[An Nahar] Fugitive Islamist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir on Monday appeared in a new audio message -- the second after the Abra battle -- in which he lashed out at Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan NasrallahThe satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
and noted that Iran "has turned itself into an enemy of the Arabs."
"Attacks against us are countless and do not need any evidence. They have attacked us in our institutions, centers and mosques, and their evil has targeted our brothers in Syria, contrary to what (Nasrallah) claimed about turning Iran and the Shiites into the enemy instead of the Zionists," Asir said.
"Iran -- with its hateful, criminal Velayat-e Faqih (Iran's form of Islamic rule) policy -- has cooperated with the Great Satan™ (the U.S.) to slaughter us in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it gave you (Hizbullah) the green light to occupy Leb through your weapons and lately the mask has fallen in Syria ... Iran has proclaimed itself as the enemy of the region," the runaway holy man, on the run since the army overran his Abra headquarters on June 24, added.
Criticizing Nasrallah's Quds Day speech, Asir accused the Hizbullah leader of seeking to rally Shiites behind his rhetoric "after the mask fell off in the region."
"Enough with using Paleostine for your own interests, as Paleostine is cursing you, just like (Syria's) Qusayr and Homs did," Asir added.
The Islamist holy man also blasted Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
leader MP
Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
, accusing him of "resorting to blind incitement" and of "using his spiteful media outlets night and day to incite against the Sunni community."
Asir attributed Aoun's "incitement" to his "lust for presidency" that was "blocked by (former premier) Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
"Remember how he has incited against the Syrian revolution and how he has stood by the butcher against the victim and how he is still justifying the crimes of Nasrallah and his murderers who entered Syria to slaughter its people, especially in Qusayr and Homs," Asir added.
"When the fire reaches the Christian areas, Christians must hold Aoun accountable for these stances," he went on to say.
Asir accused the army's Commando Regiment commander Brig. Gen. Chamel Roukoz, Aoun's son-in-law, of inspecting the conflict zone in Abra in the wake of the festivities to "steal the limelight" and "because of his ambition to become the next army commander."
The runaway holy man also launched a tirade against ex-PM Saad Hariri and "some al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
leaders who did not hesitate to fight me and distort my image."
"What was the harm I caused you that prompted this campaign? Ever since we rallied in downtown Beirut in support of our beleaguered brothers, Saad Hariri and his associates started to describe me as an bad turban," Asir added.
"What happened in Abra was the normal result of the fierce war waged against us by the al-Mustaqbal movement. Why was this ferocious war waged against Ahmed al-Asir? Once through pressuring journalists to distort my image, once through contacting the Saadnayel Municipality to ban my demo and another through (Sidon MP) Bahia Hariri telephoning some muftis and telling them 'we want to besiege al-Asir,'" he went on to say.
Asir also criticized Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid
WallyJumblat
...
Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...and Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader
Samir Geagea... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
over "cursing" him as part of their "cajolery and blandishment," noting that he is "confident" that their supporters "do not approve of such a behavior."
In his previous audio message on July 4, described the deadly Sidon festivities as a plot aimed at ending his presence.
According to an army statement, the festivities erupted after gunnies loyal to Asir attacked a checkpoint near his mosque in "cold blood" and "for no reason."