Saturday, May 10, 2008
Hariri Inc and the Al-Qa`idah Option. Today, the Hariri family rolled out the Salafite fanatic leader, Da`iyah Ash-Shahhal (who was a recruiter of fighters for Iraq, early on, along with the Bin Ladenite Hariri Mufti of Biqa`, Khalil Al-Mays) to speak on behalf of the Sanyurah camp on Aljzeerah's Hiwar Maftuh. He was pitted against the pro-Iranian Sunni cleric, Shaykh Hammud, of Sidon. As soon as Hammud started talking about Samir Ja`ja` and March 14 the debate was won by him (from the standpoint of the Islamic fundamentalist, and even larger Sunni, audience). Shahhal stayed on the defensive for the rest of the program and kept asserting his anti-US and anti-Israel credentials.