Category: Politics

I already reported that the Hawker Hunters might fly next week, and today on LBCI news they showed General Michel Sleiman (Head of the army) visiting a Lebanese Air Force Base, he checked the Helicopters (That didn’t participate in the battle today) and a plane! so this plane might be a Hawker Hunter being prepared for flight.

Today the wifes and children of the Fath L Islam terrorists left the Nahr L Bared camp and are under the Lebanese Army’s custody, I don’t know if this should have been accepted by the Lebanese Army, housing and helping terrorists makes you a terrorist. I am afraid Fath L Islam only did this to have more food for the remaining days, and that this will enable them to last longer.

25 years ago, on the 23rd of August 1982, the dream of many Lebanese started to come true, Bachir Gemayel was elected president of the Lebanese Republic, a new era had began.

This dream didn’t last long, 21 days later he was assassinated, since then the situation in Lebanon kept deteriorating, Christians destroyed each others, The country was occupied for many years and now the politicians Bachir used to fight are “leading” this country (or what’s left of it).

I never knew Bachir and many people my age didn’t, but just listening to his speeches makes you love him, he was Lebanese and had all the qualities of a leader, he could have saved Lebanon and that’s why they killed him.

Here’s a Video of the election day, the celebrations that followed and the foreign medias reporting the news.

The LBCI reporter said a few days ago that Hawker Hunters might help bombing Nahr L Bared, I wrote a post about that but nothing was confirmed yet.

Today I found this Aviation Forum, it contains a post confirming that the Hunters will fly again, here’s what a user said:

Was on the phone with a former retired Hunter pilot and he was a little doubtful but confirmed the news that they are getting ready to fly again. They already have contacted him in case they needed the help of more experienced people for the Hunters.
He said they will try to make the first flight this week. If the Hunters fly, it would be absolutely amazing for all the fans!

I hope they fly again and send those animals to hell!

Here’s an article from this week’s Nahar L Chabeb written by Martyr Gebran Tueni on the 15-04-04, It’s a message to the Lebanese youth asking them to leave those old rotten political parties behind and form new ones to build a new clean Lebanon.

After seeing the stupidities some people are doing these days, you would think this article was written recently, sadly Lebanese don’t learn and articles written by great people like Gebran are always relevant, I just wish people would listen to the words of Gebran instead of following those killers and thieves, so we could finally build the Lebanon Gebran dreamed of!

Here’s the article in Arabic:

I just heard the LBC reporter in Nahr El Bared saying the Army might use Hawker Hunter aircraft to bomb the terrorists!

The army has Hawker Hunter from the 60s, the last time they used them was in the Aoun Era (Video) but apparently they can still be used, so I hope the use of these aircrafts will make the operation easier for the Lebanese Army so they can finish the job sooner with less casualties.

UPDATE:

I just read this at the army official site:

– صدر عن قيادة الجيش- مديرية التوجيه البيان التالي: اعتباراً من 17/8/2007 ولغاية 19/8/2007 ضمناً، ما بين الساعة 20.00 والساعة 24.00 من كل يوم، ستقوم القوات الجوية اللبنانية بتنفيذ طيران ليلي، بين قاعدتي بيروت ورياق الجويتين، وضمن حلقة المطار فوق القاعدتين المذكورتين.

and I am currently hearing jet planes (not Helicopters) flying overhead so I doubt the army is training with Boeings or Airbuses so those must be the Hawker Hunters practicing!!