Lebanese Elections Report by Australian News Source

In the following video, the reporter is mentioning about the Future Movement scandal. It seems that Future Movement has promised and issued fake tickets to Lebanese living in Australia.

The video also talks about the expats coming to Lebanon to vote.

Relatives of Alleged Fatah al-Islam Members Want Justice

A news I read from Naharnet on the first day of August.

“Relatives of alleged members of an Islamist group that fought a 15-week battle with the Lebanese army last year staged a protest on Friday demanding their release from jail.”

After this protest, we also saw Future Movement MP, Moustafa Alloush, with them. He was attacked during the protest but after it he clearly stated that it wasn’t the protesters who hit him and they were non-Salafist.

The New Cabinet – Under Construction

Lately, nothing is being solved in Lebanon easily. Every single politician is blaming the other side for blocking the formation of the cabinet. On a daily basis we saw attacks on General Aoun by the February 14 media. In my opinion, this is politics and blocs should demand their rights which is not considered as blocking anything.

The Change and Reform bloc backed-off their demand for the finance ministry and they will be getting public works, telecommunications, agriculture, power and the seat of vice premier. Hezballah will be getting 3 ministries (labor, youth and sports and a minister without portfolio) but as I heard, 2 of them will be given to a non-Hezballah minister inside the opposition. Amal will be getting 3 ministries (foreign, health and industry). This way, the opposition’s 11 ministries have been known but the cabinet is not formed. Can we now blame February 14 alliance for blocking the formation of the cabinet?

Shaker El-Aabsi Once Again

Just as I was expecting…
Make use of the sectarian hatred to get supporters…

In a recorded tape that is being distributed on the Internet, Shaker El-Aabsi asked the Sunnite population to join him to fight against the Shiites. In the same tape, he also criticized MP Saad Hariri and the Lebanese prime minister, Fouad Saniora. He called them traitors and connected them with the American plan in the Middle East.

Some of the words he used are similar to words used by the Lebanese people (specially Future Movement supporters on Internet). For example, he called Hezballah as Party of the Devil (Hezb al-Shitan) which is being used alot by many Future Movement supporters.