Angry Family Demands Execution of Islamist Inmates in Retaliation to Bazzal's Murder
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The al-Bazzal family called on Saturday on the state to start executing inmates linked to terrorist groups to ease the tension on the streets after the execution of captive policeman al-Bazzal by al-Nusra Front.
The family also urged the state to start the executions by murdering Amed al-Atrash and Joumana Hmeid, after al-Nusra linked release to the freedom of Bazzal earlier this month.
Al-Atrash, 24, was charged in February with transporting suicide bombers to Lebanon, detonating bombs and explosive-rigged vehicles, attacking the army in Majdelyoun and al-Awwali bridge areas in the southern city of Sidon in December and launching rockets on Israel.
Hmeid was charged over her involvement with al-Qaida-linked groups. She was detained also in February on the Arsal-Labweh road when she was transporting car rigged with explosives.
Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State, who have been holding several soldiers and policemen captive, were demanding the release of five terrorists, in particular Abou Salim Taha, Hmeid, Imad Jomaa, Naim Abbas and al-Atrash.
The five are in custody for involvement in terrorist activities in Lebanon.
Al-Bazzal family also demanded the arrest of cleric Mustafa Hujeiri, who is also known as Abu Taqiyeh, and his supporters in the northeastern border town of Arsal.
The angry family vowed to block the road on any aid to Syrian refugees in Arsal, saying: “No international or local aid group will be able to use our town as a conduit to aid the Syrian refugees.”
They also warned that the blocking of any road in solidarity with Arsal would be considered as supporting terrorists.
The enraged men of al-Bazzal earlier blocked the town's main road in the eastern village of Bazzalieh near the Lebanese-Syrian border.
The state-run National News Agency reported that the town's men erected checkpoints in the village, checking the identity cards of passers-by.
The NNA also reported armed presence in al-Bazzalieh.
Al-Nusra Front said on Friday night that it had killed al-Bazzal to avenge the arrest of Islamic militants' wives and children.
The body of an unidentified Sunni man who had been shot dead was found on a road in the Bekaa Valley region bordering Syria in a suspected act of revenge for the policeman's murder while gunmen abducted an unknown number of Sunni residents from the area, security sources said.
However, NNA said that three abductees, who were kidnapped overnight by Bazzalieh residents, were freed.
Mohammed al-Atrash and Bassam al-Hujeiri, who were abducted at midnight by gunmen in a Grand Cherokee on Bazzalieh-Labweh road, were released.
The news agency reported that Syrian national Alaa Hammoud, who was accompanying al-Atrash and al-Hujeiri, sustained a gunshot wound and was admitted to Dar al-Amal University Hospital in Baalbek.
The village is not far from the border town of Arsal where a former wife and young daughter of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq, were detained.
The flare-up came after al-Nusra posted a photograph that it said showed the execution of detained Lebanese policeman Ali al-Bazzal, on its Twitter account picked up by the SITE terrorism watchdog.
Bazzal was one of around 30 Lebanese soldiers and policemen abducted by jihadists in August during fighting in Arsal.
"If the sisters that were unjustly arrested are not released, the death sentence will be executed against another prisoner we hold after a short period of time," al-Nusra said.
Lebanese security sources said they were trying to verify the claim.
The group did not identify the women and children it said Lebanon was holding, nor did it say how many were missing.
H.K.
D.A.
06 December 2014, 11:23
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who is allowed to erect armed checkpoints?
who is allowed to kill other sects in revenge and gets away with it?
who claims they support the state and its institutions?
who falsely claim they love and respect the army?
It is hezbollah, its followers, and its supporters.
06 December 2014, 11:35
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so you agree that any citizen can erect armed checkpoints,
so you agree that the state should become terrorist by using the same methods as the terrorists,
so you agree that any citizen can make his own justice by killing in revenge...
in a word you are just for a jungle country where only force prevails and the state disappears = that is the typical vow of hezbollahis.... and you pretend to be patriot and respect Lebanon? LOL your comment just proves the total contrary!!!!
06 December 2014, 13:58
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only in your distorted mind did any government legitimize hezbollah's weapons or its war in Syria.
06 December 2014, 12:15
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act with these filth scum takfiries the same as they do
just close all refugee camps and send them to Qatar and ksa ou bidahroun all Palestinian refugees and 80 % of Lebanese problems will be solved
06 December 2014, 12:26
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bless anyone person, entity, organization, brigade or country that inflicts pain and suffering, death and destruction upon the iranian sectarian terrorist militia and its supporters wherever they maybe.
06 December 2014, 12:36
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Damn, damn, damn, this is what I feared most, that our state as usual screws up in its usual fashion. here we are, an innocent Lebanese Life has been lost, a Lebanese man in uniform who was serving his nation and its people, who got kidnapped by these evil terrorists, and now he lost his precious life to these same terrorists!! Damn! The state can't do a thing, why did it not hand over to the families these prisoners, today we would have executed 30 of them, then we shall see what the terrorists will do next. Yes, certainly the anger is mounting everywhere in Lebanon and because of this we could see things get derailed. The state is unfit for anything, the army should not have listened to the civilians, the army should have leveled Arsal and all this wouldn't have happened. Either the army gets to act independently or we shall never come out of our chaos. Rest in peace soldier, you died because of our state's stupidity.
06 December 2014, 18:05
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Lol funny you should post pretty much the same thing I said 2 weeks ago, which I was scolded for and was told to stick to "my Hezbollah" instead of this so-called pathetic state. I love my country but I do not support the individuals in it blindly just because they are the "state". Words are just words. Actions are what matters, and this state is broken. The system is broken and we need an overhaul. Enough sectarianism and enough beating around the bush.
SECULARISM NOW!!
06 December 2014, 18:30
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Mystic I do accept your argument here, but also we cannot ignore nor exonerate the nefarious role of the politicians, whom I believe come from both sides of the divide. I am for military rule, now and not a minute later.
06 December 2014, 19:02
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The army needs weapons before they can do anything Phoenix, also we need to untie their hands that M14 bound, so they can fight the takfris with maximum capacity.
06 December 2014, 19:39
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Sure Mystic, I still can't argue your point about the army's dire need for weapons, we've the very best men, but weapons yes, we need them. Now whereas it pertains to M14 meddling, I beg to differ a little, M8 is also implicated in this game, the only difference is when the situation is favorable or not would one M meddle against the other. This is why I would still call for military rule and let the politicians be jailed, all of them.
06 December 2014, 19:58
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Phoenix, who is blocking the LAF from getting resupplied by Iran, and Russia? That's the M14. They want the LAF to remain weak, so they never become a threat to Israel. Remember that, all proofs on the ground, points at M14s hesitation. Same goes for the saudi "grant".
06 December 2014, 12:50
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34 minutes ago General Secretariat coordinator Fares Soaid via twitter: Hizbullah is responsible for the kidnapping of soldiers because of its involvement in the Syrian war.
The angry family of this soldier should stop showing their sectarian nature and vent their anger at their own hizbollah whom they support. You cannot go to another country and kill its people and expect to be spared. The army is helping hezbollah in its war efforts and opening the borders for them instead of sealing it. The situation we are in today is 100% due to hezbollah own plans and disregard for the baabda declaration. As to the army, while those who are getting killed are the sons of our families, its command is controlled by this terror party.
06 December 2014, 14:10
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sure for animals like you sense is not part of your vocabulary... just pavlovian reflexes make you bark....
so how could you understand sensible arguments....
07 December 2014, 09:14
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hahaha! even on a sunday morning and during the blessed holiday season, you are up and ready, fearless and determined to expose them one by one. Somesing anazar flamesrower!
06 December 2014, 12:56
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disgusting and sad situation. What baffles me is why the family/residents of this village executed an innocent Lebanese sunni civilian....
06 December 2014, 14:13
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Exactly Flame, nanaharnet is making the 'mistake' on purpose. Btw, the account under the name of 'terrorist' is a fake account managed by nanaharnet just to create what you mentioned in your comment...i used to say i had evidence, now i have proof...
06 December 2014, 19:02
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نزعة الثأر هذه مرفوضة ولعدة أسباب. لو كان لكل لبناني فقد ذويه أن يثأر له لما كان بقي لبناني واحد حيّاً. المسؤولون عن خطف واغتيال جنودنا معروفون جيداً : حزب الله المتدخّل إيرانياً في سوريا، وبيئته لاتي لا تحاسب، ومن يتواطأ معه ومع تدخله في المؤسسات. ولكنا أضفنا "الدولة اللبنانية" لو لم تكن تلك "الدولة" معدومة الوجود أساساًَ وبسبب حزب الله بالذات. حزب الله الذي يرفض التفاوض لتحرير الجمود اللبنانيين، لك حزب الله الذي يفاوض بلا خجل ولا وجل لتحرير أحد أعضاء ميليشياته.
06 December 2014, 20:04
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(1). Tonight we will all be going home to meet our loved ones, some will plan to spend the weekend at a mountain resort, others with friends others with family, but tonight Lebanese families, relatives and friends will be weeping and mourning for a loved one slained by these cold blooded evil killers. When will we Lebanese free ourselves from the bondage of sectarian slavery? When will we release ourselves from our double standards, saying one thing to please yet do altogether different things?
06 December 2014, 20:06
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(2). Belonging to any party at the expense of the nation is a capital sin, the terrorists and the enemies of Lebanon are plenty, and they know our inherent weaknesses, thus will not hesitate a minute to strike us where our weaknesses cause us the most exposures. When will we just be Lebanese and nothing else? When will we begin to see the endless power and possibilities of unity, of sincerity, of love for the nation? The enemies? Yes, they are many, and they are Lebanese too, and they start from up first, from those who call themselves leaders, Lebanese leaders. Only when we as Lebanese will begin to understand that charity begins at home and clear the dirt in front of our doorsteps would we begin to see the beauty of a strong nation, but first, a strong army we must have, a strong army we must support. RIP slained Lebanese soldier, killed because of our stupid government
07 December 2014, 09:21
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11 minutes ago Al-Jadeed: Security forces arrested a man for opening fire in the air in Sidon, finding out that he was drunk.
but armed men in hizballah areas erecting checkpoints, kidnapping people, and killing them are left untouched. The picture above speaks a thousand words.
