Shaker Abssi Says It’s Vengeance Time
Naharnet
Beirut, 10 Jun 08 - Fatah al-Islam leader Shaker Abssi has slammed in an audiotape Lebanon’s Sunnis and Hizbullah and criticized the Lebanese army’s role in the clashes between pro- and anti-government supporters last month.
Abssi accused Sunni leaders of being “traitors” and receiving orders from the Bush administration. He also said Hizbullah launched a sectarian war in May when it took over West Beirut.
He hinted it was time for revenge and that Iraq’s bombings and suicide bombers would not spare “God’s enemies wherever they are.”
The authenticity of the audiotape could not be independently verified but was posted on websites which issue statements by extremists.
If the tape is proven to be authentic, it would be the second since the leader of the terrorist group escaped from the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared last year.
Abssi is believed to have escaped from the camp during bloody gunbattles between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam fighters which led to the death of 400 people, including 137 soldiers.
The more than three-month siege at the camp destroyed large parts of the shantytown.
Earlier this year, the fugitive leader lashed out at then army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman and vowed his fighters would hunt down the current president’s followers whom he accused of destroying Nahr al-Bared as part of a deal to become head of state.
The al-Qaida-inspired group’s leader also accused Suleiman in his first audiotape of waging the battle at the camp for political purposes, including appeasing the United States.
In the new tape headlined “An Appeal to Lebanon’s Sunnis,” Abssi criticized the army which many accused of siding with the opposition during the May clashes and said the military “disappointed” Sunnis who backed it during the Nahr al-Bared battles.
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Why isn’t this guy dead yet?
June 10th, 2008 at 9:44 amTalk is cheap. Shut your freakin’ goat hole and go get yourself some Hizb, asshat.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:00 amI saw that bottom picture and thought he’d wrapped duct tape around his head! Oh too bad; its just some cloth.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:15 amNow wait, how can he be a mooslim AND a shaker?
June 10th, 2008 at 11:43 am