Lebanese Leaders Slam 'Massacre' of Idlib Druze as Wahhab Urges Mobilization
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Several Lebanese leaders on Thursday condemned as “massacre” the mass killing of Druze residents in the Syrian town of Qalb Lawzah at the hands of the Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front, as Arab Tawhid Party chief Wiam Wahhab declared that the Druze of Lebanon and Syria stand ready to fight the extremist groups.
“Regardless of its circumstances and motives, this massacre is unacceptable in all standards,” Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said at a press conference in Maarab.
“We are against (Syrian President) Bashar Assad's regime because it commits such acts and we're also against anyone who performs such acts,” added Geagea.
He called on the political and military leaderships of the Syrian opposition to “raise the voice and clarify what happened in order to take the necessary measures against the perpetrators of this massacre to avoid the recurrence of such a tragedy.”
The LF leader also urged the countries that support the opposition to “intervene firmly to put an end to some groups that are committing such acts.”
“It did not take all this effort to get rid of a certain savagery for it to be replaced by another savagery,” he added.
At least 20 members of Syria's Druze minority were killed in an unprecedented shoot-out with al-Nusra in the Idlib province town of Qalb Lawzah, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.
The Observatory said the shooting erupted after a Tunisian al-Nusra leader "tried to seize a house belonging to a Druze resident of Qalb Lawzah."
"The Tunisian leader then brought his men and accused the Druze residents of the village of blasphemy and opened fire on them killing at least 20 people, among them elderly people and at least one child."
Earlier on Thursday, ex-minister Wahhab warned that the possible fall of the Druze-majority Syrian province of Sweida into rebel hands would represent “a fall for us all.”
“We will not accept this and faithful Druze from all Lebanese regions are ready to fight,” he added.
“We will all take up arms, here and elsewhere, and anyone on Lebanese soil who has ties to al-Nusra Front or is collaborating with it is unwelcome, and they better leave this land because the reactions cannot be contained,” Wahhab warned.
He called on Assad and the Syrian government to supply arms to Sweida's residents, urging “everyone in Lebanon and elsewhere to take up arms and stand by our people.”
“We have the ability to create an army comprising more than 200,000 Druze from Syria, Lebanon and the world to defend Sweida,” Wahhab underlined.
Sweida province has been spared much of the fighting in Syria, and remains almost entirely under regime control. However, Syrian rebels claimed Thursday that they seized most of a key military airport in Sweida and shot down a warplane nearby.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tammam Salam deplored the Qalb Lawzah “massacre,” warning that it is part of “the takfiri forces' efforts to stir sedition among the sons of the same country.”
Speaker Nabih Berri also condemned the mass killing in the Syrian town.
For his part, al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri telephoned Druze leader MP Walid Jumblat and condemned “the armed attack that targeted the town of Qalb Lawzah.”
“The worst that the Syrian revolution might descend to is volunteering in combat missions that only provide free services to the Bashar Assad Regime,” Hariri warned, describing the Qalb Lawzah killings as “an example of the appalling behavior that is harming the Syrian people and their revolution.”
“As we express our solidarity with the families of the victims, and with our people and brothers in the Druze community of Lebanon and Syria, we call for emulating the noble national stance of Progressive Socialist Party leader Mr. Walid Jumblat,” Hariri added.
He noted that Jumblat has been warning for years against “the Syrian regime's attempts to implicate the religious and communal groups in its futile wars, and to use them as human shields to defend its political entity.”
Jumblat had warned Thursday morning that "any inflammatory remarks about the Idlib incidents could further complicate the situation.”
“Bashar Assad's policy has led Syria into this chaos … I reiterate my stance on the importance of reaching a reconciliation with the residents of Daraa and the neighboring areas,” the Druze leader tweeted.
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11 June 2015, 18:46
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“We will not accept this and faithful Druze from all Lebanese regions are ready to fight,” he added.
Nobody accepts the killings of civilians, women and children under any circumstances (except nassrallah and specially if those civilians are Sunnis), but we never heard or seen Wahhab and his likes raise an eyebrow to the numerous and daily massacres committed by Assad and Hezbollah in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.
Interesting to see the guy in the photo sitting and talking while he has Assad's picture hung on the wall above his head.....
11 June 2015, 19:15
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Wiam Wahhab is a true Druze that talks for his people, unlike Jumblat that supported the Nusras that just slaughtered his own kin.
11 June 2015, 19:41
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A tribal mentality is when you remain silent and even participate in the slaughter of other tribes but cry foul when your own tribe is slaughtered.
This is why only Democratic regimes should be in power. This is why only regular armies should be in charge of the borders. This is why only Internal Security Forces should be in charge of civil peace. This is why State Institutions and Laws should be upheld. This is why loyalties to any other than the Country of Citizenship should be considered treason. This is why One's nationality should be upheld higher than one's sect and tribal loyalties.
11 June 2015, 23:56
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Wiam Wahhab is a charlatan who admitted being on the pay of the Assad regime. I love how Mystic now cares about civilians but cannot care less for the tens of thousands of Sunnis slaughtered by the Assad regime. Yes - that Nusra thug should be held responsible for his crimes. But the whole Assad cheering crowd are the last ones to talk.
12 June 2015, 14:19
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Wasn't this Wahhab the same guy who had threatened to ask Baschar to come make an airstrike on his political rivals on Lebanese soil? Wasn't he the one that supported the Hizb that slaughtered Druze in May 2008 with Katyuschas? Ma3leh, find another guy to praise as a "true Durzi that talks for his people".
11 June 2015, 23:00
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how did little john decide this picture is not of a Druze in Idlib... only the gods know.
11 June 2015, 19:18
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The Wahhabi Ape who calls himself "shiakiller' explains to us how "he has learned from the civil war" ....TAKE-A-BEER!
11 June 2015, 19:40
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but joumblat is ally of these terrorists al qaeda nosra
joumbie you know the story of the scorpion and frog that want to cross the river ?!!!!
so who likes scorpions ya joumblat is a scorpion himself
but who sleeps with the killer s of his father can sleep with al qaeda terrorists
god bless democracy
11 June 2015, 19:52
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Wahhab is a big Assad Regime lackey that stands to lose even what little influence he has in Lebanon if and when Assad is marginalized in Syria to being nothing more than a regional Iranian governor for Khamenei.
The massacre of the Druze in Qalb Lawzah is as tragic as it was stupid and reckless by the Nusra fighters. They are at war with ISIS and with Hezbollah and the Regime. Why engage in this sort of thing that will only stir the sectarian pot to boil and get the Druze, who have tried to remain neutral off the fence and into the fight with the Regime? It was stupid and Wahhab is trying to exploit this stupid crime to try and save his giddo in Damascus, or where ever he is hiding these days. Yet another Lebanese "leader" who would put Lebanon into the sectarian fire for the sake of salvaging his political money patron.
11 June 2015, 21:17
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بالفيديو: رصاص “حزب الله” يُدخل الطفل منير في غيبوبة
http://www.lebanese-forces.com/2015/06/11/baby-mounir/
11 June 2015, 21:19
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قُتل أكثر من عشرين شخصاً من بينهم مسنون وطفل على الأقل، من الطائفة الدرزية اضافة الى ثلاثة عناصر من جبهة النصرة وذلك في أكبر حادث يذهب ضحيته هذا العدد من المدنيين الدروز منذ اندلاع النزاع في سوريا بحسب المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان.
وأوضح المرصد أن الحادث وقع بعد وصول عدد من عناصر جبهة النصرة على رأسهم قيادي تونسي يلقب بالسفينة الى أحد منازل بلدة قلب لوزة في محافظة إدلب بهدف مصادرته كون ملكيته تعود لشاب تابع لقوات النظام.
ورفض أقرباء الشاب تسليم المنزل ما تطور إلى مشادة كلامية بين الطرفين تلاها إطلاق نار قتل بنتيجته شخص من أبناء القرية، ليطلق أحد هؤلاء النار على أحد عناصر النصرة ما تسبب بمقتله, عندئذ وصلت تعزيزات من النصرة أطلقت النار على المواطنين.
وأصدرت الجبهة من جهتها بيانا اكدت فيه أن ما حدث جاء نتيجة رفض أحد اقرباء من أسمته شبيحا إعطاء منزله للمحتاجين، وعند محاولة احد عناصرها إقناع الشاب بالخروج بأدب بحسب البيان, قام شاب درزي آخر بإطلاق النار على عناصر الجبهة ما أدى إلى وقوع قتلى من الطرفين.
11 June 2015, 21:49
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“We will all take up arms, here and elsewhere, and anyone on Lebanese soil who has ties to al-Nusra Front or is collaborating with it is unwelcome, and they better leave this land because the reactions cannot be contained,”
another M8er denying the role of the lebanese army and believes he can act like in the jungle as Lebanon seemed to have ceased to exist to such assad M8 bootlickers....
11 June 2015, 21:55
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and what does your post have to do with mine? oh! i see you too do not believe in the lebanese army but in the law of the jungle hezbi style.... i got it.
11 June 2015, 21:50
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He called on Assad and the Syrian government to supply arms to Sweida's residents, urging “everyone in Lebanon and elsewhere to take up arms and stand by our people.”
your "people"? lol same rhetoric as the zionists confusing a sect with a nationality...
11 June 2015, 22:03
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al Qaeda is just like hezbollah same extremists different sect ... so to me they are both the same sh...
but i know that hezbi supporters believe that when you are against hezbollah it means you are pro Qaeda or nusra...
difficult for their binary logic to grasp it differently, their brain software is too weak, it makes it bug if one says he is against both extremists....
11 June 2015, 22:21
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because your software bugs... and you fail to read when i criticize both sides...
11 June 2015, 22:23
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hass1978 seems you too deny that Lebanon has laws and a national army... pityful
12 June 2015, 05:23
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Jumblatt will ignore the killing of his own people as long as it takes to get revenge for who he BELIEVES killed his father.
12 June 2015, 12:46
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This cowardly massacre is absolutely outrageous and totally rejected. Yet it brings to mind a burning question, even though we reject this massacre on the Druze strenuously and unconditionally, should we also ignore the barrel bombs that are being dropped on innocent civilians?
12 June 2015, 17:04
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Trick, when will you stop your acting dumb. I know you're fully capable to express yourself in English, why the intentional typo mistakes? That does smack of mental retardiness if you weren't aware.
