Posted on 01/09/2006 7:37:30 PM PST by abu afak
The MASSACRE at DAMOUR, 1976
"".....On 9 January 1976, three days after Epiphany, the priest of Damour Father Mansour Labaky, was carrying out a Maronite custom of blessing the houses with holy water. As he stood in front of a house on the side of the town next to the Muslim village of Harat Na’ami, a bullet whistled past his ear and hit the house. Then he heard the rattle of machine-guns. He went inside the house, and soon learned that the town was surrounded. Later he found out by whom and how many — the forces of Sa’iqa, consisting of 16,000 Palestinians and Syrians, and units of the Mourabitoun and some fifteen other militias, reinforced by mercenaries from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and a contingent of Libyans.....
Father Labaky telephoned the Muslim sheikh of the district and asked him, as a fellow religious leader, what he could do to help the people of the town. ‘I can do nothing,’ he was told ‘They want to harm you. It is the Palestinians. I cannot stop them.' While the shooting and some shelling went on all day, Father Labaky telephoned a long list of people, politicians of both the Left and the Right, asking for help. They all said with apologies and commiserations that they could do nothing. Then he telephoned Kamal Jumblatt, in whose parliamentary constituency Damour lay. ‘Father,’ Jumblatt said, ‘I can do nothing for you, because it depends on Yasser Arafat.’ He gave Arafat’s phone number to the priest.
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""...In all, 582 people were killed in the storming of Damour. Father Labaky went back with the Red Cross to bury them. Many of the bodies had been dismembered, so they had to count the heads to number the dead. Three of the men they found had had their genitals cut off and stuffed into their mouths.
The horror did not end there, the old Christian cemetery was also destroyed, coffins were dug up, the dead robbed, vaults opened, and bodies and skeletons thrown across the grave yard. Damour was then transformed into a stronghold of Fatah and the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). The ruined town became one of the main PLO centres for the promotion of international terrorism. The Church of St Elias was used as a repair garage for PLO vehicles and also as a range for shooting-practice with targets painted on the eastern wall of the nave.
The commander of the combined forces which descended on Damour on 23 January 1976 was Zuhayr Muhsin, chief of al-Sa’iqa, known since then throughout Christian Lebanon as 'the Butcher of Damour'. He was assassinated on 15 July 1979 at Cannes in the South of France..."""
Ex From 'CEDARLANDS' and READ THE REST AT
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/damour.html
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Eternal peace for the innocent. Eternal damnation for the killers, may their names be erased.
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I'd call them animals, but that's an insult to animals.
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The day of Arafats death was a glorious day.
I did a little dance.
Today, Hamas has effectively replaced the PLO with a elevated fanatical Islamic twist.
Arial Sharon must be given full credit for forcing Arafat from Lebanon, although if it were not for extreme international pressure on Israel, Arial Sharon would have been able to save future Jewish lives by destroying Arafat and his entire top terrorist command.
"Zuhayr Muhsin, chief of al-Sa’iqa"
It is worth saying that Al-Sa'iqa was a REGULAR unit of the Syrian Army made of palestinian recruits.
It is also worth saying that the tunnels of Harat Na’ami existed in June 1982, Tsahal did not blow them up during operation Peace of the Galilee. I do not have the answer for that.
I was unfamiliar with the massacre at Damour so I looked in up. Unquestionably this was a terrible incident but you omitted two important facts:
1. It was during the Lebanese civil war.
2. This massacre was in retaliation for a massacre committed two days earlier by Christians against the Palestinian town of Karantina during which even more people (~1000) were killed.
So, why can't we get the GOP to STOP PRESSURING ISRAEL?
This should be a movie...but if it was, Father Lakaby would be shown (as played by George Clooney)as a man who agonized over how he provoked those poor, long-suffering Palestinians.
This should be a movie...but if it was, Father Lakaby would be shown (as played by George Clooney)as a man who agonized over how he provoked those poor, long-suffering Palestinians.
I noticed that in the genocide of the Armenians in Turkey, the Muslims also cut the genitals of some men (while they were alive) and later shot them and stuffed them in their mouths (The Burning of the Tigris). These were brave men who stood up to them.
Yes, I saw it.
Very, very sad and heart-breaking.
OPINION: I know you're "wideminded" (because your moniker says so), but why are you using wikipedia as a source for information?
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