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| Shaker al-Abssi slams Lebanon's Sunni leaders, Hezbollah chief | |
| 2008-06-11 | |
Shaker Youssef al-Absi said in the recording that time has now come for Dire Revenge™ against the "enemies of God" and added that kaboomers were ready for action. The authenticity of audio, posted on a web site commonly used by hard boys, could not be independently verified. It was the second posting by al-Absi, sentenced to death earlier this year by a Lebanese court for a 2007 double bus bombings that killed three people and wounded 20. Al-Absi remains on the lam after escaping last September from fierce fighting between Fatah Islam and the Lebanese army at the Nahr el-Bared Paleostinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Also in the audio, al-Absi claimed that Lebanese Sunni leaders and the head of the Shiite Hezbollah hard boy group, Hassan Nasrallah, seek to split the Sunni Muslim community, allegedly acting on American and Iranian orders to do this. He also criticized the Lebanese army for not taking any action when Hezbollah fighters and their allies took over much of Muslim west Beirut from pro-government Sunni gunmen during bitter fighting last month that brought Lebanon close to a new civil war. A Jordanian of Paleostinian origin, al-Absi specifically named Western-backed Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, and Parliament majority leader Saad Hariri, along with the Hezbollah chief in the audio. He also criticized Paleostinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is a Sunni. Their goal, he alleged, "is the same and it is to humiliate and split the nation of monotheism," a reference to Sunni Islam. "One side takes orders from (U.S. President George W.) Bush while the other takes orders from the Satan's ayatollahs in Tehran," he said, referring to top Shiite clerics in Iran, adding that Sunni "lions of monotheism will destroy the enemies of God, whoever they are .... The enemies of God will not be safe from the booby-traps of Iraq and the boomer battalions, wherever they are." Earlier this month, Fatah Islam claimed responsibility for a May 31 explosion that killed a Lebanese soldier in the northern town of Abdeh near the devastated Nahr el-Bared camp. Lebanese authorities have said that 222 Fatah Islam hard boys were killed in the Nahr el-Bared fighting and more than 200 were arrested, while 169 Lebanese soldiers died. Paleostinian officials said 47 Paleostinian civilians also died in the camp as Lebanese army besieged the hard boys holed up inside. Also Tuesday, an Islamic hard boy who was seriously wounded in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh in southern Lebanon died of his wounds, security officials said. Jalal Hassanein, a 27-year-old Paleostinian, was shot by unknown assailants Monday night, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 ... and equal vehemence. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-06-11 17:16 |
| #2 Never underestimate the Arab mind's ablity to hold two disparate ideas with equal gravity. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-06-11 11:34 |
| #1 acting on American and Iranian orders I wonder what he's been smoking? |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-06-11 08:08 |