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Did you know? :-)

1. The armed Salafi group Jund al Sham in Ein el Helwe refugee camp in South Lebanon is referred to by the inhabitants of the camp as "Jund al Sitt". Jund al Sitt Bahiya al Hariri, that is.

2. The bank (Bank al-Bahr al-Mutawassit / BankMed) that was robbed, and through which the Fateh al-Islam people used to withdraw their cheques, is owned by Hariri Empire. Now you will say, why would they rob the bank (or rather, $1,500 from the bank) ? Because Hariri Empire, somehow "discovered" that Syria (someone should write a Syrian version of "Blame Canada"...) has managed to infiltrate and use the Hariri Empire bank to pay the Fateh al-Islam fighters, and duly froze the accounts. BankMed is like a pressure cooker (I never liked it when my mom used pressure cooker, once she forgot to open the 'air' vent thing and the whole thing was about to explode. Now I always say, if I survived the pressure cooker, I can survive anything). It seems the Bank al Madina scandal will pale in comparison to this one. Interesting times indeed...

The plot/conspiracy/Syrian infiltration thickens.
Stay tuned for more fascinating developments, folks.

And now for the best part... I now have added a new label/category on my blog: Blame Syria.

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posted by Angry Anarchist @ 5/28/2007 07:45:00 PM, ,



In their own words :-)

المستقبل - الجمعة 13 أيار 2005

من الذي ركّب ملف أحداث الضنية ومجدل عنجر، وأقنع مراكز القرار الغربية بوجود القاعدة المختلق في لبنان، من أجل المتاجرة بالحالة الإسلامية في بازار الإرهاب الدولي؟

أليس الذي فعل ذلك النظام الأمني اللبناني ـ السوري المشترك، وهو الذي يستمر اليوم في استباحة المسلمين والمسيحيين معاً من أجل الإبقاء على رموزه في السلطة بأي ثمن؟

المستقبل - الثلثاء 10 أيار 2005

التيار السلفي
[The Salafi Current/Movement]
يعتبر التيار السلفي في لبنان من ابرز التيارات الاسلامية، وان كان لا يشكل اطاراً منظماً وموحداً بل هو خليط من مجموعات وشخصيات ومدارس وجمعيات ومعاهد شرعية تختلف في ما بينها سواء على الصعد السياسية او الفكرية او حتى وصولاً الى الخلافات الشخصية.
ويمكن تقسيم التيار السلفي في لبنان بين اتجاهين اساسيين:
الاول ما يسمى السلفية الجهادية، وهو يضم المجموعات المتأثرة بتنظيم "القاعدة" وبعض الجماعات الاسلامية الجهادية في مصر والجزائر وحالياً في العراق.
والثاني التيار السلفي الفكري ويضم شخصيات ومجموعات متنوعة تعمل في الاطر السياسية والفكرية والتربوية.
ويبرز الاتجاه السلفي الجهادي من خلال بعض المجموعات التي تنفذ عمليات عسكرية او امنية ومنها عملية اغتيال الشيخ نزار الحلبي ومتفجرة البلمند ومحاولة اقتحام السفارة الروسية او تهريب الاسلحة الى الاردن وصولاً لمجموعات البقاع الغربي ومجدل عنجر ومجموعة احمد الميقاتي.ا
[Angry Anarchist: who gave amnesty to the Majdal Anjar gang?]
وليس لهذا الاتجاه اطار معلن وان كان بعض افراده ارتبطوا عملياً بمجموعة "عصبة الانصار" الموجودة في مخيم عين الحلوة، كما برزت بعض المجموعات المنشقة عنها كـ"جماعة النور" وجماعة "جند الشام".
[Angry Anarchist: Who funds Jund al Sham? Not Sitt Bahiya al Hariri, by any chance...?]
وهذا الاتجاه يبرز في بعض المناسبات أو لتنفيذ عمليات محددة وإن كان نشاطه في لبنان ينطلق من اعتبار هذا البلد "ممراً وليس مقراً" للذهاب الى دول أخرى.
وثمة تخوّف كبير من ازدياد نشاط هذه المجموعات في المرحلة المقبلة بعد الانسحاب السوري نظراً للدور الذي كانت تلعبه سوريا في لجم هذه المجموعات أو ضبط تحركاتها.
وإن كانت محاولة ربط عملية اغتيال الرئيس رفيق الحريري بهذا التيار من خلال قضية أحمد أبو عدس لم تنجح وأثبتت معظم الوقائع عدم صحتها.
أما الاتجاه السلفي الفكري والسياسي فمن أبرز رموزه التاريخية الشيخ سالم الشهال الذي أسس في السبعينات "نواة جيش التحرير الإسلامي"، ثم بدأت تظهر شخصيات ومؤسسات جديدة أبرزها "معهد الدعوة والإرشاد"، و"جمعية دعوة الإيمان والعدل والإحسان" التي يرأسها الدكتور حسن الشهال، و"مركز حمزة للولاء" ويشرف عليه الشيخ زكريا المصري، و"معهد الأمين" و"معهد طرابلس الديني" و"معهد الإمام البخاري" و"مسجد أهل السنة" و"معهد الوقف الإسلامي". وتنتشر هذه المعاهد في بيروت وطرابلس وعكار وصيدا والبقاع الغربي.
وقد بدأت التيارات الإسلامية في الأسابيع الماضية سلسلة اتصالات ولقاءات في ما بينها للتنسيق والتعاون وثم تشكيل "المكتب السياسي الإسلامي" برئاسة الدكتور حسن الشهال.
ويبدو أن الانسحاب السوري من لبنان واغتيال الرئيس الشهيد رفيق الحريري ساهما في تعزيز تحركات التيارات السلفية التي تسعى لـتكثيف نشاطاتها وتحركاتها في المرحلة المقبلة، وهي تلقى دعماً مالياً ومعنويات من العديد من المؤسسات الإسلامية في الكويت والسعودية.ا
[Angry Anarchist translation: "they [the Salafi currents/movements] receive financial and moral support from a number of Islamic associations in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia."]
إضافة للتيارات والحركات والجمعيات التي تحدثنا عنها سابقاً فإن هناك الكثير من المجموعات والجمعيات والهيئات الإسلامية الناشطة على الصعيد الإسلامي في مختلف المناطق اللبنانية، والتي ازداد نشاطها بعد اغتيال الرئيس الحريري واتخاذ قرار الانسحاب السوري، وبعض هذه الهيئات كان يعاني سابقاً الضغوط الأمنية والسياسية التي تعيق تحركه ويجد اليوم أنه أكثر قدرة على النشاط والحيوية.ا

Stay tuned for the next round of "in their own words". :o)

Summary for those who do not read Arabic:

These are two articles that appeared in Al-Mustaqbal (Hariri) newspaper in May 2005, which addressed the question of the Dinnieh and Majdal Anjar events, as well as the Salafi movements in Lebanon. The excerpt I quoted from the first article argues that Al-Qaida in Lebanon is fictitious, and that Syria was just trying to convince western "centers of decision" that it does exist, in order to do business with the "Islamic condition" in the "global terrorism bazaar". The second article talks about the Salafi movements post-Syrian withdrawal, and heaps praise on the newly found freedom of activity of these groups, which are divided into two groups: the "Jihadi" ones (which carry out military operations), and the "intellectual" ones. It also says that Syria used to restrain these groups, but following the Hariri assassination and the Syrian withdrawal, their activities have increased. Most importantly, they receive financial support and morale boost from various Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian associations.

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posted by Angry Anarchist @ 5/26/2007 01:27:00 PM, ,



ابواب الجهنم

الجيش عمبيقصف مخيم نهر البارد
عمبيرتكب مجازر بحق اللاجئين الفلسطينيين
كلو تحت غطاء محاربة فتح الإسلام

فمين اللي عمبيفتح ابواب الجهنم ع مين؟
ومين اللي وصّل الأمور لهالحالة هاي؟
سوريا سوريا سوريا سوريا
سوريا الجبارة
الها ايد بكل صغيرة وكبيرة بتصير بلبنان

والنداءات من داخل المخيم
ما حدا سامعها الهيئة
ولا حدا شايف القتلى المدنيين
ما اصلاً هني لاجئين
ودمن مش غالي
وأكيد
بدنا الحقيقة
بس مش لنهر البارد
ولا لعيون نهر البارد
ولَو نسيتوا؟ عيب عليكن
بدنا الحقيقة
من اجل لبنان
لعيون الحريري
آخ لو كان الحريري معنا
كان انقذ لبنان
من القوى اللي بدّا تدمر لبنان
بس عالقليلة ابنو سعد الدين
الله يحفظو
عارف مين هي هيدي القوى
"كلنا منعرف"
واذا في ناس ما عارفين
معناتا اوهام
ونحنا معركتنا ضد الأوهام
والأوهام القاعدين بالـ"داونتاون"
او بالأحرى قوات الإحتلال الوهمية
الذين هني أضرب من قوات الإحتلال الصهيونية
لازم يضبوا غراضن ويفلّوا
موسم سياحي
وأهل الخليج ناطرين
بدن يعملوا "شوبينغ"
ويعملوا الإشياء اللي ما فيون يعملوها بالسعودية
وما تنسوا التبضع
تبضع بالنساء
بس لليلة وحدة مش اكثر
يعني معليش نحنا منعرف انو الشعب اللبناني معروف بصموده
فضلكن صامدين
والناس المعترين
يا حرام
بس شوفوا هآ نحنا كمان عنا ناس معترين بالسعودية
يعني منكن لوحدكن
فما تزعلوا

تعميد بالنار
وها قد دخل لبنان الفلك الأميركي
حرب على الإرهاب
ونشر الحرية
وثقافة الحياة
دفاعاً عن النفس
وأكيد لعيون رفيق الحريري
فلم اميركي طويل
مثل
"بولد آند بيوتيفول"
واحد بيقتل الثاني
واحد بيفقد ذاكرتو
وحدة بتقتل وحدة ثانية
اغتيالات ، مثل ما بسمّيها مدير مركز الشاي احمد فتفت
اغتيالات بالجملة والمفرق
وإذا بدكن
في "ديليفري" كمان
مجاناً
اذا اشتريتوا البضاعة من اميركا
بيجي عليها "ديسكاونت"
بالإضافة لـ"ديليفري" بظرف ثلاثة ايام

بس اهم شي
برأي واحد شيوعي
(وشو شيوعي يا عيني)
انو الجيش يقضي ع فتح الإسلام
بأية وسيلة كانت
يعني حتى
فتح ابواب الجهنم اذا لزم الأمر
شرط انو باب الجهنم ما ينفتح بالجميزة
او مونو
مخيمات؟ لاجئين؟
يدبروا راسن
تخّنوها هالمرة
يا عهد الأممية
تحية

وتحية للجيش اللبناني
لهالشجاعة
ضد الإرهاب
ارهاب فتح الإسلام واللاجئين الفلسطينيين
مش ارهاب الصهاينة
تحية تحية لجيشنا
وما تنسوا قوى الأمن
والميليشيات التي قدمت خدماتها ضد الإرهاب مبارح
وتحية لمدفعيات الجيش
والله يفتح ابواب الجهنم على اعداء لبنان
وما تنسوا شيخ سعد بيعرف مين هني
ووليد عيدو بعدو ما باع دمو ليجيب سلاح؟
يمكن حان الوقت

نهر البارد
وعين الحلوة من قبل شوي
سوريا سوريا سوريا
من الشمال للجنوب
من الشرق للغرب
بعد شوي رح يطلع سعد الحريري
ويعلن انو نظام البعث هو في الحقيقة الله عز وجل

بس اهم شي
انو واحد شيوعي
بيسهر بالجميزة
طالب بتطهير المخيمات من فتح الإسلام
بس بعدو مهووس بدور الجيش بتل الزعتر
ليش؟
آه العماد عون
وصلت الفكرة
يا عهد الأممية
تحية تحية

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posted by Angry Anarchist @ 5/21/2007 09:15:00 AM, ,



It IS funny. It is DAMN funny (can't you hear me laughing?)

I hate to take on such a tone, but sometimes I am left with no other choice. This is one of those times.

You, and your truth, your international tribunal and your masters and your slaves and your blood-selling politicians and your zu'ama and your ta'ife and your tarik jdide and your bcharre and your rabieh and your dahieh and your chouf kingdom, and your shallow, idiotic analyses and finger-pointing and ignorance, are living proof that my Lebanese passport is not even fit to be toilet paper. Though I paid 300 fucking thousand Lebanese liras for it. Your currency by the way is equally unfit to serve as toilet paper.

I will not even waste my time preaching about not repeating the civil war. Go ahead, do it. You deserve all that you bring upon yourselves. Your herd mentality, your sectarianism, your racism, your hatred, your fucking obsession with Hariri (wlak k** emmo la Rafiq al Hariri w kl beit al-Hariri), are beyond disgusting. You call yourself a nation? I call you a joke. And I laugh. Today I will laugh at you, and you can tell me it ain't funny, but I will keep laughing. Because you are a joke. And you are too busy doing your masters' bidding, or coming up with conclusions based on -- you guessed it -- nothing, not one shred of evidence; and building on it an entire empire of ideas and imaginary explanations of a thousand other phenomena in the past and present, as well as predictions of the future. You are a joke, and I laugh out loud as you get slaughtered. So, do not mind my interruption, continue doing your masters' bidding.

لعيونَك ابو بهاء.
ولعيون لينين كمان. قال شيوعي قال.
اذا الشيوعية هيك بفكروا يعني كارثة.ا

You got the point. I hope.
Yes, it is damn funny.

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posted by Angry Anarchist @ 5/20/2007 11:57:00 PM, ,



Fatfatism of the day

في المجال الامني، قال وزير الشباب والرياضة أحمد فتفت امس ان المتهمين بجريمة اغتيال الشاب زياد قبلان والفتى زياد غندور "معروفون وهم من بيت شمص. وقد ترك العمل والتحقيق للقضاء اللبناني". واضاف: "هناك معلومات بأن المتهمين موجودون في الضاحية الجنوبية، فيما تشير معلومات أخرى الى انهم هربوا الى الخارج، ولكن من المؤكد ان الجناة لن يفلتوا من يد العدالة ولو بعد 50 سنة".ا
In the security field, Minister of Youth and Sports Ahmad Fatfat said yesterday that the accused [Angry Anarchist: not "suspects"] in the crime of assassination of Ziad Qabalan and Ziad Ghandour "are known and they are from the Shamas clan. And the job and investigation has been left to the Lebanese judiciary." He added: "There are information that the accused are in the Southern suburbs of Beirut, whereas other information indicate that they have escaped the country, but one thing is for sure, the criminals will not get away from the grip of justice, even after 50 years."

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posted by Angry Anarchist @ 5/20/2007 02:15:00 AM, ,



"A picture is worth a thousand words"

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posted by Angry Anarchist @ 5/14/2007 10:54:00 PM, ,



Photo Tuesday



This "Photo Tuesday", I will not be satisfied with a mere caption. I need to rant.

Every now and then, in Lebanon, you stumble upon an oddly named place, an oddly named store, an oddly named building (yup, they name 'regular' buildings here... of course, other than the ingenious "Our place is the 3rd building after Hajj Hassan's uncle's house, third floor, 2nd door"). And now, the "tower" thing seems to be in fashion. Every now and then, a new 6-7 (or 8) story building pops up, and is honored by the term "tower". Today, as I walked around in New Jdeideh, I noticed this "tower", and snapped a shot. I kept wondering what the word "developers" was all about. What is the meaning of "Developers Tower"? Is it some sort of gathering place for developers? But then, the apostrophe is missing at the end, so it couldn't be that. I couldn't help but wonder what all those buildings will serve. There is no shortage of buildings, apartments, office space! On the Rabieh road, there are at least 3 new centres; then there are the older ones that are pretty much out of use, since all the stores that opened there closed down due to lack of business. It seems that every person with some money to waste is now buying a plot and erecting a building -- or tower. I am sitting here in my room, surrounded by 3 -- THREE!! -- construction sites. Apartment buildings, 4 stories high (with some "wasta" you can also add a 5th floor in this 4-story zone). They say there's no money to buy anything, no money for cars, no money for new apartments, but then, where is the money for the construction coming from? These are not isolated phenomena, they are widespread (at least where I live) and are not housing projects by companies, they are individual initiatives. And then there is the issue of the treatment (or rather, abuse) of the laborers, who are mostly Syrians. I once woke up to horrible shrieks and yells, it turned out the owner of the construction site and the engineer were yelling at one of the workers and abusing him physically... Those who whine and continue to cry "there's no money", have the best of luxuries, whereas silence rules over the poor, the exploited, and dispossessed.

I keep wondering, if there is no money, how come I saw at least a 100 brand-new Nissan Tiidas parked in only one tiny "suburb" of Beirut, which claims to be "suffering" (it just can't be that all of the Tiidas belong to "visitors")? And what is worse than the whining and the brand new shiny cars (some quite expensive, topping the $50,000 level) is the condescending attitude towards those who do not have any of these luxuries; for example, towards taxi drivers with oldish cars, who struggle to feed their families, a fact which the poor suffering brand new car owners forget (how convenient). The poor, economically depressed cry-babies turn into abusive monsters when they come across real samples of what they claim to be going through (but aren't in reality). What's worse, sectarianism has plagued this country so much that it seems there are now different standards to judge poverty. A Christian with a yearly salary of $20,000 is considered "poor", whereas a Sunni or Shi'ite with 1/4th of that salary would not even be considered to be anywhere close to being poor. And Iraqi and Palestinian refugees are... not considered at all (except when keeping track of their sectarian "belonging", lest it threaten the "delicate sectarian balance"; batrak Sfeir will demand that we bring some more Christian Iraqi refugees to maintain the 6-6 balance).

Welcome to the world of capitalism and sectarianism... and Lebanon! Enjoy your towers, and don't forget, they (we?) love life...
Oh and, Syria is a hundred times better than Lebanon in almost every respect. Now shut the hell up and get over yourselves.

You demand a tribunal to try the (unknown) killers of Hariri?
I demand a tribunal to try the (known, clear as light of day) killers of 1200 people!!

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posted by Angry Anarchist @ 4/03/2007 04:22:00 PM, ,



The City I Love

Well well, I have been tagged to talk about the city I love.

I don't know if small towns qualify, I assume they don't, so I will not talk (extensively) about my favourite town Shusha in Occupied Azerbaijan, with its breathtaking beauty and simplicity, its pulverized roads and empty streets, the few Ladas that are a luxury for the few inhabitants that have been able to appropriate them from the fleeing expelled Azeris, the uphill climbs that you have to labour through while the kids laugh at you as they run from one street to the other and you wonder, what the hell, do they have imaginary wings? The ghost town called Shusha, with its amazing mixture of Azerbaijani-Turkic and Persian architecture in what remains of its houses and buildings, the Persian Mosque that was spared from destruction for fear of Iranian retaliation, this place so void of... hope, people, life... So... lifeless, so saddening, so... unnatural in the absence of its original inhabitants, yet so beautiful... a town whose hope hinges on the sound of a car, signaling the arrival of foreigners who would perhaps bring help, candies to the kids, clothes, anything. What more can I say, these are the victims (and tools) of nationalism. So poor, so uneducated, so manipulated, and sooo neglected. Instead of building houses, helping people survive, the first thing their 'leaders' did was renovate the church, another tool for manipulation. Foreigners go there on a sort of clownish 'pilgrimage' to a land they call 'theirs', a land they say was 'liberated' (another word for the ethnic cleansing of its Azeri inhabitants), to encourage the misery of these people. Some of them could not even live for half a day in the houses that the war they cheered for destroyed. I saw some of the American girls, they were extremely upset, one of them was crying. Not for the miserable conditions that the war had brought about for the current inhabitants or the previous expelled ones. But because they could not find a toilet to use and they had to relieve themselves au naturelle. These people should be condemned to ten years of hard labour in one of the Azeri refugee camps. That should teach them the meaning of 'liberation'.

Got carried away for a bit there, didn't I...
Back to the city I love... I suppose it'd have to be Las Vegas. OK, OK, I am joking. What were you thinking, geez, these people have the statue of Lenin in the heart of capitalism. They must've been truly pissed off to do something like that. Ideological bankruptcy calls for desperate measures and equally desperate symbolisms.

So it is Beirut...
  1. بيروت العروبة - The Beirut of (the dead) Arabism whose inhabitants insist that Arabism is alive and kicking while chanting "Allah, Hariri, Tarik Jdide" or "Allah, Nasrallah, wl Dahiye kella" or "Aounak jeyi min Allah?" etc etc. Lest you think we are not diverse, we also are home to a sizeable population of clowns who insist Beirut is (not was) Phoenician, and that Lebanon is god's chosen country. Not only did these people prove that god exists, they also know that it is god's chosen country. Tell me, how, how? can one not love this city?
  2. بيروت "أحبّ الحياة"ا - The Beirut of "I love life". Oh yes, you didn't know? We love life. Wallah.
  3. بيروت الدراجات الناريةا - The Beirut of motorcycles. If you want to know what it feels like to want to kill someone, all you have to do is spend a few hours (if that) on the roads of Beirut, and then you will want to run over every single motorcycle-rider you see. Another great product of a great (god's chosen, don't forget) country.
  4. بيروت "وقعت بالجورة اليوم"ا - The Beirut of "My car fell in the pothole today". Not only do we love life, we also like it rough... Life, or rides, I mean.
  5. بيروت المطبّاتا - The Beirut of speedbumps. That's right, we only recently discovered speedbumps, so we are experimenting with them on every street.
  6. بيروت أضواء وإشارات المرورا - The Beirut of traffic lights and signs. "It's red, what was red again? Green is stop, red is go, right? Yalla go! No one stops anyway!" or "ya Elie, turn off those traffic lights, and call them to send a 'traffic policeman' to take care of the traffic!"
  7. ا"فلّوا من بيروتنا"ا- "Leave our Beirut". Didn't you know? Beirut belongs to some Lebanese and not others. To find out if you qualify for ownership or not, please contact Walid Eido at home (+961) 1 782782 or at his office (+961) 1 982100. But be careful, if you scare him, he will sell his blood to buy weapons. Don't come back (if you live to tell the tale) and tell me I didn't warn.
  8. بيروت العنصريةا - The Beirut of racism. "I got me a Sri Lankan maid today", "I retrieved my escaped maid today", "dirty Syrians", "dirty Palestinians", and the latest trend but definitely not a new phenomenon, "dirty Shi'ite".
  9. بيروت "راحت الكهرباء\إجت الكهرباء"ا - The Beirut of "the power went off, the power is back on". We even love life (and especially so) under candlelight.
  10. Did I say Beirutis love life? Yeah, we are unique. Really.
Um, well I have some more... may I?
  1. The falafel mixed with the (literally) breathtaking air of Beirut. You just can't not enjoy it.
  2. The cars that have passed the 'mecanique' test I don't know how. I think it's part of the I love life campaign.
  3. The 'jeeps' that are used for driving 'tests'.
  4. The non-standard-size official cards, a driver's license card being twice as big as the ID card.
  5. The $200 that I have to pay to get a Lebanese passport that Bush, Condie, et al would gladly use for toilet paper.
  6. The 'students' who come to university dressed up as if they are going to a wedding party.
  7. The 2-lane bridges that take more than 4 years to construct.
  8. The people who jump in front of your car trying to cross the street.
  9. The people who run across the highway, when the pedestrian bridge is only 2 meters away from them.
  10. Oh, we need "I love life" billboards to remind us that we love life. Yes, Beirut is so good that sometimes we forget that we love life. I mean, who wouldn't get carried away?
Beirut. The city I love (to hate). No no, I can't possibly say that. What would become of me if Walid Eido reads this post? No no... it should be: Beirut... the city I love. Do I qualify to claim ownership of Beirut, O wise man, O king of kings, O master of Beirut, Walid Eido???

So what should I do now, tag other people with the same question? Sasa? How does it go?

Edit: I tag... um.. the guys (?) over at Remarkz (any taker? Bech? something fun for a change, eh? :P ), MFL, and Mr. Propagandist. :P

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