Day after day unfolding events show plainly and with no doubt that Hezbollah fully controls Beirut's International Airport while the presence of the Lebanese official authorities at this vital and dynamic facility is mere symbolic, totally marginalized and practically does not exist at all. This terrorist Iranian armed militia has the upper hand inside the airport and all over its vicinity that is adjacent to its mini southern suburb mini state (Al Dahya Al Janobia). In reality it is Hezbollah's air port par excellence and not Lebanon's.

Hezbollah has installed dozens of its own run cameras all over the airport and closely monitors around the clock offices, corridors, waiting halls, runways, control tower, entrances, exits, stores etc. Meanwhile the airport's security chief, Brigadier General Wafiq Choucair, is loyal to Hezbollah and not to the Lebanese official authorities. In 2008 when the Saniora Lebanese government tried to transfer Choucair to another post, Hezbollah was boldly defiant, and militarily invaded and occupied the Sunni West Beirut and tried but failed to occupy the Druze stronghold of Mt. Lebanon. Hundreds of people were killed and injured during the bloody invasion. Hezbollah's general secretary, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, called the invasion a glorious day.

Hezbollah has been holding the airport, as well as the whole country, hostage since 2005. In this terrorism context dozens of Lebanese nationals from Diaspora who support the sovereignty, freedom and independence of their homeland and oppose Hezbollah's hegemony and occupation were either unlawfully banned from entering Lebanon via the airport, or humiliated, threatened, detained arbitrarily, and wrongfully and falsely accused of treason. Many of them were flagrantly harassed and badly intimidated before they could return to their Diaspora countries.

Hezbollah freely uses the airport for importing all kinds of weapons and for all other illegal trafficking. Jihadists enter and leave through the airport freely as well as Iranian militant personal and officials. In this realm two Lebanese MP'S who opposed Hezbollah and Syria were assassinated only a few hours after they disguisedly and secretly returned to Lebanon via the airport (Gobran Tueini September 13/2005 and Antoine Ghanem in December 20/2007). Hezbollah's Camera's taped their entrance and assailants took care of them.

The latest Beirut airport - Hezbollah scandal unfolded last week when presumably a terrorist plot to explode a Saudi-owned (Nasair company) Airbus 320 failed.

News agencies stated that on Friday 09/10 passengers on board a Saudi aircraft at the Beirut airport runway reported seeing a man in a baseball cap with a backpack make a dash for the plane as it prepared to taxi. He stumbled once and then continued towards the plane. The passengers and flight attendants informed the pilot, but he did not take any action and continued takeoff without informing the Beirut control tower that anything was amiss.

The Nas Air flight XY 720 that took off from Beirut airport late Friday with 130 passengers on board including high ranking Saudi military officers, safely landed Saturday morning in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. At that time a body of an unidentified man was found by a maintenance worker while inspected the right rear landing gear of the plane. Saudi authorities reported that they found along with the dead man a picture for his wife, Jihadist verses and a picture for Al Khomeini. On Monday, after a series of investigations it was officially announced in Beirut that the man's name was Firas Haidar, a Shiite Lebanese, national from the area of Burj al-Barajneh near Beirut airport.

The question is how could this man alone and peacefully manage to freely infiltrate and fool all the security checkpoints and then easily reach the airport runway unnoticed by the dozens of cameras that are installed all over the facility? And how he was able without any kind of resistance or usage of weapons or force to run to the plane carrying his bag, climb to its wheel bay and grab hold of a wheel without the control tower noticing his presence before the jet took off?

It is very clear that the man was moving inside the airport freely, relaxed and not paying any attention to the cameras or to security personnel measures. This simply means that the airport officials on all levels were either facilitating his mission or deeply sleeping.

By mere analysis based on logic and available facts one can hypothetically assume the following scenario:

The man was a Jihadist assigned by his terrorist superiors to explode the Saudi plane by putting a kind of sophisticated explosives (that can be detonated via a remote control) at the wheel bay after all the plane's checking and supplying procedures were over, and then to leave the wheel bay before the plane takes off. It is worth mentioning that a big pair of scissors fell from him when the plane took off and was found later on the runway. Apparently his superiors had an upper hand inside the airport and accordingly were able to guarantee and secure his free movement and facilitate his mission.

Why he failed? Presumably his stumbling before reaching the plane disturbed his scheduled time span, made him very nervous and perhaps the explosives fell with the scissors and accordingly did not have enough time execute the terrorist act and to get down before the plane took off.

Why the scissors were only found and nothing else? Again presumably and hypothetically those who sent him and secured his free and unnoticed entrance would have collected all the stuff that he either left behind or fell from him on the runway.

Hezbollah who might have assigned the man to carry the terrorist mission tagged him as mentally unstable, a camouflaging tactic the Egyptian government resorts to all the time to cover terrorists and Jihadists who assault Christians in Egypt. Meanwhile Lebanese newspapers said the man knew exactly what he was doing because two cigarette filters were found inside his ears to safeguard him from the plane's loud noise.

In his bid to abort and block any kind of investigation, Hezbollah's strong man, the airport's security chief, Brigadier General Wafiq Choucair, submitted his resignation to the Interior minister. The government will not dare to accept the resignation and will not risk to go through the hassle of appointing a replacement in which Hezbollah will have the last saying.

Definitely the formal investigation in the incident is going to be faked and forged and no one shall ever know what actually happened because Hezbollah will not allow the Lebanese authorities to exercise freely their duties and responsibilities as was the situation in many previous similar circumstances.

This very serious incident sheds light on the Ethiopian plane disaster that exploded in last January a few minutes after taking off from Beirut airport and all of its passengers were killed. One wonders if the same tactic was used to explode it?

In conclusion, this serious incident will remain a mystery with no answers while similar incidents will continue to take place as long as Hezbollah and not the Lebanese Government dominates, controls and runs the Beirut airport.

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Hundreds of local and international media reports and analyses extensively addressed the recent dire and unprecedented assaults that viciously targeted the UNIFIL troops in south Lebanon within the region that is adjacent to the Israeli borders. Journalists, analysts and reporters gave numerous and diversified readings for Hezbollah's actual agenda, which practically orchestrated, planned and executed the assaults through its militant southern villager supporters.

One can freely say that most of the analysts' readings in regard to the Syrian and Iranian regional and global agenda were true to a certain extent, but Hezbollah's main objective, as well as that of its two Iranian and Syrian masters, was to cripple and castrate the UNIFIL troops and replicate its venomous ongoing scheme that crippled the Lebanese army since 2005 and totally marginalized its role.

Hezbollah wants UNIFIL to be something like a boy scout contingent, only assigned to prepare reports and having no military teeth, power, or authority, as well as no freedom of movement. Hezbollah is planning to make the UNIFIL troops mere hostages and pawns under its control that it can manipulate and use in any future confrontation with Israel or between Iran and Syria on one side and the Free World on the other.

The reports said that southern villagers seized weapons from the UN peacekeepers, hurled stones and eggs at their patrols, prevented them by force from entering the villages, accused their soldiers and officers of being Israeli spies, physically and morally assaulted them, and damaged their armored vehicles

The assailants were falsely and disguisedly portrayed by Hezbollah's media facilities and by other mercenary trumpet and cymbal media as "civil citizens", while in fact all these men and women who launched the well planned and organized attacks against the UNIFIL troops were actually militant Hezbollah personnel on its payroll. They simply followed the orders of their superiors, while the majority of the southern villagers had nothing to do with this havoc.

One might wonder why the majority of the southern citizens were mute, did not expose Hezbollah's schemes and allowed its media to falsely portray them as its supporters? Their subservient stance simply lies in the fact that Hezbollah practically occupies all the southern region by force, manipulation, money, terrorism, religious decrees (fatwas) and bribery. The Lebanese government has no say in all the region and its officials are either intimidated by Hezbollah or committed members in its organization.

It is worth mentioning that Hezbollah did not abide by UN Resolution 1701 that called for its disarmament and for the Lebanese army supported by the UNIFIL troops to have the sole control of south Lebanon in general and of the region where UNIFIL functions in particular. Sadly, the Lebanese army whose leadership is greatly influenced by Hezbollah's hegemony and terrorism did not execute its duties and obligations and kept a blind eye on all of Hezbollah's infringements and atrocities.

According to the UN Resolution 1701 articles, the Lebanese government is requested to deploy 15,000 soldiers of the Lebanese army in south Lebanon in a bid to secure stability and peace in the region jointly with the UNIFIL troops and confiscate all illegal arms. Because of Hezbollah's power, influence and control of the government, only 3,000 Lebanese soldiers are in fact deployed in south Lebanon, and mostly if not all their officers are loyal to Hezbollah and not to the Lebanese state.

Hezbollah has reached a stage of "ego and power inflation" where its leadership has deluded itself that it can easily cripple the UNIFIL troops without any serious repercussions or reprisals after it has castrated the Lebanese army while the whole world watches quietly without taking any action.

Hezbollah�s leaders felt that the countries that have troops in UNIFIL, especially France, Spain and Germany, are helpless and would not stand up against their assaults, especially since that Free World has not yet been decisive in deterring their Iranian and Syrian rogue custodians.

Ironically, the current devastating problem in Lebanon that is totally occupied by Hezbollah and its two malevolent overlords, Syria and Iran, is no longer limited to the heresies, abuses, crimes and violations committed by Hezbollah at all levels and in all domains, but also profoundly lies in the sickening mentality of the majority of Lebanon's officials and politicians who cowardly have abandoned their national and ethical responsibilities and blindly accepted subordination to the evil forces of terrorism.

These puppet officials and politicians have succumbed to the evil Syrian-Iranian forces and to Hezbollah who are seeking to destroy Lebanon's entity, uproot his identity, marginalize his civilization, enslave the Lebanese people and drag the county back to the Stone Age era.

We call on the Free World and on the moderate Arab countries to jointly come to the rescue of the Lebanese people whose country is occupied and whose government is a mere cover for the occupier, Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is gradually devouring the country piece by piece while the people of Lebanon have reached a stage where they have become unable alone to stop this brutal, reprehensible terrorist organization from completely taking over their beloved country.

In conclusion, the recent Hezbollah terrorist-organized assaults against the UNIFIL troops in south Lebanon are going to escalate and become bolder unless the United Nations and the UNIFIL-participating countries take decisive measures to deter Hezbollah, and implement and enforce UN Resolution 1701 under Chapter 7.