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[Federate]

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Executing traitors seems to have gone out of fashion.

Not in Lebanon. Check this post out.

I can't wait to see the response to the defence minister's treacherous actions.

[KanadaHye]

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'STL turns blind eye to murderous Israel'



Hezbollah has accused the US-backed UN tribunal, investigating the assassination of the country's former premier, of disregard for Israel's role in the murder.

On Sunday, the Lebanese resistance movement's Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech, accusing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon of using faulty procedures, including issuing convictions in absentia and hiding witness identities.

"In international tribunals, we never have sentences made in absentia. Indictments are made, but they never hold a trial until the accused comes [and is] present in front of the judge," he said.

Withholding the identity of the witnesses, Nasrallah said, means "those who are accused can never question the witness. They can never ask the witness "where did you see me? What are accusing me [of]? Based upon what?"

The former Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri was killed alongside more than 20 other people in a massive car bombing in the Lebanese capital, Beirut on February 14, 2005.

Nasrallah said in July, 2010 that he had been informed by the slain leader's son and successor, Saad Hariri, that STL "will accuse some undisciplined [Hezbollah] members." Nasrallah has rejected the allegation, warning that the plot was part of "a dangerous project that is targeting the resistance."

During his speech, the resistance leader questioned the neutrality of the court, saying the United Nations Security Council is an instrument in the hands of Washington.

In an August speech, he presented evidence proving that Israel had masterminded Hariri's assassination. The televised address featured a video captured by Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as recorded confessions by Israeli fifth columnists, substantiating that Tel Aviv had been behind the killing.

On Monday, leading Lebanese newspaper As-Safir also warned of the "intensive" pressure, Washington is applying under the slogan of "no discussions before indictment is issued."

Political analysts have warned that such indictments are meant to sow discord in Lebanon.

Hezbollah would accept the indictment issued by the tribunal only if it is supported by credible evidence, Nasrallah said.

He further broached the issue of Tel Aviv's spying on Beirut.

Nasrallah confirmed the news about Israeli-waged intelligence warfare against the country, which aims to incriminate members of the resistance movement in espionage.

He recounted how Tel Aviv would "implant" phone lines in the telephone devices used by Hezbollah members.

Aided by technical experts and the Lebanese Army Intelligence, the movement carried out "a comprehensive investigation" into the matter.

"We discovered that there are two phone lines in the telephone. One, which belongs to the individual and another, which was planted by the Israelis," Nasrallah said.

"And in your telephones, they can plant numbers, which you have no idea about and they can make phone calls by these numbers. The Israelis can make phone calls to these numbers and hence they can make it look like you're a spy…."

A Friday report by the leading Lebanese daily As-Safir showed that Israeli infiltrators used duplicated numbers to contact the telephone devices.

The newspaper warned that the application of the numbers, which appeared to be coming in from Austria, marked "serious chapters" of Israel's ability to control Lebanon's telecommunications sector.

The report, however, hailed that members of Hezbollah's security service, the Army Intelligence bureau and a number of employees at the country's Telecommunications Ministry had been able to cope with Tel Aviv's techniques and advanced software.

The act of domestic defense, it added, was enabled through several tests and tryouts.

On Tuesday, Hassan Fadlallah, a parliamentarian representing the resistance said Israel had arranged for the sale of doctored phones to some Hezbollah members, enabling wiretapping of their communications and dispatch of Tel Aviv-desired texts, Lebanese portal Naharnet reported.

"After a lengthy, complex investigation ... it was revealed that three resistance members were using local mobile phones which had been deliberately sold to them after being implanted with secret Israeli lines" by a Tel Aviv-hired Lebanese, said Fadlallah, who also chairs the parliament's media and telecommunications committee.

Also on Tuesday, Lebanon's Minister of Telecommunications Charbel Nahas said Beirut had found new evidence confirming the infiltration of Israeli espionage apparatuses into the telecommunications sector.

The resistance leader similarly spoke of the infiltration, adding that Tel Aviv was using wiretapping against all Lebanese people.

Lebanon has arrested more than 100 people, including members of the country's security forces and telecommunications personnel, since April 2009 on suspicion of spying for Israel.

Beirut has also filed a complaint to the United Nations over Israel's espionage activities within the country, expressing concerns that Israeli agents have gone as far as spying on the Lebanese President Michel Sleiman and other top officials.

The letter bewailed that the spy networks "constitute an aggression on Lebanon and on its sovereignty in a clear violation of international resolutions, particularly [the United Nations Security Council] resolution 1701."

The resolution ended Tel Aviv's 2006 war on Lebanon that killed about 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians.

Israeli agents had been responsible for targeted killings, the letter said.

A number of the suspected Israeli operatives, captured in Lebanon, have admitted to their roles in helping Israel identify targets inside Lebanon, mostly belonging to Hezbollah.

Nasrallah further criticized some Lebanese official for remaining silent on Israeli espionage activities in Lebanon.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153015.html

[KanadaHye]

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Hezbollah discovers Israeli spy devices



Israel has remotely detonated two of its spying devices in southern Lebanon after they were discovered by the Hezbollah resistance movement.



At least two Lebanese were injured after the espionage devises were detonated remotely in Wadi al-Qaysiyya outside of Majdal Selem near the southern coastal city of Tyre on Friday.

"Telecom technicians of the resistance (Hezbollah) managed to discover a spying device the enemy had planted in Wadi al-Qaysiyya. The enemy detonated its devices as a result of the discovery," said a statement released by the Hezbollah media relations department.

"This technical espionage by the enemy is part of the persistent Israeli violations of the national telecom network with the aim of infiltrating and controlling it, which represents a breach of sovereignty and an attempt at violating the security and safety of the Lebanese," the statement added.

No other details were immediately available.

Friday's incident came just two days after Israeli troops opened fire on Lebanon from two border posts near Shebaa Farms.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153770.html

[Mos]

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Why is Hezbollah pertinent to Armenia?? Why does anybody here care about them?

[Federate]

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Well if you really are looking for a link between Hezbollah and Armenia, once upon a time when an Iranian commercial plane heading towards Yerevan crashed, Israeli sources claimed that the plane was carrying bomb material to Armenia which was then to be forwarded to Hezbollah through Turkey, Syria and then Lebanon (I swear i'm not making this up ). Of course, nothing came out of this baseless allegation (aka Israeli propaganda). Hezbollah having a link to Armenians also comes in the form of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who speaks Armenian fluently due to having grown up in an Armenian quarter (i'm not making this up either ).

But to answer your question, subjects/topics do not always have to have a link to Armenia for people to be interested in.

[KanadaHye]

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I've read that Émile Lahoud's mother is Armenian from Kasab. Hassan Nasrallah was born in Bourj Hammoud and supposedly speaks Armenian. Armenians in Lebanon sided with Hezbollah. When I was working in Dearborn, MI, I used to go to an Arabic diner owned by Lebanese. The daughter of the owner worked the register... she was Muslim but HOT as hell. Where was I.... lost my train of thought... oh yeah. I told them I was Armenian, they treated me and my coworkers like kings. Apparently we're well respected in Lebanon

Edit: Did some more reading and Emile Lahoud's wife is Armenian and his daughter Karine was married to Lebanon's defense minister Elias Murr (the guy who allegedly had offered advice on how Israel could defeat Hezbollah if a new war erupted on Israel's northern border that Federate posted a page back)

[Haykakan]

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There are actualy a few good reasons. First there are many Armenians living in Lebanan who are effected by what Isreal and Hezbolah do. It is also important to note that the zionists have tried to undermined the Armenians in every way possible. Zionists have prevented the recognition of the armenian genocide in USA, the zionists have and continue to arm our enemies (big and little turcks). These are just some of the obvious things but there is more.

[Yedtarts]

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I would like to add one more thing, in Lebanon Armenians and Hezbollah both have the same interests which is the good of Lebanon and Lebanese people, they don’t have hidden agendas which benefits some other countries or organizations.

[KanadaHye]

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I would like to add one more thing, in Lebanon Armenians and Hezbollah both have the same interests which is the good of Lebanon and Lebanese people, they don't have hidden agendas which benefits some other countries or organizations.

I'm not too familiar with the history, but I was researching the Maronites and ran across this:


The Maronites and Lebanon, A Brief History

The outbreak of World War I in August1914 brought Lebanon further problems, as Turkey allied itself with Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Turkish government abolished Lebanon's autonomous status and appointed Jamal Pasha, then minister of the navy, as the commander in chief of the Turkish forces, the fourth army, in Syria and Lebanon, with discretionary powers. Jamal lost no time in dealing with Lebanon, considered the most disloyal of all the provinces. Known for his harshness, he militarily occupied Lebanon.

Nationalist feelings were running high in Lebanon and in other parts of the Ottoman Empire such as in Armenia and the Turks were not willing to tolerate anything that may lead to the break up of their Empire. In February1915, frustrated by his unsuccessful attack on the British forces protecting the Suez Canal, and an Allied initiated a blockade of the entire eastern Mediterranean coast to prevent supplies from reaching the Turks, Jamal Pasha vented his anger on Lebanon and its people.

In August 1915, Jamal replaced the Armenian mutasarrif, Ohannes Pasha, with a Turk, Munif Pasha and abolished Lebanon's autonomy. Before the end of the month a military court was established in Aley and thousands of Maronites were imprisoned or exiled for little reason. In 1916 Turkish authorities publicly executed 16 Lebanese of various religions in Beirut, for alleged anti-Turkish activities. The date, May 6, is commemorated annually as Martyrs' Day, and the site in Beirut has come to be known as Martyrs' Square. Jamal earned his new title of al-Saffah, the blood shedder. Using the war as cover the Turks hoped to finally put an end to the troublesome Lebanese who had resisted Turkish rule for so long. Conscription was imposed and it was so decided that Lebanon was to starve. The Turks committed mass murder by commandeering Lebanon's food supplies and requisitioning its beasts of burden and so caused hundreds of thousands of deaths from widespread famine. The Druze fled to Houran. The land of Lebanon became a paradise for disease and plagues claimed thousands of souls. Furthermore, the Turkish Army cut down trees for wood to fuel trains or for military purposes, and it was the huge Cedar forests that suffered the most with over 60% being cut down in three years.

In a letter to The Times on 15th September 1916 quoted by George Antonius in his book 'The Arab Awakening' an American woman resident of Beirut writes how she passed 'women and children lying by the roadside with closed eyes and ghastly, pale faces. It was a common thing to find people searching the garbage heaps for orange peel, old bones or other refuse, eating them greedily when found. Everywhere women could be seen seeking eatable weeds among the grass along the roads.' Another American resident in 1917 states: 'the scenes were indescribable, whole families writhing in agony on the bare floor of their miserable huts. Every piece of their household effects had been sold to buy bread, and in many cases the tiles of the roof had shared the same fate. It is conservatively estimated that not less than 120,000 persons have died of actual starvation during the last two years in Lebanon'.

To compound all of these problems, the war also deprived the country of its tourists and summer visitors, and remittances from relatives and friends abroad were lost or delayed for months. The Maronite Church opened its doors to the poor as much as it could and Patriarch Anthony ARIDA set up a cement making factory and also the Kadisha Electricity Company to provide jobs for hundreds of young men.

During this period, Lebanon suffered more than any other Ottoman province, loosing over one third of its population to slow and painful deaths. Suffering under Turkish rule however was not limited to Lebanon, the Armenians also felt the fury of the Turk in what is now known as the Armenian Genocide.
Relief for Lebanon came in September1918 when the British general Edmund Allenby and Faysal I, son of Sharif Husayn of Mecca, moved into Palestine with British and Arab forces, thus opening the way for the liberation of Lebanon and Syria.


Read more: Phoenicia: The Maronites and Lebanon, A Brief History
http://phoenicia.org/maronites.html

[Federate]

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LEBANON: Hezbollah strays from Iranian line on WikiLeaks, praises its disclosures

December 12, 2010 | 8:01 am

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah appears to have acknowledged the credibility of WikiLeaks, breaking with the official stance of the group's patron, Iran, that the leaked diplomatic cables are part of some American and Israeli-backed conspiracy.

By supporting WikiLeaks, Nasrallah now finds himself in the same camp as an unlikely figure: Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who said in comments published Saturday that the documents expose Iran's "vulnerability."

In a speech late Friday night, the Hezbollah leader said the resistance would be targeted by conspiracies even greater than those already revealed in the leaked United States diplomatic cables, hinting mysteriously at more to come.

During the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, the party and its supporters "faced serious threats and conspiracies" from many sides, Nasrallah said, adding: "This is what we see in WikiLeaks day after day, and which we will see on a greater [scale]" (Arabic link).

Was Nasrallah's ominious prediction a rhetorical flourish, or does he have knowledge of sensitive cables on Lebanon that have yet to be published?

Some figures at the leftist Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar, which obtained advance copies of some cables, are said to be close to Hezbollah, but the paper already appears to have published all the documents in its possession.

It is more likely Hezbollah simply couldn't pass up the opportunity to capitalize on the exposure of its political rivals in some of the WikiLeaks documents, even if it meant coming out in support of the watchdog site after Iranian officials had publicly dismissed it as a "Zionist plot."

The leaked cables quoted several Lebanese politicians, including the defense minister and former telecommunications minister, passing sensitive information about Hezbollah's telecommunications networks and military strongholds to American officials.

America is a close ally of Israel, which Lebanon considers an enemy state. Many Lebanese have accused the politicians of knowingly providing assistance to Israel through a proxy. Hezbollah has so far refrained from making personal attacks, but the scandal has been seen as a vindication of the group, which has justified many of its actions by citing plots against it.

WikiLeaks documents also provided evidence that the international tribunal investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which is expected to issue indictments against Hezbollah members, sought technical assistance from the U.S. Hezbollah has used these documents to bolster its claim that the tribunal is politicized and part of a plan to target the group's weapons.

Hezbollah has made it clear that it will not accept the indictments, attempting -- awkwardly --to draw a red line without leaving itself open to accusations of bullying.

"When we warn of unrest, we are not threatening or intimidating," Hezbollah official Mahmoud Qmati said Saturday. "When we say that the issuance of the indictment might cause unrest or civil strife, that does not mean, as they are interpreting, that Hezbollah and the opposition are plotting a coup."

Of course, Hezbollah is nothing if not an extremely effective security force, and civil unrest could not take place in those areas under the group's control without top-down approval. Qmati and other officials have said that the group would be open to an agreement with its rivals who support the tribunal, but so far the two sides have not publicly come to a consensus.

-- Meris Lutz in Beirut

Photo: Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said important conspiracies against Hezbollah had been revealed in WikiLeaks documents. Credit: Screenshot by Meris Lutz via Al Manar

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/12/hezbollah-wikileaks-iran-tribunal-hariri-mousavi.html