Zgheib: No Decision Taken by Families of Abducted Pilgrims to Rally in Front of Syria, Iran Embassies
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The key to resolving the abduction of the Lebanese pilgrims in Syria lies in Turkey's hands, not Syria and Iran, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.
Sheikh Abbas Zgheib, who has been tasked by the Higher Islamic Shiite Council to follow up the case, told the daily: “The families of the pilgrims have not yet taken the decision to stage a protest in front of the Syrian and Iranian Embassies in Beirut.”
The pilgrims had recently requested that their families hold the rallies in front of the embassies.
“Such a protest will not benefit the cause because Damascus and Tehran do not play an influential role in the case,” he explained.
“Only Turkey plays an influential role in the affair,” he stressed.
“If the Syrian opposition believes that Iran is taking part in the Syrian crisis, then how can an enemy interfere in the case of the pilgrims?” Zgheib asked.
“This is not a reasonable request and if the families do comply with it, then they will be doing so for emotional reasons, not sound ones,” he added.
He therefore urged Turkey to resolve this issue “in order to maintain normal ties with Lebanon.”
The nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted in Syria had telephoned their families, urging them to demonstrate in front of the Iranian and Syrian embassies in Beirut, media reports said on Friday.
“I talked to (abductee) Ali Zgheib and everyone (of the abductees) spoke with his family and they said they're in good health,” Awad Ibrahim -- who was freed in September after being kidnapped with the group in May -- told LBCI television.
“The families were surprised at 5:30 p.m. when they received phone calls from their relatives,” MTV reported, adding that “each conversation lasted two hours and at the end of the conversation the abductees asked their families to demonstrate outside the Iranian and Syrian embassies.”
The TV network quoted the families as saying that the objective behind such protests is to push for the expulsion of Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali “because he has not yet defected” from the regime and to condemn Tehran's policies in Syria “where the Revolutionary Guard is taking part in repressing the protests.”
Eleven Lebanese Shiite pilgrims were kidnapped by an armed group calling itself the Northern Storm Brigade in the Aleppo town of Aazaz on May 22 as they were returning home from a pilgrimage in Iran.
One abductee was released in August in what his captors said was a “goodwill” gesture, while Ibrahim was released in September.
The kidnappers have repeatedly linked the release of the Lebanese captives to Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a close ally of the Syrian regime, apologizing over his stances on the Syrian revolt.
11 November 2012, 10:05
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I see nothing wrong with these demands...and nsrocrap should apologize and pull his fighters out of Syria
12 November 2012, 09:21
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you see nothing wrong with kidnapping and blackmailing? i see... you must be a salafi lover
12 November 2012, 09:37
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I see nothing wrong with the demands ya ghabi...do you see anything wrong with hizbollaat fighters from nabatiyeh fighting in Syria?
12 November 2012, 09:59
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i would se something wrong if they let the FSA bloodsuckers massacre the 30,000 people who live in border villages, on sectarian basis, without anyone defending them. allah yer7am the martyrs who fell protecting those villages
12 November 2012, 10:06
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and as a hint, taking civilian hostages and making demands out of that, IS wrong. period.
if you can't understand that, just go to hell and take your dirty ethics with you.
12 November 2012, 10:11
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uh oh you're changing nasrallaat's story he said the fighters were FROM the villages themselves so howcome we're seeing them buried in Nabatiyeh etc. Allah la yr7amon w byestehlo kol rsasah btijeehon. As for kidnapping civilians, we did NOT see nasrallaat or any shia official come out and condemn the miqdads when they kidnapped so why should we expect these guys to?
12 November 2012, 10:17
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btw ironic to see you criticize FSA's funding when hizbollat's main funding is from Iran...
12 November 2012, 10:23
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no he didnt say they were FROM those villages, he said they lived in those villages. dont start making up lies to justify your friends who kidnap, execute civilians and blow up bombs in city squares killing hundreds of innocents.
12 November 2012, 13:28
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hey little punk, cut down on insults or i stop answering you.
the people who were killed were killed in border towns, where they were living. are we now forbidden to live anywhere outside our village of origin?
11 November 2012, 16:18
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Why didn't the Shia protest over the Christians and Sunnis held captive for 30 years? They have only been held a few months and aren't being tortured like the ASSad's did to the others. If the Hezz and Iran were not helping in the war they wouldn't have people prisoner there now.
Nasrallah won't apologize for senting murderers to Syria, so the FSA won't let them go. Let their mothers cry all they want. They are correct protesting in fron of the Syrian and Iranian embassies. Turkey has nothing to do with it. that is typical Hezz type propaganda.
12 November 2012, 09:26
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yes yes gabby, lies and propaganda only goes this far... now you know what? i can't wait for the Sayyed to make that speech. the one where he says "you asked for it, now you're going to get it".
and you will see the difference, very clearly, and regret the days where HA was still not involved.
12 November 2012, 09:39
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hizbollaaat fighters are already involved nasrallaat already admitted that
12 November 2012, 10:01
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border villages moh, border villages, and in self-defense. wait till they hit the snake on the head, and smash it with a rock.
12 November 2012, 10:14
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Nabatiyeh is a border village? I can't wait till the snake's head is smashed...namely bisho...
12 November 2012, 10:30
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did they die fighting in nabatiyeh? man take a hike with your bollocks.
12 November 2012, 13:16
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OK Sherlock so what is a hizbollaat fighter from Nabatiyeh doing fighting in Syria then?
12 November 2012, 14:01
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lied about above....so all those that are dying were simply living in these villages and suddenly decided to "defend" when the attacks came... is this what you are trying to convince us? Usually people move from villages to cities not the other way around...
12 November 2012, 00:08
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Tell the glorious Hezz to go in and save them!! Oh wait they are getting ready for a battlefield defeat at the hands of the rag tag FSA. A real peoples resistance.
12 November 2012, 09:39
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they're fighting for their freedom...hizbollaat fighters are fighting to protect a foreign dictator...who is noble now?
12 November 2012, 09:57
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hahahah, of course, if you base your judgement on fairy tales, unicorns are also very noble.
the FSA is mainly zbeleh, a huge part is foreign fighters on a payroll, there to take power for their masters in saudi and qatar. there are countless documents, a lot that they filmed themselves, showing the massacres they committed against unarmed civilians. yet you refuse to see that, because you're too brainwashed.
however, without a single document or proof to say HA is fighting inside syria, you believe it. your master's voice must be very loud :)
12 November 2012, 10:14
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"countless documents" ...and he speaks of fairytales... 30000 systematically killed by ASSad et al and he is talking about fringe crimes. Compared tot he systematic murders committed by ASSad et al these crimes pale in comparison. Yalla send more fighters to their death for this "noble" cause of protecting bashar...
12 November 2012, 10:18
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30000 systematically killed by ASSad? according to who? abdelrahman? lol, get tuned to disney channel, you'd get more realistic info
12 November 2012, 13:22
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yes of course the prestigious news services of the world pale in comparison to Manar and Dunya....retard.
12 November 2012, 13:34
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look how noble they are, walla you and your prestigious friends http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PouZlyChIRM
12 November 2012, 13:43
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wow you know about youtube? hey send links towards nasrocrap as apparently he always thought that nothing was going on in Homs...his peeps told him so...
12 November 2012, 14:04
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running away from facts eh? how cheap you are, you go along very well with these terrorists.
12 November 2012, 14:24
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well heck you don't even need the facts your sayyed tells them to you..did you create a youtube account for him yet?
12 November 2012, 09:28
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"he can even fake it and recant it later." no habibi, this is YOUR morals, not his. he doesnt swallow his pride, he doesnt let kidnappers balckmail him, and he doesnt lie to achieve his objectives.
we leave these tactics to the lowlives of FSA, that's all they got
12 November 2012, 10:25
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this has nothing to do with taqiyya, maybe you should open a dictionary before using words you dont know.
This practice was emphasized in Shi'a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat, persecution, or compulsion.[3] Taqiyya was developed to protect Shi'ites who were usually in minority and under pressure. In the Shi'a view, taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby.[1]
The majority Sunni Muslims rarely found it necessary to hide their beliefs. However, there are examples of practicing taqiyya among Sunnis where it was necessary.[4] In the Sunni view, denying your faith under duress is "only at most permitted and not under all circumstances obligatory".[5]
12 November 2012, 13:31
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under persecution a shia or a muslim, or a druze for that matter, can deny his faith, which is the blasphemous illegal thing that he otherwise shouldnt.
this has nothing to do with a fake apology followed by a denial, as you suggested with your very high ethics.
12 November 2012, 13:36
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it's not just about denying faith it is about committing otherwise illegal acts [not just about denying faith]. I never said fake apology. I said apologize and pull out your fighters....you're so keen on lying you're even pinning it on others good job! you'll attain sayyedship in no time...
12 November 2012, 14:06
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"these people will be freed in 2 hours if nasrallah who is hiding in his cave would just swallow his pride and issue an apology. he can even fake it and recant it later."
we are talking about this habboub, anyway you're just an annoying troll who diverts the subject everytime, hides away from facts and uses a little too many bad words to compensate for his lack of arguments, so i'm done answering you.
12 November 2012, 14:39
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you jumped in and answered a comment which was directed at that. either be relevant, or take a hike.
12 November 2012, 14:50
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now who's running away from answering the tough questions...tsk tsk tsk...
12 November 2012, 15:03
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what question? and have you watched the videos? why do you expect people to answer your questions when you hide your head in the sand when you can't face the truth?
12 November 2012, 13:45
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you want more prestige?
how about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hEx2ZDV42U&bpctr=1352729489
an old man... i bet he was a big fighter eh?
and here, more elderly men
http://youtu.be/ARV5LrK9S-k
3ayb 3ayb
12 November 2012, 13:50
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you want more prestige?
how about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hEx2ZDV42U&bpctr=1352729489
an old man... i bet he was a big fighter eh?
and here, more elderly men
http://youtu.be/ARV5LrK9S-k
more? http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/11/graphic-video-fsa-terrorists-executing.html
