Al-Sayyed Laid to Rest amid Widespread Anger
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Lebanese Army Sergeant Ali al-Sayyed, who was beheaded by jihadists after being taken captive in the northeastern border town of Arsal, was laid to rest on Wednesday.
A motorcade carrying al-Sayyed's body was transported from the military hospital in Beirut to the Akkar region before he was laid to rest in his hometown of Fnaideq.
TV footage showed the presence of gunmen as the motorcade passed through villages in Akkar.
They opened fire in the air to express their anger at the beheading.
Al-Sayyed's uncle vowed “not to remain silent until the safe return of the captives.”
“You will regret this,” he said.
The soldier's father urged the gunmen not to open fire.
“My son is the nation's martyr as well as the martyr of Akkar and Fnaideq,” he said, expressing similar hopes on the return of the captives.
"He was betrayed by all the politicians, all of them! By parliamentarians and officials, and by the country. He was sold for a cheap price!" thundered his father at the funeral.
Al-Sayyed's body was handed over to military officials on Monday after negotiations with the fighters.
The military said Tuesday that DNA tests confirmed the body is that of al-Sayyed.
The soldier was decapitated by the militants according to photos posted on social networks on August 28.
Al-Sayyed disappeared from Arsal around the time militants from Syria overran Arsal early August, killing and kidnapping soldiers and policemen.
The militants included fighters from the Islamic State group and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front.
Families have demonstrated throughout Lebanon by cutting roads to demand the captives' release.
The Islamic State group holds roughly a third of Iraq and Syria, including several strategically important cities like Fallujah and Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria.
IS has beheaded two U.S. journalists and still holds at least two other Americans hostage.
It has also threatened to behead a British hostage.
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03 September 2014, 12:50
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HA kept the hordes out you genius.
how twisted and biased you must be to accuse those who fought the perpetrators instead of the perpetrators themselves.
03 September 2014, 12:54
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I thought you said hizbo went to protect shia villages and shrines. Do you ever get tired of spreading lies and propaganda
03 September 2014, 13:11
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interesting. and besides that, do you have anything to say that is not childish and pointless?
03 September 2014, 14:19
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Your old story was the enemy is in the south and we must keep our weapons and only drawn at the Israeli to protect the land, your lie now is the same as in 2006, you mess with foreign affairs then you impact every city and house in Lebanon from north to south. Besides now the whole country needs to be armed because your action put Lebanon along with Iraq and Syria conflict. If you loose in Iraq and Syria then Hezbollah weapon bridge is destroyed and that is the fact not you care so much about the people or army of Lebanon.
03 September 2014, 15:04
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interesting that neither mowaten or flamethrower have said RIP to the slain soldier. But they love the army too much
03 September 2014, 17:40
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moshen darwish (Guest): our support for the army does not start and end with 3 letters left on a online forum like some hypocrites here.
03 September 2014, 18:21
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I see, it seems your support for the army starts and ends with your support for hizbullah
04 September 2014, 04:57
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Sure thing, now we have to take a LONG detour to avoid entering dahyeh because it has become secured with 100 checkpoints to deter car bombs. Is this the life we want our citizens to live in similar to the Israeli awaiting a slipped terrorist act? Do we ever think of the two way street and that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?
04 September 2014, 05:08
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I am with Hezbollah fighters if they are NOW carrying weapons at the Lebanese borders and protecting the borders of Lebanon from the cancer of da3ish in Lebanon. Going to qusayr and halab has invited the thief to our house for retaliation.
03 September 2014, 12:59
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RIP hero
and da3ech and nousra flags should be burned every day and the people against these burns of terrorists flags should be burned also
03 September 2014, 13:14
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It's incredible. First comment blames HA. This is absolutely ridiculous. Do you truly believe that if HA had not participated in the Syrian war then IS would have sent us flowers instead ?
Did the Christians of Mosul who are now near-extinct, commit atrocities against Sunnis? Did the Yazidis who are being butchered daily by IS do anything to deserve this?
I'm not defending HA, but this "blame HA" game has become absolutely ridiculous.
03 September 2014, 13:25
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of course you are not defending HA, now how could you. You are not even shiia
03 September 2014, 15:20
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@corruptible I love these types of replies. Completely bankrupt and worthless just like their writer.
03 September 2014, 13:27
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Incorruptible, I agree fully to what you wrote. This is an evidence of weakness because the people who blame HA can't do the 25% of what the latter has done. And anyway, HA or no HA, the terrorist IS will try to get into Lebanon, not to defend the Sunnis but they need an outlet towards the Mediterranean sea.
Stop this childish accusations: Na na na, it is them not us, na na na.
3ama wake up guys.
03 September 2014, 14:32
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You are absolutely correct but that makes us different than Jordan, an example of an Arab country between the Israeli and Syria. Instead of outsmarting the terrorists and be united for the past 5 to 10 yrs, we spent it debating an armed militia that dragged us into non sense battle after battle from 2006 until now.
03 September 2014, 14:34
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@anonymetexas
You are so out of touch with reality. The christian population of Iraq wasn't harming anyone, even if the Iraqi army didn't do their job of protecting them, what business does ISIS have attacking these defensless people.
With your lame excuse you just showed what kind of lame brain are you.
03 September 2014, 14:27
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Next time shut up and be quiet if your comments are as stupid as you are. Everyone is against messing with the army but the truth hurt when it's said. You forgot the black flags in qusayr and the chanting by Hezbollah members, is it not the same thing when in 2006 Hezbollah kidnapped the Israeli soldiers and danced then the entire country and army paid the price for there deeds?
03 September 2014, 15:25
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There was no isis in syria when hezbollah got involved in the war. This claim that they were somehow going to syria to keep them out of lebanon is a blatant lie. How can you go to fight a group that did not yet exist? In fact, hezbollah, the assad gov't and the iranians all assisted the rise of isis by mass murdering sunnis and inflaming the sectarian conflict and putting syria into a state of chaos where a group like isis could thrive.
03 September 2014, 15:48
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amazing logic! if only it wasnt demolished by facts.
first involvement of HA in syria: quseyr in august 2013.
first involvement of abu bakr el baghdadi in syria: in august 2011.
03 September 2014, 16:14
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amazing facts! First involvement of the terror militia in Syria was during the first 2 months of the syrian revolution. There are videos on youtube that show your terrorists driving tanks and being welcomed by the syrian army dating back to those early days. Not every piece of propaganda you make up becomes fact.
03 September 2014, 16:19
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Haha, I think you have those dates reversed habibi. ISIS was not a significant force in syria until 2013. Nusra had a presence before that but even they were a minority. In 2012 the FSA was strong and making a lot of progress against the SAA. As would be expected in any war, the people have become more radicalized as the war grinds on and the people suffer more and become more hardened. Also, the FSA has received very little support so many left for the more radical factions.
03 September 2014, 16:19
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Hezb has been in syria since the beginning. Of course they tried to keep it secret until qusayr but they had soldiers in syria since 2011 and they openly declared their support for the syrian government even when it was mass murdering unarmed syrians. They opposed the FSA even though they were never a threat to lebanon.
03 September 2014, 17:27
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not only unrelated, but also sneaky and deceitful comment anonyme. i see you're being true to yourself.
trying to insinuate that because HA helped anti-US insurgency in iraq it helped zarqawi. news flash: there has been dozens and dozens of anti-US insurgency groups in iraq, many of which have nothing to do with zarqawi.
03 September 2014, 17:31
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eagledawn: "There are videos on youtube that show your terrorists driving tanks"
HA does not have tanks but somehow they had to get HA men to operate syrian tanks? habibi the syrian army has thousands of tanks and crews that have been trained for years, if they need HA for anything it's certainly not to drive tanks. if you're going to make propaganda lies at least try to make them credible :)
03 September 2014, 17:36
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"In March 2011, protests began in Syria against the government of Bashar al-Assad. In the following month violence between demonstrators and security forces led to a gradual militarisation of the conflict.[284] In August 2011, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi began sending Syrian and Iraqi ISI members, experienced in guerilla warfare, across the border into Syria to establish an organization inside the country. Led by a Syrian known as Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, the group began to recruit fighters and establish cells throughout the country.[285][286] On 23 January 2012, the group announced its formation as Jabhat al-Nusra l’Ahl as-Sham—Jabhat al-Nusra—more commonly known as al-Nusra Front"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
03 September 2014, 19:23
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"news flash: there has been dozens and dozens of anti-US insurgency groups in iraq, many of which have nothing to do with zarqawi."
How convenient, you distinguish between insurgent groups in Iraq but somehow in syria they are all the same. Syrian rebels are all terrorists and takfiris eh? In other words, they are all sunnis so they are all your enemy. This much is clear.
04 September 2014, 10:17
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"they were all in from the first protest"
that's a lie, fabricated by takfiris to justify their attacks against shias and never substantiated.
04 September 2014, 10:27
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lol anonyme, you're getting funnier by the minute. have you even read that piece of TP?
"This development was reported by the Jerusalem Post"
"An Iranian student passed out flyers to Jerusalem Post reporters.."
how surprising it would be that israeli outlets make anti-hamas & anti-hezbollah propaganda! heh?
03 September 2014, 15:32
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Allah yir hamo...he defended Lebanon with his body and barely any real arms.
03 September 2014, 21:30
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@anonymetexasusa
You must be one dumb person, either you don't read right, or you are lacking in judgement.
I said why your( buddies) attacked the innocent Christians in Iraq or Syria, is that what the Qoran teaches you.
If you believe what you say or write than start making sense.
No wonder the whole Middle East is a thinder box
