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Written by Tayyar
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 |
Continuous Update:
23:54 The Red Cross is still moving corpses & wounded people near Shoueifat municipality & info of death toll of more than 5 people & wounding more than 13
23:51 Jumblatt to NTV: The cease fire is the most important thing. When the situation calms down, we will talk politics. At the end we will get back to the dialogue
23:36 USS COLE barge crossing the Suez Canal direction Lebanese territorial waters
23:11 LBC: Violent clash between a group of Hezbollah & members of the Socialist Party in Marsti area in Shuf
23:10 Opposition supporters debar infiltration attempt carried out by pro-government militias in both Niha & Barouk areas
23:10 NTV: Violent clashes in Barouk mountain area in Shouf |
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Written by Tayyar
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 |
Continuous Update:
22:45 OTV: US is preparing to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon
22:43 OTV: US considers the opposition move pure political & not a coup
22:26 OTV: Maguy Farah reveals Hezbollah wanted to keep the eastern regions out of the last confrontations. Wahhab says: if the Lebanese Forces make a move in the Christian regions, the army will give them a good lesson
22:18 OTV: Heavy shootings in Saadnayel
22:18 Wahhab reveals Hezbollah captured 4 militants from Socialist militia in the 888 Hill battles yesterday but did not execute them
22:14 Wahhab says: Al Mustaqbal executed 11 persons from the supporters on the National party whereas the opposition didn’t execute any of hundreds of the militants they arrested
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Written by Justin Raimondo
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
No one wants another war – so why does it seem inevitable?
The first shots of what appears to be a renewed Lebanese civil war rang out three days ago as the U.S.-backed government cracked down on Hezbollah, the main opposition party, with a ban on the group's private telecommunications network and the attempted ouster of an alleged sympathizer, Brig. Gen. Wafiq Shuqeir, as overseer of the Beirut airport. |
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Written by Gibran Khalil Gibran
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
Pity the nation:
"My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
"Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress.
"Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.
"Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block.
"Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.
"Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again.
"Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation."
Gibran Khalil Gibran
The Garden of The Prophet
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Written by The New York Times
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
Heavily armed Hezbollah fighters seized control of large parts of western Beirut on Friday, patrolling the deserted streets in a raw show of force that underscored the Shiite militia’s refusal to back down in its latest confrontation with the American-backed government. |
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Written by Tayyar
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
Continuous Update:
22:12 Al Manar: The army goes on patrols on Aley-Sofar highway
22:10 NTV: The Socialist Party evacuates the 888 hill located between Kayfoun & Souk El Gharb to the army
22:09 Al Manar: Socialist partisans evacuate their main office in Kfarhim in compliance with Jumblatt’s orders
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Written by AFP
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
Hezbollah-led opposition fighters seized control of pro-government strongholds in Beirut on Friday as gunbattles rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day, edging the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war.
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