BEYOND THE DROPZONE

URGENT BULLETIN - World Council for the Cedars Revolution

Posted by W. Thomas Smith Jr. on 11 May 2008 at 2:39 pm UTC

[We’ve just received the following bulletin from the WCCR]

CALL TO STOP IRANIAN ATTACK IN LEBANON 
 
Beirut/Washington, D.C., May 11, 2008
 
As of this morning, Sunday May 11, our sources in Lebanon are reporting that a full- fledged offensive has been launched and is being conducted by Hezbollah, backed by Iranian Pasdaran and Syrian armed groups; and that this offensive has been launched against the southern Mount Lebanon area on several axis.

The Iranian-backed forces are using long-range artillery as well as armor and Katusha rockets. Hezbollah has massed around 10,000 troops for this invasion of the Druze villages along the Beirut-Damascus road.
 
Reports confirm that the commander of the Lebanese Army, General Michel Sleiman, who was appointed under the Syrian occupation in 1998, has ordered his troops not to intervene to help the Lebanese population, which is now under a terrorist attack (Sleiman also abandoned the Sunni neighborhood in the capital few days ago when Hezbollah and its Iranian militias invaded the city.).

According to sources, unless the Lebanese Army intervenes, it is expected that Hezbollah’s forces will ultimately overrun the Druze villages in the Aley district and link up with their forces in the Bekaa valley. 
 
Representing the aspirations of Lebanese around the world, the WCCR has been flooded with calls and emails from Lebanon desperately urging help from the international community.

It should be noted that the United States has spent millions of dollars training the Lebanese Army over the past several years. Additionally, the U.S. president and many congressional leaders (from both parties) have expressed a commitment to defending the pro-democracy Cedars Revolution. Pres. Sarkozy of France has expressed a similar commitment.
 
The WCCR urges the governments of both the United States and France to extend immediate support to the Lebanese people resisting the onslaught of Hezbollah and its Iranian and Syrian backers. We expect Washington and Paris to take immediate action in this regard by preventing the Iranian-backed forces from overrunning the Druze, Sunni and Christian areas of Lebanon.

Every hour of inaction is an hour of loss for freedom in Lebanon.

The WCCR also calls on Lebanese around the world to mobilize in support of the mother country by all legitimate means.
 
Executive Committee
Joe Baini, President
Tom Harb, Secretary General

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