Saturday, October 20, 2012

A Lebanese paper: On Friday and then on Saturday

Ad-Diyar is a lousy Lebanese newspaper owned and operated by the vulgar pro-Syrian regime "jouranlist", Charles Ayyub.  He was an intelligence link between Syrian intelligence and Rafiq Hariri.  He admitted publicly that in 2009 he accepted cash payments from Prince Bandar in order to oppose Gen. `Awn (but refused to go after the Syrian regime or Hizbullah).  He has been launching a campaign for weeks against Wisam Al-Hasan: calling him a Mossad agent.  Today, his paper appeared with a headline: "I lost you, O Wissam, I lost you, o martyr of Lebanon."  (The paper to the left--my left).  And he wrote an editorial saying that Al-Hasan was his "best friend" and that he has been attacking him and calling him Mossad agent because he wanted to "revive the friendship" between them.  On Friday, the paper had this headline (to my right):  "Accusation that Wisam Al-Hasan is distributing weapons.  Citizens:  The Intelligence Branch is supporting extremists and fundamentalists".  You can only have contempt for the Lebanese press.