Who are the 'venom spreaders' that everyone is talking about?
The Lebanese Forces said in a statement Friday that the real "spreaders of venom" are Hezbollah, without naming the group, after pro-Hezbollah newspaper al-Akhbar published a report in which it accused a senior LF official of being an "informant" on Hezbollah to the U.S. administration.
President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri had both mentioned Lebanese politicians "spreading venom" in Washington without naming them.
"The media of the resistance has launched a new campaign of misinformation.. The real spreaders of venom and the true informants, are those who pushed the country into the abyss, dragged it into wars, chaos and destruction," the Lebanese Forces' statement said, adding that their positions are the same whether they are stated in public or in private.
The report published Wednesday in al-Akhbar said that Joseph Gebeily is working to convince the U.S. that LF leader Samir Geagea is the only one capable of fighting Hezbollah and reaching a peace accord with Israel, unlike Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.
"He worked for years as an informant for the Saudi and Emirati embassies in the United States and used to send reports to Congressmen to expose Hezbollah's supporters in the U.S.," the report said, claiming that Gebeily also led a campaign against activists from the Free Patriotic Movement in the U.S.
Source: Naharnet
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