By: Ellias Bejjani
July 01/08
It was announced in Beirut on Monday June 30/08 that Lebanon's House Speaker, Mr. Nabih Berri will be paying Canada an official visit within the coming few days to participate in the Canadian French Quebec's province 400 years founding anniversary celebrations, and also to take part in the 34 Francophone Parliamentary General Assembly meetings
In this realm, our Non Profit organization, (The Lebanese Canadian Coordinating Council (LCCC) advised the Canadian government's top officials in a letter sent to them yesterday on the following documented facts:
On Thurday, June 26/08, Shiite Lebanese armed "Amal Movement," headed by Lebanon's House Speaker, Mr. Nabih Berri, issued a press release under the title: "Amal Movement announces the martydom of its member Hussein Haidar Awad while executing his jihadist duties." The release published in Arabic by the National News Agency in its 26/06/06 news bulletin reads as follows: "Amal Movement, the Jabal Amel chapter, announced in a statement that was issued today, the martyrdom of Hussain Haider Awada while executing his jihadist duty." The release stated that Awada was born in the town of Chaehien in 1990, joined the Islamic Al Resali Scouts at a young age, and had worked among the Amal Movement ranks in its organizational cells. He was a role model to the committed jihadist brother. He was martyred on 26/06/08 while exacting his Amal Movement's duties."
The release called for participation in the martyr's funeral that took place on the same day.
The same "Amal Movement's" release denied earlier numerous news agencies' reports that said Awada's body was found in the city of Tyre, after he had been assassinated by unknown assailants. What is really sad, disappointing, frightening and frustrating is that the Lebanese officials on all level, politicians and media, (both local and global) did not give this very significant release the attention and focus that it requires.
Meanwhile, Lebanon's security apparatus and its judiciary did not even bother to question the "Amal Movement" leadership on the circumstances of the so called "Martyrdom of Awada." The government ignored the whole scary event and did not address it by any means.
One wonders if Mr. Nabih Berri, who is Lebanon's House Speaker and president of the Shiite "Amal Movement" is an Islamic jihadist, and if his Movement's armed fighter are executing jihadi activities?
If so, the question that every body should ask is, where and against whom?
Are Mr. Berri's armed fighters carrying jihadist activities in Iraq, Israel, Yemen, certain Middle East countries or in undeclared global frontlines in other countries as well?
The Lebanese government has an obligation to call for an immediate judicial probe in the whole matter. Shouldn't the Lebanese people be informed as to where Awada was martyred?
Was he killed in the latest fierce Tripoli or Bekaa battles that took place between civilian Sunnis supporting MP. Saad Harriri and Lebanon's sovereignty, and Hezbollah armed militia (Iran's Army in Lebanon), that is fighting to topple the Lebanese democratic and multi cultural regime and replace it by an Islamic state replicate of the Iranian Mullah's religious dictatorship ("Wilayat al-Faqih State)
Mr. Nabih Berri, is Lebanon's House Speaker and has yet to inform the Lebanese people, the Arab countries and the Free World that his "Amal Movement" is engaged in any jihadist activities. The man had recently met in his official Beirut Headquarter's France's president, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy and the US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Meanwhile on a daily basis he receives numerous ambassadors and UN delegations and representatives and portrays himself as a man of peace. Is he actually a man of peace or a covert jihadist and in a mere camouflage status?
We strongly believe that it is a nationally and legally binding obligation that Mr. Berry is pressured to straighten the record and declare openly where his jihadists are fighting, for whose agenda, and for what cause? In case Mr. Berri is actually involved in any "jihadi activities," at any level, he is obligated, by law to resign his official post as Lebanon's House Speaker.
The United Nation (UN) whose peace forces are stationed in South Lebanon on the border with Israel in accordance to UN Resolutions 1701 and 1559 has an abiding legal obligation to call for a probe in Mr. Berri's questionable involvement in "jihadi Activities."
If Mr. Berri is a jihadist, the UN MUST take certain military measures to secure the safety of its Peace Forces in the South.
Needless to say that the Lebanese official silence on all levels on this grave matter is a flagrant violation of the country's constitution and a blatant encroachment on all Lebanon's laws, worldwide peace obligations and commitments. Most Importantly is a violation to the UN Resolutions 1559 and 17701. Lebanese has the right to know the whole truth, and nothing but the whole truth.
We reiterate our call for the Free World Countries to act immediately and come to the rescue of the oppressed Lebanese people before the Axis of Evil (Iran and Syria) through its proxies (Hezbollah, Amal Movement and other Lebanese and Palestinians armed militias) topple the Free Lebanese regime and erect in its place an Iranian satellite, (Wilayat al-Faqih State.).
If Lebanon is left to be devoured by the Axis of Evil piece by piece while the whole free world is just watching and doing nothing, definitely this world will suffer a great deal of future wailing and grinding of teeth.
Elias Bejjani
Chairman for the Canadian Lebanese Coordinating Council (LCCC)
Human Rights activist, journalist & political commentator.
Spokesman for the Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation (CLHRF)
E.Mail http://ca.f882.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=phoenicia@hotmail.com
LCCC Web Site http://www.10452lccc.com/
CLHRF Website http://www.clhrf.com
Monday, June 30, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Hezbollah is Iran's Army In LebanonBy: Elias Bejjani
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," (Edmund Burke, 17th century philosopher and author )
Unfortunately, Lebanon is facing at the present time a crucial and fatal threat to the core and essence of its existence, its soul of coexistence and freedom.
The free world is apparently turning a blind eye to the threat to Lebanon, the land of the historic cedars, the home of the great Phoenicians, and the unique mosaic and multi-cultural country of the Middle East. This tragedy has been unfolding without a decisive deterrent stance from the free world. Lebanon, the land, entity and country, was cited more than seventy two times in the Holy Bible with reference being made to it of reverence, power, beauty, tranquility, peace and divinity. Lebanon, referred to as the ‘Land of Milk and Honey’, has a deeply rooted 7000 years of history, marked by freedom and tolerance.Lebanon’s ancestors, the Phoenicians, were the architects and craftsmen of the great Temple of King Solomon in Jerusalem. The ‘Temple of the Cedars of God’, was constructed from the valuable, fragrant wood of the Lebanon Mountains.
These ancestors worked in tandem with the ancient Jews and forged strong familial and cultural bonds. These seafarers explored the whole world in their ships, trading culture in the form of the alphabet, mythology, religion, knowledge in sciences and art and other exotic goods for riches of gold, silver, gems and many other items of value. In addition to the color purple, the great North Star, the art of navigation, Lebanon has left history with the great men of Hannibal the General, Astarte, Cadmus and Pythagoras.
More recently, Lebanon has given the world the revered Christian saints of Charbel, Rafqa, Hardini, Yacoub and many others. Lebanon's "Cedar Revolution" is being abandoned and its followers are being starved of independence, freedom, sovereignty and peace. These words which hold much power are being emptied to be mere rhetoric and hollow slogans in the face of the axis of evil namely Syria, Iran and Hezbollah.
Lebanon is being forced through terrorism, murder, and political intimidation into a subservient regime that is modeled on the backward and repressive system imposed on the Iranian people by the Shiite Mullahs, under what is known in Islam as, "Wilayat al-Faqih." [Guardianship of the Jurists]. Wilayat al-Faqih is a religious theology that is divisive amongst the Muslims themselves. It is a bizarre, autocratic concept created and tailored by the late Ayatollah Khomeini in the early seventies.
The basis of this system provides all the ruling powers and authorities with unlimited vetoes on every aspect of life and governance into the hands of one man, the Highest Shiite Imam, whose headquarters is located in the Iranian city of Qom.
Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard proxy in Lebanon, has been entrusted by the Iranian Mullahs to topple the Lebanese Free State and erect in its place an Iranian satellite state, in order to complete the sought after Shiite Crescent. This militant theocratic group fully controls 40% of the Lebanese territories and has in effect established a state within a state. They have been devouring the country piece by piece in a well thought out diabolical plan.
Last month's attempted armed coup was the straw that broke the camel's back that put the entire majority of Lebanese and with them the moderate Arab countries, Israel and the entire free world at the front step of Iran's dreadful and criminal scheme. So what did the standard bearers of democracy, the free world and the spineless Arab countries do? Sadly and pitifully, they threw to the media more empty slogans of support for Lebanon and weak condemnation, empty of substance.
They did not move a single finger while the leaders of the Cedar Revolution, the democratically elected government and pro-western politicians were rounded up and herded to the Arab Emirate of Qatar with Hezbollah's guns pointed to their heads. All the while, predominantly Sunni, west Beirut, remained occupied and under siege by Hezbollah, the Iranian-Syrian Army in Lebanon.One may wonder why Lebanon had rejected the Israeli call for direct negotiations last week. This call was declared officially twice in a bid to reach a peace agreement between the two neighboring countries?The answer is simple; the Lebanese government could make an independent and patriotic decision on the Israeli call because it is held captive and hostage to the Axis of Evil. Hezbollah is like a cancer that has penetrated and crept into all Lebanese governmental institutions from the Army to the Airport to various primary ministries. The Hezbollah state was erected and given a free hand during the devastating Syrian occupation that lasted for almost 27 years and ended in 2005.
The Western world and in particular Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States, need to prioritize as primary the Hezbollah dilemma before this cancerous militia lands and spreads in their own sovereign territories. Proof of this infiltration can recently be seen in the report of Hezbollah operatives canvassing the Israeli embassy and various other unidentified locations in Canada! They need to understand that Hezbollah is a serious threat to their national security and interests not only in the Middle East, but in the whole world. Based on this terrifying reality, they need to act immediately.
These beacons of freedom and democracy need not fool themselves by hoping that the UN Resolutions or the Lebanese government will handle Hezbollah's weapons and tame its schemes that aim to topple the Lebanese democratic system. The Western world ought to immediately eradicate and finish Hezbollah's military capabilities by all means available to them.
Needless to say that the UN Resolutions will remain toothless, ineffective and useless unless the needed full scale military power backs fully their implementation.
Hezbollah is devouring Lebanon piece by piece and if the Western world does not come to the rescue of the Lebanese people, Lebanon will very soon be lost as an independent and free country and transformed into an Iran satellite state.Hezbollah is not a Lebanese party by any criteria, but rather a foreign army in Lebanon.
Its decision-making process, financing, ideology, training, supplies and weapons all come from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards headquarters and leadership. It has been well documented by several informed resources that Iran annually pays Hezbollah billions of dollars.
This group was founded in Lebanon by the Iranian mullahs in 1982 and it is worth mentioning that Hezbollah's main mission was and still is to export, advocate and spread the Khomeini religious ideology to all Middle Eastern countries. Hezbollah's Iranian mission has never been a secret and each and every Lebanese is reminded of this Iranian agenda daily with signs of Hezbollah’s divinity on every street.Hezbollah is purported to be the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world. The organization is trained, heavily armed and very well equipped. It is operationally supported by Syria and heavily funded by Iran.
In fact, Hezbollah is so dangerous in terms of its global reach and influence, that the US Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff recently warned that the Hezbollah organization “makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team.”
Needless to say that force and deterrence is the only language that Hezbollah and its masters in both Iran and Syria understand.And so the question remains; is the West ready to finally face with force and firmness that premier terrorist organization of the twenty first century?
Elias Bejjani
Chairman for the Canadian Lebanese Coordinating Council (LCCC)
Human Rights activist, journalist & political commentator.
Spokesman for the Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation
(CLHRF)E.Mail phoenicia@hotmail.com
LCCC Web Site http://www.10452lccc.com
CLHRF Website http://www.clhrf.com
Unfortunately, Lebanon is facing at the present time a crucial and fatal threat to the core and essence of its existence, its soul of coexistence and freedom.
The free world is apparently turning a blind eye to the threat to Lebanon, the land of the historic cedars, the home of the great Phoenicians, and the unique mosaic and multi-cultural country of the Middle East. This tragedy has been unfolding without a decisive deterrent stance from the free world. Lebanon, the land, entity and country, was cited more than seventy two times in the Holy Bible with reference being made to it of reverence, power, beauty, tranquility, peace and divinity. Lebanon, referred to as the ‘Land of Milk and Honey’, has a deeply rooted 7000 years of history, marked by freedom and tolerance.Lebanon’s ancestors, the Phoenicians, were the architects and craftsmen of the great Temple of King Solomon in Jerusalem. The ‘Temple of the Cedars of God’, was constructed from the valuable, fragrant wood of the Lebanon Mountains.
These ancestors worked in tandem with the ancient Jews and forged strong familial and cultural bonds. These seafarers explored the whole world in their ships, trading culture in the form of the alphabet, mythology, religion, knowledge in sciences and art and other exotic goods for riches of gold, silver, gems and many other items of value. In addition to the color purple, the great North Star, the art of navigation, Lebanon has left history with the great men of Hannibal the General, Astarte, Cadmus and Pythagoras.
More recently, Lebanon has given the world the revered Christian saints of Charbel, Rafqa, Hardini, Yacoub and many others. Lebanon's "Cedar Revolution" is being abandoned and its followers are being starved of independence, freedom, sovereignty and peace. These words which hold much power are being emptied to be mere rhetoric and hollow slogans in the face of the axis of evil namely Syria, Iran and Hezbollah.
Lebanon is being forced through terrorism, murder, and political intimidation into a subservient regime that is modeled on the backward and repressive system imposed on the Iranian people by the Shiite Mullahs, under what is known in Islam as, "Wilayat al-Faqih." [Guardianship of the Jurists]. Wilayat al-Faqih is a religious theology that is divisive amongst the Muslims themselves. It is a bizarre, autocratic concept created and tailored by the late Ayatollah Khomeini in the early seventies.
The basis of this system provides all the ruling powers and authorities with unlimited vetoes on every aspect of life and governance into the hands of one man, the Highest Shiite Imam, whose headquarters is located in the Iranian city of Qom.
Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard proxy in Lebanon, has been entrusted by the Iranian Mullahs to topple the Lebanese Free State and erect in its place an Iranian satellite state, in order to complete the sought after Shiite Crescent. This militant theocratic group fully controls 40% of the Lebanese territories and has in effect established a state within a state. They have been devouring the country piece by piece in a well thought out diabolical plan.
Last month's attempted armed coup was the straw that broke the camel's back that put the entire majority of Lebanese and with them the moderate Arab countries, Israel and the entire free world at the front step of Iran's dreadful and criminal scheme. So what did the standard bearers of democracy, the free world and the spineless Arab countries do? Sadly and pitifully, they threw to the media more empty slogans of support for Lebanon and weak condemnation, empty of substance.
They did not move a single finger while the leaders of the Cedar Revolution, the democratically elected government and pro-western politicians were rounded up and herded to the Arab Emirate of Qatar with Hezbollah's guns pointed to their heads. All the while, predominantly Sunni, west Beirut, remained occupied and under siege by Hezbollah, the Iranian-Syrian Army in Lebanon.One may wonder why Lebanon had rejected the Israeli call for direct negotiations last week. This call was declared officially twice in a bid to reach a peace agreement between the two neighboring countries?The answer is simple; the Lebanese government could make an independent and patriotic decision on the Israeli call because it is held captive and hostage to the Axis of Evil. Hezbollah is like a cancer that has penetrated and crept into all Lebanese governmental institutions from the Army to the Airport to various primary ministries. The Hezbollah state was erected and given a free hand during the devastating Syrian occupation that lasted for almost 27 years and ended in 2005.
The Western world and in particular Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States, need to prioritize as primary the Hezbollah dilemma before this cancerous militia lands and spreads in their own sovereign territories. Proof of this infiltration can recently be seen in the report of Hezbollah operatives canvassing the Israeli embassy and various other unidentified locations in Canada! They need to understand that Hezbollah is a serious threat to their national security and interests not only in the Middle East, but in the whole world. Based on this terrifying reality, they need to act immediately.
These beacons of freedom and democracy need not fool themselves by hoping that the UN Resolutions or the Lebanese government will handle Hezbollah's weapons and tame its schemes that aim to topple the Lebanese democratic system. The Western world ought to immediately eradicate and finish Hezbollah's military capabilities by all means available to them.
Needless to say that the UN Resolutions will remain toothless, ineffective and useless unless the needed full scale military power backs fully their implementation.
Hezbollah is devouring Lebanon piece by piece and if the Western world does not come to the rescue of the Lebanese people, Lebanon will very soon be lost as an independent and free country and transformed into an Iran satellite state.Hezbollah is not a Lebanese party by any criteria, but rather a foreign army in Lebanon.
Its decision-making process, financing, ideology, training, supplies and weapons all come from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards headquarters and leadership. It has been well documented by several informed resources that Iran annually pays Hezbollah billions of dollars.
This group was founded in Lebanon by the Iranian mullahs in 1982 and it is worth mentioning that Hezbollah's main mission was and still is to export, advocate and spread the Khomeini religious ideology to all Middle Eastern countries. Hezbollah's Iranian mission has never been a secret and each and every Lebanese is reminded of this Iranian agenda daily with signs of Hezbollah’s divinity on every street.Hezbollah is purported to be the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world. The organization is trained, heavily armed and very well equipped. It is operationally supported by Syria and heavily funded by Iran.
In fact, Hezbollah is so dangerous in terms of its global reach and influence, that the US Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff recently warned that the Hezbollah organization “makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team.”
Needless to say that force and deterrence is the only language that Hezbollah and its masters in both Iran and Syria understand.And so the question remains; is the West ready to finally face with force and firmness that premier terrorist organization of the twenty first century?
Elias Bejjani
Chairman for the Canadian Lebanese Coordinating Council (LCCC)
Human Rights activist, journalist & political commentator.
Spokesman for the Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation
(CLHRF)E.Mail phoenicia@hotmail.com
LCCC Web Site http://www.10452lccc.com
CLHRF Website http://www.clhrf.com
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