A week-long series of battles and attacks in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli continues again today, with no end in sight as fighters from a Sunni neighborhood battle with a neighboring Alawite neighborhood.
But according to Rifaat Eid, the head of Lebanon’s largest Alawite party, many of the attackers coming out of the Sunni neighborhood aren’t even residents in the first place, but are instead members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), one of the key rebel factions in the ongoing Syrian civil war.
The neighborhood in question has seen significant FSA recruiting efforts, and just before the Tripoli fighting began 20 Sunnis from that neighborhood were killed in Syria, having attempted to join the FSA but getting caught in an ambush.
Eid insisted that the Sunnis and Alawites of Tripoli have lived side by side for generations without fighting, and faulted both the Syrian rebels and certain members of the Lebanese political opposition, notably former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, as trying to fuel unrest.
Recruitment drives gone a muck….John McCain visited Tripoli summer/fall 2012 to spread the wealth, grease the pipe for US backed fight in Syria. Tripoli sea connection to Benghazi -but that sort of ended badly. The Sunnis in Tripoli are mostly poor. Recruitment drives from FSA rebels with a little payback toward Lebanese Army and now focusing on tit-for-tat with Alawite community. Be great to build a database of all the Sunni street-tattoos on these so-called rebels. Largely poor, underemployed, half are borderline drug-abusers, the bulk with no future. Hey, perfect place to recruit. Sound familiar?
when there is no indigenous social protest, when there is no movement, leave it up to the connected to manufacture one.
Yes, it has begun already. The USA is targeting Lebanon as well as Syria. This should be common knowledge. To take over both states is vital to Israel and to the coming war on Iran. Hezbolla in southern Lebanon is on the hit list, and a pro NATO Lebanon puppet government is a major goal.
Anyone should have seen that both Syria and Lebanon are going to be taken down. That would leave only Iran as a non NATO puppet in the entire Middle East. Lebanon is on the road to Iran.