Israel, Singapore Deny Foiling Assassination Bid by Hizbullah, Iran against Barak
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Israel revealed that an attempt to assassinate Defense Minister Ehud Barak was foiled during his trip to Singapore on Monday, reported Kuwait’s al-Jarida newspaper on Thursday, in remarks swiftly denied by an Israeli defense official and Singaporean police.
High-ranking Israeli sources said: “A joint cell from Iran and Hizbullah plotted the attempt to kill the minister.”
They explained that the Israeli intelligence, Mossad, informed Singaporean authorities of the plan, revealing that the cell had obtained detailed information of Barak’s agenda during his visit and that it sought to assassinate him at his hotel.
The Mossad informed the Singapore authorities of the information before the minister’s arrival and they consequently arrested three people from the cell, continued the sources.
Investigations are currently underway with them in cooperation with Israeli intelligence, they added.
Barak was in the city-state to attend the Singapore Airshow this week and hold talks with officials, according to a report in the Jerusalem Post.
Agence France Presse said its reporters who covered the airshow did not see Barak at the industry trade fair, which started on Tuesday, and security did not seem unusually tight.
Later on Thursday, however, both Singapore police and an Israeli defense official denied the reports.
"The report is untrue. No such incident occurred in Singapore," the police said in a statement emailed to AFP.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP: "We have no knowledge of this."
Earlier this week, Israeli diplomats were targeted by bomb attacks in Delhi and Tbilisi on Monday, officials said, with two people injured in the Indian capital when an embassy car exploded in a ball of fire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed the finger at Israel's regional arch-foe Iran.
"Iran is behind these attacks. It is the biggest exporter of terror in the world," he said.
Netanyahu said Israel has thwarted other attacks in recent months in Azerbaijan, Thailand and elsewhere.
On Tuesday, a string of blasts rattled Bangkok, seriously wounding a man believed to be Iranian when an explosive device he was carrying detonated in a residential area of the Thai capital.
A Thai official confirmed in Wednesday that Iranian suspects were behind the attack, which was aimed at assassinating Israeli diplomats.
Barak, who is currently in Tokyo, has said he spent several hours in Bangkok on Sunday, two days before the blasts. He then flew to Singapore before arriving in Japan on Wednesday.
16 February 2012, 11:48
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Israel has prevailed, again should I say. It's about time hizballa dissociates itself from the Lebanese nation because any retaliation would cost us much more... Of course, they don't care since they steal electricity and live in ghettos on other people's properties. It's always the same people paying for their mistakes and frankly I can't wait for Israel to flatten the nuclear facilities in Iran. Oolo Ya rab!
16 February 2012, 18:37
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benzona, you are a disgusting pathetic animal-like human. Never will a real lebanese say ya rab for helping israel. Shame on you, may your head get flattened instead. You are in no position to ask el rabb whether you believe in god or jesus for anything, especially not for victory for the same people jesus referred to as children of satan.
16 February 2012, 18:38
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slash, ya rabb that your head will be flattened. Tfeh 3alayk wa 3ala hayk achkel metlak chou kleb.
17 February 2012, 00:41
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that's not the way we speak to zionists. we don't speak to them. we send rockets there.
16 February 2012, 12:57
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If you disagree with Hizbollah politics it doesn't mean you should support Israel...come on some common sense please! At the end Hizbollah are Lebanese and you will be living with them till the end of time
16 February 2012, 13:24
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Hezbollah took our pride, our dignity, our money and our land among other things. The only thing they haven't taken from us if our hope, the hope of seeing them disintegrated. And no, I won't be living with them till the end of time.
17 February 2012, 00:42
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yes we did, you zionist scum.
and next you will what we do to you.
16 February 2012, 13:04
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Israel is the cause of civil war in Lebanon. Still it can play you on demand. Let me assure you guys. If Iran or Syria is disturbed, you will be awashed by that wave in Lebanon. Separate and conquer, it is doing a great job. No need for it to fight any arab country. The idiots will be more than happy to oblige, so they can rule. Here you are cheering for Israel again. Don't forget how they paid Lahad and his army at the end.
16 February 2012, 14:00
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jcamerican: you comment is partially correct. Israel is one of the numerous actors that triggered the Lebanese civil war. Keep in mind that the Palestinian refugees are mainly sunnis and that the Lebanese Christian community feared being overwhelmed in number should they be granted the not so enviable (at least now) Lebanese citizenship. That's the main reason. Anyway, I feel not more sympathy for Israel than I do for Palestine. To me, they are all foreigners and mean very little to me. The same goes for Hezbollah whom swore allegiance to the 'Wilayat al Fakih' and Bashar... same goes for Hariri with his Saudies and Western... these are all puppets. But Frankly, during the last elections I voted for the 'Future' because I don't want to see our society regress more than it already has. However, I'm not sure it'll change anything, it'll just slow the process. We'll find out soon enough when the Syrian 'leader' will be hung or commit suicide with his family.
16 February 2012, 14:00
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Lebanese Shias will open up their eyes and realize that Amal/Hezbollah don't represent what they aspire for.
16 February 2012, 21:22
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I agree with this Benzona but the problem in your previous comments is that they incite a tendency to go for confessional/sectarian conflict. This is why some here (and rightly so) are paranoid, defensive, or suspicious of your true allegiance. You do not sound like a Beiruti at all.
Don't get me wrong, I do not approve of the party's current religious/weapon-happy dogma, but you should be more sensible with the way you formulate your argument and please avoid hinting for a possible sectarian-provocative language, it is not the answer and it is not the will of the people. Put aside the politics and stupid propaganda,you should get yourself acquainted with people of all political, socio-economic and confessional backgrounds and appreciate the reality which is that the majority here do not want to revisit another internal/sectarian dispute.
16 February 2012, 21:22
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(cudnt fit it all in 1 post, this is the last part of my comment)
I usually make fun of people who accuse others of being " filthy zionist information war department agents" :p, but your first few comments really made me suspicious... just saying
cheers and sorry for the long post!
17 February 2012, 00:43
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no we will not, but we will celebrate the end of your genocidal entity.
16 February 2012, 15:43
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Well said, I have no beef over that. I try to get some reaction from extremists on both sides. But sorry to say it M14 is very provocative with their slogan. No I don't agree with Hizballah keeping their arms forever. Maybe a machine gun or something, since I am an NRA member, but not heavy weapons. Anyway, good luck and wish Lebanon will be a great country.
16 February 2012, 18:43
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benzona, you are a foreigner to lebanon. We dont accept scum like you.
16 February 2012, 13:15
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israel is trying to pre-empt when the promised reply will hit them
16 February 2012, 14:19
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Start preparing for the worst ever military attack by the IDF... They warned us before that any attempt on Israeli lives will caus ethe destruction of what remains of Lebanon... No country will show us sympathy or come to our support this time around...
16 February 2012, 16:33
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Why don't you shut your trap and go sit on top of a rusty phone pole and rotate... the whole country is disgusted with the likes of you and don't defame the Lebanese flag when posting here... you are a traitor and not a mowaten because you have no loyalty to this country...
16 February 2012, 21:36
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Disagree "A Patriot",
Mowaten may have some views that do not concur with many, but he generally formulates his views constructively and deserves a response that is equally fair...
There's so many reasons to not want hezbollah to have weapons (I support many of those reasons) but allowing, or sympathizing with our violent neighbors down the south is a red line. When push comes to shove we are all Lebanese and should stick together against any enemy.
The solution to hezbollah's arms should, in a Utopian world, be resolved internally. I really hope so
16 February 2012, 15:16
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Stop blaming Israel and Iran and Hizballa and Lebanese forces. If you only become Lebanese all of you, and think Lebanon and Lebanon only you will soon realize that all of the above and more, like the politicians you follow like sheeps, and the ministers that you re-elect like fools are all in one boat, playing you all like morons in order to steal your thoughts and future and present and money and dignity and pride while you think you each one on your own, that you are so smart you had it all figured out. 20 years after the civil war has ended and we still have no electricity, no water, no roads, no future, no present, no pride.. they built half of Europe in less time after WWII, and you people are still fighting over who from all these thieves with agendas is more right..
Fools.
17 February 2012, 00:01
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I was born in Lebanon in the 70's. I moved out west to study in the late 80's. I think every Lebanese should leave his/her homeland for a while, just to see and think clear, of what we live through and who we follow.
I grew up hearing the same names in Lebanese politics, and almost 40 years after, it's the same criminals that are responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands that are still "running" the country.
I'll skip on the brain washed religious freaks, and we don't have shortage of, that are ready to kill and die for what they think they believe in or understand. They don't!
Violence leads to more violence and ignorance is it's fuel.
You're a good man! I wish there were more Lebanese like you!
17 February 2012, 16:08
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True Lebanese, i too have had my share of living of abroad and i can't begin to describe how the Lebanese locals in this country have no clue about so many important things in life, like having security, stability, dignity, patriotism, like having a nationality, a respected passport, 24hrs electricity, cheap internet, intellectual government support, cutting edge technology, social security, traffic laws where everyone and everybody respects each and every single fellow human, water, clean beaches, accessible parks, open air activities, festivals, fairs, shall i continue?.. Instead, they are all happy and proud to have nothing! Absolutely nothing. No electricity, road rage, no respect, no ambition, no pride, no... anyway.. finding a lot of people like the two of us is not rare, understanding why they go along with all that crap, beyond comprehension.
16 February 2012, 15:31
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I think this is getting out of hand. The Israelis are playing a dangerous game. shame on you lebanese.
16 February 2012, 15:50
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@ Lebneneh and since when Hizbollah are Lebanese? they are nothing but Iranian thugs thet are holding Lebanese citizenship they might be Lebanese by paers only but they are nothing but dirty Iranians
16 February 2012, 21:05
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sergio my friend we have to learn to disagree with other Lebanese without labelling them as traitors or scum. Unfortunately the Lebanese are divided between two different visions of what Lebanon is and that's because we never had one clear loyalty...to me my clear loyality is to Lebanon and I will respect and protect any Lebanese no matter what their politics is. BTW I'm not M14 nor M8 but I have to accept supporters of both maybe they will wake up one day and realise that what we need is less of the old politics of M14 and M8 and more of a new kind of modern politics.
17 February 2012, 00:49
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the filthy zionist media scum hallucinate about our glorious resistance being iranian and not lebanese.
16 February 2012, 16:02
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Stop blaming Israel and Iran and Hizballa and Lebanese forces. If you only become Lebanese all of you, and think Lebanon and Lebanon only you will soon realize that all of the above and more, like the politicians you follow like sheeps, and the ministers that you re-elect like fools are all in one boat, playing you all like morons in order to steal your thoughts and future and present and money and dignity and pride while you think you each one on your own, that you are so smart you had it all figured out. 20 years after the civil war has ended and we still have no electricity, no water, no roads, no future, no present, no pride.. they built half of Europe in less time after WWII, and you people are still fighting over who from all these thieves with agendas is more right..
Fools.
16 February 2012, 17:07
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@ Mowaten, i agree barking in the media is no use, but it goes both ways. Hezb and Israel for me are my ennemies. But what i am saddened about is Hezbollah's lack of partnership, why cant the christians and the sunnis join the resistance? why cant it be named " Lebanese resistance or actually LEBANESE STATE " than " Islamic resistance "? A christian or a sunni cannot join them because they wont accept other people than chiite. Then join us in the lebanese army ? but they dont want to. You think you are the sole people that want to protect Lebanon from the USA and Israel? you think you are the only ones who sacrified everything in the sake of Lebanon? ya habibe in the 75 civil war, when we the christian had the palestinians, the SSNP lebanese, and the syrians bombarding us, and we resisted. Who was it for?
16 February 2012, 19:02
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Dont talk about the christians, the kataeb never represented orthodox lebanese, nor armenians nor protestants nor all maronites. And nobody bombed kataeb before kataeb bombed, massacred and raped everyone who they didnt like based on religion/sect, thats all they/you cared about, secterianism.
17 February 2012, 00:50
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the filthy zionist media scum equal their genocidal entity and our glorious resistance.
16 February 2012, 17:12
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@ Mowaten, our family which is in the kataeb many chiites hated, protected several chiites families in the south Lebanon from palestinians that was starting raping and killing of your people. Never doubt for one second my , or people like me's will to live with the chiite lebanese which at the end are our brothers and blood. We will never exchange you for any other people. But you have to be willing to accept us and our ideas, as well as beeing all in the SAME RESISTANCE against Zionism, but also against Iranians. One must understand these 2 countries are only playing games,damn them with their comedies. Both must be burnt to the ground.
16 February 2012, 18:54
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lol hahahaha at the lies, my mother is from the south and she remembers clearly how the kataeb were slaughtering chiites left and right. In 2006 we saw how you were cheering the destruction of the south. The plo in lebanon was never a sunni or palestinian group, it was a multi-ethnic and multi-religious secular group that many chiites joined and other lebanese sects as well. I never liked any group that operated in lebanon but we remember clearly how kataeb treated chiites, orthodox, sunnis and other maronites as well and it werent pretty, it was the most brutal group in lebanon so dont stand here trying to make us feel in debt to you. I know you think chiites are stupid but if we are so stupid then how come we managed to take control of lebanon (as you guys think we did)? So shut up we khrass.
16 February 2012, 18:58
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You are not our brothers nor our blood and we arent yours because we have seen how you truly feel about us with your actions so your empty words on naharnet means nothing. Iran gave us help after the genocide in 2006 while you were dancing and praying for more bombs to fall on us in da7yi and el jnoub. As chiites we puke on your fake love declaration. You want us to resist iran who never bombed us with phosphor bombs or any other bombs, lek tfeh 3ala hayk 3a2l. rou7 fell 3anna.
16 February 2012, 18:58
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i pray to god almighty to burn you in hell. Lets see who gets his answer prayed when the day of judgement comes.
16 February 2012, 18:48
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Israel is the ultimate enemy and u should constantly fight them until israel its erased, thats an issue and hezb enternal violations is another issue, Slash i hope we have a security force that can trace youre comment and charge you for treason
16 February 2012, 19:25
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funny games israel and iran are playing : provocations on either sides as if they wish for a war but is waiting for the other to make a mistake to wage it!
17 February 2012, 00:39
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first of all, before i start commenting specific zionists posts, let us all objective people here (that means non-zionist, even if they are m14 fans) ask themselves one question:
why would someone who is lebanese, who is not zionist jew pretending to be lebanese, care at all what happens to some zionist diplomats in singapore?
of course we lebanese don't care. so everybody who cares, and you will see usual range of zionist idiots here, yes, they are NOT lebanese, even if they speak arabic. they are filthy mossad scum, no matter how much effort they make to present themselves as lebanese
18 February 2012, 01:08
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@ Mowaten, i respect you because you respect me and although you said my comments might be disturbing sometimes, you agree to try to be closer and become brothers of this nation again. And that, gives me hope again that even within our differents views we can find a way out and be all united again. And i want to thank you for the response to the sectarian Abdullahbeiruti who is someones withotu education, a dumb follower that doesnt know that not all Kataeb were murderers. My family in fact had some influence in the kataeb and we helped chiite families as well as druzes flee their villages and even gave them as much as we could free passages so they nobody hurts them. We acknowledged that during the first years Kataeb fighters which we were part of , were fighting with convictions. But after the death of Tony frangieh and the bloody massacres that took place in order to unite all christians as " LEBANESE FORCES " everything changed...
18 February 2012, 01:12
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@ Mowaten, after the Lebanese forces were created, as you might know from 7erass el Arz , tanzim, Kataeb and some a7rar that joined, we began to have murderers and bloody people.
@ Flamethrower, i said JOIN THE LEBANESE ARMY not the kataeb or ouwet, i dont believe in their militias, or any other, but in the lebanese state. And to asnwer you about sunniite and chiites that joined the KATAEB ( not ouwet ) yes there are many and in fact during the civil war as well and we know many of them.
@ jabal habal, not even worth responding to your comments, at least mowaten trie to reply respectfully and with sense, you just repeat the same words over and over again, may god have mercy on ur useless brain.
