Adonis Diaries

Beware: This investigation can turn from ball of fire to rolling hill of fire

After the liberation of the eastern mountain chains in Lebanon (Jroud Ersal and Al Qaa3) from ISIS and Al Nusra extremist Islamic factions, Lebanon can boast to be the first State to be cleansed of concentration of terrorist factions.

These terrorist factions occupied the mountain chains since 2013 and the minister of defense (Ghosn) publicly announced these mass infiltration into our border.

The government of Tamam Salam PM and President Michel Suleiman made sure to deny the facts announced by the minister of defense. The government then was betting on the USA/ France plan to  successfully getting rid of Syria President Assad: Many Lebanese political parties were inclined to view any opposition group in Syria as allies.

Most of the citizens and the government and the political parties Knew that Al Nusra is a Qaeda-based movement and basically the military wing of the Syrian Moslem Brotherhood and is Not an alternative to the Syrian regime and Not fit run a country.

The mass rallies and upheaval in Tripoli and Sidon for these movements, encouraged by the  obscurantist Sunni clerics and political leaders, cowed the government into leaving the border towns and villages without military protection.

In 2013, the government decided to take control of the big town of Ersal after it proved to be the main source of supplying the terrorists with logistics, and also from dispatching suicide car bombs into different regions in Lebanon.

The small army contingent entered the town and the terrorists killed and slaughtered many soldiers and officers in front of the town inhabitants.  Hezbollah resistance forces fought side by side with the army to save the remaining trapped soldiers

In 2014, the army was dispatched again to take control of the town and while shelling the concentrations of the terrorist factions, Al Nusra and ISIS coordinated their attacks and took 2 dozen soldiers and internal forces hostages

The army had the means to free the hostages, but the general commander Shamel Roukoz received order from the chief of staff Kahwaji to refrain from liberating the hostages.

The Al Nusra took the internal forces as prisoners and ISIS 9 of the army soldiers.

Two years later, Al Nusra eventually liberated its prisoners after negotiations

Isis put to death its 8 prisoners in 2015, one of them might have joined ISIS, The Lebanese government knew this piece of intelligence but refrained to share it with the beleaguered families for 3 years.

The families gathered almost every day, for 3 years, demanding information of the status of their children, to No avail.

After ISIS surrendered, the army was able to locate the exact burying ground of the soldiers martyrs.

Now, all hell is braking loose: Why the army failed to liberate the soldiers in the early days of the hostage taking? Why the families were made to endure 3 years the missing of their sons while the government knew of their status?

President Michel Aoun has announced that an investigation to reach the Truth will be undertaken. And Hezbollah’s general secretary Nasr Allah also demanded a full investigation.