Shaaban Laid to Rest in his Hometown
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The funeral procession for slain al-Jadeed television cameraman Ali Shaaban was held on Tuesday at his hometown of Maifadoun in southern Lebanon.
A number of politicians, local residents, media personalities welcomed the casket as it arrived at the town.
The funeral was attended by a representative of the president, prime minister, and speaker MP Abdul Latif al-Zein, Hizbullah chief representative MP Hassan Fadlallah, AMAL representative Jamil Hayek, representative for the information minister Hassan Falaha, as well as representatives for all political parties, reported the National News Agency.
He was later laid to rest in the local cemetery.
Wreaths from the president, premier, speaker, information minister, MP Hani Qobeissi, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and various political and media officials were placed on his grave.
Shaaban was killed on Monday in the northern border area of Wadi Khaled when he and two of his colleagues came under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border.
Reporter Hussein Khreis and cameraman Abed Khayyat managed to escape unharmed.
The TV network said the crew was in the area with the aim of filming a report about the situation there.
Shaaban was rushed to Al-Salam Hospital in al-Qbayyat where he later died of his wounds.
Al-Jadeed accused the Syrian army of the deadly shooting, saying it opened fire at its team which was on the Lebanese side of the border.
His death sparked wide condemnation by President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Najib Miqati and a number of local and international figures.
10 April 2012, 13:41
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And yet again, The Syrian Regime reinforces that it is a barbaric one.
RIP
10 April 2012, 13:44
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ofcourse if you read Tayyar website , it would have a total different spin of the story. RIP.
11 April 2012, 03:32
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F.T.
You got my thumbs up on your comment above. I agree M14 and M8 need to reconcile but I may add under some basic principles: Army controls all weapons. , Conspiring with ANY foreign country or getting paid by any foreign country shall constitute treason, and Major political reform instituted.
10 April 2012, 15:13
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Are you comparing yourself to an elephant ? You must know that an elephant's brain is tiny.... LOL.
10 April 2012, 15:37
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Flame Thrower. Stop throwing dumb comments and wake up to the fact that M8 are nothing but a bunch of Terrorists, Murderers and corrupted Politicians who sell empty slogans all in the name of the biggest lie called: Resistance.
10 April 2012, 21:07
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But they are noy yje first to be killed across the border. Why this bog show? because they are Awta nass ?
10 April 2012, 21:51
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I am sure there is a significant sector in the she3a community sympathetic with their syrian brothers and anti syrian regime. What happened would reinforce their voice. The she3as and sunis of lebanon have to end their cold civil war and enter reconciliation. I hope we don't go through another deadly civil war (much worse than the 70's) to realize this fact.
10 April 2012, 21:56
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Can someone tell me what the big deal is? Who really cares when there are 1000 being killed on a weekly base
11 April 2012, 06:20
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The hand that you are unable to break, kiss it and ask god to break it for you. This has been our policy for years.
Only Allah will deal with the terrorist regime that kills innocent people including children fishing in Tripoli, Lebanese border towns violated and shot at daily, Leb Army positions shot at and ignored.
God Bless the Lebanese Reformed Army trained in the West.
11 April 2012, 08:22
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A wreaths from Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah... You Iranian hypocritic, his death like so many other Lebanon's is by the hand of your friends the Assad's!
