...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too...
condemned the "terrorist" bombings in Damascus
...The
City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
on Friday, saying they were aimed at targeting the Arab roadmap intended to resolve the Syrian crisis.
In a telephone conversation with Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
, the Lebanese head of state said the bombings which "coincided with the arrival to Syria of an observer mission's advance team aim at targeting the Arab plan that Syria and the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
had agreed to."
The Arab plan, which was endorsed by Syria on November 2, intends to oversee an end to nine months of bloodshed, calls for the withdrawal of the military from towns and residential districts and a halt to violence against civilians and the release of detainees.
The jacket wallahs hit the compound of the General Security Directorate and a military intelligence building in Damascus, killing more than 30 people.
The bombings, which officials blamed on al-Qaeda, were the first attacks against Syria's powerful security services in the heart of the capital since the uprising began in March.