Majority unite in a campaign against Aoun so as to shore up their crumbling weakness
Source: Tayyar.org, 15-10-2008
With all the contradictions among its various factions, the Majority unite in a campaign against Aoun in order to shore up their crumbling weakness in the coming elections
The fierce and carefully programmed campaign launched by the Majority's propaganda machine against the Head of the Change and Reform Block, General Michel Aoun, against the background of his official visit to Tehran, which he had started last Sunday under the headline of deepening the Christian presence in the region, almost shadowed the significant security achievement made by the Lebanese Army Intelligence in coordination with the security forces under the direct supervision of the Minister of Interior, Ziad Baroud, by cracking one of the most dangerous terrorist networks, that threatened the country, particularly the Christians in Lebanon given that its elements are salafis who do not bother even to start to pretend that they do not seek the establishment of a salafi state in, by first establishing the "Islamic Emirate of Tripoli" based on Sunni revisionist thought. This security achievement coincided with a warning addressed to an influential political faction in the North to hand over the weapons and explosives that have recently reached them, with huge amounts of money, from an external source, to be used in supporting the Islamic movements in Tripoli and Akkar, according to certain press sources.
While the Army Intelligence units were chasing the remnants of the Fateh Al-Islam organization and other allied salafi units, some of which are wanted insurgents, on the basis of interrogations carried out with arrested members of these groups, are said to have fled to the Beddawi Camp in the North and who maintain joint operations rooms at the Ein Al-Hilwe Camp in the South, the Army Chief of Staff, General Jean Kahwagi, was discussing with the secretary of Fateh Movement in Lebanon, Sultan Abul Enein, the issue of security in the camps, particularly the issue of the elements wanted by the security forces, who flee justice by seeking refuge in those camps. The purpose of those discussions was to prevent the camps becoming a haven for terrorist groups.
However, the focus of most factions within the Majority was on assaulting General Aoun because of his visionary opening up toward Iran which is a leading force in the region. The Majority tried to portray the visit as being directed against other Arab countries, mainly the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the president of the republic was having official talks with key officials there, particularly with the Saudi sovereign. By doing so, the Majority's propaganda falsely suggested that Aoun's talks in Tehran were designed to create confusion over the entire situation, although relations between Riyadh and Tehran are currently stable, as are Lebanon's relations with both Saudi Arabia and Iran. For this reason, the Majority, with its unwieldy factions, is trying to create a joint anthem to march by toward the coming elections and fill up the ever-widening cracks in its structure, at an early stage in the 2009 parliamentary elections, amidst increasing differences, contradictions and conflicting interests.
In other developments, while the talks that General Aoun is having in the Iranian capital proceed as an open dialogue seeking to promote and strengthen the Christian presence in the region, the remaining Christians are being slaughtered and their churches and homes destroyed in Mosul under the eyes of the occupation forces there, and the "fortunate" few flee for safety to Syria and other countries. US President, George Bush, has nothing to say or do for them, except demand that Damascus establish "diplomatic relations with Lebanon, respect the country's sovereignty and stop supporting terrorism", as if the de-rooting the Christian presence in Iraq is not an act of terrorism.
Meanwhile, Bishop Guy Nujaim, who accompanies Cardinal Sfeir to the Cardinals Congress to be held at the Capital of Catholicism, launched a roaring Christian objection against Israel's use of the Bible to legitimize its "borders" and hold Christendom accountable for the Jewish state's invasion of Palestine and giving a legal justification for its occupation, sowing dissent among the region's Christians and Muslims, that we see taking place in Iraq today.
With all the contradictions among its various factions, the Majority unite in a campaign against Aoun in order to shore up their crumbling weakness in the coming elections
The fierce and carefully programmed campaign launched by the Majority's propaganda machine against the Head of the Change and Reform Block, General Michel Aoun, against the background of his official visit to Tehran, which he had started last Sunday under the headline of deepening the Christian presence in the region, almost shadowed the significant security achievement made by the Lebanese Army Intelligence in coordination with the security forces under the direct supervision of the Minister of Interior, Ziad Baroud, by cracking one of the most dangerous terrorist networks, that threatened the country, particularly the Christians in Lebanon given that its elements are salafis who do not bother even to start to pretend that they do not seek the establishment of a salafi state in, by first establishing the "Islamic Emirate of Tripoli" based on Sunni revisionist thought. This security achievement coincided with a warning addressed to an influential political faction in the North to hand over the weapons and explosives that have recently reached them, with huge amounts of money, from an external source, to be used in supporting the Islamic movements in Tripoli and Akkar, according to certain press sources.
While the Army Intelligence units were chasing the remnants of the Fateh Al-Islam organization and other allied salafi units, some of which are wanted insurgents, on the basis of interrogations carried out with arrested members of these groups, are said to have fled to the Beddawi Camp in the North and who maintain joint operations rooms at the Ein Al-Hilwe Camp in the South, the Army Chief of Staff, General Jean Kahwagi, was discussing with the secretary of Fateh Movement in Lebanon, Sultan Abul Enein, the issue of security in the camps, particularly the issue of the elements wanted by the security forces, who flee justice by seeking refuge in those camps. The purpose of those discussions was to prevent the camps becoming a haven for terrorist groups.
However, the focus of most factions within the Majority was on assaulting General Aoun because of his visionary opening up toward Iran which is a leading force in the region. The Majority tried to portray the visit as being directed against other Arab countries, mainly the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the president of the republic was having official talks with key officials there, particularly with the Saudi sovereign. By doing so, the Majority's propaganda falsely suggested that Aoun's talks in Tehran were designed to create confusion over the entire situation, although relations between Riyadh and Tehran are currently stable, as are Lebanon's relations with both Saudi Arabia and Iran. For this reason, the Majority, with its unwieldy factions, is trying to create a joint anthem to march by toward the coming elections and fill up the ever-widening cracks in its structure, at an early stage in the 2009 parliamentary elections, amidst increasing differences, contradictions and conflicting interests.
In other developments, while the talks that General Aoun is having in the Iranian capital proceed as an open dialogue seeking to promote and strengthen the Christian presence in the region, the remaining Christians are being slaughtered and their churches and homes destroyed in Mosul under the eyes of the occupation forces there, and the "fortunate" few flee for safety to Syria and other countries. US President, George Bush, has nothing to say or do for them, except demand that Damascus establish "diplomatic relations with Lebanon, respect the country's sovereignty and stop supporting terrorism", as if the de-rooting the Christian presence in Iraq is not an act of terrorism.
Meanwhile, Bishop Guy Nujaim, who accompanies Cardinal Sfeir to the Cardinals Congress to be held at the Capital of Catholicism, launched a roaring Christian objection against Israel's use of the Bible to legitimize its "borders" and hold Christendom accountable for the Jewish state's invasion of Palestine and giving a legal justification for its occupation, sowing dissent among the region's Christians and Muslims, that we see taking place in Iraq today.
