city:baalbek

Tout dans cette affaire est franchement farfelu. Entre autre le fait qu’on croyait que ce cousin de Bachar était en prison en attendant d’être jugé pour meurtre. Assad cousin accused of killing military officer led charge on kidnapping Gadhafi’s son
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s son, Hannibal, sources said Sunday.

The sources told The Daily Star a mob headed by Suleiman Assad kidnapped Hannibal in Syria and handed him over to an armed group in Lebanon.

They said Hannibal was held for a few days near the eastern city of Baalbek before locals became aware of the kidnapping, which eventually compelled the abductors to release him.

In a video broadcast on Lebanese TV Friday, Hannibal was seen appealing for more information concerning the 1978 disappearance of Lebanese cleric Sheikh Musa al-Sadr.

He was later handed over to the Internal Security Forces’ Information Branch in Beirut through unidentified intermediaries.

#Baalbek, le soleil et l’ombre

Pendant des millénaires, la ville de Baalbek, aujourd’hui libanaise, a attiré de nombreuses civilisations. Toutes l’ont admirée, détruite ou reconstruite selon leurs mœurs et croyances.

En 2015, un nouveau défi menace la ville, celui de la guerre en Syrie, à quelques kilomètres. Baalbek, la « Cité du Soleil » a pourtant besoin du tourisme pour survivre et ses habitants, fiers de leur culture, ont décidé de ne pas se laisser faire par les événements voisins.

Khalil nous fait découvrir le #temple de Baalbek, délaissé par les touristes qui craignent la guerre toute proche. Une équipe de restauration nous parle aussi des difficultés à travailler dans un environnement aussi instable : « A quelques kilomètres, ils bombardent. Ici, on reconstruit ».

Nous partons ensuite à la rencontre des habitants et coutumes de la ville avec Eliane, qui nous emmène également à une répétition de « Dabké », la danse traditionnelle levantine qui a rendu célèbre le groupe de danse « Hayakel Baalbek » : « Si le monde ne vient plus jusqu’à nous, nous iront voir le monde ».

Un reportage de Charlotte Bruneau réalisé par Carmen Algarrada.

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Le Gorafi devrait annoncer dans la soirée mettre définitivement la clé sous la porte.

▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Oct-27/275490-hairy-situation-draws-gunmen-to-baalbek-hospital.ashx

Hairy situation draws gunmen to Baalbek hospital

BAALBEK, Lebanon: A patient, angry that a doctor tried to shave his body hair to perform an operation, called his friends to open fire on a Baalbek hospital, sources said.

The patient, a member of the Zeaiter family, was drawn into a verbal dispute with the surgeon who told him he would need to shave stomach hair to perform surgery on his kidney.

The situation quickly escalated as the patient, concerned that his masculinity was at stake, dialed his friends, the source told The Daily Star.

The gunmen swiftly arrived in a Grande Cherokee before opening fire on the Mortada Hospital. The attack caused some material damage to the second floor of the hospital, but no casualties were reported.

The source said that the surgeon and patient were related.

La dernière phrase ne peut évidemment que rendre l’article encore plus savoureux.

#gorafi_encore_plagié #only_in_lebanon

Lebanon charges fake Twitter account creator
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Military Prosecutor Saqr Saqr Tuesday charged Hussein al-Hussein for creating a fake Twitter account in the name of the Free Sunni Brigades of Baalbek.

Hussein was also charged with threatening residents of Baalbek as well as the Lebanese Army and political and security figures, according to the National News Agency.

Saqr also charged the suspect, who is in custody, with claiming responsibility for suicide attacks and rocket attacks on areas in Baalbek and Hermel with the aim of inciting sectarian strife among citizens.

Hussein would face the death penalty if convinced.

Black flags or false flag : Hezbollah plunged into Lebanon Twitter furore
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Their inquiries led to the arrest on Thursday of Yadi Hussein al-Hussein, a 19-year old from al-Shurawina, a Shiite-dominated district of the north-eastern town of Baalbek.

Rumours had been circulating that the account was run either by Western intelligence agencies, or by nearby Arab states keen to foment sectarian strife in Lebanon, whose 15-year civil war came to an end in 1990.

However, the tweets were found to have originated in Baalbek itself, and were allegedly sent from Hussein’s Blackberry phone.

Illico, un certain nombre de relais médiatiques allèguent déjà qu’il s’agit d’un « membre du Hezbollah ».

#Lebanon: #Hezbollah Will Respond to Assassination
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-hezbollah-will-respond-assassination

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Mourners carry the coffin of Hassan Hawlo al-Lakiss, one of the Hezbollah’s top commanders, during his funeral in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on December 4, 2013. (Photo: AFP - STR) Mourners carry the coffin of Hassan Hawlo al-Lakiss, one of the Hezbollah’s top commanders, during his funeral in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on December 4, 2013. (Photo: AFP - STR)

Who made the decision to strike such a painful blow to the Islamic #resistance in Lebanon by assassinating one of its military commanders, #Hassan_al-Laqqis? Who planned the operation, and who decided on carrying it out at this particular time? On what basis, and in whose interest? And what were the intended goals of this potentially explosive (...)

#Opinion #Articles #Iran #Israel

Ah mais dis donc : les intérêts français progressent partout dans le monde !
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/demonstrators-across-lebanon-demand-liberation-georges-abdallah

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Hundreds of protesters rallied in front of French cultural institutes across Lebanon Thursday to denounce the recent delays in the release Lebanese leftist Georges Abdallah, who has been jailed in France for 28 years

French institutes in Saida, Tripoli, Nabatiyeh, Baalbek and Tyre were all closed in anticipation of the protests. Supporters of Abdallah held banners denouncing what they call a politicization of justice.