{"id":879,"date":"2005-05-10T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=879"},"modified":"2005-05-10T07:37:54","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T11:37:54","slug":"nyts-fattah-peddles-old-trouble-as-new-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"NYT’s Fattah peddles old trouble as new hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her article, Aoun Returns to Lebanon<\/em><\/a>, Marianne Stigset writes that returning exile Michel Aoun<\/a>‘s “two years in power became one of the bloodiest periods of the Lebanese civil war, marked by his “war of liberation” against the Syrians in Lebanon, as well as his fighting against Christian militias opposed to him.”<\/p>\n

He rejected the Taif Accord, signed by Lebanese parliamentarians in the Saudi city of Taif in 1990, which paved the way for the end of the civil war and legalized Syrian presence in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

His refusal to accept the election of Rene Mouawad as president, and subsequently Elias Hrawi after the former was assassinated, prompted the United States to give the Syrians carte blanche to remove him from power.<\/p>\n

A Syrian air and ground offensive against the presidential palace where the renegade general had barricaded himself eventually forced Aoun to surrender and go into exile in France.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As’ad AbuKhalil, in a post criticising Hassan M. Fattah’s Exiled General Back in Beirut, Promising a New Era<\/em><\/a>, wrote this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He also makes a fantastic claim about the defeat of Gen. `Awn after a Syrian military attack in 1990 and dubbed it as “one of the bloodiest battles of the 15-year civil war.” It was not even a battle. As soon as Syrian jets flew over the presidential palace, `Awn fled in his pajamas to the French embassy where he hid for months. Furthermore, Fattah says that `Awn has a plan for the full secularization of Lebanon, while no such plan exists, and `Awn does not ever talk about “full secularization.” Also, Fattah did not mention that `Awn’s parliamentary candidate in Western Biqa` is none other than Ilyas Frizli, the pro-Saddam hard core Ba`thist, who was a messenger between Saddam’s regime and `Awn, when `Awn–in a well known farce–acted as the Napoleon of Lebanon, a Hummus version for sure. Frizli was in charge of keeping Saddam’s supply of money and weapons coming. And this fan of Saddam is supposed to “free” Lebanon”? Only in Bush’s doctrine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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