Video: Hezbollah blames Israel for Lebanese assassination

posted at 5:14 pm on November 21, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Lost today in the furor over Pierre Gemayel’s murder is a report of a second assassination attempt on a Lebanese minister. What’s going on? Anton Efendi of Across the Bay explains:

A few days ago, LF leader Samir Geagea expressed his fears that Syria would attempt to assassinate three ministers in order to deprive the majority of the ability to convene the required two thirds quorum to ratify the international tribunal…

Syria has a primary objective that outweighs everything else: kill the Hariri tribunal, and redominate Lebanon at any cost.

Michael Young made precisely the same point in his must-read column today for Opinion Journal. The Hariri probe and what it means for Assad are at the heart of this. Hence the absurdity of what you’re about to see.

Samir Geagea has also reportedly been marked for death, along with Walid Jumblatt, Saad (son of Rafik) Hariri, and the prime minister himself, Fuad Siniora. Hezbollah’s mass government protest is still set for Thursday; the country is bracing now for street confrontations between Shiites and angry Christians — which, according to Efendi, could play right into Assad’s hands by destabilizing the country and creating a power vacuum for Syria to fill.

Thanks as always to our pal in the UK, kasper kasper, for the clip.

Update: One more element of absurdity — the Phalange party, to which Gemayel belonged and which his family dominated for decades, was allied during the Lebanese civil war with … Israel.

Update: Rusty Shackleford points me towards this post last week at Internet Haganah. Could the assassination have been AQ’s handiwork?

“In the name of God, most Gracious, most Merciful. Oh God, guide our aim, and keep our feet firm. Praise be to God and peace and blessings be upon the messenger of God, Prophet Muhammad, and his household, and companions. We announce that we have arrived in Lebanon and will work to destroy this corrupt government that takes its orders from the US Administration, and we warn all the agents who are attempting to harm us. Let them know that we are lying in wait for them, God willing. Your brethren in the “Al-Qa’ida Organization in Lebanon” are proceeding in their jihad and combat with the enemies of God so that only God is worshipped, as there will either be victory or martyrdom. God is great, God is great. Glory belongs to God, His messenger, and the mujahiddin.”

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