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April 29, 2012. Why the Lebanese army boarded a cargo of arms for the
Syrian people?
http://www.lebanese-transparent-democracy.org/en/12en/en-actu-120429.htm
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The social values of Lebanese citizens
are to defend human rights, anywhere, in any country. Tyrant Bashar
Assad is been massacring the Syrian people. It is legitimate to allow
victims to defend themselves against aggression. Self-defense is
recognized throughout the world, when the Syrian state which had the
task of protecting the Syrian people becomes an instrument in the hands
of assassins.
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Unfortunately, until today, the United
Nations Security Council remains an instrument to protect the interests
of the superpowers over the rights of citizens and peoples. The West had
acted in time to help the Libyan people; it was interested in the Libyan
oil. As during the Lebanese civil war that the West had left last more
than 35 years without effective action to stop it, we have serious
doubts about the current will of the West to prolong the Syrian civil
war only for Israel's strategic interest, which wants to weaken
neighboring states instead of seeking a fair deal for the Palestinian
people.
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In this climate, the Syrian people are
trapped. It wants his freedom and democracy, but it is not sufficiently
supported by the superpowers.
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If the Syrian regime will not yield, the
Syrian people are compelled to bear arms and defend themselves.
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The Lebanese army has seized a shipment
of arms destined to Syrian revolutionary, simply because the Lebanese
state does not represent the will of the good moral majority in Lebanon.
The state in Lebanon is dominated by feudal families and heads of mafias
that dominate armies and exploit the people to keep their financial
interests and powers. These Lebanese little dictators still believe that
the regime of Bashar Assad is still dominant. These climbers walk with
the strongest. Power in Beirut is an extension of the power of Bashar in
Damascus. Faced with this intolerable situation, the Lebanese people and
the weak politicians Group of March 14 have not the courage to continue
their revolution against the terror, because the absence of sufficient
support from Western democracies.
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For us, the state and the Lebanese people
should by all means support the Syrian revolution. We condemn the
current government's outrageous attitude.
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Lebanon says it
seized arms for Syria rebels
29 April 2012
AFP - Lebanese intelligence
officers were questioning the crew of a Sierra Leone-flagged vessel on Sunday
over allegations it was carrying arms to Syrian rebels as fighting raged between
the insurgents and regular troops.
Ten rebel fighters were
among 32 people killed on Saturday as bloodshed persisted more than two weeks
into a promised UN-backed truce, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The interception of the
ship by Lebanon -- currently governed by a largely pro-Syrian coalition -- gave
grist to Russian opposition to the tough Western and Arab line taken against its
longtime Middle East ally.
Lebanon said it had
intercepted three containers of heavy machineguns, artillery shells, rockets,
rocket launchers and other explosives destined for rebel forces on a ship
originating in Libya.
Syrian authorities have
repeatedly charged that weapons are being smuggled from Lebanon to rebels.
On Saturday, government
newspaper Tishrin wrote that UN chief Ban Ki-moon "avoids talking about abuses
by armed groups and focuses his blame solely on Syria, as usual. He encourages
these groups to continue to commit more crimes and terrorist acts."
The Russian foreign
ministry said "we are convinced that the terrorists operating in Syria need a
decisive rebuff, and that all domestic and outside players need to prevent any
support" from reaching the rebel forces.
Government troops killed at
least 10 rebel fighters in the Damascus region on Saturday, the Britain-based
Syrian Observatory said.
Twenty-two civilians also
died -- eight in flashpoint central Hama, two in nearby Homs, three in Idlib
near the Turkish border, four in Aleppo, four in Damascus province and one in
Al-Raqqah in the northeast.
Separately, the official
SANA news agency reported three soldiers and two "terrorists" killed in Syria's
second-biggest city Aleppo in clashes between troops and "armed terrorist
groups."
An activist said the
fighting began as "officers and soldiers of a military base near the
presidential palace... deserted with their weapons."
And in what was believed to
be the first case of Westerners going missing in the violence-swept country,
Budapest said two Hungarians had been kidnapped.
A putative truce, which
technically came into effect on April 12, has taken a daily battering, and the
European Union on Friday expressed extreme concern about the persistent
bloodshed.
The latest violence came as
veteran Norwegian peacekeeper Major General Robert Mood was en route for Syria
to take the helm of a fledgling monitoring mission after being appointed by UN
chief Ban Ki-moon, diplomats said.
Mood takes over a mission
already facing major obstacles before the full 300-member force approved by the
UN Security Council has even gathered.
He has himself highlighted
the "abyss of suspicion" between President Bashar al-Assad and the opposition,
in the face of an uprising that has killed more than 9,000 people since March
2011, according to UN figures.
Mood "is on his way to
Damascus and arrives there tomorrow," Sunday, international peace envoy Kofi
Annan's spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told AFP in Geneva.
Saturday's violence came
the day after a suicide car bombing in Damascus that the Observatory said killed
two and Syria's state media said killed 11.
The opposition blamed
government forces for the bombing and demanded an international inquiry.
"The Syrian National
Council condemns this criminal act which is aimed at further undermining the
security and stability of our country and at terrorizing our people," a
statement said.
After the Damascus blast,
SANA quoted the interior ministry as saying "it will not tolerate the armed
terrorist groups and vowed to strike with an iron fist those who are terrorizing
citizens."
