• J’avais repéré cet article d’Elie Hajj hier sur AL-Monitor, et je m’étais demandé ce que c’était que ce tissu de fadaises. Angry Arab confirme aujourd’hui qu’il s’agit d’une théorie du complot répandue par le bureau de presse Hariri. On a déjà vu cette théorie totalement loufoque hier dans L’Orient-Le Jour, évidemment reprise par le député Daher, et réfutée par l’armée et le Akhbar :
    http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/02/lebanon-sunnis-feel-threatened-arsal.html

    However what is transpiring behind the scenes is the most worrisome. Apparently there is a plan at work on the ground, in political corridors, and within the media designed to strike the Future Movement and Sunni hardliners in Lebanon, which is based on the following:

    Plotting the events in Arsal and provoking a response from the locals, which in turn allows them to claim that Arsal is a hotbed of fundamentalist jihadists, specifically from the Syrian Jabhat al-Nusra. The objective of all this is to seal off Arsal and prevent its people from supporting the rebels in Syria. It justifies Hezbollah’s weapons by saying that there are illegal hotbeds, which pose security threats outside the areas controlled by Hezbollah. This will require political action on the basis that there is targeted community in Lebanon.

    Residents of Arsal claim that the military patrol included Hezbollah personnel, citing evidence that others were killed aside from the sergeant and the captain. One of the dead could possibly be the man for whom Hezbollah held a funeral in Arabsalim in the south on Sunday, whom they claim died in Syria.

    They exaggerate the actions of Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir and his tourist convoy to the mountains of the Keserwan District a week ago to make him appear as if he speaks for the Sunnis when in reality he does not. In response they organize popular movements in support of the army and its leadership in Christian and Shiite areas, as happened after the killing of Sheik Abdul-Wahed in Akkar. They also launch a media campaign targeting and insulting a particular Lebanese group.

    Pour mémoire, chaque fois qu’il se passe quelque chose de grave au Liban, on trouvera un député du 14 Mars pour expliquer que c’est une provocation du Hezbollah pour humilier les sunnites ou les chrétiens. C’est une sorte d’automatisme.
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/future-movement%E2%80%99s-tripoli-rally-enduring-failure

    Kabbara scaled new heights in this regard when he charged that the murderer of the young girl Myriam al-Ashkar on the beach at Alma was an intelligence officer sent by Hezbollah and Syria to spy on the Maronite Church!