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Did Nabil Alam passed away? Was he the planner of the Assassination of President elect Bashir Gemayel?
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 16, 2014
Was he the planner of the Assassination of President elect Bashir Gemayel: Did Nabil Alam passed away?
Nabil Alam passed away probably this May 13, 2014.
He was one of the leaders of the Lebanese National Resistance. He was suffering from brain cancer in the last 3 years. He is survived by two daughters.
Apparently, he lived in Brazil, fleeing a death sentence by Lebanon court, and underwent several cosmetic surgeries. I believe that he was in his late sixties.

Lebanon daily Al Akhbar reported the news in an article this May 14, 2014. It reads (taking liberty in translation from Arabic):
“What is the veracity of the passing away of Nabil 3Alam, the planner of the assassination of Beshir Gemayel, and one of the leaders (Security chief) during the civil war of the Lebanese-based Syria National Social Party? Alam was nicknamed “The Fox”
Alam is considered the one who recruited his comrade Habib Shartouni to execute the blowing of the building where Bashir was meeting in September 14, 1982 with Achrafieh’s Phalanges members, the day prior to his inauguration as President of Lebanon.
Alam had returned briefly to Lebanon to attend the funeral of one of his cousins. It is rumored that the announcement of his death was a smokescreen to facilitate the return of Alam to Lebanon…”
I knew Nabil and visited him and his wife Sana2 a couple of times between 1981-82. Once in his apartment in Kontary (West Beirut) and in his office (ground-floor of a building facing the south-east entrance of the American University of Beirut (AUB).
In that period, between 1981-82 and before the Israeli invasion of 1982, I used to hang out and sleep over in West Beirut twice a month: Just to get away from the deadly boring mountain town.
Someone might have showed me where Nabil lived in his youth in Jbeil, on a side street of Blat going up to LAU.
I was in Lebanon when Bashir was assassinated and I heard many rumors. One of the rumors was that Nabil Alam was behind the planning of the assassination.
Another rumor was that Abu Ayad (second in command of Arafat) had decided this assassination and provided the logistics and support.
A third rumor was that the combined secret services of Syria and Israel cooperated on a joint common interest of eliminating Bashir. This alternative might sound ridiculous, but secret services of all kinds frequently cooperate on small matters, not even related to long-term strategy.
And the plan was so straightforward and carried out in relative ease that this third alternative cannot be ruled out.
The apartment of Habib’s parents was above the meeting location in the building and Habib was to just arrange the bombs.
The Lebanese Forces assassinated the father and brother of Habib Shartouni and savagely tortured his sister.
Habib was incarcerated in the prison of Roumieh, without trial, till 1989. A group of his Party comrades liberated him from prison during President Amine Gemayel (elder brother of Bashir). Habib vanished since then.
It is highly probable that Shartouni had inside support from a few security leaders in the Lebanese Forces of Beshir.
Habib Shartouni publshed two books in Arabic. One is a collection of poems “Dictionary of the Memory, 2010” and a booklet “Law of Truth, 2006″ where he assembled the various Lebanese laws that treat the political assassination cases, and claims that the Syrian security services had nothing to do with his activity.
This claim is believable since the Syrians who occupied Lebanon didn’t try to pardon Habib. Most importantly, at that period, the Party was split between the faction that supported the Syrian dictator Hafez Assad‘s strategy in Lebanon unconditionally and the faction that backed the independence in decision of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), and Nabil Alam paid allegiance to the second faction.
In note 1, I posted last month an article on what could have happened if the assassination of Beshir Gemayel had failed.
Note 1: In hindsight https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/in-hindsight-what-could-have-happened-if-beshir-gemayel-was-not-assassinated-in-1982/
Note 2: Relationship of Beshir with Ariel Sharon https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/these-sweet-lebanese-christians-kiss-the-hands-of-ladies-and-commit-the-worst-of-atrocities-ariel-sharon/
Note 3: Nidal Slim posted the condolence of the Lebanese National Resistance, the Martyr Muhammad slim division, which conducted attacks on the occupying Israeli troops after its invasion in 1982.

Note 4: The Arabic text of the daily Al Akhbar
ما صحة وفاة المخطّط والعقل المدبّر لاغتيال الرئيس بشير الجميل؟؟ أفادت معلومات صحافية انّ القيادي في الحزب السوري القومي الاجتماعي نبيل العلم، والذي يعتبر المخطط لعملية إغتيال رئيس الجمهورية اللبنانية السابق بشير الجميل قد توفي قبل أيام في مكان إقامته في البرازيل. ويعتبر العلم الذي خرج من لبنان قبيل إنتهاء الحرب الاهلية، المسؤول عن عملية الاعداد والتخطيط لاغتيال “الجميل” حيث جنّد “حبيب الشرتوني” لتنفيذ المهمة التي أداها الاخير بنجاح ناسفاً المبنى الذي كان يتواجد فيه “الجميل” ليلقي خطاب في مناصري حزب الكتائب عام 1982. ويعتبر “نبيل العلم” مطلوباً للعدالة، حيث صدرت بحقه أحكام وصلت إلى الاعدام في قضية إغتيال “الجميل”، ما اجبره على مغادرة لبنان وعدم العودة إليه. ووفق المعلومات، كان “العلم” بشغل مركز “مسؤول أمن” الحزب القومي خلال الحرب الاهلية
. ويعتبر “شخصية غامضة وسرية وذكية ومخابراتية نتيجة الدور الهام والامني الذي كان يلعبه في فترة الحرب حيث لقب بـ الثعلب”. والجدير بالذكر ان نبيل العلم قد أجرى في البرازيل عدة عمليات جراحية تجميلية لاخفاء معالم وجههه الحقيقية، وقد حضر الى لبنان منذ فترة ولمدة قصيرة للتعزية باحد أقاربه الذي توفي في بلدة متنية وتأتي وفاة “العلم” وسط تكتم بسبب موقف القضاء اللبناني منه. وتتساءل اوساط سياسية إذا كان نبأ وفاة العلم خبر صحيح أم أن الحزب القومي يروّج له من أجل عودة العلم بطريقة سرية الى لبنان. محلي يلفت موقع “اخر الاخبار” انه غير مسؤول عن النص ومضمونه، وهو لا يعبّر إلا عن وجهة نظر كاتبه أو مصدره
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Young Ariel Sharon: Has he ever changed?
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 14, 2014
![War criminal Ariel Sharon, butcher of Beirut, is dead. He never faced justice for all the lives he ended and ruined. (Graphic by @[1069374286:2048:Doc Rocket] & me)](https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/p280x280/1601159_10100779688325510_527636638_n.jpg)

Nadia Massih published in the Lebanese The Daily Starthis Jan. 11, 2014
BEIRUT: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday aged 85, was widely reviled in Lebanon for his role in the invasion of the country in 1982 as well as the massacres at the Beirut-based Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
Sharon was commonly dubbed the “Butcher of Beirut” for his association with some of the worst atrocities during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 Civil War.
The Daily Star |
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FILE – In this June 15, 1982 file picture provided by the Israeli Defense Ministry, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, foreground, rides an armored personnel carrier on a tour of Israeli units advancing to the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, during the Israeli occupation. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Ministry, File) |
He was a part of the Israeli military since the country’s creation, as a member of the Jewish Haganah paramilitaries in the 1947-48 war that led to the “Nakba,” displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
He rose through the ranks with his belligerent military strategies, leading a brigade in the 1956 Suez War, and engineering the capture of the Sinai Peninsula 11 years later during the Six Day War.
However, it was in his political career that he will be most controversially remembered.
As Defense Minister he spearheaded the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, set up to root out Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organization and form a peace accord with the Beirut government. The invasion morphed into a long occupation, and inadvertently helped to confirm Hezbollah’s status as the resistance party.
In 1982, Israel’s ally Bashir Gemayel was assassinated by Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party member Habib Chartouni. Gemayel’s Kataeb fighters looked to the Palestinians to avenge the death and launched an attack of the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, which were under Israeli control.
Over 3,000 Palestinians, including many women and children, were brutally killed, and as many taken away, never to reappear.
It was a massacre that Sharon was personally implicated in. A U.N. investigation the next year concluded that Israel was responsible for the attacks, and the Israeli-run Kahan Commission the same year determined that Sharon was personally accountable.
The Kahan report’s findings said that Sharon bore responsibility “for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge” and “not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed.”
The conclusions led many to dub Sharon the “Butcher of Beirut” and forced him to resign from the defense post but he refused to leave Cabinet, remaining minister without portfolio.
His bellicose reputation continued into his tenure as prime minister.
In 2000, he walked brazenly into the Temple Mount complex which houses the Dome of the Rock and the Aqsa mosque, some of the holiest sites in Islam. The inflammatory move was widely attributed as sparking the Second Palestinian Intifada.
He was also associated with the widespread expansion of illegal outposts in the West Bank. As Housing Minister in the 1990s, he oversaw the biggest settlement drive in 20 years.
However, despite his uncompromising attitude, in 2004 he signed into law a plan to re-house all settlers in the Gaza Strip.
Sharon: ‘Occupation’ terrible for Israel, Palestinians
Kelly Wallace on CNN this May 27, 2003
JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appears to be urging Israelis to accept giving up land for peace and advocating an end to what he called “occupation.”
“You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation — to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians,” he said Monday.
Those were stunning words from the longtime hawk and backer of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
“It can’t continue endlessly,” Sharon said. “Do you want to stay forever in Jenin, in Nablus, in Ramallah, in Bethlehem? I don’t think that’s right.”
On Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet voted to accept — with reservations — the U.S.-supported “road map” to peace, clearing the way for a series of steps that would lead to the creation of a Palestinian state within three years.
The first phase of the road map involves the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian zones reoccupied during the current uprising and a freeze on settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza.
Palestinian officials are required to crack down on militant groups that have carried out attacks against Israelis.
The Palestinian Authority accepted the plan last month after it was drafted by the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, the so-called Mideast Quartet.
The Israeli Cabinet’s 12-7 vote, with four abstentions, marked the first time an Israeli government has formally accepted the principle of a Palestinian state.
But Sharon faces a skeptical public. In a newspaper poll Monday, 51 percent said implementing the road map would not lead to peace, while 43 percent said it would.
The stakes will be high for this week’s expected meeting between Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
Abbas will call for immediate implementation of the road map, including an end to Israeli military operations in Palestinian areas and a freeze on any settlement expansion, Palestinian advisers said.
Both steps are key to convincing radical Palestinian groups to stop attacks against Israel, the Palestinians said.
But Israeli sources said Sharon will reiterate his long-held position that the first step must be a clear and visible Palestinian crackdown on groups such as Hamas, which has claimed responsibility for four recent suicide bombings against Israelis.
Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization, has acknowledged attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers and has been labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
Daniel Ayalon, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, said Israel wants to see a “complete dismantling of the infrastructure of terror” by Abbas’ government.
“We cannot have negotiation by day and killing us at night,” Ayalon said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Sharon and Abbas failed to achieve any breakthroughs in their last meeting more than a week ago.
And a series of suicide bombings by Islamic militant groups befinning shortly before the meeting was seen as a “declaration of war” by Sharon’s government.
Now the two men face U.S. pressure to deliver, with a possible Mideast summit — with President Bush as host — perhaps hinging on what comes out of this week’s talks.
A three-way summit involving Sharon, Abbas and Bush could be called within 10 days.
A senior Bush administration official told CNN that the White House would not agree to a summit until it sees initial steps taken by both sides — a Palestinian crackdown on militants and the lifting of Israeli economic restrictions.
Nevertheless, a Bush administration advance team left Sunday morning for Egypt to begin preparations for the possible summit, an administration official told CNN. The team is also set to go to Jordan, which Bush might visit early next month.