Before & After Pictures. Opposition’s Turnout.



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Yesterday, the opposition wanted to celebrate 1 year of their occupation of central Beirut by staging a celebration and hoping to attract as much people as possible. As Annahar’s cheeky camera shows, that wasn’t even remotely the case. For reasons ranging from loss of traction to Sleiman’s unexpected candidacy, the turnout was embarrassingly bleak.

The opposition’s demonstration on December 2006 (BBC) :

The opposition’s demonstration on December 2007 (Annahar) :

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7 comments for “Before & After Pictures. Opposition’s Turnout.”

  1. I think Lebanese are sick of the situation! A country is being hijacked, frozen and threatened of chaos by a group of fanatics with loyalty to outsiders (Hizb-Iran), a group headed by a person with a mental disorder (Aoun) and other small groups who miss the privileges that they were getting during the Syrian occupation!

    Posted by GK | December 2, 2007, 12:55 pm
  2. On a somehow related note, why are Berri and Fadlallah outraged about Feltman “interference”, and they are ok with the much more flagrant interferences, dominations and suffocations from Syria and Iran?

    Posted by Libanus | December 2, 2007, 2:54 pm
  3. I agree with GK. Lebanese have been dragged for 2 years. We’re tired and just want to go hack to our daily work, challenges, jobs and outings without the slightest interference of politics or the governent in our daily lives.

    Nasrallah and Aoun should tell their supporters to leave the premises tidy up, and sparkling clean and head back to focusing their attention on rebuilding Al-Dahyeh and southern Lebanon.

    Posted by Jester | December 2, 2007, 5:54 pm
  4. Let’s hope that part of the Sleiman deal is that the sit-in has to end asap.

    Posted by Libanus | December 2, 2007, 6:23 pm
  5. Sleiman, when elected, should mainly make effort to stop assasination againt March 14th leaders. As well Army Intelligence should activly work in that order.

    As for opposition, wish I could offer them One Way Ticket to Tehran, Asfahan, Shiraz and Qum… as their terminal home and mainland.

    Posted by sam | December 2, 2007, 7:37 pm
  6. I wonder how many people ex-M14 can gather now. I won’t move my ass for them anymore that’s for sure.

    Posted by Ralf | December 2, 2007, 8:55 pm
  7. Why should there be any more assassinations when the reason for the assassinations has now ended?

    You will now have all that wonderful, and safe “stability”.
    Please remember in the future that this is what you “wanted”.

    Posted by Ace | December 3, 2007, 5:08 pm

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