Prime Minister Hariri and Cabinet Minister Gemayel haunt Assad!
February 19, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The spirits of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, assassinated two years ago by President Bashar Assad, and former Cabinet Minister Pierre Gemayel, who suffered the same fate last year, both strongly anti-Syrian, roam as ghostly images in the minds of the minds of many Lebanese today. Assad and Hezbullah are trying to take over the weak government of Lebanon, with one of their motivations being to put an end to the investigation of Hariri’s murder. The bad news is that, with the help of the activities of Iran and Hamas, they are succeeding in their effort to put it behind them by taking over the Lebanese government.
The central general population has experienced terror attacks and the United Nations troops have suffered stoning attacks in the south.
It seems that whether a coup of the present government does or does not occur, Hezbullah will, for all practical purposes, eventually gain control of the existing government, and its rule will be as a puppet of Syria and Iran. I am afraid Lebanon is going to once again become Lebanon in name only, with the unofficial title of “greater Syria.”
Begin DEBKAfile Article
Bombs blast two buses in Lebanon, kill at least 12, injure 20, at Ain Aleq village east of Beirut day before mass rally marking second anniversary of Hariri assassination
February 13, 2007, 11:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
At 9:15 a.m. Monday, Feb. 13, the bombs tore through buses carrying workers through Ain Aleq, the ancestral village of the Gemayel clan, whose scion, anti-Syrian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel was murdered last year.
Lebanese security sources report the attack was carried out unusually for Lebanon by two suicide bombers.
Uniformed Lebanese troops and armoured cars were rushed to the scene of the carnage as ambulances carried victims away.
Ain Alaq is just south of Bikfaya and 12 miles northwest of Beirut.
An international tribunal has been established to try the murderers of the former prime minister Rafiq Hariri exactly two years ago.
The suspects include high Syrian officials close to president Bashar Assad.
Last week, DEBKAfile predicted Assad might resort to violence in Lebanon or Israel’s northern borders to disrupt the judicial process.
Begin Haaretz Excerpt from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
IDF: Hizbullah Has Rebuilt Its Force
February 19, 2007
Gideon Alon (Ha’aretz)
Brig.-Gen. Yossi Baidatz, head of the IDF Military Intelligence Research Division, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday that Hizbullah has managed to rebuild its military wing to match its force prior to the war in Lebanon this summer.
Begin Lebanon Daily Star Excerpt from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Lebanese Stone Spanish Peacekeepers
February 19, 2007
Iman Azzi and Mohammed Zaatari (Daily Star-Lebanon)
Lebanese youths threw stones at Spanish troops from the UN peacekeeping forces in the village of Debbine over the weekend. The Lebanese Army intervened to defuse the situation.
The incident was the latest in a series of confrontations between southern Lebanon residents and UNIFIL.
In the area of Qassimiyeh at the entrance to Tyre, Energy and Water Minister Mohammad Fneish of Hizbullah unveiled a monument of an armored personnel carrier with two fake rockets pointed toward Israel.
A sign hanging from the monument declared: “[Hizbullah] has more than 20,000 rockets.”
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