During the live coverage of Walid Eido's assassination, Nabih Berri's news channel anchor Sawsan Darwish (pictured right) accidentally slipped on the air, and proceeded to laugh at the murder of Eido just minutes after the horrendous event, and even implied there was more coming.

"Why were they late in killing him?," referring to Eido.

She then said "they're driving us crazy," apparently referring to other anti-Syrian politicians. "Ahmed Fatfat is left. I'm counting them," she added.

Beyond the obvious lack of dignity, professionalism, and respect on the part of the news channel, the incriminating aspect is that the NBN employees imply that there is in fact a plan to eliminate the anti-Syrian majority by killing off their members of parliament.

Darwish Not Fired

Following the event, NBN claimed it "regretted the unintentional mistake" which it said did not reflect the station's policies or moral and "professional standards". In an attempt to cover up the incident, Qassem Soueid, the director of NBN's news department, said Darwish and the sound engineer who put Darwish on air were fired. The move by NBN wreaks of a coverup, and a poor attempt to wash its hands clean.

Less than 40 days since the incident, Darwish was back on the air as a news anchor for NBN. The same NBN director, Qassem Soueid, that had initially claimed to have fired Darwish, mocked Ahmed Fatfat, the same minister that Darwish implied was next to be assassinated, calling him an "illegal cabinet minister" that was "launching a campaign against the television station."

Fatfat had sued Darwish and all others involved in "stirring sectarian hatred and interfering in crime."

Deputy House Speaker Farid Makari accused Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who owns NBN, of "making a mistake and deceiving his voters."

"If Speaker Nabih Berri has reinstated a journalist who used religious and factional words and cussed a martyred colleague of his without going through the trouble of offering condolences, then, I am surprised that some people were and are still hopeful that Speaker Berri will reopen the doors of Parliament," Makari said.

"This is a good opportunity for those who elected Berri as Speaker to realize that they were deluded," he added.

Provocations like those instigated by Darwish could very easily push Lebanon into a civil war unless they are nipped in the bud and made an example of.

In her first appearance since covering the Walid Eido assassination, Darwish thanked Nabih Berri for his "friendliness and forgiveness."

Shame on Berri for rewarding hatred by reinstating a clearly sick and twisted individual as a news anchor on his mouthpiece. The actions demonstrate Berri's disinterest in national unity.

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Source: Ya Libnan