U.S.: Syria, Iran ,Hezbollah endangering Lebanon stability

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Syria, Iran and the militant group Hezbollah are undermining Lebanon’s independence and are endangering its stability, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday.

Susan Rice ( R) spoke a day after three employees of the U.N.-backed court set up to try suspects in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri were attacked in Beirut.

“We continue to have deep concerns over Hezbollah’s destructive and destabilizing influence in the region,” said Rice, adding that Syria and Iran are largely responsible for the group’s power.

Hezbollah is not accountable to Lebanon’s democratic institutions, the diplomat said outside a U.N. Security Council meeting on Lebanon.

She singled out Syria for providing increasingly sophisticated weapons to militia groups, including Hezbollah.

The U.S. government condemned the attack on the court employees.

Two investigators from the court’s prosecutor’s office and their interpreter were “violently attacked” by “a large group of people” who showed up at a Wednesday morning meeting that was part of the investigation, the United Nations said. The meeting was at a doctor’s office.

The Lebanese army extracted the three staff members and brought them to the tribunal’s office, where they received medical attention, the United Nations said.

The office of the prosecutor said several items were stolen from the staffers during the attack.

The tribunal is an independent body set up after an earlier U.N. mission found that Lebanon’s own inquiry into the massive car bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others was seriously flawed and that Syria was primarily responsible for political tensions that preceded the bombing.

The latest attack “is yet another attempt to create a false choice between justice and stability and to prevent the independent tribunal from carrying out its Security Council mandate,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a statement issued Wednesday night.

“We again emphasize that efforts to discredit, hinder, or influence the tribunal’s work serve only to increase instability and tensions in the country and should not be tolerated,” he said.

The attack comes a day before a top leader from Hezbollah — which the tribunal reportedly suspects of involvement in the killings — will deliver a major speech challenging the court.

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah is set to give a televised speech on the tribunal Thursday night.

On Wednesday, the court said it would not be deterred from trying the people it suspects killed Hariri and the others, calling the attack on its staffers “a deplorable attempt to obstruct justice.”

“Those who carried out this attack must know that violence will not deter the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a court of law, from fulfilling its mandate,” the tribunal, based in The Hague, Netherlands, said in a news release.

Lebanese authorities have launched an investigation, the United Nations said.

Hariri’s death stunned the nation and prompted tens of thousands to take to the streets, blaming Syria for the killing. Syria has always denied the accusations.

The explosion left a 10-foot crater in a street in downtown Beirut and had a similar effect on the country’s political culture.

At the time of the killing, neighboring Syria had immense political influence in Lebanon.

A U.N. Security Council resolution demanded Damascus fully cooperate in the U.N. investigation. The assassination and subsequent investigation led to a complete withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon after 30 years of military presence.

The tribunal’s prosecutor, Daniel Bellemare, is expected to issue the long-awaited indictment by the end of the year. CNN

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46 responses to “U.S.: Syria, Iran ,Hezbollah endangering Lebanon stability”

  1. joseph_phdmath Avatar
    joseph_phdmath

    march14 should arrange another march similar to the one that push syria out of lebanon ; this time 2 millions lebaneese go to to the street and demand disarment of all foreign militias palestinians and persians hezbollah

  2.  Avatar

    march14 should arrange another march similar to the one that push syria out of lebanon ; this time 2 millions lebaneese go to to the street and demand disarment of all foreign militias palestinians and persians hezbollah

  3. PROPHET.T Avatar

    The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations just gave anther example of how hypocrite she and her administration are. Her boss, Jeffery feltman, lead March 14th political agenda for four yours. As recent as last week, he made a visit, and forced himself on Lebanese officials on a Sunday, and followed PM Hariri all the way to Saudi Arabia, so he can push, once again, his country’s agenda. That is not considered interference, The sad part is that some people will believe the us representative to the UN as well as all American officials. What is it going to take f or Lebanese politicians to understand that the US policy in the middle east, and in Lebanon in particular, has been and will always be destructive. What is it going to take , to make Lebanese understand, that the US interests in the middle east are those of Israel’s only?
    Here is an article that would show the involvement of Feltman in the STL affair, as well as the Lebanese affairs.
    http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/28/jeffrey-feltmans-really-great-plan/

    http://realisticbird.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/jeffrey-feltmans-really-great-plan-squeezing-hezbollah/

  4. PROPHET.T Avatar

    The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations just gave anther example of how hypocrite she and her administration are. Her boss, Jeffery feltman, lead March 14th political agenda for four yours. As recent as last week, he made a visit, and forced himself on Lebanese officials on a Sunday, and followed PM Hariri all the way to Saudi Arabia, so he can push, once again, his country’s agenda. That is not considered interference, The sad part is that some people will believe the us representative to the UN as well as all American officials. What is it going to take f or Lebanese politicians to understand that the US policy in the middle east, and in Lebanon in particular, has been and will always be destructive. What is it going to take , to make Lebanese understand, that the US interests in the middle east are those of Israel’s only?

    Here is an article that would show the involvement of Feltman in the STL affair, as well as the Lebanese affairs.

    http://realisticbird.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/jeffrey-feltmans-really-great-plan-squeezing-hezbollah/

  5. joseph_phdmath Avatar
    joseph_phdmath

    to prophet
    the us goal in the middle east to promote democracy and educate ignorant people like you and convert all of your barberic people to a civilized human beeings where they learn how to respect human rights and the rule of law ,the us has liberated 20 millions shia,s in iraq who were brutalized and salughtered under a maniac evil dictator saddam hussein regeme and for the first time in history the iraquis could go to the poles and vote to choose there own leader and they are on the path to democracy and the us will keep fighting evils and dictators and ignorant people like you and defeat them so the world could be a better place and a safer for all human kind
    it is obvious that people like you they will always be ungraetfull because you are an ignorant barberic uncivilized person and you should live in in the jungle with the animals because thats where you belong
    any way most countries in the middleeast they love the us( egypt,saudiarabia ,jordan;kwait,dubai, lebanon etc…)

    because the us is helping them to have a better life

    1. PROPHET.T Avatar

      Joseph,
      You are not worth exchanging with. I don’t debate haters and rude people.
      You must have a rude thought every three seconds. It has to feel more comfortable for you, to be rude than polite.
      I can’t believe you had the nerve to add PHD to your name. If it is true that you have a PHD, It must be in rudeness and incivility.
      Just keep in mind that, not all educated people are intellectuals, and not all intellectuals are highly educated. Good luck anyway.

    2. PROPHET.T Avatar

      Mr PHDmath,
      According to Ralph Emerson; “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness”.
      Now, You go & do the math. I hope your brain does not hurt too much, trying to figure out how much happiness you’ve lost so far.

    3. PROPHET.T Avatar

      Mr PHDmath,
      According to Ralph Emerson; “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness”.
      Now, You go & do the math. I hope your brain does not hurt too much, trying to figure out how much happiness you’ve lost so far.

    4. LOL Joseph, 3 months i dont come on this site, and you’re still the delusional, retarded, hick that you have demonstarted yourself to be.

      seriously, I dont know why you live in Jersey, you should move to Arkansas or some other shit hick state and listen to Glen Beck and Rush limbaugh the whole day.

      you have ZERO idea what you’re talking about. The U.S is doing it because it LOOOOVES the arab states and wants to educate them? HAHAHAHAHA thats the funniest shit ive heard in a while…even other Americans and europeans know that’a a joke.
      what education did they give to Iraq? they “liberated” the shias? really? yet you complain about Iran becoming too powerful in the middle east, so tell me who helped shift the powers from sunnis to shias and empowered Iran? wasnt it your bff the US?
      ba3den ya 7mar inta, Iraq was one of the most westernized arab countries in the middle east in case you didnt know….women were veyr much educated, dressed in western clothing, short skirts, etc. and now it went 20 yrs backwards after the US invasion. SO GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT ya ignorant inta.

      George Bush’s new book was so heavily criticized (I will post the links) that he just used selective memory about everything he did in his presidency to justify it all, especially Iraq where he blamed it on faulty intelligence, whereas there are documented facts about many people warning him not to go in and that there is not sufficient evidence of WMD’s but he still went ahead. and WHO GOT RICH IN THE PROCESS? you tell me please/
      WHO PAID THE PRICE?? read the wikileaks about the iraq war and you’ll see who paid the highest price.

      my neighbour who is an iraqi christian was telling me how even if Saddam was ruthless (as are MANY MANY DICTATORS IN OTHER COUTNRIES) christians were never harrassed and could go to church in peace, whereas now, thx to the “generous and always thinking of the arabs” United states of my a*** extremists from egypt, morroco, pakistan, etc. have infested iraq like cockroaches and are massacring christians who now are leaving iraq.

      WAKE UP AND GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR A****HOLE.

      1. chu baddik fii hayda waa7ad be noes 3aqel I even doubt he knows math. I think people should ignore this idiot. He is condescending to a culture far older than the West. If we stayed stagnant through the years it is because of West interference. Indeed he should read the comments and understand the zionists agenda and how they hold 300 million U.S. citizens hostage to a religious agenda of an invented nation of minority. PhD stands for Poor Homodumbshit Doctor.

        1. PROPHET.T Avatar

          PhD stands for Poor Homodumbshit Doctor.WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH THIS ONE,LOL

      2. PROPHET.T Avatar

        Cathy, Why did you respond to him after all this time, He has not said much since then.lol

        1. after i posted i realized that the post was old….it was because american patriot had posted yesterday so I didnt even look at the date lol

        2. after i posted i realized that the post was old….it was because american patriot had posted yesterday so I didnt even look at the date lol

        3. Hannibal Avatar

          I silenced Poor Homodumbshit Doctor… he he

        4. Hannibal Avatar

          I silenced Poor Homodumbshit Doctor… he he

      3. PROPHET.T Avatar

        You are forgiven,lol

      4. PROPHET.T Avatar

        You are forgiven,lol

    5. I don’t know if some day you will read this, but you boast the USA to be civilized? hum… lets see…
      Child abuse… drug addiction, lies to the international community making false accusations to invade Iraq, Liberating the Shia and allowing them to kill Christians in Iraq.
      You show to have very little or nothing of Moral, You show to have no knowledge at all of what is a civilization, You ancestors came from the dungeons of England to colonize America and after that the Americans betrayed England, Americans are the seed of evil they curse the day they where born, they transmit and infection called invasion and dictatorship, USA looks only for their selfish interests, And you keep going telling people that You are civilized? Let me point out to You that Americans in a covert military operation in the 1700s decided to exterminate all the Bison in America to kill the Indians of Hunger, is that for You being civilized? I don’t think so. They experimented the effect of radiation in the 1930s with their own fellow citizens, They pressure and bully other countries to advocate their immoral diplomacy, so don’t come here and tell Us what is the USA boasting yourselves with immoral lies again and again. We are not ignorants like Your people whom doesn’t know how to spell MORAL.

  6.  Avatar

    to prophet

    the us goal in the middle east to promte democracy and educate ignorant people like you and convert all of you barberic people to a civilized human beeings where you learn how to respect human rights the us has liberated 20 millions shia,s in iraq who they were brutalized and slughtered under a manic evil dictator saddam hussein and for the first time in history the iraqui can choose there own leader and they are on the path to democracy and the us will keep fighting evils and dictators and ignorant people like you and defeat them so the world could be a better place and a safer for all human kind

    it is obvious that people like you they will always be ungraetfull because you are an ignorant barberic uncivilized person and you should live in the cage in the jungle with the animals because that you belongs

    1. PROPHET.T Avatar

      Joseph,

      You are not worth exchanging with. I don’t debate haters and rude people.

      You must have a rude thought every three seconds. It has to feel more comfortable for you, to be rude than polite.

      I can’t believe you had the nerve to add PHD to your name. It must be a PHD in rudeness, if it is true that you have a PHD. Just keep in mind that, not all educated people are intellectuals, and not all intellectuals are highly educated. Good luck anyway.

    2. PROPHET.T Avatar

      Mr PHDmath,

      According to Ralph Emerson; “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness”.

      Now, You go & do the math. I hope your brain does not hurt too much, trying to figure out how much happiness you’ve lost so far.

    3.  Avatar

      LOL Joseph, 3 months i dont come on this site, and you’re still the delusional, retarded, hick that you have demonstarted yourself to be.

      seriously, I dont know why you live in Jersey, you should move to Arkansas or some other shit hick state and listen to Glen Beck and Rush limbaugh the whole day.

      you have ZERO idea what you’re talking about. The U.S is doing it because it LOOOOVES the arab states and wants to educate them? HAHAHAHAHA thats the funniest shit ive heard in a while…even other Americans and europeans know that’a a joke.

      what education did they give to Iraq? they “liberated” the shias? really? yet you complain about Iran becoming too powerful in the middle east, so tell me who helped shift the powers from sunnis to shias and empowered Iran? wasnt it your bff the US?

      ba3den ya 7mar inta, Iraq was one of the most westernized arab countries in the middle east in case you didnt know….women were veyr much educated, dressed in western clothing, short skirts, etc. and now it went 20 yrs backwards after the US invasion. SO GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT ya ignorant inta.

      George Bush’s new book was so heavily criticized (I will post the links) that he just used selective memory about everything he did in his presidency to justify it all, especially Iraq where he blamed it on faulty intelligence, whereas there are documented facts about many people warning him not to go in and that there is not sufficient evidence of WMD’s but he still went ahead. and WHO GOT RICH IN THE PROCESS? you tell me please/

      WHO PAID THE PRICE?? read the wikileaks about the iraq war and you’ll see who paid the highest price.

      my neighbour who is an iraqi christian was telling me how even if Saddam was ruthless (as are MANY MANY DICTATORS IN OTHER COUTNRIES) christians were never harrassed and could go to church in peace, whereas now, thx to the “generous and always thinking of the arabs” United states of my a*** extremists from egypt, morroco, pakistan, etc. have infested iraq like cockroaches and are massacring christians who now are leaving iraq.

      WAKE UP AND GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR A****HOLE.

      1. chu baddik fii hayda waa7ad be noes 3aqel I even doubt he knows math. I think people should ignore this idiot. He is condescending to a culture far older than the West. If we stayed stagnant through the years it is because of West interference. Indeed he should read the comments and understand the zionists agenda and how they hold 300 million U.S. citizens hostage to a religious agenda of an invented nation of minority. PhD stands for Poor Homodumbshit Doctor.

        1. PROPHET.T Avatar

          PhD stands for Poor Homodumbshit Doctor.WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH THIS ONE,LOL

      2. PROPHET.T Avatar

        Cathy, Why did you respond to him after all this time, He has not said much since then.lol

        1.  Avatar

          after i posted i realized that the post was old….it was because american patriot had posted yesterday so I didnt even look at the date lol

        2. I silenced Poor Homodumbshit Doctor… he he

      3. PROPHET.T Avatar

        You are forgiven,lol

    4.  Avatar

      I don’t know if some day you will read this, but you boast the USA to be civilized? hum… lets see…
      Child abuse… drug addiction, lies to the international community making false accusations to invade Iraq, Liberating the Shia and allowing them to kill Christians in Iraq.
      You show to have very little or nothing of Moral, You show to have no knowledge at all of what is a civilization, You ancestors came from the dungeons of England to colonize America and after that the Americans betrayed England, Americans are the seed of evil they curse the day they where born, they transmit and infection called invasion and dictatorship, USA looks only for their selfish interests, And you keep going telling people that You are civilized? Let me point out to You that Americans in a covert military operation in the 1700s decided to exterminate all the Bison in America to kill the Indians of Hunger, is that for You being civilized? I don’t think so. They experimented the effect of radiation in the 1930s with their own fellow citizens, They pressure and bully other countries to advocate their immoral diplomacy, so don’t come here and tell Us what is the USA boasting yourselves with immoral lies again and again. We are not ignorants like Your people whom doesn’t know how to spell MORAL.

  7.  Avatar

    to prophet

    the us goal in the middle east to promte democracy and educate ignorant people like you and convert all of you barberic people to a civilized human beeings where you learn how to respect human rights the us has liberated 20 millions shia,s in iraq who they were brutalized and slughtered under a manic evil dictator saddam hussein and for the first time in history the iraqui can choose there own leader and they are on the path to democracy and the us will keep fighting evils and dictators and ignorant people like you and defeat them so the world could be a better place and a safer for all human kind

    it is obvious that people like you they will always be ungraetfull because you are an ignorant barberic uncivilized person and you should live in the cage in the jungle with the animals because that you belongs

  8. joseph_phdmath Avatar
    joseph_phdmath

    TO PRoHET
    I LOSE MY HAPPINESS EVeRYTIME I KNOW OF UNCIVILZED BARBERIC PEOPLE LIKE YOU AROUND WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN
    DEMOCRACY

    1. PROPHET.T Avatar

      Mr. PHD in Rudeness
      I don’t usually attend every argument I’m invited to, so I’ll say my last word and walk away .
      Bad-tempered people like you ,are the worst I’ve met, because they know they are wrong, but have not enough courage to admit .
      It really shows how democratic and open minded you are. Screaming your head off just because some one has a different opinion than yours.
      I live in democratic country where people respect those who have different views , without insulting each other. I live in a country where educated people don’t claim to be self -righteous like you do.
      I live in a democratic country where people don’t call each other names , when they disagree with each other.
      I live in a country where people exchange opinions while maintaining some respect to each other.
      You have not shown any of those qualities. So I won’t debate you, or your views. I won’t call you names Mr. PHD, but I will tell you that if democracy is defined as you practice it, I don’t want it, You can keep it for yourself. I guarantee you that most Lebanese, as messed up as they are, would not want your form of democracy, nor would they want your rudeness or screams.

  9. joseph_phdmath Avatar
    joseph_phdmath

    TO PRoHET
    I LOSE MY HAPPINESS EVeRYTIME I KNOW OF UNCIVILZED BARBERIC PEOPLE LIKE YOU AROUND WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN
    DEMOCRACY

  10.  Avatar

    I LOSE MY HAPPINESS EVRYTIME I KNOW OF UNCIVILZED BABERIC PEOPLE LIKE YOU AROUNDWHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY

    1. PROPHET.T Avatar

      Mr. PHD in Rudeness

      I don’t usually attend every argument I’m invited to, so I’ll say my last word and walk away .

      Bad-tempered people like you ,are the worst I’ve met, because they know they are wrong, but have not enough courage to admit .

      It really shows how democratic and open minded you are. Screaming your head off just because some one has a different opinion than yours.

      I live in democratic country where people respect those who have different views , without insulting each other. I live in a country where educated people don’t claim to be self -righteous like you do.

      I live in a democratic country where people don’t call each other names , when they disagree with each other.

      I live in a country where people exchange opinions while maintaining some respect to each other.

      You have not shown any of those qualities. So I won’t debate you, or your views. I won’t call you names Mr. PHD, but I will tell you that if democracy is defined as you practice it, I don’t want it, You can keep it for yourself. I guarantee you that most Lebanese, as messed up as they are, would not want your form of democracy, nor would they want your rudeness or screams.

  11. American_Patriot1 Avatar
    American_Patriot1

    The USA must resume its leadership role in the Middle East, both political and military. When mad dictatorships and theocracies, whether by themselves or by proxy terrorists, attack other countries, the governments of those countries must be replaced by more suitable governments. The terrorist proxies must be quietened, by force if necessary. Only a rule of law with total respect for all human rights is acceptable in the Middle East and elsewhere. It is time for the world to wake up and acknowledge the fact that countries like Iran and Syria and the terrorist proxies they support are nothing more than barbaric dictatorships trying to infect the world with hate, anger, poverty, and persecution in place of love, tolerance, respect, and prosperity.

  12. American_Patriot1 Avatar
    American_Patriot1

    The USA must resume its leadership role in the Middle East, both political and military. When mad dictatorships and theocracies, whether by themselves or by proxy terrorists, attack other countries, the governments of those countries must be replaced by more suitable governments. The terrorist proxies must be quietened, by force if necessary. Only a rule of law with total respect for all human rights is acceptable in the Middle East and elsewhere. It is time for the world to wake up and acknowledge the fact that countries like Iran and Syria and the terrorist proxies they support are nothing more than barbaric dictatorships trying to infect the world with hate, anger, poverty, and persecution in place of love, tolerance, respect, and prosperity.

  13.  Avatar

    The USA must resume its leadership role in the Middle East, both political and military. When mad dictatorships and theocracies, whether by themselves or by proxy terrorists, attack other countries, the governments of those countries must be replaced by more suitable governments. The terrorist proxies must be quietened, by force if necessary. Only a rule of law with total respect for all human rights is acceptable in the Middle East and elsewhere. It is time for the world to wake up and acknowledge the fact that countries like Iran and Syria and the terrorist proxies they support are nothing more than barbaric dictatorships trying to infect the world with hate, anger, poverty, and persecution in place of love, tolerance, respect, and prosperity.

  14. Is so strange that the democratic USA never condemns the weapons of Israel, I am in shock to see that
    they only attack Syria and HZBL but never the cause effect for the existence of this conflicts.
    In Lebanon We are worried of all those Eastern Europeans brought by Israel to The ME, Crime and abuse will arise from this immigration near home.

    1. PS… I can see how safe the world is now, after all the terrorism that the CIA and Mossad are doing to get international sympathy/support and screw all the M.E.
      Only blinds don’t see, but perceive
      Deaf don’t hear. but can see
      Stupids like You Joseph phdmath talk only because you have a mouth, but oh I feel sorry for the food you eat entering to that immoral and uncivilized body who will spread excrement contaminated with lies.

  15. Is so strange that the democratic USA never condemns the weapons of Israel, I am in shock to see that
    they only attack Syria and HZBL but never the cause effect for the existence of this conflicts.
    In Lebanon We are worried of all those Eastern Europeans brought by Israel to The ME, Crime and abuse will arise from this immigration near home.

    1. PS… I can see how safe the world is now, after all the terrorism that the CIA and Mossad are doing to get international sympathy/support and screw all the M.E.
      Only blinds don’t see, but perceive
      Deaf don’t hear. but can see
      Stupids like You Joseph phdmath talk only because you have a mouth, but oh I feel sorry for the food you eat entering to that immoral and uncivilized body who will spread excrement contaminated with lies.

  16.  Avatar

    Is so strange that the democratic USA never condemns the weapons of Israel, I am in shock to see that
    they only attack Syria and HZBL but never the cause effect for the existence of this conflicts.
    In Lebanon We are worried of all those Eastern Europeans brought by Israel to The ME, Crime and abuse will arise from this immigration near home.

    1.  Avatar

      PS… I can see how safe the world is now, after all the terrorism that the CIA and Mossad are doing to get international sympathy/support and screw all the M.E.
      Only blinds don’t see, but perceive
      Deaf don’t hear. but can see
      Stupids like You Joseph phdmath talk only because you have a mouth, but oh I feel sorry for the food you eat entering to that immoral and uncivilized body who will spread excrement contaminated with lies.

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