadly car bombings in north Lebanon has confessed that Syrian intelligence was behind the attacks, a security source said Tuesday, and police released a sketch of a man also wanted in the case.

Sheikh Ahmad Gharib, one of two suspects being interrogated in the Aug. 23 car bombs outside the Al-Taqwa and Al-Salam mosques in Tripoli, north Lebanon, confessed that the explosions were “directly planned by Syrian intelligence,” the source said.

Gharib, after several hours of interrogation, also said he had prior knowledge of the attacks and their planning, the source added.

At least 47 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in the car bombings outside the mosques in Tripoli, a city that has been the scene of frequent violence linked to the crisis in Syria.

Gharib’s arrest Saturday was due to his appearance in a surveillance video taken near Al-Salam Mosque at the time of the blast. Police are also questioning Sheikh Abdel-Razzak Hammoud in the case.

The period of their detention was extended Monday by two days after the two gave conflicting testimonies.

Also Tuesday, police released a sketch of another suspect wanted over the Tripoli blasts, the latest in a series of car bombings in Lebanon that have escalated security fears in the country.

The police sketch shows a man with a short beard in religious clothing.

The man, according to the Internal Security Forces, is suspected of placing the rigged vehicle outside the Al-Taqwa Mosque.

The police urged citizens to provide authorities with any information about the suspect and his location by calling the hotline 1788, adding that informants would remain anonymous.

Investigations into the explosions outside the Taqwa and Salam mosques continued Tuesday under the supervision of the military justice department.

According to the security source, investigators are hopeful they will be able to obtain further information about the vehicles used in the attacks, including where they were rigged and the parties responsible for detonating them.

On Monday, a judicial source said investigators managed to identify the make of the vehicle used near the Al-Salam Mosque - a four wheel drive Ford - but said they had yet to confirm whether the vehicle outside the Al-Taqwa Mosque was a GMC or Renault 18.

The security source said video footage from cameras installed near the mosques where the car bombs detonated is still being analyzed.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Leb...#ixzz2dEFkF3UC

[BonBon]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Salah

Syria behind north Lebanon bombings, suspect confesses

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Leb...#ixzz2dEFkF3UC

Da's makkelijk als ze direct alles bekennen, wat heeft Syrië eigenlijk te winnen met zo'n bomaanslag?

[BonBon]

Vragen bij berichtgeving van westerse en anti syrische media. Een bom middenin een drukbevolkte wijk wordt benoemd als een Hezbollah stronghold om er een soort militair doelwit van de maken.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/new...n-lebanon.html

The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akbar is worth looking at to get a grasp of the biased media reporting that has been used to reframe the events as legitimate. It commented thus on August 17, 2013: «The Western media have double standards when it comes to ‘terrorism.’ Within hours after two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon last April, many in the media had christened it a ‘terrorist attack.’ Meanwhile, the August 15 bombing in Rouweiss that killed at least two dozen is a ‘blast’ that occurred in a ‘Hezbollah stronghold.’» As Al-Akhbar observes, the word «Hezbollah stronghold» plays a prominent role in giving the impression that the civilian neighbourhours bombed in Beirut were armed barracks. Al-Akhbar even nicely sums up some of the biased titles used to describe the terrorist attacks:

Wall Street Journal: «Car Bomb Blasts Hezbollah Stronghold in Lebanon»

BBC: «Deadly Lebanon Blast in Beirut Stronghold of Hezbollah»

LA Times: «Massive Explosion in Beirut Rocks Hezbollah Stronghold»

Washington Post: «Bomb Explodes in Hezbollah Stronghold in Beirut, Injuring Dozens»

Reuters: «Over 50 Hurt as Car Bomb Hits Hezbollah Beirut Stronghold»

[Salah]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door BonBon

Vragen bij berichtgeving van westerse en anti syrische media. Een bom middenin een drukbevolkte wijk wordt benoemd als een Hezbollah stronghold om er een soort militair doelwit van de maken.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/new...n-lebanon.html

Het is ook een Hezbollah stronghold. Overal checkpoints met bewapende mannen enzo.

[Salah]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door BonBon

Da's makkelijk als ze direct alles bekennen, wat heeft Syrië eigenlijk te winnen met zo'n bomaanslag?

Imams van beide moskee's zijn anti Assad. Dat is punt 1.