Comments on: The Mysterious Rooftop Snipers http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/ Blogging Lebanese politics, business and society since 2005 Wed, 23 May 2012 14:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Reader http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9664 Reader Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:21:27 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9664 It is not the first time that somebody shoots on demonstration in Lebanon. I think someone is trying to send a message: - If you come near our neighborhood, we will not hesitate to open fire. In this way Samir Geagea is trying to convince Christians that he is capable of defending their territory. His repeating speech uncovered him. The territory thinking was very obvious in this article: “weren’t they the ones who chose the symbolic venue of the confrontations, which eerily mark the fault lines of the Lebanese civil war?..,”. It is not a third party who is playing with fire. Stop blaming the other on all your faults. Those who did the shooting are Lebanese and are doing it for their own choice and not influenced by anyone else. It is not the first time that somebody shoots on demonstration in Lebanon.
I think someone is trying to send a message:
- If you come near our neighborhood, we will not hesitate to open fire.

In this way Samir Geagea is trying to convince Christians that he is capable of defending their territory. His repeating speech uncovered him.

The territory thinking was very obvious in this article: “weren’t they the ones who chose the symbolic venue of the confrontations, which eerily mark the fault lines of the Lebanese civil war?..,”.

It is not a third party who is playing with fire. Stop blaming the other on all your faults. Those who did the shooting are Lebanese and are doing it for their own choice and not influenced by anyone else.

]]> By: lifes http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9663 lifes Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:40:18 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9663 Mustafa, People died and you are preoccupied by analysing and suggesting that the riots' place was chosen to provoke all this? People died and I personally feel you do not really care for their death. Instead it seems like you are justifying it... As if hatred makes some people's lifes worthless.. Please, let us all calm down for a moment and remember we are all generous lebanese, we dance on the same music, we read the same books, we eat the same cuisine, we have the same sense of humor ... and we are all cry when our beloved ones die. Mustafa,
People died and you are preoccupied by analysing and suggesting that the riots’ place was chosen to provoke all this? People died and I personally feel you do not really care for their death. Instead it seems like you are justifying it… As if hatred makes some people’s lifes worthless.. Please, let us all calm down for a moment and remember we are all generous lebanese, we dance on the same music, we read the same books, we eat the same cuisine, we have the same sense of humor … and we are all cry when our beloved ones die.

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Lebanon: Demonstrations, Deaths and Specter of Civil War http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9662 Global Voices Online » Lebanon: Demonstrations, Deaths and Specter of Civil War Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:12:49 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9662 [...] Beirut Spring sees a third party, other than the demonstrators and the army, acting as “agents porvocateurs” to stir unrest and strife: The nature of the first victim says it all. Ahmad Hamza was the man appointed by the opposition’s AMAL movement to coordinate the demonstrations with the army, so that things remain in check. He was the first to be taken down. It is obvious that those pulling the trigger knew what they were doing. But who are they? [...] [...] Beirut Spring sees a third party, other than the demonstrators and the army, acting as “agents porvocateurs” to stir unrest and strife: The nature of the first victim says it all. Ahmad Hamza was the man appointed by the opposition’s AMAL movement to coordinate the demonstrations with the army, so that things remain in check. He was the first to be taken down. It is obvious that those pulling the trigger knew what they were doing. But who are they? [...]

]]> By: Bad Vilbel http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9661 Bad Vilbel Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:48:29 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9661 Joe, heh. Joe,

heh.

]]> By: Right Wing Nut House » BEIRUT RIOT KILLS 8, WOUNDS 19 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9660 Right Wing Nut House » BEIRUT RIOT KILLS 8, WOUNDS 19 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:50:44 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9660 [...] Lebanese bloggers are weighing in offering analysis and mostly bemoaning what appears to be the powerlessness of the government to stop the murders. Mustapha at Beirut Spring offers some speculation about the rooftop snipers: [...] [...] Lebanese bloggers are weighing in offering analysis and mostly bemoaning what appears to be the powerlessness of the government to stop the murders. Mustapha at Beirut Spring offers some speculation about the rooftop snipers: [...]

]]> By: Joe http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9659 Joe Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:40:27 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9659 BV, please spare us, if you're so hopeless and removed from this situation then what the hell are you doing hanging around these blogs and preaching this crap. If you live abroad and gave up on Lebanon and the Lebanese then GET A LIFE and move on... BV, please spare us, if you’re so hopeless and removed from this situation then what the hell are you doing hanging around these blogs and preaching this crap. If you live abroad and gave up on Lebanon and the Lebanese then GET A LIFE and move on…

]]> By: The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog » Hezbollah Channeling Anger Towards Army http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9658 The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog » Hezbollah Channeling Anger Towards Army Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:15:16 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9658 [...] This Blog Only   « Previous Post   Monday, January 28, 2008 [...] [...] This Blog Only   « Previous Post   Monday, January 28, 2008 [...]

]]> By: Bad Vilbel http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9657 Bad Vilbel Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:55:00 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9657 Lebanon can rot in the farthest reaches of hell for all I care. Its people have shown time and again that they are not ready or willing to grow up. Makes me glad I've left the country and do not intend to ever return. Good for you, idiots, keep killing each other, pointing fingers, and enjoying your conspiracy theories. Darwinism at its best... Lebanon can rot in the farthest reaches of hell for all I care. Its people have shown time and again that they are not ready or willing to grow up. Makes me glad I’ve left the country and do not intend to ever return. Good for you, idiots, keep killing each other, pointing fingers, and enjoying your conspiracy theories. Darwinism at its best…

]]> By: Ado http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9656 Ado Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:42:05 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9656 The sniping and shooting kept going on for more than two hours without the army stoping it or catching the ones doing it,while most tv stations where brodcasting it...... At least this terrorist act must be cleared to people,whoever did it,hezb,lf,fpm or god himself.....and stop keeping every terrorist act a mistery.....this one was easy to catch the makers.... The sniping and shooting kept going on for more than two hours without the army stoping it or catching the ones doing it,while most tv stations where brodcasting it……
At least this terrorist act must be cleared to people,whoever did it,hezb,lf,fpm or god himself…..and stop keeping every terrorist act a mistery…..this one was easy to catch the makers….

]]> By: Ghassan http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9654 Ghassan Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:29:17 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-rooftop-snipers/#comment-9654 Correction to previous post. Dear Friends, I was in Lebanon during the early years of the civil war (1975-76) and I still recall how every time there was a real attempt to have a cease fire, snipers will shoot at both sides!!! Once, I heard canon being shot at both sides from the same location. Al-Sa3eqa (the Syrian dominated Palestinian militia) used to drive along the "front line" and start shooting every time we reach a cease fire. I will not doubt that the Syrians (or someone getting paid by them) are there doing what they have done in the 1975-76. The killing of Hamza shows that they know what they are doing. The goal is to aggravate the people and they get emotional and angry to start chaos and probably civil war. What a coincidence that when the meeting in Cairo was not in favor of the Syrians, the demonstration started! The so-called snipers on the rooftops don't look to me other than people watching what is going on. Snipers don't standup to be seen (trust me on that)! Correction to previous post.
Dear Friends,
I was in Lebanon during the early years of the civil war (1975-76) and I still recall how every time there was a real attempt to have a cease fire, snipers will shoot at both sides!!! Once, I heard canon being shot at both sides from the same location. Al-Sa3eqa (the Syrian dominated Palestinian militia) used to drive along the “front line” and start shooting every time we reach a cease fire. I will not doubt that the Syrians (or someone getting paid by them) are there doing what they have done in the 1975-76. The killing of Hamza shows that they know what they are doing. The goal is to aggravate the people and they get emotional and angry to start chaos and probably civil war. What a coincidence that when the meeting in Cairo was not in favor of the Syrians, the demonstration started! The so-called snipers on the rooftops don’t look to me other than people watching what is going on. Snipers don’t standup to be seen (trust me on that)!

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