Several pro-Syrian Lebanese leaders condemn the US-led airstrikes

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A poster of Amal leader Nabih Berri, President  Michel Aoun and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
A poster of Amal leader Nabih Berri, President Michel Aoun and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

Several  Lebanese leaders who are closely allied with the regime of  Syrian president  Bashar al Assad  condemned the US-led airstrikes  that took place on Saturday .

President Michel Aoun, a close ally of the Iranian backed Hezbollah  said the attack “will not contribute” to a political solution for the Syrian crisis, stressing that Lebanon “refuses hostility against Arab states no matter what the reasons were.”

“What happened in Syria today at dawn doesn’t contribute to finding a political solution for the Syrian crisis. Dialogue is necessary to stop deterioration, and end outside interference that have further complicated the crisis,” the Presidential  media office quoted Aoun as on saying in a tweet.

The President added: “Lebanon refuses attacks at any Arab state no matter what the reasons were. The latest developments in Syria will only involve world powers in the Syrian crisis.”

Similarly the AMAL Movement which is headed by Speaker Nabih Berri another close ally of Hezbollah issued a statement Saturday, condemning the joint Western attack at Syria, and describing it as “flagrant violation of international law, and a blatant attack on the Syrian state, the founding member of the United Nations.”

The statement said: “The tripartite aggression opens the door wide to make the region a war zone which could have serious consequences on international peace and security.

“Amal movement and all honorable people can not dissociate themselves from targeting Syria, mainly that this aggression affects the Middle East, and dubiously coincides with the liberation of large areas of Syria’s geography of the power of terrorism,” added the statement.

The Hezbollah militant group which is  headed by Hassan Nasrallah  sharply condemned the  US- led  air strikes saying they would not achieve their objectives.

“America’s war against Syria, and against the region’s peoples and resistance movement, will not achieve its aims,” the group said in a statement published on its War Media Channel.

File photo of a Hezbollah funeral . Many Hezbollah fighters have reportedly been killed in Syria in defense of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad , but the party has not revealed any official figures
File photo of a Hezbollah funeral . Many Hezbollah fighters have reportedly been killed in Syria in defense of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad , but the party has not revealed any official figures

Hezbollah sent thousands of its fighters to Syria to support the Syrian regime against the rebels . Over one  thousand fighters were returned to Lebanon in coffins

President Donald Trump on Saturday declared “Mission Accomplished” for a U.S.-led allied missile attack on Syria’s chemical weapons program.

“A perfectly executed strike,” Trump tweeted after U.S., French and British warplanes and ships launched more than 100 missiles nearly unopposed by Syrian air defenses. “Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!”

The nighttime Syria assault was carefully limited to minimize civilian casualties and avoid direct conflict with Syria’s key ally, Russia, but confusion arose over the extent to which Washington warned Moscow in advance. The Pentagon said it gave no explicit warning. The U.S. ambassador in Moscow, John Huntsman, said in a video, “Before we took action, the United States communicated with” Russia to “reduce the danger of any Russian or civilian casualties.”

Dana W. White, the chief Pentagon spokeswoman, said that to her knowledge no one in the Defense Department communicated with Moscow in advance, other than the acknowledged use of a military-to-military hotline that has routinely helped minimize the risk of U.S.-Russian collisions or confrontations in Syrian airspace. Officials said this did not include giving Russian advance notice of where or when allied airstrikes would happen.

Russia has military forces, including air defenses, in several areas of Syria to support President Bashar Assad in his long war against anti-government rebels.

Russia and Iran called the use of force by the United States and its allies a “military crime” and “act of aggression.” The U.N. Security Council met to debate the strikes, but rejected a Russian resolution calling for condemnation of the “aggression” by the three Western allies.

Trump’s U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, told the session that the president has made it clear that if Assad uses poison gas again, “the United States is locked and loaded.”

The strikes “successfully hit every target,” White told reporters at the Pentagon. The military said there were three targets: the Barzah chemical weapons research and development site in the Damascus area, a chemical weapons storage facility near Homs and a chemical weapons “bunker” a few miles from the second target.

The United States, Britain and France carried out a wave of punitive strikes against Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime on Saturday in response to alleged chemical weapons attacks that President Donald Trump branded the “crimes of a monster.”

The strikes hit three targets near Damascus — a scientific research center, a storage facility and command post — and a chemical weapons storage facility near Homs.

Syrian surface to air missile batteries had attempted to fire back, but there were no initial reports of allied losses, reports said.

Syrian state media said air defenses were activated to block the attack as it published images of smoke clouds hanging over the capital.

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72 responses to “Several pro-Syrian Lebanese leaders condemn the US-led airstrikes”

  1. Danny Farah Avatar
    Danny Farah

    So did the bombing of the Civilians by using chemical weapons had no reactions from you Mr. Lahoud. Oh wait this is the clown of SYria.. who got paid 30 millions dollars to get under the fold of Bashar. Go screw yourself you Hezbollah puppet.

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      ‘Trump Adviser Bolton Coordinated U.S.-led Strike in Syria With Israel
      Bolton spoke with his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben Shabbat, to coordinate the U.S.-led attack on Syria early Saturday morning’..

      https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-trump-adviser-bolton-coordinated-u-s-led-strike-in-syria-with-israel-1.5995946

      1. Hannibal Avatar

        Bolton is cartoonish… He will be used and discarded.

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          CONTAINERS WITH CHLORINE FROM GERMANY, SMOKE BOMBS FROM UK FOUND IN EASTERN GHOUTA: RUSSIA
          https://southfront.org/containers-with-chlorine-from-germany-smoke-bombs-from-uk-found-in-eastern-ghouta-russia/

          1. Russian fake propaganda news, infosharmuta

          2. Russians have been flooding the net with fake shiit and have denied access to areas they haven’t “cleaned” yet. It is pretty obvious that if rebels had chem weapons they would have used them on the SAA or the Hezb/Iranians, but no all the many chem attacks have been against the rebels and civilians. But this is not enough for the Assad brainwashed minions disinformation champagne and their recreation of reality. It doesn’t matter, Iran will soon make Syria a battleground for war against Israel.

          3. Niemals Avatar

            It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Iran will make Syria a battleground for war against Israel.

          4. You may have seen this already.
            https://www.debka.com/iranian-general-our-hands-on-the-trigger-your-airbases-within-reach-netanyahu-we-are-ready/
            Only a matter of time now.
            How ever Iran strikes, Israel will likely send a clear message to fvck- off.

    2. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Really YaLibnan became MSM fake news, you live in US you only get censured news.

      Why would he Assad gas his own people?
      Inspectors have just arrived in Syria to gather evidence.

      1. “Why would he Assad gas his own people?” (sic)

        Bumbyad is funny sometimes. And it’s always 100% unintentional. 🙂

          1. Hannibal Avatar

            and then they turn them into terrorists so they shoot them. Indeed ZioNazis.

          2. infoA7be?

          3. Syria: Changing The Rules
            https://www.strategypage.com/qnd/syria/articles/20180418.aspx
            This explains the Bot-like behavior of the minions.

          4. You got a point here, moron. The Baath party was indeed Nazi-inspired. Nowadays, however, the Baathists no longer need any lessons from abroad as far as massacring the populace is concerned.

          5. mondoweizz is famous hateful antisemitic site, infosharmuta

          6. The moron just cuts and pastes whatever crap she (it?) lays her eyes on at the moment, without any rhyme or reason.

          7. Niemals Avatar

            So you have seen this Zecke tweets – cuts and pastes all crap https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a8b692ac1bbea8d57cf6ca46d090075a3f449a67fdec1639a7ac55cc6e1c1bde.jpg that this conspirator Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c61959d6a4cfdf496a9f4a67a7915f02a5a020c3e8bfc4706351e54b15ff5e64.jpg published as well as Partisangirl ???????? @Partisangirl.

            However it is with a concrete reason s(he) is spreading RT’s & Co. conspiracy theories.

            ‘Symbolic move, huge benefits’: Romania to relocate its Israel embassy to Jerusalem. (RT)

          8. She (it) looks like a transsexual man trying to be a woman.

          9. Niemals Avatar

            ????????

          10. Well, a good-looking transsexual. 🙂

          11. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Cesspool of Talmudist morbid vipers insanity and malevolence.

          12. Niemals Avatar
            Niemals

            S(he) always called you Y K and others “Nazi, ZioNazi”…. this time Hind Abyad hat retweetet a ‘perfect’ post ???? ????https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2f99adc46740d983beafe790385f0d30b5595fb5632c0feca475da6924c81cde.jpg since this Racial Consciousness says “A sincere thank you to everyone who follows, likes, and retweets my posts.”, and Hindler done it…

            How about this thesis? “Arab Palestinian didn’t lose the land to a war: They lost it to a LEGAL IMMIGRATION.”
            https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/990558468456239104

          13. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Garbage cans for crap et blablabla….

          14. At least she looks good (if that’s her picture, that is…) 🙂

          15. Niemals Avatar

            I don’t think that s(he) shows the evidence picture like Sarah Abdallah does.

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Turkic Mongolian Khazarian with zero Semitic blood no link to the Middle East shut up

          1. The Turks are smack in the Middle East.

            The Mongols conquered half the Middle East.

            Dumbyad’s blood connection to the Middle East is via Canadian welfare checks. 🙂

          2. Niemals Avatar
            Niemals

            Now I’m ‘worried’, according to Dumbyad’s post on Twitter from may 5th
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/04daf50ca19b075f7e2d828c71d8f4db38d955a1381929bbdf87eda2646b7f49.jpg I found myself living in one of your colonies.

            ❗️ ???? Furthermore I’m upset that this Dumbyad is living in one of your colonies too…. ???? ❗️

          3. The funniest thing is that Oman – for shit’s sake, Oman!!! – is also on that map. 🙂

    3. Niemals Avatar

      The bombing of the Civilians by chemical weapons will never create any reactions from Lahoud.

      This non Arab president, a close ally of the Hezbollah (the puppet of the Iranians) said the attack “will not contribute” to a political solution for the Syrian civil war.

      This Aoun stressed that Lebanon “refuses hostility against Arab states no matter what the reasons were.”

      Hostility against non Arab states doesn’t count….

  2. Niemals Avatar

    Hezbollah have learned from Russia to keep any official figures of how many that have been killed in Syria https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/22330556fbd8d544766459dd5882f6cad04f378d75f0f94458c073821720e8fc.jpg in defense of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad as a state secret.

    1. Check this out. This Is What Life Is Like Inside Assad’s Syria: VICE on HBO

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESWCzPy7SgQ

      1. Niemals Avatar

        It was really a shocking video!

        Seeing those syrians that didn’t care at all about the other Syrian people who had enough of the Assad regime response to peaceful protests that turned into a civil war. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea454e7ea89bd3e5fee373e0b6d9e111a8f77c3595ef10ce3a0ee7b937a33489.jpg look at this dictator that adapted the Putin ‘entrance style’….

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/838444d29b39bd28ffe0259b67af245a9a730271d49af696e324ea646f019c95.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/327e712f5080363c13b0fe1b8cc6bb6c04af2dcc3760fc57a3f3088fd13a8bf0.jpg

      2. Is this “Fallout 3” or “The Walking Dead”? 🙂

        1. Niemals Avatar

          Y K this confrontations by the male “Ahed Tamimi”, documented on this video attacking Jews in Berlin is typical for arabs…
          Will he be punished….
          https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/986574054743269377
          https://twitter.com/JFDA_eV/status/986356754039672833

          1. Niemals Avatar

            He will be punished, the Berliner police is investigating the assault on two young men in Berlin, in which the attacker was filmed shouting anti-Semitic abuse.

            The men were harassed in the Prenzlauer Berg area on Monday just because they was wearing Jewish skullcaps.

            The 21-year-old Israeli called Adam, followed the attacker but gave up after a glass bottle was thrown at him.

            “It happened right here, next to my home, when I was on my way to the train station with my friend.”

            He said a group of three men started insulting them and became angry when they were asked to stop.

            “One of them ran at me,” he said.
            “I immediately felt it was important to film because I didn’t think we could catch him before police arrived.”

        2. Niemals Avatar

          Did you noticed in the DW article the following text?
          “One of them got real aggressive and ran to me with his belt,” Adam said. “At that moment I realized I have to take a video of it. I wanted to have evidence for police and the German people and the world to see how terrible it is these days as a Jew to go through Berlin streets.”

          Adam said that he is an Israeli who grew up in Arab family in Israel and is not, in fact, Jewish.
          http://www.dw.com/en/video-of-alleged-anti-semitic-attack-in-berlin-sparks-outrage/a-43432466
          He said the kippa, the traditional Jewish head covering, he wore was a gift from a friend who told him it was “unsafe” to wear out in the open.
          http://p.dw.com/p/2wHgO

        3. Syria does resemble a surreal post apocalyptic waste land.

          1. Niemals Avatar

            Wow! Believe it or not – Two stealth fighters reportedly flew undetected over Iran, crossing Syria and Lebanon on the way, to conduct surveillance missions on sites believed to be connected to the Iranian nuclear project.

            Israeli stealth planes reached Iran and returned without anyone noticing, Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Jarida reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources.

        4. Niemals Avatar

          Attacker in anti-Semitic video turns himself in to police
          Police say the attacker in the video, which has created a global uproar, is a 19-year-old from Syria.

  3. Niemals Avatar

    A non Arab president, a close ally of the Iranian backed Hezbollah said the attack “will not contribute” to a political solution for the Syrian civil war.

    This Aoun stressed that Lebanon “refuses hostility against Arab states no matter what the reasons were.”

    Hostility against non Arab states doesn’t count….

  4. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    ‘,On Lebanon’s civil war anniversary, Israel’s crimes are far from history

    As Israel continues its murderous machinations against Palestinians while regularly threatening to attack Lebanon, the hope for peace is slim’

    http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/lebanon-s-civil-war-anniversary-israeli-threat-looms-large-2061884502

    1. infosharmuta

      1. Hannibal Avatar

        infoA7be… Ask me about the difference sometime it is really hilarious.

        1. No fake – no info like No money – no love

  5. Niemals Avatar

    Recently, I noticed that some rumors that have been circulating about Asma al-Assad https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fd5a04fe3ce05b1fe7bf73b7995cf97dd9989c44e3e6e9ab08d78c04eae158ac.jpg – she is not allowed to leave the country – is it correct?

      1. Go to Hell, infosharmuta

        1. Niemals Avatar

          Is Hindler still insulting you so rough?

          I told earlier – Block this conspirative Jew hating Zecke ????!

          1. Hi Niemals, i’m not vulnerable, can not be killed, injured or insulted
            I don’t want block her or OmegaHell because i hope even they can correct themselves and say something good and interesting. I’m not Roscomnadzor

          2. Niemals Avatar

            Of course you can not be killed, injured, but it seems that you are getting insulted too often.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eee856a4e7b1d0e339dc29403c02bd97261b343910e1679e4e73e4fbd07904e5.jpg You suffer from lack of self esteem.

          3. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=-56.990592&lon=-154.929113&z=14&m=w Lol i’m in no way insulted and i’m sorry i’m insulting haters insulters. Self esteem? i’m ready to be esteemed by others what i created, why i need esteem myself?

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            No, he doesn’t my reply to you, pig.

  6. Niemals Avatar

    In Syria, Kurdish militia have apparently detained a suspected bomber of the September 11, 2001 killings in New York and Washington. This is reported by a commander of the Kurds in Syria AFP.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2c6463679796ad4d161d2ef275e63aae71855df1716c934b1cd493321ade2676.jpg The twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York at 9/11 just before the collapseMohammed Haydar Zammar has been arrested by the Kurdish security forces in northern Syria and is being interrogated at the moment,” a senior Kurdish representative said, without first providing further details. The German-Syrian, who was a close confidant of the Hamburg group to the plane attackers of September 11, 2001, had moved to Morocco in late 2001 – shortly after the aircraft attacks in the United States. There, the Hamburg jihadist was kidnapped by the US CIA and handed over to the Syrian authorities, who detained him in jail.
    After the 9/11 attacks, the US launched a secret program for the kidnapping and interrogation of terrorist suspects abroad.

    Zammar is no stranger to German authorities

    Following the September 2001 attacks, Zammar was overseen by the German police for his links with Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda terrorist network. The fate of the German-Syrian was also the subject of a committee of inquiry of the Bundestag, because there was a suspicion that the German authorities did too little to protect a citizen against arbitrariness and torture.

    After 9/11, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office also initiated a case against Zammar for supporting a terrorist group.

    The Foreign Office in Berlin and the Pentagon in Washington initially made no statement about a possible fixing of Zammar by Kurdish fighters in Syria.
    This would be tested, it was said. qu / cw (afp)

      1. You are fake most of all, silly cow infosharmuta

  7. It is hilarious how some Lebanese support Assad even though he brutally occupied Lebanon and still see Leb as a province of Syria. They are traitors.

    1. MekensehParty Avatar
      MekensehParty

      Most Lebanese love the boots on their necks

      1. Don’t worry, Assad would have some barrel bombs and chem weapons that would look after any opposition from Lebanon. They must love the abuse. They harp about Israel yet Assad was worse and Syria still consumes Lebanese life through Hezbollah and the other Iranian/Assad proxies involvement.
        Disassociation policy is a crock of Shiite when Hezbollah doesn’t follow Lebanese law anyhow and are still heavily involved in Syria, Yemen, Iraq or where ever Iran sends them to perform terrorism.

      2. Sadly, they seem to share this boot fetish with many others, by no means exclusively Arab or Muslim. Just look at the Russians. Or the Congolese.

        “There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”

        (George Orwell, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”).

      3. Hind Abyad Avatar

        Mossad boots ya ibn el kalb Mekharazyo

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