Friday, September 29, 2006

I WAS THERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Rafic Hariri Murdered
(i was there, i saw him a little! but now all i have memories... )

Rafik Hariri was assassinated in a massive bomb blast that shredded his motorcade in downtown Beirut opposite the St Georges Hotel as he was returning home from a parliament meeting at 12:55 p.m. Monday February 14th 2005. Hariri and six of his bodyguards were killed. The total toll was 17 dead and 134 wounded.
Hariri was planning to contest Lebanon's spring parliamentary elections in alliance with opposition groups demanding a termination of Syria's high-handed tutelage over Lebanon. Hariri's murder, which explosive experts said was the work of an intelligence service, came hardly 24 hours after the world community was reported to have warned the Assad regime that Syria would be held responsible if Hariri or Walid Jumblat are assassinated.Explosive experts said that Hariri was killed by a one-ton charge rigged into underground sewage or city water pipes that was mechanically detonated once his motorcade was spotted passing over the bomb.
This explains why the sophisticated jamming systems installed in Hariri's armor-plated limousines had failed to neutralize the bomb.Ten days before the assassination a ditch was dug at the assassination scene for underground public works repairs of the sewage system. The 1,000 kilograms of explosives were then introduced via this ditch into the water pipes under the street.The people of Lebanon were in thrown into a state of shock and took to the streets chanting slogans "Death to Syria" and "Syrians out, we don't need you, we don't want you." Several Syrian-owned businesses were ransacked and the Beirut headquarters of Syria's ruling Baath Party branch in Lebanon was attacked and a huge portrait of the late President Hafez Assad was torn off the building and set on fire at the city's Cola residential district. The building was then pelted with stones and shacks outside used by Syrian workers ere set alight. In other parts of west Beirut Syrians were beaten. The strongest condemnation of the killing came from Hariri's hometown of Sidon, where angry demonstrators blocked roads with barricades of burning tires sending billows of black smoke rising into the air. Demonstrators chanted slogans against Syria and the pro-Damascus Lebanese government, including: "Bashar Assad, what do you want from us? Take your soldiers and leave," and "We will not fear speaking out. We don't want Emile Lahoud." Demonstrators also carried banners reading: "They assassinated you because you were the hope of this country." Venting their frustration and rage at the closest target, dozens of demonstrators attacked Syrian workers, lightly wounding five before police intervened.
A group of youths with their hands and faces painted black shouted: "Syria, you have painted our days in black. Letting Karami laugh and letting Lahoud remain sitting on his chair, is the biggest crime." In Akkar, Hariri supporters expressed their grief by burning tires on the main roads in Abdeh, Bourj al-Arab and other areas. Black flags were also raised at the Abdeh Roundabout at the southern entrance of Akkar and on Hariri's Future Movement center in Halba. In Tripoli and other northern areas, black and Lebanese flags were raised alongside pictures of Hariri and countless banners. Demonstraters blocked roads leading to Syria.The opposition called for a three day strike.
All government departments were closed as well as Banks, schools, universities, shops, boutiques, cafes and cinemas in Beirut, Sidon, Tyre, Nabatiyeh, Baalbek, Zahleh and Tripoli as well as the entire Christian heartland north and northeast of the capital. The strike was blessed by Sheikh Rashid Kabbani, the spiritual head of the Muslim Sunni community of which Hariri was its political standard-bearer. Kabbani said after an emergency conference of Lebanon's Sunni notables Monday night that Hariri's assassination "targeted Lebanon's existence." Night-long protest demonstrations were held in Beirut and lasted throughout Tuesday. Across the globe candle light vigils were held outside Lebanese Embassies by Lebanese of all faiths. Late Tuesday, a large crowd gathered at the assassination site with hundreds of lit candles and silence to commemorate a beloved leader. In the Bekaa, Baalbek bore witness to a massive demonstration staged outside the Serail. Demonstrators carried pictures of Hariri and raised black flags, condemning the assassination and calling for exposing the perpetrators.A tearful Lebanon gave slain ex-premier Rafik Hariri a national union farewell Wednesday. Church bells rang across the country and in Beirut blended with verses of the Koran rhymed out from Mosque minarets as an estimated 250,000 mourners of all faiths walked behind his flag-draped coffin from his west Beirut home to his last resting place in Martyrs Square. Thunderous chants of "Syria out" and "death to Syria" echoed continously from the anguished mourners as they waved a forest of Lebanese flags and huge portraits of the fallen statesman.
There were chants against Syrian President Bashar Assad in person. "Bashar, Bashar, Sunni blood does not go to waste," a sea of mourners shouted, pledging allegiance to Hariri's eldest son, Bahaeddine (Baha). The chants reflected the conviction of Hariri's family and Lebanon's opposition leaders that Syria's secret service engineered his assassination in collaboration with the state-run Lebanese intelligence apparatus, a contention shared by the U.S., France and the U.N. Security Council. Another huge crowd of mourners from east Beirut met up with the procession. In a scenes never before witnessed in Lebanon, hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Christians marched together united in their grief.Hariri's coffin was carried in an ambulance as the funeral procession wound through the streets of Beirut with thousands of candles burning on sidewalks. His casket was followed by the six coffins of the bodyguards who were killed with him in the assassination blast on Monday. Wailing women on balconies tossed roses at the procession. Midway through the six kilometer procession the coffins were taken off the ambulances and carried shoulder-high through the rest of the trek to the courtyard of the downtown Al Amin mosque. Senior government officials from across the world walked behind the coffins in the on-foot funeral from which President Lahoud, Premier Karami and most of the 30 cabinet ministers of his government were excluded at the request of Hariri's family, which blamed the "regime of assassins" for his death.When the procession reached the downtown mosque, farewell and anti Syrian chants reached a thunderous crescendo.
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KARINA :)


3ALATOUL

KARINA

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Monday, September 25, 2006

In the Memory.........

In the memory of my late grandmother, Im FARES ABBAS, Im HAFIZ SOWAAD and Im RIAD JULIA.

CHERNOBYL !!!

On April 25th -26th, 1986 the World's worst nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl in the former USSR (now Ukraine). The Chernobyl nuclear power plant located 80 miles north of Kiev had 4 reactors and whilst testing reactor number 4 numerous safety procedures were disregarded. At 1:23am the chain reaction in the reactor became out of control creating explosions and a fireball which blew off the reactor's heavy steel and concrete lid.
The Chernobyl accident killed more than 30 people immediately, and as a result of the high radiation levels in the surrounding 20-mile radius, 135,000 people had to be evacuated.

Sunday, September 24, 2006

the end...


i see past their fake smiles,
i see past their fake concerns,

Benz Pilot, Mr. Casper


A man feared his wife wasn't hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family Doctor to discuss the problem.
The Doctor told him there is a simple informal test the husband could perform to give the Doctor a better idea about her hearing loss. Here's what you do," said the Doctor, "stand about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response." That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he was in the den. He says to himself, "I'm about 40 feet away; let's see what happens." then in a normal tone he asks, 'Honey, what's for dinner?" No response. So the husband moves closer to the kitchen, about 30 feet from his wife and repeats, "Honey, what's for dinner?" Still no response. Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20 feet from his wife and asks, Honey, what's for dinner?" Again he gets no response so; He walks up to the kitchen door, about 10 feet away. "Honey, what's for dinner?" Again there is no response. So he walks right up behind her." Honey, what's for dinner?" "James, for the 5th time I've said, CHICKEN." Moral of the story: The problem may not be with others as we always think...could be very much within us... ESP FOR MY FRINED CASPER ((:

In the Memory.........


My Best Friend, from Poland with Love!

It was late in a Lebanese restaurant, in the heat of a Lebanese night,There was dancing, people were singing, she came in from the garden outside,And in her eyes (Bi Ouyoonak) I saw the stars (Bshouf E' Njoom), And I felt something happen in my heart (Uh...);
Then I knew I was going to meet her in the heat of a Lebanese night,And the girl inside the woman, who came over to sit by my side,And when she smiled, the whole world stopped (Salam),It was then I heard the echoes of a child;
And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby, And the sound of the guns in the night, And did you dance in the fields, did you run for your life,From the hell that came down from the sky? On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night;
We went down to the edge of the water, by the light of a Lebanese dawn,And she told me all the stories of her beautiful land in the war,Her tears fell down, the sun came up, And I saw again the young girl in her eyes

The Assassination of Kamal Junblat


On March 16, 1977 Kamal Junblat was assassinated

alone...........



A candle loses
nothing if it
is used to
light
another
one.

JOICE (:


Joice, habibi ya khalo, i missed you so much... i can not wait to see you habibi,
i love you so much khalo
((((((((((FARA))))))))))

Dear Friends,

i am so glad to have something to share with you all, thanks for this site, and for all your comments,
Regards,
Zucchini