Saqr Confirms Leaked Audio Recording on Arms Deal, Says Ready to Lift Off his Immunity
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Al-Mustaqbal MP Oqab Saqr admitted on Monday that the audio recording that was circulated in the media last week, during which he was carrying out a weapons delivery deal with the Syrian opposition, was true.
“Yes this is my voice, and these are my own words,” Saqr told the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat.
He said that he is under the law and agrees to lift his parliamentary immunity if other “suspects,” who are involved in the developments in Syria, do the same.
“I am solely responsible for my acts... Let the jurisdiction carry out its tasks,” Saqr said.
The MP, in his most recent interview on Future TV on November 7, rigorously denied any involvement in arming the Syrian opposition, demanding his accusers “to sue him if they find any evidence proving his engagement is such activities.”
Saqr pointed out in comments published in Asharq al-Awsat that he will explain everything clearly “soon.”
“I will appear in a live broadcast and reveal everything I know,” Saqr told the newspaper.
Asked about the role of ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the issue, the MP said that the premier tasked him to only offer the Syrian people with all the necessary humanitarian, political and media support.
“The campaign targeting me right now is to blur, deform and distort this role,” Saqr stated.
Al-Akhbar newspaper unveiled last week a taped conversation between Saqr and Abou Nehman, a “leader in the armed Syrian opposition”, who were carrying out an arms deal.
"Please help us, we need weapons,” Abou Nehman told Saqr in the audio recording.
"Tell me exactly what do you want and the quantities,” Saqr answers.
Abou Nehman requests 300 RPGs, 250,000 Russian bullets and 300 guns among other things to be delivered to Aazaz, Tal Refaat and Aleppo's countryside.
The two men then agree to, “as usual,” hand the weapons to Syrian opposition members that go by the names of Abou Baraa and Abou al-Nour.
03 December 2012, 08:16
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What about the others ta ft and especially the ones you support if they spent half of the energy they are spending on stealing and covering for the others for lebanon wouldnt be great ? Forget about Assad he wont stay after what happened in syria for the last 2 years " opposition" is armed and even if he stays it wont be the same as it was before he has no power on all over the country and most importantly he lost the west iran wont save him :)
03 December 2012, 09:26
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la2 habibei first of all Hezb wasnt all the time a syrian ally to begin with , go check your facts , they fought syria and they lost alot of men ... when you talk about sell outs ... did you hear any of the M14 paying their alligeance to someone else than lebanon ? nope ... you ll go back to the huge poster on the virgin building , ok let us see all the pictures of Bashar, ahmedinajad in the hezb areas ... empty slogans? didnt FPM chant change and reform ? didnt they say that they were clean ? arent they covering for the ones entering merchandises to areas without paying taxes ? arent they covering for the ones responsible for the pharmaceutic scandal ? didnt they chant "amn w estekrar " and we got the mighty tsunami on a tuesday night saying that Hassan was responsible for his own security ... and you talk about empty promises ? man i came back after 3 weeks on this board and you are still the same crackhead as before ...
03 December 2012, 09:26
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yalla habibei we will see the elections next year and i hope it wont be from your side as it was for the electrical shuttles that we had to receive in the beginning of the summer and now they are bargaining again :)
03 December 2012, 13:07
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Errare humanum est, this MP is decent. Let's judge him, and judge every person who supplied men and weapons in Syria except volunteers who seek revenge for the death of family members by the Syrian regime in Lebanon or Syria.
03 December 2012, 08:52
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at least he has the honesty of saying it! not like some M8 people caught red handed and still deny everything lol!
03 December 2012, 11:36
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Ah eh chi tene! Now peace is saying it's fine if you kill but PLEASE BE HONEST AND SAY IT (only when you are caught!).
you are the smart peace, not me! ;)
Amen!
03 December 2012, 12:09
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funny how people make you say what they only want to read, hilarious to see how they distort words just for the sake of their propaganda.... LOL!
03 December 2012, 12:19
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Ayya propaganda ya peace?
yeuh yeuh yeuh! Voila a copy paste, I just added the quotes hopefully this is not considered propaganda ;)
"at least he has the honesty of saying it!"
Lek when you support such acts there is no "at least" my son! At least in my world ;)
03 December 2012, 12:59
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walla how admirable, let's all cheer the honesty of the criminal who confessed after being caught red handed.
03 December 2012, 13:20
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better than cheering for hizbocrap who won't even confess even having been caught red handed...
03 December 2012, 14:09
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mohammad_ca you are being weak like all others. Don't address the question at hand with another question completely out of context. We were just criticizing someone who thinks that this asshole is a good man because AT LEAST HE IS HONEST (after being caught hahahaha).
Point final. If you have a counter argument on the same, please share. We are a democracy!
03 December 2012, 14:14
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do you know what caught red handed means? it usually entails a slight detail that might have slipped passed your attention, it's called "evidence", and this, my dear, is something you were never able to provide alongside your accusations.
i know it's not a concept you're familiar with, but i heard you were a super slick internet genius (you even have a youtube account!) so look it up in google (you can even bing it).
03 December 2012, 14:25
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ma howe even internationally renowned evidence msh m3ajbitkon ya ma3ez nasrocrap :)
03 December 2012, 17:19
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you really know nothing, i understand you need to use insults all the time so i dont hold it against you. limited minds do what they can :)
03 December 2012, 17:34
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you call that an "argument" ??? hahahha
what internationally "renowned" evidence? in case you'd be talking of the STL circus, first we know it's all circumstantial and second they still have to make a case in court. what evidence has been given to see to the public? what evidence have you seen? (hint: nada)
03 December 2012, 17:36
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yes, i was telling you woof woof because all you do is bark after my every comment, with lame attempts at being insulting, with a "crap" here and a "ghabi" there...
who do you think i am? your school buddy who give a darn about the insults your weak mind comes up with?
03 December 2012, 17:46
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"what evidence has been given to see to the public? what evidence have you seen? "
of course mowaten! evidence is never released publicly before a trial! no wonder you won t find any! evidence is produced DURING the trial not before...
so that is why you believe that the STL is politicized because you don t know on what basis people are suspected and the hard evidence they have...
03 December 2012, 17:46
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"what evidence has been given to see to the public? what evidence have you seen? "
of course mowaten! evidence is never released publicly before a trial! no wonder you won t find any! evidence is produced DURING the trial not before...
so that is why you believe that the STL is politicized because you don t know on what basis people are suspected and the hard evidence they have...
04 December 2012, 06:13
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Cheap insults as usual, they must all be slash brothers or cousins!
"Evidence is produced during the trial"? HAHAHAHAH
Evidence is PRESENTED during the trial, not fabricated during the trial!
Look around you, at all cases in the world. Evidences are shared, why wouldn't people share them if they are obvious?!! When someone kills someone else and a camera catches that killer, does the tribunal hide it??? When your friend sakr is caught dealing with weapons, would a tribunal wait to fabricate this evidence during the trial???
Ah yeah right we never went to schoool :)
This is the strongest argument you can have, all of you on this site! Great stuff indeed!
yeuh yeuuuuuuuuuuuh yeuh!
03 December 2012, 09:05
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guys, please let us not waste time on the comments of ft. he displays a serious sickness: bashar is going.
he cannot overcome that sickness, and does not know what to say anymore.
so please let him be to his ranting and do not reply to his wild dreams comments.
03 December 2012, 11:25
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haha bashar has been "going" for 2 years now. i think he will be "going" for a very very long time still. years will be like decades for the m14s, they chose the wrong camp :)
03 December 2012, 11:53
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mowaten, it is clear that bashar is losing ground, just read about it... the americans are now trying to position themselves for the after bashar period after having denied that it was more than just a rebellion but a true revolution...
prepare your tissues for you ll weep very soon at the loss of your beloved baathist regime...
03 December 2012, 12:34
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still listening to nasrocarp who is telling you that "nothing is going on in Syria and things are going normal like always?" ba2ar..
03 December 2012, 12:49
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we shall see peace, we shall see, only time can tell.
for the moment you've been saying the same thing for over a year now, it's starting to sound like a broken record. maybe you should look at it from another source than the rami abdulrahman dominated medias. you don't have to get it from sana either, try some third-party sources and see. and if you dont want to don't, your opinion wont change a thing (mine neither for that matter)
mohammad: woof woof
03 December 2012, 14:15
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i said "woof woof" mohammad, i'm doing an effort here to speak your language.
03 December 2012, 17:31
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mowaten your friends always said that nothing was going on in syria just a few rebllions in remote cities, that it will be over by the following week and so on... bashar with his mighty army isn t able to crush rebels with light weapons! and you are mocking us? you should mock your M8 friends analysis! they thought that with his army bashar would stop violence in a few days! lol!
please mowaten be realist! by the way the spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs in syria just fled the country... end is near it seems....
03 December 2012, 17:43
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peace man you are a wall, or more like a brick.
no they did not "always" say that, they said that at first, and since the numbers of mercenaries sent to fight syria were boosted. tens of thousands are there, and they have thousands of doushka-equipped jeeps, we see tens of carcasses of those destroyed everyday by the syria regular army, they have stinger missiles, they have anti-tank weaponry, they have all the guerrilla advantages (ability to hide within the population, mobility, hit and run attacks etcetc).
when this became clear "my friends", as you call them, said the cleanup would take longer time than expected at first.
in the mean time, YOUR friends announced a million times than he was in his last days. about 600 "last days" later (and counting) you're still saying the same stuff. let's talk about it in another 600 last days.
03 December 2012, 17:54
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what would you expect mowaten? people demonstrating shot like rabbits for weeks and you d expect them to stay still?
you thought that the rebels wouldn t find the help they needed anywhere? you believe that bashar by letting the situation rot it wouldn t come to that? of course extremists try to infiltrate and to take advantage of the situation, it always happen like that.
even americans didn t believe that it will turn that way and never lift their fingers to help the rebels!
but keep betting on bashar and you ll bite your fingers soon... i guess your M8 friends will dance and sing after his departure to thank him again for all the good he did....
04 December 2012, 13:16
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they got what they were asking for, end of martial law, liberation of political prisonners and opening of the political scene to opposition parties, and much more. yes it wasnt perfect but nothing comes perfect immediately, there was room for progress and evolution and contructive change.
the mercenaries didnt want that and THEY kept shooting at protesters and soldiers, or using the protesters as human shields to shoot at security forces. they took homs and baba amro and tried to impose an islamic caliphate and DISGUSTED the locals who actually ASKED the army to come clean them. you speak only out of your self-centered hatred against assad, you dont care about syrians and if they have to die by the thousands and destroy their own country for you to feel you got your vengeance against hafez el assad then you're in for it.
04 December 2012, 06:16
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A agree geha! Better learn from peace :)
I will put his quote on my twitter account and also my email signature :
"of course mowaten! evidence is never released publicly before a trial! no wonder you won t find any! evidence is produced DURING the trial not before... "
We love F A C T S. Bring some and believe me we will all be by your side dear ;)
Why we don't trust the tsl? Look how the US invaded iraq and only then admitted that the mass destruction weapons was a 'fabricated excuse' ;)
so anybody with a brain would wait for FACTS before judging. Just like your best friend was caught (purpose of this article)
04 December 2012, 08:15
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@mowaten
FT was refering to the "shiaa" in his post. This is why I called him sectarian. Now his post was deleted, but obviously you had not read it before you started lecturing me... how typical...
04 December 2012, 12:39
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and i was answering mohammad_ca saying "you talk about salafis/wahhabis and accuse others of sectarianism...ghabi."
why did you feel lectured?
03 December 2012, 10:14
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FT, inadvertently you have also spoken for the likes of Sayed Hassan and Michel Aoun whose work is almost all dedicated to non-Lebanese nations. You see, it's like prosperity, it's contagious, it goes round, the same can be said of sickness, it's starts somewhere and eventually must spread around. The secret of the whole saga though is this, M8 partisans have repeatedly shown their unwillingness yo criticize their side's proscriptions all the while pouncing on the slightest reactions of M14. Either you people show impartiality, or your criticism will remain non-starter.
03 December 2012, 10:18
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I totally stand against any Lebanese interference in the Syrian war, so if Mr. Sakr is involved then he must be taken to task. But having said this it does bring to mind that Hezbollah is even far more involved in receiving weapons, finance and training from both Syria and Iran, and now the flow is moving in the opposite direction, towards Syria. Therefore half-baked legal solutions will never produce the kind of justice that elevates societies above suspicions, if Sakr is to be taken to task, then Hezbollah must also be taken to task, otherwise let everyone make his peace with himself by understanding that no one is blind these days.
03 December 2012, 12:57
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i respect your stance as expressed in your first sentence.
regarding the flow of weapons however, it's not as simple as one direction versus the opposite one. it's different actors on both sides, it's different dynamics and different implications.
the weapons sent to hezbollah served to fight off israel, and serve as a guarantee today, as it's the only deterrence against israeli aggressions (i know you disagree that HA takes on that role, but i also trust you know that today no other force inside or outside lebanon could stop israel from attacking us if we were to drop weapons)
03 December 2012, 12:58
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regarding the FSA, it's, to the contrary, putting lebanon in danger. and it's not just about sending them weapons, m14 is also letting syrian and arab fighers/mercenaries/terrorists/rebels (call them as you wish) setup training camps, and establish a foreign armed force. all this on behalf of a foreign agenda (clearly spearheaded by saudi and qatar on basis of sectarian motivations)... it dangerously resembles the palestinian situation before the civil war
04 December 2012, 10:38
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My dear brother Mowaten, I am one of those people who will never ignore the sacrifices of Hezbollah, so I will eternally remain grateful to them. But then bro, when weapons proliferate outside the control of the state, we are bound to enter a hazardous territory. Since we took independence, have we as Lebanese learned the lessons of this catastrophic venture. After decades, we must support the state and only the state, only the state can and should carry weapons and no one else. Then to interfere in any other country's affairs remains as ever, an eternal danger, that too is a lesson we need to add to our curriculum.
04 December 2012, 12:44
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"only the state can and should carry weapons and no one else" i agree with that as an ideal, and i totally think we should reach that eventually, but now is not the time, now these weapons are still crucially needed. israel hasent attacked us since 2006, they even stopped the traditional little summer bombings on our power plants. in the same time they attacked gaza twice since 2006, why do you think that is? the lebanese army is incapable now to fight off israel, even if it absorbs HA men and arsenal.
dropping weapons now is surrendering, this is worse for me than the inconvenience and less-than-ideal situation of having arms out of state control.
i think we should bear with that a little longer, the struggle has been long, and hard, and generations have made sacrifices to get us where we are now, let's not abandon it all before we reach the goal.
03 December 2012, 14:12
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what a bunch of crap coming out of you mowaten!
only the Lebanese armed forces should have arms, all the rest are illegal weapons held by militias.
so the flow f weapons both ways is not OK.
03 December 2012, 14:19
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oh another one with a mouth full of "crap" giving lessons :)
anyway that is your opinion, and it is the most hypocrite broken record, knowing that all factions in lebanon have weapons, always did, but you are hell bent on HA's weapons, which happens to be the only ones which pose a threat to israel. keep barking, the weapons are here to stay.
03 December 2012, 15:25
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"pose a threat to Israel"? you forgot Beirut and the mountains apparently, ghabi.
03 December 2012, 17:44
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no mohammad, i forgot nothing. and HA is still the only threat to israel.
03 December 2012, 17:47
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"and HA is still the only threat to israel" and to lebanon don t forget to add that....
04 December 2012, 12:46
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all the lebanese are the threat to lebanon, they all are, always were. let each one clean before his doorstep instead of pointing the finger at others.
03 December 2012, 11:14
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They (M14 and M8) are all a bunch of liers and they are playing their followers like blind sheep! I hope one day the Lebanese will wake up and realise that change is desperately needed and it starts by NOT voting in and of the existing politicians!!!!!
03 December 2012, 12:31
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Supporting the Syrian revolution and overthrowing ASSad is the best thing that can happen to Lebanon. So, yes, he IS working for Lebanon.
04 December 2012, 00:40
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the only way anyone wld be working for Lebanon is by dissociating itself. any other way or involvement is prejudicial to the country, esp when you get so deeply involved.
04 December 2012, 06:06
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freemind that WOULD be true if ASSad regime had not been interfering in Lebanese affairs since 1975
03 December 2012, 12:32
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you talk about salafis/wahhabis and accuse others of sectarianism...ghabi.
03 December 2012, 12:46
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Anytime something has to do with sunnis you point out salafis/wahhabis BS so yes you are being sectarian baddak massassa?
03 December 2012, 13:44
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we are just sending all the weapons they sent into Lebanon back. both groups are a load of crap.. and again i reiterate my hope that President Michel Sulieman runs with his own bloc and trounce all the traitors that make up both m14 and m8.
03 December 2012, 13:44
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we are just sending all the weapons they sent into Lebanon back. both groups are a load of crap.. and again i reiterate my hope that President Michel Sulieman runs with his own bloc and trounce all the traitors that make up both m14 and m8.
03 December 2012, 13:49
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FartingTart he's a Shi3a and since HA came to the scene Shi3as are forbidden to put any of their energy working for Lebanon it's against their religion.
03 December 2012, 14:13
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hahaha... boring says the unemplyed who feeds us with tens of repetitive comments evryday lol :)
You're sectarian! Deal with it!
03 December 2012, 15:10
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So no one asked how this conversation was recorded and how it was intercepted and who leaked it?
Msatil ya 3amme!!!
The telecom ministry is refusing to give the data to the Security agencies when it's about their allies killing and blowing cars in Lebanon, but is ready to leak data of their political opponents trading weapons!!!
And no one cares to look more into it????
03 December 2012, 15:27
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God bless you you Sheikh Saad and Saqr. We need to send more weapons to the FSA and in the open...We hate Bashar All Assad...Mr. Saqr is a Shia mulim and he's hopefully visionaries like him will prevent retributions of the new Syria against it's revolution....M8 will pay dearly unfortunaltly...
03 December 2012, 16:41
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Isn't that the same guy who a few weeks ago denied providing weapons to the FSA? Isn't he the one who dared anyone to find eveidence linking him to providing weapons to the FSA? LOL what a joke!!!
03 December 2012, 17:23
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salafis and wahhabis are not a sect, they are followers of an ideology. talking of sunnis would be sectarian, denouncing an intolerant violent doctrine is not.
03 December 2012, 17:29
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so if i describe hizbocrap supporters as safawis then I am not being sectarian???
03 December 2012, 17:38
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no, you'd just be irrelevant, and lame trying to be insulting.
now if you start saying "shias this" and "shias that" THEN you would be sectarian.
03 December 2012, 18:09
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so your comments on salafis and wahhabis are not sectarian but irrelevant and lame, gotcha...
04 December 2012, 04:26
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So whats the difference here? Saqr admits to helping Syria and hizballah does not? Clown will be off his soap box for a while as there is nothing but bad news for his governement the one that was supposed to make a huge difference and turn things around for Lebanon. Syrias fight is not just for Syria but for Lebanon too so Saqr irrelevent of what side your on did we he beleives is right no different than Hizballah aiding Israel as you would call it.
04 December 2012, 08:49
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Actualy it is good for the she3a community that saqr actively supports the Syrian revolution. This would give some light in the dark tunnel of hizbustan. Mowaten, basharak is going away.. get over it, and the unless something dramatic happens the she3a of lebanon are gona face dire consequences. In that regard saqr is actualy working for lebanon and for the she3as.
05 December 2012, 13:18
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lol. when he'll be gone i'll get over it, in the mean time keep counting your chickens.
also you just admitted something i've been saying for a while, that the salafis if they get to power will reinstate syrian hegemony over lebanon and decide who they punish and who they pamper. how else would the "she3a of lebanon are gona face dire consequences" ?
one more reason to prefer bashar, who actually got out of lebanon without even a bullet fired.
04 December 2012, 08:51
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i like that you say by some "miracle" lol, that means you finaly accepted the reality. Aoun will go pay tributes to the rebels and so will most M8ers exept hizubstan who is stuck and will face destructive isolation. You are too young F.T im sorry, that you even do not know that the Syrian army did kick hizzie ass in beirut in the 80's and yes killed scores of their men. Watch how Aoun taba3ak will greet the Syrian rebels one day.
