THUGS WITH A MISSION AND A LICENSE

By Daniel Mabsout,

Lebanon thinks that Lebanon can cast himself aside and can keep minding his own business as if nothing happened . This was the kind of philosophy that prevailed here . Lebanon will not be involved in anything happening in Syria and will act as if what happened in Syria is alien to Lebanon and concerns Syria alone, as if Lebanon and Syria were two different things while you will not know one from the other in most situations . And you find people who praise this attitude and think that this is feasible , that Lebanon can just sit and watch . While this attitude is not altogether wrong, it could be interpreted on the ground in a positive or negative way . While the positive attitude would have been to remain watchful and keep real neutrality by not allowing Lebanon to provide a ground for conspiracies and a platform for launching attacks against Syria , what we saw being applied on the ground – instead- was only negative.

Unfortunately the policy of non involvement that became so much famous meant that Lebanon will let in thugs coming from the four quarters of the world - some of them convicts or ex convicts- who were released from Gulf and Arab prisons on condition to engage in the war against Syria , and will allow weapons of all kinds- even heavy missiles- to be smuggled into Syria and will turn Lebanon into a real back stage where the thugs of the opposition will get ready for their next performance.

What was praised by the western officials who visited Lebanon- as a policy of neutrality and non involvement- was in fact turning a blind eye to all the activity going on in the north and in the Bekaa in terms of recruiting and arming and training thugs and smuggling them across borders, and inciting to sectarian hatred and rallying and instigating fitna in Tripoli and elsewhere, and assaulting other sects, and carrying heavy weaponry across the border , in addition to turning Lebanon into a buffer zone where armed thugs will circulate freely, and carry on their fishy business openly, and plot and conspire their next strike, and coordinate with their sponsors inside and outside, or contact local NGOs - working for the armed opposition - that will deliver to them their mission. After this is done the hospitals of Lebanon -on the doorsteps of which many a Lebanese-died because he could not afford the cost of admission- will open their arms to welcome the killers of women and children who will be admitted to receive the adequate treatment , and wait for their injuries to heal and their body to recover before going back to their evil practices on the Syrian soil .

This is what the policy of neutrality turned out to be to the point that some regions in Tripoli have become “Imaras” or Thugs’ land or Qa’ida land where no one dares. This not to speak of the Roumiye prison which is the major prison in Lebanon that has become Qa’ida land by excellence, where thugs rule and favor who ever they favor and kill whoever they want to kill , where convicts are hired and instructed and then smuggled out with the help of affiliated security people who will lead them out through special corridors known only to them , or provide them with the necessary tools and equipment to evade and head to the next crossing point to Syria.

This is the Lebanese neutrality so much praised inside and outside , it is just a matter of laissez faire to please the foreign policies at the expense of Lebanon’s sovereignty and integrity and of Syria’s safety and security ; as if there could be any security for Lebanon regardless of Syria or the opposite . No doubt Syria deserved a better treatment than turning the north and the Bekaa and the bordering regions into thugs land and FSA out of control zones . But our politicians want to be in the good favors of the foreign establishment who only wants Lebanon to remain peaceful and not involved not because they wish to spare him the fate of Syria of course , but because they want to use him as a haven for FSA, as a recreation and healing place and a platform for carrying on the dirty business of their dirty war on the Syrian people. 

  Yesterday Lebanon paid the price of such policy with two Lebanese army people – an officer and a soldier- killed by the thugs of the FSA at ‘Irsal , Bekaa . 
One unity of the army had ventured in thugs land in the Bekaa , to arrest a Lebanese criminal accused of abduct and kidnap who happens also to be a thug on leave of the Free army . Once the criminal arrested , the army was fired at by the thugs and the officer and the soldier killed as well as the arrested criminal . The thugs said that they thought that it was the Syrian army who was after them which is nonsense because the Lebanese army came with matriculations and flags and no one could mistake them for anything else , but the thugs acted as thugs and they will kill anyone, be it Lebanese or Syrian or man or woman , all are their enemies because –simply they are enemies to their own selves and own country and own people and own cause.

It is the policy of the Lebanese government that is responsible for this chaotic situation and for exposing the Lebanese soldiers and allowing armed thugs to be active on Lebanese soil . The Lebanese officials seek by this to equate between the armed Resistance of Hizbullah and the armed thugs affiliated to the FSA establishing thus a sectarian balance between Sunnis and Shi’as by allowing both to act even if for different purposes and reasons . The Lebanese officials hope by this to curb the drive of the victorious Resistance and please their foreign masters the allies of Israel.

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