Hezbollah defends Samah’s release from jail attacks critics

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In this file photo former minister Michel samara is shown withHezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah
In this file photo former minister Michel samara is shown withHezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah ‘s parliamentary bloc chief MP Mohammed Raad defended the release on bail on Monday of ex-minister Michel Samaha but slammed as “malicious, temperamental and non-objective” the statements that criticized the release

Samaha , who is closely associated with Hezbollah and the Syrian regime is accused of conspiring with Syrian officials to stage bombings and assassinations in Lebanon.

“The furious and systematic statements that today rejected the Lebanese judiciary’s decision to release ex-minister Michel Samaha are an expression of distemper, malice and lack of objectivity,” Raad said in a press release.

“This has always been their approach in power and in dealing with the judiciary, the administrations and public funds,” he added.

“They have never heeded those who object against their injustice, corruption, squandering of public money and abuse of power,” Raad went on to say.

Several Lebanese officials expressed their outrage on Thursday over the Military court’s decision to release a former minister who had been convicted on terrorism charges early last year.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said the decision to release Samaha on bail on Thursday was “rejected by all accounts.”

How can I accept that a Lebanese (national) conspires with a foreign side to carry out murder and bomb attacks in his country? How can I accept the release of these sorts of people?” Geagea wrote on his Twitter feed.

“What kind of message are the judges and officers sending to the people with this decision? What hope are they leaving for their (the peoples) futures and the sovereignty of their country and the freedom of their sons?” he asked.

Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouk said the decision was a clear contradiction in itself to the Military Tribunal on all logical, national and legal standards.

“We will, as a party, have a stance regarding those who are working on the basis of abolishing the nation for the benefit of killers… Our stance will be much bigger than that which justifies murder and bombs sent from the Syrian regime,” Mashnouk said, in reference to the Future Movement, to which he belongs.

Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi, also a Future Movement official, lashed out at the judicial and security officials for the decision to release Samaha.

Former PM Saad Hariri in apparent response to MP Raad said :” Those who are defending the criminal are worse criminals.”

The ex-minister was arrested in August 2012 and charged with attempting to carry out “terrorist acts” over allegations that he and Syrian security services chief Ali Mamluk transported explosives and planned attacks and assassinations of political and religious figures in Lebanon.

Samaha was sentenced in May 2015 to four-and-half years in prison, but in June Lebanon’s Cassation Court nullified the verdict and ordered a retrial. Samaha, an ex-adviser to Syrian PresidentBashar Assad, admitted during his trial that he had transported the explosives from Syria for use in attacks in Lebanon.

Islamist inmates in Roumieh prison went on a hunger strike on Friday in protest at the release of former Minister Michel Samaha, in what seems to be a call for their own release under pretext that they have served their sentence.

“The Islamic inmates from Tripoli began a hunger strike in protest at the release of Samaha,” said inmate Ziad Allouki in an audio recording, according to LBCI.

Allouki was the so-called leader of the Souk al-Qameh fighting frontier in Tripoli’s Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood when gunbattles with the rival Jabal Mohsen were at peak between 2013 and 2014.

He was arrested in April 2014 when the Lebanese security forces launched massive crackdowns on street leaders in Bab al-Tabbaneh that led to the imprisonment of many influential leaders including Allouki, whom reports said has surrendered under specific conditions.

Officials had promised that Allouki would be released from jail two weeks after surrendering to authorities.

The Military General Prosecution agreed on Thursday to release Samaha on a 150 million Lebanese pounds bail but prohibited him from traveling and making statements through various media.

Later during the day, families of the Islamist inmates held a sit-in denouncing the ex-minister’s release.

Spokesman for the inmates said: “Samaha was caught red-handed and was insolently released. This is a new crime of an official institution of Bashar Assad’s regime.

“We demand his re-arrest, release of Muslim youths, and sacking of officials affiliated with Iran and Syria.”

Several Lebanese officials expressed their outrage on Thursday over the Military court’s decision to release the former minister who had been convicted on terrorism charges early last year.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said the decision to release Samaha on bail on Thursday was “rejected by all accounts.”

“How can I accept that a Lebanese (national) conspires with a foreign side to carry out murder and bomb attacks in his country? How can I accept the release of these sorts of people?” Geagea wrote on his Twitter feed.

“What kind of message are the judges and officers sending to the people with this decision? What hope are they leaving for their (the peoples) futures and the sovereignty of their country and the freedom of their sons?” he asked.

Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouk said the decision was a clear contradiction in itself to the Military Tribunal on all logical, national and legal standards.

“We will, as a party, have a stance regarding those who are working on the basis of abolishing the nation for the benefit of killers… Our stance will be much bigger than that which justifies murder and bombs sent from the Syrian regime,” Mashnouk said, in reference to the Future Movement, to which he belongs.

Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi, also a Future Movement official, lashed out at the judicial and security officials for the decision to release Samaha.

But Hezbollah defended Samaha’s release and attacked its critics .
Hezbollah ‘s parliamentary bloc chief MP Mohammed Raad defended Samah’s release but slammed as “malicious, temperamental and non-objective” the statements that criticized the release

Former PM Saad Hariri in apparent response to MP Raad said :” Those who are defending the criminal are worse criminals.”

The ex-minister was arrested in August 2012 and charged with attempting to carry out “terrorist acts” over allegations that he and Syrian security services chief Ali Mamluk transported explosives and planned attacks and assassinations of political and religious figures in Lebanon.

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48 responses to “Hezbollah defends Samah’s release from jail attacks critics”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar

    Picture of 4 Beady Eyes giving the same dead-brain impressions.
    WELL, No-One can dump on Geagea any more for being released ‘Early’.
    And THIS guy was actually attacking Lebanese who were in a ‘Peaceful Mode’, and not in a Civil War.
    After all, he only got 4.5 years as a sentence anyway …. Geagea did 5, right??
    “What kind of message” to the world?

    I assume he will not skip bail, of course … Nastyrallah’s wallet is becoming slim, we hear.
    SO, when’s the Big New Public Trial?

    1. Hannibal Avatar

      I hope he gets hanged by this shawl… Stupid four-eyed fuc|< he is…

    2. 3.5 years, not 4.5. Agree with the rest, though, especially with the shawls remark (that Al Aqsa print is a nice little touch) :-).

      1. Hannibal Avatar

        they’re coming….

        1. Who? Where? Or are you referring to them coming in their pants?

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Typical Zionist vulgarity

          2. Yeah. Those “Resistants” are delicate flowers, to be handled with tender care. Lest they get offended by “Zionist vulgarities” and wilt away.

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Stop lecturing Lebanese out of your Holy Hole.

          4. 5thDrawer Avatar

            Seems you almost did when you could ‘correct’ me on what I only quoted from the article.

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            He keeps you as spare tire…

          6. That’s “almost” funny. But how could I “correct” perfection? 🙂

          7. Hannibal Avatar

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5AkFlAeCHE

            Here is something to be proud of… An apartheid bigot state.

          8. 5thDrawer Avatar

            Middle of the night – Communist arrest system visited on the children as well now.

          9. 5thDrawer Avatar

            Middle of the night – Communist arrest system visited on the children as well now.
            Well described by Solzhenitsyn – methods of the Gulag. Interrogations similar.
            Palestinians are the New Zeks.
            The next step will be to take them at birth, to ‘state schools’ – push/teach them to perform in Arts & Sports, judging them by individual body abilities to show the superiority of ‘The System’, as presentations to the world at Medal-Winning events.
            The deepest and most convoluted brainwashing smilingly presented by the woman (who is a mother you would not wish on your child) sincerely saying it is a simple fact coming from God that she will destroy the lands and the people as she sees fit.
            What, indeed, could be more ‘perfect’?

          10. 5thDrawer Avatar

            THIS is the ‘Spirit Of The Human’ which cannot be destroyed.
            https://youtu.be/SrCuOoLYX_o

          11. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Scary God.

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar

    “They have never heeded those who object against their injustice, corruption, squandering of public money and abuse of power,” …… And isn’t THAT the perfect example of a pot calling a kettle ‘black’. Or did they finally pay up on all the accumulated electricity bills? Blaming others of what you are guilty of is, of course, rather classic ‘bluster’ of politicians.

    1. Hezbollah as the defender of the judiciary and the rule of law. Wow, that’s a new one.

  3. Hannibal Avatar

    When Hezbollah sides with a criminal they become criminals by proxy. What a shame… From a resistance organization to a criminal organization. This animal was caught red handed trying to blow innocent citizens while eating cactus fruits and relaxed with no conscience whatsoever. Did Hezbollah forget that when the tides were blowing south he worked for the Mossad and often met with Sharon? TFEH

    1. “From a resistance organization to a criminal organization.”
      Hezbollah has been criminal from day one, and not by proxy. Just like their (mostly Sunni) predecessors in the claim to the “Resistance” mantle.

      1. Hannibal Avatar

        Would you call Sharon’s or Bibi’s government a criminal organization? Sabra? Shatila? Suffocating Gaza into submission a la concentration camp style?
        Hezbollah had to resist an occupation… They won. Give the Shebaa farms and the occupied Lebanese towns back and their “raison d’etre” from my perspective would no longer be valid. At that time MOST Lebanese would agree they need to dismantle. Before you say it, and I am not naive, we Lebanese would have to fight them into submissions if they decide otherwise. They are not stronger than the PLO nor stronger than Syria and the Lebanese defeated both.

        1. Yawn. What a pitiful, long-winded attempt to obfuscate, trivialize and ultimately justify the hijacking of one’s country and state by a gang of murderous thugs. And seriously, not again with the “Shebaa farms” idiocy (have you seen those “farms”, by the way?). It’s 2016 now, not 2000.
          However, in case you were wondering (not that you were), I do consider Hobeika to be criminal.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            The cool shooting gallery.
            http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769782
            PS maannews ..no good.

          2. P.S. “Christian Resistant” = a moron (not that the Sunni, Shia or Druze ones are any better). 🙂

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Yawn. ‘Resistant’ is your mot-clé = Wako fanatic

          4. Just as “yawn” is. What are you, so dumb you’re stealing my lines now? 🙂

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            “.. not again with the “Shebaa farms” idiocy (have you seen those “farms”, by the way?). It’s 2016 now, not 2000.”

            Steeling your idiocy lines. Israeli agent

          6. I bet being an “Israeli agent” (I wish!) is a million times better than to spend your time posting subliterate crap for free. “Steeling”? Where are you a refugee, remind us? In Venezuela?

          7. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You didn’t annex Lebanon ..Yet. YaKKO

          8. The only ones who ever wanted to annex Lebanon were your fascist buddies from the Baath and the SSNP, you moron. And it wasn’t to Israel either.

          9. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            1982.

            “(..) Breaking the fix
            Sharon’s announcement of the Syria-Israel partition deal made Lebanese politicians, many of whom have been eager collaborators with Sharon up to now, suddenly realize that a fix was in that would spell the end of Lebanon as a country.
            In an interview with the Lebanese paper As-Saf”, Pierre Gemayel reacted violently to Sharon’s thuggery. Gemayel called upon Lebanon’s feuding Christian and Muslim factions to drop their differences and avoid being pulled under Israel’s control by Sharon. The Israelis, charged an enraged Gemayel, “are doing their best to drag us with them. It is not in our interest to divide Lebanon. The Muslims must understand
            this because they and we will lose Lebanon.Pierre Gemayel’s interview with As-Saf” was unusual, in that As-Saf” is a Muslim-owned, leftist newspaper, long at odds with the Gemayel clan. That Gemayel chose As-Saf” as his mouthpiece indicates the terror that has gripped wartom Lebanon as it faces what could be imminent dissolution.
            Echoing Gemayel, former Lebanese President Camille Chamoun, a long-time British intelligence agent, and friend of Sharon, told Lebanon’s L’Orient Ie Jour that “Sharon and the Israelis are playing a double game together with the Syrians against Lebanon. The Israeli defense minister is giving proof that Israel is looking exclusively after its own interests in Lebanon.”

          10. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Other mot clé = Moron.

          11. Yep. Kinda sums you up perfectly, doesn’t it? And it’s “another”, you m… Well, you know the rest.

          12. Hannibal Avatar

            Again you did not read through and through… I said exactly what you said but with a different spin. The bottom line is this. ALL of the leaders in the Middle East are war criminals bar none ESPECIALLY the zionazis.
            Shebaa farms idiocy? What idiocy? I said give it back and HA won’t have an excuse from a Lebanese perspective to exist. You people think you can rule everything and you make up 0.01% of the population of the ME. Soon if they were to spit on you you will drown in a sea of spit.

          13. “Soon if they were to spit on you you will drown in a sea of spit.”
            That sounds soooo logical and empowering, doesn’t it? And yet, miraculously (or should I say, pathologically), the saliva of “YOU people” keeps getting continually wasted on other, less promising projects. But I’m sure you have a perfectly reasonable, logical and empowering explanation for that. Or are you, in your infinite wisdom, implying that “you people” have never actually tried to drown”them people” in a sea of spit in the past? 🙂

          14. Hannibal Avatar

            Not in a one giant spit tsunami 😛

          15. Keep your masturbatory fantasies alive, mate. ‘Cause without them, life would be grey, pointless, and filled with the stench of garbage. 🙂

          16. Hannibal Avatar

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=754AT7o5qx0

            That was a fraction of the populace. Imagine all coming at you at once. SEEK PEACE if you care about Zion.

          17. Dunno what you sent, and neither do I care. I’m glad it evidently made you feel good for five seconds, though.

          18. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You dunno what, stay behind you Wall.

        2. MekensehParty Avatar
          MekensehParty

          You call the Syrians in baabda a victory?
          The only (short-lived) victory against the Syrians was when their army packed and left in 2005. It was short-lived because the “victors” that day, decided to extend their hand and protect the Syrian agents in Lebanon, like samaha for example. And this is how they paid the Lebanese back, by smuggling explosives, being caught and ultimate insult, walk away with it.

          1. Hannibal Avatar

            I speak potatoes you speak oranges… I do not call anything a victory because the outcomes in the entire Middle East are dreadfully negative. People lived in South Lebanon under occupation and they (HA) were able to uproot the occupier. That is what it is. No comments further.

    2. MekensehParty Avatar
      MekensehParty

      The problem is that they have proven time and again that they are criminals, thugs and terrorists and yet you, among many others, still think that their smokescreen role of resistants still apply (as long as Shebaa is occupied) even after they killed Lebanese and Arabs much more than they ever killed Israelis.
      It is time for a courageous and definitive stance not from you alone but from every Lebanese. Cozying up to terrorists makes a person a terrorist sympathizer no matter how you present or justify it. So I ask you hani: how long are you going to keep calling them resistants and defenders of Lebanon?

      1. master09 Avatar

        It’s hard when one is brainwashed and plenty of those in Lebanon.

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          ..and plenty in Israeli settlements

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar

            A ‘Purpose’ to exist when it is no longer needed – carries on, on both sides of the lines.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I don’t want to live them lines

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar

            I’m happy you’re here. 😉 Over there, one needs to just sneak around all the time.

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