Saturday 6 December 2008

حرب لبنان War of Lebanon- Michel Aoun

War of Lebanon is a documentary about 13 hours long. In the beginning of this section a member of the Lebanese Forces militia, I forgot his name, recalls how Hafez Al Assad, Late president of Syria described Michel Aoun as a 'Patriotic man' a more literal translation would be a 'man for the nation', as the interviewee puts it this is the highest form of compliment anyone would expect to receive from Hafez Al Assad.
The turning point which ignited the fight between Aoun and the Syrian forces was when he said that 'Assads Head should be broken' in other words he was saying that he was going to teach Hafez Al Assad a lesson as he wanted the Syrian Army out of Lebanon. After that Aoun was exiled from Lebanon that was in 1989 and only returned in 2005.

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