Sayyed Nasrallah: We’ve Destroyed Israel’s Dreams

17/09/2008 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said at an Iftar held by Islamic Resistance Support Association on Tuesday night that if the Americans and the Israelis are seeking to rebuild the Georgian army on Hezbollah’s model and added that even the US army command is studying forming army units Hezbollah style.

Sayyed Nasrallah began his speech by reminding that there are some five million people around the world starving to death. “We are talking about human beings regardless of their religions. These are women, children and elderly people…But little if no action is being taken to confront this. This means that the world is dead on the humanitarian level and has lost its values. On the one hand, millions of people are starving to death while on the other hand, there are big sums of money, gold and silver and only a group of wealthy people.
There is one Arab country, which I will not name, has 3 trillion dollars in the United States banks. Of course this figure is 16 months old, long before the rise oil prices. What are they doing with this money? Look at the people in Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere. How can they live with these sums of money when a very small portion of it can solve many economic and social problems in this region and the world?”, his eminence said.

Sayyed Nasrallah chose this introduction to illustrate the role of the resistance “that is proud of your support.” “The resistance, its practice and its beginning were a normal result of a high sense of responsibility and sublime human-centered sentiment. There does not exist a resistance that survives for 26 years, just because its members get their pay-check every month - this is a resistance that faces liquidation and tough confrontation everyday – but because they feel responsible for defending their country,” he added.

The Hezbollah chief stressed the state must protect its citizens.
“They wanted us to live under the slogan: The strength of Lebanon lies in its weakness!’ What is this strength? It is one that cannot protect anyone in Lebanon. Our state institutions should be strong to protect the country and the people. Unfortunately, at some stages, the state was not only weak; it lacked the will to confront and sometimes colluded with the enemy in the early 1980’s – and I don’t wish to talk about other stages. Those young men who feel their country is in peril, leave their homes, families, schools, universities to live in mountains and valleys. They don’t lack a mind or a personality…They have a great sense of responsibility and humanistic values that require them to be in this position; they can’t stand humiliation and they refuse that their country be usurped by the Israeli enemy,” Sayyed Nasrallah underlined.

Sayyed Nasrallah explained there were three different models of Israel. "The first Israel is the vast one stretching from the Nile and to the Euphrates. The second is the mighty Israel, which does not include Lebanon and Jordan but settles for historic Palestine, but it is a mighty country that forces its decisions on the region. And there is Mediocre Israel,' within still unclear and unknown borders.”

Just days after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said “those clinging to the notion of Greater Israel are deluding themselves,” Sayyed Nasrallah lauded Hezbollah’s role in 'destroying that dream'

According to Yediot Aharonot, “Olmert received an unusual vote of confidence on Tuesday evening from Hezbollah Secretary-General (Sayyed) Hassan Nasrallah as the latter reveled in Olmert's comments from earlier this week in which he said the idea of Greater Israel was no longer relevant.”

"If the mighty Israeli army cannot stay in a security zone in Lebanon, how can it occupy and control a vast region between the Nile and the Euphrates Rivers. The Lebanese resistance pounded the last nail in the coffin of 'Greater Israel' after the defeat it (Israel) suffered in 2000," his eminence declared. He explained that the project of ‘mighty Israel’ within Palestine’s borders vanished when the second Intifada broke out and the resistance developed. “The Israelis were forced to withdraw from Gaza and build separation walls. This means that lands outside these walls are negotiable and can be relinquished.
The mighty Israel fell in the war of 2006, and it has now become as the Arabs once were – making speeches and threats in vain. Today we face 'Mediocre Israel' and its foremost concern is some resistance fighters in Lebanon and Palestine. This Israel acknowledges that these resistance movements create a balance with it…Therefore, we have reached a very advanced and historical stage in this (Arab-Israeli) conflict,” Sayyed Nasrallah said.


The Hezbollah chief continued that “Olmert had told his cabinet that regional balance is disturbed and that the only way to stop this imbalance is by talking to the Palestinians and the Syrians.” “Therefore, Olmert did not suggest a military step to stop this imbalance in the region. Olmert also told his ministers that time is not on our (Israel) side and we will regret everyday that passes. I’m not inventing this; this is what Olmert told his ministers. The question is why did Olmert say this during a cabinet meeting? Is it because the world has become multi-polar? No, because we have had a multi-polar before and Israel was growing stronger under it. Is it because Arabs were weak and have strong? On the contrary, unfortunately Arabs are the most prominent absentees from regional and international developments. There is nothing new on the Arab official level that scares Olmert. The main development that has been taking place since 2000 is the achievements and victories of resistance movements in the region.”

Sayyed Nasrallah stressed Israel has failed to harm the resistance after 25 years of security work. “I can tell you that will never harm the resistance. The resistance would not surrender to assassinations, but on the contrary would be strengthened by them to defend the land and stand up to Israel. The resistance surpassed political leaders and authorities because it is a real popular state capable of producing leaders. This means that Israel’s option (to assassinate leaders) has failed. As to the military option, they have tried their utmost in 2006 and they failed. What’s next? Isolating the resistance. But they failed in this as well. They sought to drag the resistance to internal fighting under many slogans. But we have surpassed this even on the seventh of May. The Lebanese view the events of May in different ways…but what really happened then saved Lebanon, its people and its army from the worst seditious conspiracy against our country.”

In this context, Sayyed Nasrallah mentioned an “important and specialized Israeli website that quoted an American military source as saying that that the Georgian army should be rebuilt on Hezbollah’s model, because Hezbollah had demonstrated how a small army can win against huge military forces, which means that the American are convinced of Hezbollah’s powers.”

Sayyed Nasrallah insisted that “the military example that the Resistance presented is a Lebanese creation.. I tell military leaders that the Resistance presented a Lebanese experience because it was made in Lebanon. Those who adhere to sovereignty should be biased to everything that is made in Lebanon including the experience of the resistance.”

The Hezbollah Secretary General welcomed Lebanon’s national dialogue and regretted his absence for security reasons. “The Israelis are serious about their threats. They lie in wait for us but at the same time they are anxious. They either call in Israeli businessmen from around the world, ban their ministers from traveling or they evacuate tourists from certain places as they did yesterday in Sinai. Those who kill hajj Imad Moghniyeh should be worried.”

Sayyed Nasrallah said Hezbollah respected “every person present in the dialogue.” However, he added that “we call for and we insist on increasing the number of participants in the dialogue.”
“We do not want to obstruct it, but we want to make it successful,” he said. The S.G. added that the July War “changed a lot on the internal, regional and international levels. Some parties totally supported the Resistance during the war, and we are loyal to them, that’s why we insist to including them over the dialogue…when everyone is present, we will be able to discuss all controversial issues seriously and positively. Ethics and national values demand that we call for those who supported the Resistance to be present,” he stressed.

His eminence went on to praise the ‘responsible and accurate’ speech of President Michel Suleiman that expressed unity and the will to unify to address sensitive and decisive issued in Lebanon.
Nasrallah hailed Suleiman's speech during the opening session of the dialogue. President Suleiman had called for the adoption of a defense strategy based on our armed forces and benefiting from the resistance capabilities.

Sayyed Nasrallah called on the media not to publish misleading information to spare the people further incitement.
“If we agree to tone down political speeches, we will end the incitements and the attempts to create sedition,” he said.

His eminence also discussed last Wednesday’s assassination of Democratic Party official martyr Saleh Aridi. “The assassination was intended to create conflict between the Resistance and other parties because some have no interest in the agreement between the PSP and Hezbollah that has been mediated by Youth and Sports Minister Talal Arslan.”

Sayyed Nasrallah stressed putting a stop to sedition helps in solving problems, strengthen reconciliations and continue to work toward reconciliation in Beirut and elsewhere. “This does not mean a change of alliances. What we want from reconciliation is not to shoot at each other, not to conspire against each other, not to kill each other and not to tense up the atmosphere. We will always be rules by political and democratic means. Reconciliation cannot be aimed to isolate other groups,” his eminence added.
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HOW HEZBOLLAH DEFEATED ISRAEL
PART 1: The Intelligence War
PART 2: The Ground War
PART 3: The Political War

By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry

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The Message: If You Can Exercise, So Can We
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Hezbollah’s victory has transformed the Middle East
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We Choose How, When, Where to Punish Murderers
Sayyed Nasralla’s Speech Attracts Israeli Media
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Paper tiger Israel on verge of collapse



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The Palestinians of Sabra-Shatila: 26 years after the Ma

The Palestinians of Sabra-Shatila: 26 years after the Massacre - Part One
Franklin Lamb

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/09/16/p28708#more28708
"Our Resistance continues, the Sacred Cause of all people of good will endures, and the Dream of our full Return shall never die!" - 14 year old Fairouz Husseini, Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut, Lebanon

On September 16, 2008, at precisely 10:30 am, Fairouz Husseini and a gathering of survivors, relatives and friends of the Sabra-Shatila massacre victims, some foreign delegations, students, NGO representatives, a few government officials, dignitaries, and members of the Camp community will gather outside the Kuwaiti Embassy roundabout, on the edge of Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon.

Their assembly point will be less than 100 yards from where on September 16, 1982, Ariel Sharon, Gen. Raphael Eitan, Gen. Amos Yalon and their henchmen, Lebanese Phalange Intelligence operatives Elie Hobeika and Fadi Frem, had encouraged, organized, monitored, supplied, assisted directed and finally, when the World learned of the carnage, after 43 hours of carnage, initially denied knowing anything about it.

Hobeika, who former US Ambassador Robert Dillon, at his 8th floor desk at the Beirut Embassy when it was bombed on April 18, 1983, refers to as "a pathological killer" was providing a running commentary to his friends at his East Beirut Phalange Headquarters from atop the the Kuwaiti Embassy. His Israeli sponsors were also present during one of the most barbaric massacres in history, gawking down into the Camp with binoculars and also perched atop the seven storied former Kuwaiti Embassy, as they all monitored the killing, between sunset on Thursday 16 through midday on Saturday the 18th.

"I was in Austria at the time. I first heard about it as you did from the news bulletins", Hobeika claimed for years during Media interviews, until he contemplated turning 'States evidence' against Sharon in the Belgium case filed on June 18, 200l. Belgium scrapped the case after US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, told Belgium:

"It's your goddamned Sharon Trial or NATO Headquarters, you choose!"

Once the word was out in Beirut bout that Hobeika was considering turning on Sharon, he was assassinated en route to his lawyers office on January 24, 2002, by a method very similar to that used against Hezbollah military commander Hajj Radwan (Imad Mughienh) last February (Interestingly, Forensic evidence of the Mughneih assassination, including his shoes, signature green cap, clothes and personal affects found in his pockets when he was killed, and now on display by Hezbollah in Nabetiyeh, near Sidon, Lebanon, establish that the bomb used to kill him was filled with unique BB sized pellets that sprayed throughout his body. The same with Hobeika.)

As the mid September 1982 chopping of camp residents with axes, disemboweling with knives, shootings with Israeli supplied silencers, hangings, burnings, live burials, and rapes entered its second day, the Beirut media started to hear 'rumors'. Among the first heard from frantic women was that the Israeli forces were sealing the camps. It was learned three days later that this action was coordinated with the Phalange militia and the Israeli created army in South Lebanon named the "South Lebanon Army" (SLA), under the Command of Saad Haddad, and kept hundreds of women and children from fleeing for their lives. By the second morning (Saturday September 18), following several media and diplomatic inquiries, panic seized the Israeli command post and the organizers tried to cover up their project and flee the area.

The World was horrified at the spreading images and even US Envoy Richard Draper, who like many American officials in the current period of history grovel to the Israel lobby, until after leaving office when he became more 'nuanced', blamed Israel. "You sons of bitches! You were in control and you gave us your word" Draper roared to Sharon on Sunday September 19, 1982 according to Israeli military affairs writers, Ze'ef Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari.

It was journalist David Lamb who first wrote about the 'walls of death':

"Entire families were slain. Groups consisting of 10-20 people were lined up against wall and sprayed with bullets. Mothers died while clutching their babies. All men appeared to be shot in the back. Five youths of fighting age were tied to a pickup truck and dragged through the street before being shot" (LA Times, Sept. 20, 1982).

"False accusations like these" Israeli PM Menachem Begin, lectured reporters called into his office, "constitute a blood libel against every Jew, everywhere", as he tried to dampen the international ground swell of accusations. Begin then added, "Goyim kill Goyim and they want to hang the Jews. We are the real victims".

Fairouz, who did not know what either 'blood libel' or 'Goyim' meant, until this observer explained, will join the others assembled, on the short Memorial Walk to Martyr's Square off Rue Sabra inside the 1982 killing field to pay her respects to the perished and receive a student laptop in a US citizen initiated project to raise the level of education in Palestinian classrooms.

According to one of the American organizers of the Sabra-Shatila Laptop Initiative which plans to distribute more than 200,000 laptops in Lebanon's Palestinian Camps, to be used in a special Internet based teaching paradigm developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

"While it is true that this time the American Embassy rejected our request to sponsor even one laptop, citing budget shortfalls, hundreds will be distributed during the launching event at Sabra-Shatila on September 16th. Perhaps American taxpayers will encourage their government to assist later. Imagine the enormous educational benefit to disadvantaged Lebanese and Palestinian children here if the US government provided just one student laptop to Lebanon in 2008 for every cluster bomb dropped 2006".

Fairouz, a completely sweet and charming child, whose grandparents were forced from their homes and into Refugee Camps in Lebanon in April of 1948, will join international delegates including nearly 50 from Italy alone, and American nurses who were witnesses to the barbarity and who worked in Camp hospitals at the time, and help release more than 1000 helium filled balloons, each meant to represent one person who was murdered or who disappeared during the carnage.

"I really hope the wind blows all the balloons into Palestine so maybe their souls can rest in Peace in their real homeland", Fairouz says, while explaining how just three months ago, when new 30 inch diameter concrete sewage lines were laid six feet deep along Rue Sabra, the 'main street' ( or swamp, depending on the weather) of Shatila Camp, the workers uncovered yet more decomposed bodies and skeletons that no one but the killers, who nearly 20 years ago were given amnesty, knew were there.

" We think there are very likely still bodies all over this section of the camp", Ahmad, the sewer project crew chief explains, as he gestures toward the entrance to the camp diagonal from AKKA hospital. "The killers were directed first into this area from across Kuwaiti Embassy road, the Bir Hasan neighborhood, and most of the first hours of killing took place in this area and then they fanned out from the main road here and from alleys along the Horst Tabet area, toward the East, West and North in the direction of Gaza Hospital and Shatila Mosque".

Since being forced from their homes in Palestine starting in 1947-48, more than 120,000 Palestinians arrived in Lebanon and as of 1951, 106,800 had registered with the newly created International Institution, the UN Relief and Words Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Many Palestinians did not register with UNWRA because they supposed their emigration to be temporary or, being a proud people; they were too embarrassed to be seen accepting welfare.

Palestinians forced into Lebanon: 1948-1969

Following initial post-Nakba humanitarian aid and solidarity extended by the Lebanese people, the Refugees soon became thought of as a burden, and at 94% Sunni, a threat to Lebanon's delicately balanced National Pact. Starting in 1951, severe security restrictions were imposed to keep the Palestinians inside the camps including not being able to build housing, work or settle into new areas.

A pointed finger and the taunting words, "Those are refugees!" were images burned into the memories of the new arrivals and they remain, among many, to this day. Lebanese hatred toward the Palestinians increased and had it not been for the Gulf states during the 1950's and 1960's absorbing into their economies and workforce thousands of Palestinians who remitted cash to the Camps, many of the Palestinian families in Lebanon may not have survived.

Due to increased Israeli shelling and internal pressure 4 of the original 16 camps were destroyed including Nabatiyeh, Jisr al-basha, and Tel al Za'tar, with Dbayyeh Camp being partially destroyed. Today, some Palestinians inside Shatila explain that their families moved from Nabatiyeh to Tal al Za'tar to Shatila or Damour and finally from Damour to Shatila.

Pressure on the Refugees increased monthly with detentions without trial, and preventing movements between camps, even for family weddings or funerals, was becoming the norm in this period. Torture, collective punishments, random beatings on spurious grounds by the notorious Deuxieme Bureau, increased.

From Welcoming to wanting them out

The Palestinian Refugee File was transferred from humanitarian agencies to the Ministry of the Interior on March 30, 1959 and in conjunction with Presidential decree, No. 927, on the same date, the Lebanese government targeted Palestinians with military cadres who brutally enforced the sprit and the letter of the scheme which was aimed at surveillance, control of refugees' movements, political association, and complete neglect of the Refugees socio-economic needs.

One Shatila Massacre survivor summarized for this observer the period of the 1950's and 1960's:

"The Deuxieme Bureau came more than once and arrested my father, beat him in front of our eyes and took him away. To say the truth, we Palestinian Refugees suffered a lot…until the Revolution came".

1970-1982 Lebanon: 'A garden without a fence for Palestinian refugees'

The second period, from 1970-1982 saw the rise of Palestinian resistance organizations and the Cairo Agreement which gave the Palestinians some dignity until the latter Treaty was abrogated by the Lebanese Parliament in 1989.

The growth of the Palestine Liberation Organization following Black September in 1970 provided a relative economic boon and increased security for the Refugees in Lebanon. Given the power of the PLO, the social, health, education, housing (for the first time Refugees could 'legally' build more than one level to their homes), and the employment situation increased dramatically.

Camp boom towns

A general prosperity began in Shatila and the other camps which included asphalting of Rue Sabra, sewer lines added in 1975 and a doubling the number of schools. Norway and Denmark, as well as other countries and Palestinian popular committees such as women's and labor unions, encouraged the growth of cottage industries and 'solidarity' projects.

Also alleviating pressure were some wealthy 'Gulf Palestinians' who invested in the Camps and Palestinians working abroad who remitted cash to their families. With the PLO covering their backs, Palestinians were able to realize many more civil rights. 1970-1982 was arguably the 'best' period for many Refugees during their 60 years in Lebanon.

1982-2008 Still controversial 26 years later, the fateful PLO decision to depart Lebanon in late August 1982

Israel's occupation of nearly half of Lebanon, some 801 villages, the siege of Beirut, the departure of the PLO fighters and the collapse of PLO funded institutions left the Palestinians completely unprotected and marked the beginning of their most precipitous decline since their arrival in Lebanon.

This observer witnessed on August 8, 1982 one intense exchange on the subject of whether the PLO should leave, between the late Janet Lee Stevens, an American journalist, researcher, and Burj al Barjneh Camp volunteer, and Yassir Arafat (Abu Ammar). The confrontation took place in one of Arafat's bunkers in the Fakahani District near Arab University. It was around 8:30 am on what later became known as Black Thursday, that Janet insisted on going to see 'the old man' about something that had been bothering her for days.

As Makmoud Labidi, in 1982 the Press Relations Director for the PLO,( Makmoud, later broke with Arafat partly over the departure which he strongly opposed and 15 years later he and Arafat finally reconciled) ushered us down three rubble strewn floors below street level, no one knew that the unusually heavy shelling that morning would turn into 14 hours of Israeli frenzy bombing and shelling becoming known as 'Black Thursday' and killing 250 and quite nearly Janet herself. Following the meeting, Janet walked thru the bombing south to 'her people' in 'the Burj' while her companion, sought shelter. "You will just slow me down, Janet said, "Meet me at AUB at 3 o'clock! ",she ordered."

Janet had slept little the night before, was not happy and got directly to the point with the PLO leader. She demanded to know the truth about the rumors that the PLO was going to 'abandon the camp residents to the Israelis and cut and run'.

Before Arafat recovered from his shock of Janet's strong language, and wrapped Janet in his arms, she intoned the reasons leaving Beirut would be a huge mistake. "You must launch a 'Stalingrad defense'; the international public will support it, Sharon is just using psychological warfare with Israeli threats to burn Beirut, yes the people have suffered in West Beirut, but we can take more, and the Soviets will not allow this to continue and will intervene, and you cannot believe the Reagan Administration Abu Ammar! Women and children are terrified of what might happen if their husbands and brothers leave them alone!! And you know the fayadeen don't want to leave. You know that! They are not afraid of the Israelis and they want to fight them and drive them away from Beirut!"

Tears flowed down Janet's face and welled up in Arafat's eyes as well as Labadi's, this observers and those of Arafat's bodyguards including, quite possibly, Imad Mughneyeh. Imad was one of Arafat's most trusted and skilled members of Force 17, who had joined Fateh eight years earlier at age 16 and was to leave Fatah the following year switching to Lebanon's nascent Islamic Resistance.

Some have argued that had the PLO not left Beirut, some of their best people would not have left the PLO. Would Hezbollah have even been organized had it not been for the vacuum created by Arafat's decision to depart?

As the very distraught Janet Stevens beat Arafat's shoulder with her clinched fist, in front of his wide-eyed Kalashnikov toting security and cried, Abu Ammar patted her long brown hair and tried to console her: "Miss Janet, please Miss Janet" the fatherly military commander softly whispered. "Our Lebanese hosts have sacrificed enough for us. We are no longer welcomed here and we must leave."

Regrets?

Arafat knew better, he later admitted to this observer, than to tell Janet Stevens that the Camp residents would be protected by American guarantees, a written copy of which he carried in his shirt pocket and an argument he used on others to reassure the Popular Committees in the Camps and well as some of his colleagues. "Janet would have beaten me more", Arafat later admitted, as he smiled, "but perhaps she was right".

Another doubter of the wisdom of the catastrophic evacuation that left Shatila and the other Camps unprotected, was the PLO's number two, Khalil al- Wazir, (Abu Jihad), Arafat's most trusted Deputy.

The model of discretion, Abu Jihad remained tight lipped before the International media during the period under review but he spoke frankly and with sadness with fighters who came to ask, within hours of sailing, what he thought they should do, for many were undecided. Janet, like many, urged them to stay. Abu Jihad told them:

"I can't tell anyone to stay or leave…Our people are here, our children, in Shatila, in our camps, our hospitals and our schools; but I say to the one who stays that the Lebanese state isn't about to come and build him a house and offer him a salary. The state may imprison him, just like all the Arab regimes, we have to face that fact."

Then Abu Jihad became angry, an emotion he did not often exhibit, "For myself, I don't want to leave you alone, I'd like to stay with you, but this is what's happened, and those are our circumstances" (Sabra Shatila 1982, Bayan Al Hout, Pluto Press 2004).

The Camp residents' protection gone, the Massacre followed within days and the steep slope into abject poverty and despair for today's Palestinians resulted.

Franklin Lamb can be reached at fplamb@gmail.com. The SabraShatila website is www.sabrashatila.org. He is finishing a book on Hezbollah.

Part II - 26 years after the Sabra-Shatila massacre and the founding of Hezbollah: Can the Party of God deliver the Palestinians from exile?

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September 16, 2008 Martyr's Square, Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut. Franklin P. Lamb, PhD Director, Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace, Wash. DC-Beirut Senior Fellow, The Institute for Middle East Policy Dialogue, USA. He can be contacted directly at: fplamb@gmail.com. Franklin Lamb's book "The Price We Pay: A Quarter Century of Israel's use of American Weapons against Lebanon (1978-2006)" is available at: Amazon.com.uk, Lebanese Bookstores, and in the USA at www.LebaneseBooks.com (soon also in Arabic) and currently enjoys Free Standard Shipping. "Hezbollah: A Brief Guide for Beginners" Expected Soon in Arabic and English.

Lucia: To "baathist -saddamite pundit".

Tony, I told you some time ago that this guy would ruin your site. There is one person, only one, behind all these pro-saddamite pro-baath iranian-phobic nicks. This person should visit a medic, instead of jumping from blog to blog trying to ruin all those which don't toe to his baath-saddamite line. This person, "the nephew", likes to hide behind women and western's nicks too. Don't be surprised if his posts appear under more than one IP (Of course, he'll deny it). That's an easy trick for someone who is trying, as the zionist agent he is, to deceive people. Needless to say, all this is done from his US-taxpayers-money payed for safe-haven in Texas... He is a traitor to his country.

He obliges his paymasters, by praising the america that destroyed his country; even says he enjoys of freedom of speechthere. He he. An iraqi? Sure! ... provided that he smears Iran, HAMAS, Hizbullah, Nasrallah and chants the "secularist wonders of zionstan". He smeared each and everyone he desagreed with, be it journalist, writer or analyst informing -often first hand- on the situation in Iraq. Lately he's engaged in deriding Islam too, offending the sensibility of the Muslim visitors of your site. Iraq occupied by Iran. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I wish were it true. The iraqi people would be much better off than they are.

This sums up his task in the net, either in blogs or in his own website (under one of his multiple nicks).

He *highly contributed to ruin* the Angry Arab's forum section, forcing As'ad to close it, which was a loss because there were some interesting opinions and/or links. You are next. I long ago warned you, and regret to remember this. (Maybe he ruined more I'm anaware of, since I don't visit many blogs)

Well Tony, I wish you good luck. I feel saddened for you, because it takes many hours to have a great blog like yours updated daily; just for some (fill in the adjective of your choice) to come undermine it, forcing people to quit, out of the nausea he causes.

Maybe there is no solution for what he is doing. I mean, when a zionist agent wants to f__k something, consider it a done deed. Unless you first get rid of him, that is. But I understand that monitoring the comments section is time consuming, a time that is better used if dedicated for other things.

See you. Regards.

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Lucia 09.14.08 - 8:42 pm #

Dear Lucia

Dear Lucia

Please Join. I need you help to keep this blog up and make it better.
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