Dear Readers and Fellow-Apes; 2008 was a Murky and Hapless Year! Let us hope that 2009 does not turn out to be even More Murky and Hapless!
I intentionally did not wish you a Merry Christmas, because Christmas is another story for another Posting at another time; and I do not wish you a Happy New Year, since I believe that ONLY FOOLS ARE, OR CAN BE, HAPPY ALL YEAR ROUND. I do, however, wish all of you A GOOD YEAR! With a little Good in one's life, one can be a little happy, which is all one can ask for in one's short sweet dream one calls a life-time. BY GOD AND SATAN!
A Jack of many trades and master of all; I am honest to the core and I hate lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and stoic compliance; and I despise – and actually pity – Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack
I expose and reveal the lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and blind, deaf, and stoic compliance, and Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack; I tell or write the truth; and I say what I mean and mean what I sayI fear nothing; least of all, death
If I must fear anything at all in life, then let me fear what I think and know of myself; because, in the end, one’s knowledge and opinion of oneself is what counts most. All the world may think and believe one is such and such, but one knows one is such and such. Also, I like to look in the mirror and like what I see and know about me.
I invite comments, remarks, criticisms, and even insults – so long as they are straight to the point, in order for me to correct or adjust myself accordingly. What I do not welcome and won’t accept or tolerate is HORSE-SHIT!
Dear readers and felow-Apes; with every page, every report or article, every paragraph, every sentence, every word, and every letter; I thank you for taking the trouble and the time to read My Not-So-Humble Comments.
SAMIR KUNTAR Part III – A fool or a Tool? Or a highly costly commodity that will turn out to be, or create, a highly costly commotion in Lebanon for the Lebanese
Samir Kuntar was bought by Hassan Nesrallah at the high cost of the deaths of 1,200 innocent Lebanese, the loss of the summer of 2006 – in terms of tourism and trade, jobs and incomes, and a normal summer holidays for all, locals and visitors, and especially children – the almost total destruction of the country, the displacement and dispersion of hundreds of thousands – IDP; all of whom became prisoners – and the scattering of hundreds of thousands to the four winds. And all for what; just and only to secure the release and return of 5 prisoners from Israeli prisons: 4 terrorists and mercenaries, plus one convicted callous and brutal murderer and mercenary, and 200 carcasses of only-God-and-Satan-know what shitty scumbag schmucks and dregs of what nationalities – 114 of which were carted off to Syria on flat-bed trucks? I’ve seen, heard, and read some very low and cheap lies, ruses, hoaxes, and shit-propaganda in my life, but that; that was scraped off the bottom of the shit-bin! BY GOD!
Something smells to high Horse-shit and it isn’t rotten eggs or rotten carcasses!
Since I saw Samir Kuntar on TV, and watched his face and demeanor and manner, and since nothing escapes Daniel in The Lion’s Den, here are some questions for you – dear readers and fellow-Apes – to ponder over well:
Did Hassan Nesrallah – or Hezballah – start the July 2006 Fiasco, Folly, and Madness all on their own, or were they acting upon orders from Iran via Syria?
Is Samir Kuntar a Fumbling Farting Fool who was brought back and displayed to, and paraded before, the Lebanese people – the Shiites and especially the Druze – only in order to enhance Hassan Nesrallah’s image and status and to strengthen Hezballah and Amal and their un-Godly, un-Lebanese, and un-Patriotic Alliances; or a Highly Sharpened and Polished Tool that will one day be used against Lebanon and the Lebanese? Let us not forget that Samir Kuntar studied and graduated in Social and Political Science in an Israeli Prison – I wonder what the hundreds of innocent Lebanese in Syrian prisons have graduated in, other than being able to bear up under the most horrific and inhuman tortures, mutilations, and humiliations anyone could possibly imagine!
Or is Samir Kuntar a Fool who is going to make Fools of Hassan Nesrallah and Nabih Berri (and I’m Mad Michael Aouu) who took him for a Fool and thought they were playing him for a Fool?
Is Samir Kuntar going to replace Walid Jumblatt as the next Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party; or is he going to form another and separate PSP under another name or title?
Is Samir Kuntar going to be a threat to Hassan Nesrallah and a large sharp thorn in Hassan Nesrallah’s side; and is he going to end up like Imad Mughniyeh; or is he going to be smarter and sharper than Imad Mughniyeh and do away with or get rid of Hassan Nesrallah – one way or the other – and replace him?
Is Samir Kuntar a fool or a Tool? Or a highly costly commodity – ordered, bought, and paid for by Iran that will turn out to be or create a highly costly commotion in Lebanon for the Lebanese?
Dear readers and fellow-Apes; let us hope that you don’t see and read the 4th posting of these series: Samir Kuntar Part IV– I told you so!
By the way, have you read my postings: 135 / 137 / 138 / 147 / 328 / 335? If you haven't, please read them; and if you have, so what? Read them again! BY GOD AGAIN!
Kindly check out, and read, the following postings, too (highly recommended by I, myself, and me): 11 / 12 / 36 / 37 / 41 / 42 / 43 / 45 / 47 / 48 / 72 / 85 / 100 / 116 / 121 / 192 / 197 / 213 / 219 / 231 / 233 plus comments / 235 / 237 / 250 / 261 / 278 / 292 to 297 / 315 and 316 / 319 …… I am quite positive that you will enjoy them, AND! If you have any objections or points to make, feel free to do so. I welcome; I actually invite objections, criticism, comments, remarks, counter-points, and even insults; so long as they are straight to the point; in order for me to correct and/or adjust myself accordingly, BUT! I won’t accept or tolerate XENOPHOBIC or FANATIC or RELIGIOUS HORSE-SHIT!
MURDERS AND EXECUTIONS / CRIME AND PUNISHMENT / THE DEATH PENALTY
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch via Yahoo! Alerts Friday 25th July 2008
Executions jumped by a third in Iran and quadrupled in Saudi Arabia last year, causing the total number of executions around the world to rise yet again in 2007, a human rights group reported Thursday. It said China remained far in front as the world's top executioner. The Rome-based Hands Off Cain, which campaigns to stop the Death Penalty, said that while more countries were renouncing the Death Penalty, more people were put to death in 2007 than in either of the previous two years. In all, the number of executions increased last year to at least 5,851, compared to 5,635 in 2006 and 5,494 in 2005, the group said in its annual report.
What a pity the group did not see fit to quote the increase in the figures of crimes that were perpetrated in 2005, 2006, and 2007, so we can compare both rates of increase.
MURDERS AND EXECUTIONS: What’s the difference? I ask you! An Ape murders another Ape, and a third Ape arrests the Ape and brings the Ape before a fourth Ape who passes sentence on the Ape, and a fifth Ape executes the Ape. So what’s the difference? I ask you again! Isn’t murder another (exact) form of execution – only without trial or sentence – and isn’t execution another (exact) form of murder – only after a fair trial and sentence? You want to stop executions? Stop crime.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: If the Crime deserves the Punishment then let the Punishment fit the Crime. You do it. We catch you. We try you. We convict you. We bind you hand and foot. And blindfold you. Then we lop off your head or your hand or foot. How Very Simple! No sweat! Likewise, you commit adultery. We catch you. We bind both your hands and feet. And blindfold both of you. Then we stone both of you to death. How very simple again; and no sweat again, either! Oh! Before I forget; we tell you not to do it again.
It is my unshakable belief that all Child-Sponsorship and Child-Aid Programmes; and Save-the-Children Groups and Organisations are Sham-Scam-Con-Syndicates; all HORSE-SHIT WITH THE HORSE, since a very tiny portion of the money donated to them trickles down, and some of the goods are distributed, to the children; and Human Rights Watch Groups and Organisations are even worse Sham-Scam--Con-Syndicates; HORSE-SHIT WITHOUT THE HORSE! BUT this ‘Hands Off Cain’ is HORSE-SHIT WITHOUT THE HORSE, AND THE HORSE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW IT! According to the Bible – a book of the Jews, by the Jews, for the Jews – Cain murdered his brother, Abel, so how about a ‘Hands Off Abel’ group that would seek and fight for the Death Penalty for the Cains of the world?
GNFRI/WTM is my condensation of the real and true names of all such programmes, groups, and organisations, and it stands for Gullible Naïve Fools Rush In With Their Money. Because of what they’re doing – not for the children, but for themselves – the children’s parents fornicate freely and have more and more children because they think and say to themselves: Hey! So long as there are fools out there to care for and look after them, why not? Well, that is how the mechanism works and how sweet the system is: To the parents, they are fools; to them, the parents are tools.
How exactly is the money spent, where does the money go, and how much exactly is actually spent on the children? Well, let me tell you:
Haphazard and promiscuous fornication or copulation without protection minus the responsibilities and obligations involved: HEY! Go ahead and fornicate or copulate as much as you want and can, because we are here to take charge of the babies and the monies or funds they will generate for us, and care for and look after them – with the money of those gullible naïve fools out there; most of which will be used in providing us with good jobs, with good salaries and wages, good on-site accommodations and good fringe-benefits and perks, and up-to-date transportation, Etc and so forth.
Your babies and the other thousands of other children will be lucky and happy with the little leftover change that trickles down to their needs, which are few: discarded clothes and shoes; make-shift shelters with donated beds, sheets, and blankets; some donated books and pencils and boxes of chalk; Etc and so forth and so on. After all, a hungry or starving child that has never eaten a meal in its life – let alone a good meal – will be happy and content with a large cup of diluted donated milk, with half a teaspoon of donated sugar, and donated bread lightly spread with a little donated butter and/or jam for breakfast, and – we’ll manage, thank you – for lunch and supper. That’s HOW and WHERE and HOW MUCH!
Support or sponsor a child and you will be compounding an already very serious situation and dire conditions, and making things even much worse – for the children – but much better for their parents and the Sham-Scam-Syndicates.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
The way these people (ass-holes) talk one would think and believe that there was such a thing as HUMAN RIGHTS on this miserable and doomed planet. IT simply DOES NOT EXIST, unless it is, and except as, a ruse or an excuse to relieve the adamant asinine ass-hole naïve gullible obtuse moronic fools of their money.
THE DEATH PENALTY
The Death Penalty – the fit, appropriate, and fully deserved punishment for taking or destroying the life of another human Ape, or other human Apes – is an absolute must. It may not deter crime in general (which means all crimes perpetrated by all criminals), but it does, and will, end a particular criminal's career or some particular criminals' careers in crime and deter some, if not a lot of, or most, criminals; which brings to mind the adage: generality is meaningless; it is the particular in life that has meaning, or is meaningful. It isn't a matter of death over life, or revenge over redemption; it is a matter of strength, resolution, resolve, punishment, and justice on the one hand; over weakness, injustice, inconsideration, indecision, indifference, and neglect, on the other hand.
All criminals depend on, and count on, one of the silliest and most naïve sayings in Christianity – and by a bastard Jew, too: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit (six feet of) the earth.
To end, God did not create Human-Apes to live in peace and love, to be happy, or to befriend their fellow-human-Apes; the world and life consist of war, hatred, misery, enmity, and violence. In fact, the earth is a very violent planet that was created by violence, and that evolved by violence, and that will end by violence. So ENOUGH HORSE-SHIT; WITH OR WITHOUT THE HORSE, because not all of us are adamant asinine ass-hole asses, banal baboons, blind bats, clown comedians, craven cowards, deaf and dumb ducks, fumbling fools, gullible gulls, inane idiotic imbeciles, jerky jackasses, limping lemmings, moron monkeys, naïve nincompoops, or obtuse ostriches with bird flu in the brain! So CEASE AND DESIST!
SAMIR KUNTAR Part II – A hero or a Heel?
THEY FREED A FELON TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY – Heart-broken Mother Grieved and Pled for………
Nina Keren, the mother of Danny Haran (31), and grandmother of his daughters Einat (4) and Yael (2), who were callously and brutally murdered nearly 30 years ago by Lebanese terrorist, Samir Kuntar, had written to President Shimon Peres regarding the prisoner swap-deal that took place between the State of Israel and the State of Hezballah on Wednesday 16th July 2008. In the letter, she begged the president to consider well the move or action which seemed politically sound at the time but which might lead to dire consequences later.
Free a felon to fight another day
The Joke and the Irony is: the Israeli Government cares little for the Israeli people, and cares even less for Lebanon or the Lebanese people, and even much less for the Lebanese Government. It only cares about and is interested in…the next elections. It and Hezballah are two of a kind and birds of the same feather, AND, they complement and complete each other. The most important thing is for both to survive and remain in existence and in power – the Israeli Government, and Hezballah – and to hell and beyond with the Israelis and the Lebanese, and the Lebanese Government or State, for good measure!
The Israeli Government and Hezballah are criminals and policemen; without criminals, who needs policemen; and without policemen, who needs criminals?
I grieve for Nina Keren, just as I grieve for all the mothers who lost their children to wars, diseases, or natural phenomena. As for Samir Kuntar, all I can say is: the Israeli Government set him free and set him loose; they released him to relive and repeat his acts……
Not all of us are Etc, and so forth and so on
DEAD ARAB FIGHTERS FROM ISRAEL/HEZBALLAH SWAP-DEAL ARRIVE IN DAMASCUS – All that fuss over pus
STATE OF ISRAEL AND STATE OF HEZBALLAH PRISONER SWAP-DEAL – Again; All That Fuss Over Pus
Gleaned from Gulf Times/AFP/Angola Press via Yahoo! Alerts
Thursday 24th and Friday 25th July 2008 on Wednesday 23rd July 2008
BEIRUT: Hezballah turned over the remains of 114 Syrian and Arab fighters to Syria yesterday after receiving them as part of a prisoner swap-deal between the State of Israel and the State of Hezballah last week. The coffins were taken from Beirut to the Masnaa border crossing in the eastern part of the country by Hezballah’s Islamic Health Committee. Hundreds of people gathered to attend the handover ceremony. Relatives of the deceased had been waiting on the Syrian side of the border since early morning. Members of Syria’s Republican Guard received the coffins before they were transported to the Umayyad Square at the main entrance to Damascus. A senior member of Syria’s ruling Baath party said in a speech marking the occasion: Syria has always stood by the resistance, whether in Palestine, Lebanon, or Iraq; and it has paid dearly for its role, but it will never change it. And the world has once again realised its strategic role in the region. Hezballah chief Hassan Nesrallah spelt out his terms for further prisoner swaps with Israel. According to a letter from UN chief Ban Ki-moon to the president of the Security Council, Ban said he had received a letter from Nesrallah indicating his readiness for participation in the remaining humanitarian cases of Israeli MIA (missing in action) from the 1980s. In his letter addressed to Vietnam’s UN Ambassador Le Luong Minh, the council chair this month, Ban said Nesrallah had made it clear that his positive attitude would depend on the nature and extent of Israeli humanitarian moves on behalf of Palestinian and Arab victims – so the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon, now receives letters from, and deals directly with, Hassan Nesrallah, which means he considers Hezballah a separate State within the State of Lebanon, if not the actual State of Lebanon – and stated that a minimum requirement would be the release of hundreds of minors, women and elderly people being held in Israeli detention centres, as well as detainees suffering from health handicaps and injuries, but he did not mention the hundreds of innocent Lebanese being held in Syrian prisons – under the poorest and most squalid conditions anyone could possibly imagine – not to mention those that had been brutally butchered – beaten, tortured, and mutilated to death. I wonder why! I also wonder whether any of you out there know, that prisoners in Israel, the USA, and in Europe and the other advanced countries, are treated well and eat, sleep, and live better than most Arabs and especially Lebanese in the south!
DAMASCUS: The bodies of 114 Arab fighters handed over by Israel as part of last week’s exchange with the Lebanese militant and terrorist group, Hezballah, arrived in Damascus yesterday, Wednesday 23rd July 2008. The coffins containing their bodies were transported on flatbed trucks over the Jedaideh crossing point between Lebanon and Syria, and were later paraded through the streets in Damascus. Hundreds of relatives greeted the coffins as they passed through the crossing.
Most were Syrian nationals or Palestinian refugees living in Syria. Israel released five Lebanese prisoners and almost 200 bodies in return for two dead soldiers captured in 2006. A spokesman for Hezballah said the fighters, who had been killed in skirmishes along the Lebanon-Israel border, included slain Jordanian and Libyan guerrillas, and one Tunisian. The remains of a Kuwaiti national were flown to his homeland on Monday and buried by relatives. An official of a Palestinian faction in Syria said some of the dead fighters would be transported to their homelands if governments agreed.
Last week, thousands attended the funerals of eight Hezbollah militants whose bodies were returned as part of a prisoner swap-deal between the State of Israel and the State of Hezballah. Israel also buried the bodies of two reservists who had been fatally wounded in an ambush in 2006 that triggered the devastating 34-day war which ultimately failed to secure their return but killed 1,200 innocent Lebanese, displaced and dispersed hundreds of thousands, and forced hundreds of thousands more to flee their beloved country. Dear readers and fellow-Apes; what more is there to say?
UAE LAUNCHES PRE-MARITAL MEDICAL SCREENING FOR MEN ONLY – And mind my language
Bernama Sunday 13th July – Monday 14th July 2008
Gleaned from Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News Below is the full article or report, without the repetitions and circumlocutions since I have no pages to fill:
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Health Ministry has teamed up with Bin-Sina Pharmacy in launching a nationwide campaign designed to urge and encourage prospective grooms to undergo pre-marital medical screening in an effort to enhance health awareness in order to create a healthier society by the prevention of contagious and genetic diseases.
According to a statement by the Health Ministry, it intends to highlight the serious consequences of ignoring these simple medical screening tests which will be conducted at special centres across the country, and which will cover hereditary diseases and viruses like hepatitis, thalassaemia, AIDS, TB, venereal and other diseases.
Studies have shown that hereditary diseases and physical handicaps can be prevented from being passed on to the next generation through pre-marital or early – newly-born, toddlers, and pre-teens – screening.
Dear readers and fellow-Apes; have any of the educated and enlightened Apes among you noticed that only prospective grooms were mentioned? What about prospective brides? The above article or report is highly typical of Arab Naïve Obtuse Ostrich Moron Males and Arab Naïve Obtuse Ostrich Moron Mentality, and the MMMMMMMMMMM-Media’s Obtuse Ostrich Horse-shit habit of always burying their heads in the sands of their stupidity, naivety, and ignorance! When it has to do with especially Arab women and girls, see no evil, hear no evil, and say no evil, because they do no evil, since they are pure and pious. BY GOD AND SATAN!
These Arab and Arab-speaking Jarabs either do not know, or don’t want to know, or know but don’t want to show or tell, that Arab women – and especially Arab girls – are more apt to have or catch venereal and other anal-sex-transmitted diseases like AIDS, Etc, since that is what they have before they are married – long before and ever after.
To those Apes among you who might say: Daniel. You’re too God-damn crude and rude, I say: Well, go ahead and say what I said, nicely and politely. I dare you! Let me tell you a short story:
A witness, who was testifying in a divorce case, pointed to the man involved with the other man’s wife and said to the judge: Your honour; I saw him, and then he pointed at the man’s wife and said: fucking her. The judge was furious, but the others in the courtroom thought it was hilarious. Silence in court! He yelled, and banged his gavel. Why you! You cannot use such crude and rude language in my court! He yelled at the witness. Get out and report back in 15 minutes, and mind your language or else I’ll have you up before me for contempt of court! The witness went out and came back in, 15 minutes later. Well? Are you prepared to testify now in a manner befitting a court? The witness replied: Yes, your honour. And the judge said: Well, what have you to say? And the witness said:
Your honour; I saw his balls dangling in the air
His you-know-what, in you-know-where
And if your honour doesn’t call that ‘fucking’
Then I’m sorry but I wasn’t there
You have my permission to laugh.
Gleaned from: The International Herald Tribune Tuesday 5th April 2005
BEIRUT: The last glimpse Violet Nassif had of her son, Johnny, was when he stood in the shadows behind iron bars, just inside the dark corridor of a Syrian prison, with a guard on each arm. Then, a few seconds later, he was pulled back into the darkness. Since that day in April, 1994, Johnny Nasssif – a 15-year-old Lebanese Army recruit when he was taken prisoner four years earlier in 1990, after Michael Aoun’s Fiasco, Folly, and Madness – officially ceased to exist. They told her he wasn't there anymore.
Johnny is the symbol of the hundreds of Lebanese soldiers who were deserted by their leader, Aoun, and who survived the terror-trip to Syria after Aoun’s Mad-War against the Syrian Army and the Lebanese Forces combined – a war that split the Lebanese Army and Lebanese families into factions, tore the whole country asunder, and forced fathers and brothers and sisters to hate and kill each other; and when things got too hot for him – when he felt the hot breath of the Syrian jackals and hyenas on his neck – he fled like a jackal in orange pyjamas. Most of those taken prisoners were members of Aoun’s battalion or one of the several militias during the civil – especially those that resented, denied, protested, or fought against Syria’s presence and influence.
For years, mothers like Violet Nassif were thwarted not just by the Syrians, who denied the existence of the prisoners but also by Lebanon's leaders who responded with mask-like faces, passivity, and silence. The callous apathy of both the Syrian and Lebanese governments toward the families of THE MIS had long stood as a testament to how thoroughly the Syrian government had dominated this tiny country by the Mediterranean Sea. Through doggedness and bribes – and only-God-and-Satan-know what else – a few mothers like Violet found their sons and paid dearly for a few moments together.
Three years after the so-called end of decades of the Syrian Army’s military occupation calls have risen in Beirut for Lebanese leaders to demand an accounting of their citizens held in Syrian jails – their MIS: Missing In Syria.
A member of the Lebanese opposition and of Parliament said that it was very possible that the new government would re-open the issue and ask the Syrians: Where are our people? And demand: Let our people go! This Ass-hole of the Compost Opposition must be a Johnny-come-lately on the Lebanese political scene and doesn’t know much. Aoun won’t have it, or let it, or allow it! He would have to stand before the men he so cowardly deserted – those that are still alive, which I strongly doubt – and explain himself! They might forgive him for deserting them, but not for abandoning his wife and three daughters!
A commission once looked into the Lebanese prisoners in Syria issue and determined that at least 120 Lebanese either were in Syrian jails or had died there, and yet, so intimidating was Syria’s presence that, the report was never published. Actually, the report was rejected by the then Lebanese president, Émile Lahhoud, and the then prime minister, Rafiq Harriri. I am willing to bet a bent buffalo nickel that Emile Le-Hood, the Hermit-Baboon and Jinx, rejected the report willingly and gladly but Rafiq Harriri was forced to reject it.
A Lebanese group, Families of Lebanese Held in Syria, compiled a list of 280 Lebanese who, they say, had been carted off to Syrian prisons and never returned, and that there was good reason to believe that the Syrians were holding more than 280.
Syria's leaders said they had released the last of their Lebanese prisoners in December 2000. But human rights groups, as well as the U.S. government, do not place much credence in that. The director of Families of Lebanese Held in Syria said the Syrian government has quietly released at least a dozen prisoners since 2000. Most of the Lebanese that the Syrians have released so far were not on the organization's list.
Amnesty International said they believed that Syria was still holding an undetermined number of Lebanese prisoners. One of them, Joseph Huways, died under torture in a Syrian jail in June 2003, long after the Syrian leaders said all had been released.
Joseph is the symbol of all the innocent victims of our so-called sister and friend, Syria
The other families were left to wonder whether their sons and husbands were still alive or dead, and, if they were still alive, whether they were among the many being tortured in Syrian prisons. A Syrian official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, did not respond to a request for an interview.
LEBANESE IN SYRIAN PRISONS: A Top Priority Issue
Alternative report by the SOLIDA movement (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) July 2005
The SOLIDA movement feels sharply concerned about the situation and conditions of Lebanese detained in solitary confinement in Syrian prisons.
Since 1976, Syria had resorted to kidnappings. Even today, it is estimated that at least 280 Lebanese are still in Syria, in solitary confinement, without trial, under inhuman conditions. To give one example of conditions in Syrian prisons, a Lebanese prisoner who had been released from a Syrian prison in 1998 told how he blinded himself in order to escape his torturers.
Their families, represented by the Committee of Families of Lebanese prisoners in Syria, have not received any answers or information regarding the situation and/or conditions of their relatives in Syrian prisons. The Syrian authorities have remained silent on the issue.
On July 22nd 2002, the Syrian Minister of the Interior received a delegation from the Committee of Families of Lebanese prisoners held in Syrian prisons in Damascus, and confirmed the presence and detention of Lebanese in Syria and promised the families to review the prisoner's files submitted to him (a list of 174 names) and to provide answers to the families within a 2-3 months period of time. In 2005, almost three years after that promise, the families still had not received any answers. They were actually repulsed at the Syrian border on November 2nd 2002, even though they had an appointment with the Interior Minister.
Dear readers and fellow-Apes; no comments. Use your brain, (IF) you’ve got one!
DAMASCUS: The London-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported on its Web-site that several prisoners were killed and several more wounded in a riot at the Sidnaya Prison approximately 30km north of Damascus, but indicated there was no clear way to get to the bottom of the incident. Islamist prisoners had staged a protest earlier in the day over poor conditions at the prison. The group reported that military police opened fire on the prisoners. The head of Syria's National Organization for Human Rights told the Press by telephone that he could see smoke billowing from the prison and prisoners standing on the roof. He added that ambulances were ferrying the wounded to the hospital. There has been no official word yet from the Syrian government, which usually does not comment on human rights issues.
My comments: Like the Covert Nuclear Reactor at Al Kibar which the Israeli Air Force destroyed on Thursday 6th September 2007 and which Syria later – and today – deny it ever existed, the above incident will also go down the drain of iniquity, followed by deleting and denial. Imagine the Israeli Air Force flying all the way to Al Kibar in Syria to destroy a building just for fun! Read my posting: 275
REUTERS ALERT-NET via Yahoo! Alerts 22nd Jul 2008
BEIRUT: A New York-based Human Rights Watch has called on Syria to order an independent inquiry into the above deadly incident and the use of lethal force by the military police, and to disclose the victims' names. The Syrian authorities have said very little or nothing at all about it. They said it had been put down by the next day, but the jail remains surrounded by security forces; visits are banned, and a nearby hospital is also off limits. Human rights organisations in Syria have reported that as many as 25 prisoners were killed, and that they had obtained the names of nine inmates thought to be dead. One member of the military police was also confirmed dead following his burial near Aleppo. Syria has been ruled by the Baath Party since 1963 and holds thousands of Islamists and other political prisoners; including writers and human rights advocates – and not a few Lebanese.
Dear readers and fellow-Apes; we all saw how the so-called enemy, Israel, treats or treated its prisoners, even convicted callous and brutal murderers like Samir Kuntar, who re-appeared on the Lebanese political and terrorist scene after 3 decades of being a prisoner in Israel, looking robust – he had been well-fed and well-looked after and taken care of; married and divorced – with a degree in social and political science – he had been well-educated, too – and all at the expense of Israel and Israeli tax payers. And we have seen how the so-called sister and friend, Syria, treats its prisoners – packs them into cells like sardines in tins, in the most terrible and squalid conditions, with no facilities or amenities; and either starves them or tortures and mutilates them to death, and if they dare to complain or whine or protest, they are shot to death.
From what I saw of the way the Lebanese Army mishandled the poor protesters – parents and family members and friends of Lebanese prisoners in Syria who only wanted to intercept that fat, over-fed, bloated Syrian Hog, Walid Moallem, to hand him a letter begging for the release of their loved-ones – I wonder whether the Lebanese Army hadn’t been trained by or taken lessons from the Syrian Army! I also wonder why they hadn’t shot the protesters outright! BY GOD! Read my posting: 330 and my next posting: 332
Protestors demand release of Lebanese prisoners in Syria – before 1975 to 2005
The Daily Star via Yahoo! Alerts Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Dear readers and fellow-Apes; no comments other than the short comment in-between. However, kindly read my postings: 18 / 40 / 49 / 67 / 260 / 328/ 329
BEIRUT: Parents, relatives, and friends of Lebanese citizens who disappeared between 1975 and 2005 gathered around 10:30am on Monday morning next to the presidential palace in Baabda, where Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem was expected to arrive; protesting against the detention in Syria of their family members and relatives. Several protestors held pictures of their detained or lost relatives as well as banners with slogans in Arabic: no diplomatic relations before the return of Lebanese held in Syrian prisons and there are Lebanese prisoners not only in Israel, but in Syria as well.
The demonstration took an unfortunate turn of events as the Lebanese Armed Forces – the Lebanese Army – violently forced the protesters to move away as they were trying to intercept Walid Moallem's convoy or block the road; they were forcefully pushed back and beaten up by LAF forces. Some demonstrators suffered wounds as a result.
The protest had been organized with the help of the civil society representatives, human-rights associations and members of local and international non-governmental organisations who had held similar demonstrations in the past, but that time, the protest was called to coincide with Moallem's visit to Lebanon. The founder of Support for Lebanese in Detention and Exile (SOLIDE), an NGO which has longed worked to uncover the fate of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons confirmed the existence of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons.
In a news conference after his parliamentary bloc's meeting on Monday, Free Patriotic Movement leader, MP Michael Aoun, said that clashes between demonstrators and the LAF were truly unfortunate and that the new government would double its efforts to uncover the fate of detainees in Syrian prisons as the fate of these missing people could not be ignored.
By the way, and for your information; dear readers and fellow-Apes; let us hope that the 600 soldiers he deserted – he abandoned his wife and three daughters, too – and left them to face the invading Syrian hordes on the night he fled in his orange pyjamas to the French Embassy and later to France are part of those detained in Syrian prisons and let us hope THEY, AND ALL THE OTHERS, ARE STILL ALIVE.
According to a researcher with Human Rights Watch who took part in the protest, the demonstrators – mostly mothers and sisters of detainees – were violently pushed by the LAF who used their rifle butts to disperse the crowd. He said that the protesters were un-armed, so there was no need for the army to resort to such violence.
The head of Union for Lebanon – or Onion for Lebanon – told reporters that the detainees issue was more important than Lebanese-Syrian diplomatic relations or the border demarcation between the two neighboring countries.
Five prisoners and 200 bodies were handed over to Hezballah by Israel last Wednesday as part of a prisoner swap deal.
Despite the brawl with the LAF, the protestors were able to send a seven-point letter to President Michael Suleiman who, in his inaugural speech, expressed his will to deal with the issue. The letter called for including the prisoners' issue in the upcoming ministerial statement. It also called for the formation of a national commission to look into the issue of detainees in Syria, as well as creating a DNA database through the missing people's relatives, and an international investigative commission, as a last resort, to find out the whereabouts and the fates of the missing Lebanese in Syrian prisons, and to try any that committed any crimes against humanity – including their collaborators.
Walid Moallem remarked during a news conference on Monday on the existence of Syrian detainees in Lebanese prisons. The Daily Star was told that there were actually names of Syrians who disappeared in Lebanon during the 1975-90 Civil War, but it was surprising that Syria never dealt with this issue when it was in control of the country. However, information about Syrian detainees in Lebanese prisons could be easily made available as Lebanese prisons were accessible to the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations.
Syria has to provide a correct list of Lebanese and non-Lebanese detainees abducted on Lebanese soil. While the Syrian authorities have always been reluctant to give out information about Lebanese prisoners, some detainees' parents said they had proof of their children's imprisonment in Syria as they had been able to contact and sometimes visit them. The detainees had never even been given a fair trial.THEY MOURNED FOR THOSE; WHO WILL MOURN FOR THE OTHERS?
HEZBALLAH HOLDS FUNERAL & MOURNS GUERILLAS KILLED IN 2006
Gleaned from Earth-Times Friday 18th July 2008 and assorted newspapers/websites
BEIRUT: The Lebanese militant group, Hezballah, held a funeral for eight guerrillas killed during its 2006 war with Israel. Their bodies were returned in a prisoners swap last week. Thousands of Hezballah supporters attended Friday's funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs. The eight coffins were lined up in a huge hall in Beirut's southern suburbs, where grieving women, parents, relatives, and friends had gathered to bid their last farewell. Hezbollah's Executive Council Chief, Hashem Safieddine, in a speech inaugurating the ceremony, said the eight men defeated Israel twice; once during the war in 2006 and again by returning home. He spoke in front of their coffins, which were covered with Hezballah's yellow flags. Their bodies were later taken to their home-towns. Israel released five Lebanese prisoners and the remains of almost 200 guerrillas – including 191 Arab fighters, mostly Palestinians – in return for the bodies of two soldiers whose capture triggered the 34-day war. A prayer was recited for the souls of the dead as wailing women kissed the coffins before they were paraded through the streets by Hezbollah fighters in uniform – these women are professionals, and they would wail for anyone and kiss anything for the right price. There are women like them in all the religions on the planet that are either being sold to, or forced down the throats of, th
