The Barbarity of the Syrian regime is matched only by its hypocrisy.
The news below of the caricaturist been kidnapped and beaten up, and his fingers broken, is not new to how the Baathist entity in the artificial country of Syria deals with its critics.
On February 24, 1980, Salim Al-Laouzi, owner and director of the Lebanese al Hawadess magazine, was kidnapped by Syrian Intelligence in the streets of Beirut. He had written commentaries critical of the Syrian Assad regime's occupation of Lebanon.
His body was found two days later by the roadside, his right hand melted in acid. This is a signature of the Syrian Intelligence barbarians of the Baathist entity as they react to any criticism of the Damascus despot.
Hanibaal
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"Syrian Regime Searching for the Cartoonist's Attackers....Who are Thugs sent by the Regime itself!
Syrian police are hunting for the attackers who broke the hand of the country's leading political cartoonist, the official SANA news agency said Friday, after Washington condemned the attack."The competent authorities at the Interior Ministry are seeking the culprits in order to bring them to justice," the agency said.
Opposition activists have accused members of the security services and masked pro-regime militias of being behind the attack.
The US on Thursday condemned the attack.
Citing information from the U.S. embassy in Damascus, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Ferzat's hands had been broken in what she called "the most disgusting and deplorable way to send a message."
Since the start of an anti-regime uprising in March, Ferzat, one of the Arab world's most renowned cartoonists, has published cartoons critical of the brutal crackdown on protesters.
Source Agence France Presse
2 comments:
Welcome back Hanibaal,
I would like to hear about your opinion on the Aoun/Hezbollah relationship. The press has simplified the issue to Aoun threatening to break the alliance unless they give him what he wants (the money for his relatives to spend as they see fit). Will the Hezbollah government give him the money, or is he bluffing?
The Aoun-Hezbollah alliance has always been more one of convenience and common tactical objectives than one of principles. It is inevitable that Aoun will one day break his alliance with hezbollah because of underlying "irreconcilable differences". The question is when?
I always thought it will be sooner rather than later, but it has survived.
One thing people need to understand is that Aoun's motivation for his entire approach to Lebanese politics since his return in 2005 is a very personal one and a very vindictive one. Everything that Aoun is doing is to avenge his eviction from Baabda, which he blames on the March 14 crowd (Hariri, Geagea, Gemayel etc...) back when they were the stooges of Syria, the collaborators, etc.
The issue of the money that Aoun-Bassil want (supposedly to fix the electricity problem) is not, I think,a sufficient condition for Aoun to break with Hezbollah. In fact, right now, he can blame the chameleon Jumblatt whose bloc did not vote for it in Parliament. My prediction is that Aoun will break his alliance with Hezbollah only when the latter has served Aoun's ultimate objective: to humiliate Hariri and the Taef crowd for what they did to Aoun in 1990.
The Hezbollah government will not give him the money.
Hanibaal
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