Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Scenes of conflict rehearsal: the Lebanese Forces

Some weeks ago I received an email from an old acquaintance of mine in Kisrawan who happens to be a fervent supporter of the Lebanese Forces. He wrote that "the Lebanese Forces will come back to the territory", which I interpret as "the LF will be back in town".
Was he using figurative language or are the Lebanese Forces seriously thinking to get rearmed and operational? The news of the day is that a group of
Lebanese Forces armed men were arrested while they were going to a training session near the village of Chahtoul in Kisrawan. The men subsequently claimed they were security personnel for LBC and this claim was unconvincingly backed by LBC's chief Pierre Daher. Who knows if this is going to have an impact on the rift inside LBC between Pierre Daher (and Marcel Ghanem) on one side and Sitrida Ja'ja' (the wife of Samir Ja'ja') on the other?

If you are high on conspiracy theories, you will be delighted to read this report about an alleged meeting among Samir Ja'ja', Walid Jumblatt, the chief of the Mossad and the CIA Cyprus bureau director. It is not sure whether The Phantom Blot attended the meeting or if he was partying in Ayia Napa.
Alternatively, you can delight yourself with reports of alleged telephone contacts between men of the Mossad, of Samir Ja'ja and of Ahmad Fatfat. Gyro Gearloose was eavesdropping, no doubt.

On a lighter note, this is a satirical sketch depicting Samir Ja'ja' as a puppet of the Maronite patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir. (Alert the Mossad and Brent Sadler: this is a different Nasrallah).


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