Lebanon takes 30 years to grow a conscience
Scalene | 28.08.2008 05:48 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War
So ... a Lebanese judge has finally approved an indictment under Lebanon's terrorism law, charging Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi with arranging the kidnapping of one Musa al-Sadr.
So ... a Lebanese judge has finally approved an indictment under Lebanon's terrorism law, charging Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi with arranging the kidnapping of one Musa al-Sadr.
The penalty for the offense under Lebanese law is execution.
The fact that this has taken 30 years to produce shouldn't be a cause for concern, even if Musa was invited to Libya as a guest of the government. Assuming the Imam is still alive, he will be about 80 years old by now.
The important thing we need to remember, however, is that Musa is not a real human being, so we shouldn't get on our high horses about the injustice of the thing etc etc.
Not only is he one of the intellectuals who was ultimately instrumental in creating Hizb Allah, but he is also one of these Shia chaps who may tend to go into an induced earthly absence.
We need to do at least another 30 years of investigation before we actually send this indictment to a Qadhafi. Yes, be assured it will be sent to a Qadhafi, probably the current one's son. We should remember that Libya is one of the many hereditary Republics ... like Syria, Egypt and America.
The penalty for the offense under Lebanese law is execution.
The fact that this has taken 30 years to produce shouldn't be a cause for concern, even if Musa was invited to Libya as a guest of the government. Assuming the Imam is still alive, he will be about 80 years old by now.
The important thing we need to remember, however, is that Musa is not a real human being, so we shouldn't get on our high horses about the injustice of the thing etc etc.
Not only is he one of the intellectuals who was ultimately instrumental in creating Hizb Allah, but he is also one of these Shia chaps who may tend to go into an induced earthly absence.
We need to do at least another 30 years of investigation before we actually send this indictment to a Qadhafi. Yes, be assured it will be sent to a Qadhafi, probably the current one's son. We should remember that Libya is one of the many hereditary Republics ... like Syria, Egypt and America.
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Mind your own business
28.08.2008 10:50
John Ball
& the Iranians grassed up Gadaffi - why? & why now??? -'tis weird
29.08.2008 00:08
You could start by wondering who he was -
However, I reckon that page is not enough to see the importance of raising his name from the lost dead now, 30 years on - say rather than 10 or 20.
Or maybe just look at who is being indicted : the household name Colonel Muammar Abu al-Gaddafi who went from writing his little "green book" guide to one of the forms of arabic quasi socialism to being a bigtime enemy of the West, sponsor of terror, supplier to the IRA of many arms & high quality surface to air missiles
Or maybe look at who grassed him up.
London-based Asharq Alawsat, a Saudi-run pan-Arab daily reported on 27 August 2006 that Libya killed him, later to be clarified in the August 2008 indictment depositions that Iranian General Mansour Qadar said the head of Syrian security, Rifaat al-Asad, told the Iranian ambassador to Syria that Qaddafi was planning to kill as-Sadr. Quite a load of mixed up pan-arabic and pan-Islamic agenda in that one. & all of it sitting on top of loads of oil and gas, many wars & perhaps most importantly "loads of secrets". I reckon Gaddafi has lasted so long, not due to his women bodyguards, nor his gas, but his secrets. They are often the best insurance policies if held by multiple brokers with security clauses.
Look at the disappeared Imam again & really appreciate how he bridged time. Musa al-Sadr studied in Tehran just about the time Kermit Roosevelt Jr made history for the CIA by giving it its first covert regime change. A liberal-ish democracy was replaced by the authoritarian Shah. Kermit would then later make history by writing the first book on CIA operations by an ex-CIA agent. Then if we move from al Sadr's youth to the peak of his politics and his disappearance - we see that the Iranians with whom he bonded (the last president married his daughter) began their Islamic revolution. They had all but seized control of Iran by the time he went to Libya. Four months later the Shah left the place. Both the USA and the UK, especially the UK whose first contracts with "Persia" were then exactly 90 years old were miffed. But oddly powerless to intervene. Too many people have forgotten how the impotence emerged between Kermit and the Ayatolah.
the Iranian embassy siege of 1980 occured a little bit later and taught the Briton much about the SAS and less about the Saddam Hussein seperatists of the Iranian region of Khuzestan where indeed the British had signed one of their first oil exploration deals, oh so long before.
30 years later - the name of Musa al Sadr appears again. It is odd. very very odd.
The article's title includes the word "conscience" in its sense of remorse and desire for justice - but I see more of a tweaking in the undoubted "consciousness" which that man meant to the Shia community of Lebanon long before its leadership was associated in the west with Hezbollah.
yep it's Odd.
i reach for the perplex
I smoke crack so I should be perplexed