It has become clear even to the blind that the Lebanese state is massively dominated by the Hizbullah's mullahs. This militant terrorist organization boldly dictates its Iranian decrees on all Lebanese officials and institutions,

Not even one decision can be made by the Lebanese government or any of its institutions without Hizbullah's approval.

manipulates their activities and greatly influences the whole country's decision-making process through cancerous infiltration, intimidation and multifold tactics of terrorism. Not even one decision can be made by the Lebanese government or any of its institutions without Hizbullah's approval.



In this context, Hizbullah forced the Lebanese state to adopt all of its derailed concepts, vicious justifications, bizarre explanations and plain fabrications in a bid to camouflage and cover up the actual causes of the massive series of explosions that occurred on July 14 in the southern Lebanese town of Khirbet Silm, located about 10 miles north of the Israeli-Lebanese border. In fact, Khirbet Silm was hit seriously due to a series of Hizbullah's huge underground weaponry caches.



Observers and local residents have confirmed that the Hizbullah militiamen did not allow the Lebanese army or the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to approach the scene of the blast until after they had removed all the burned weapons and ammunition. They transferred all the weapons that did not explode to nearby depots located in a number of civilian houses in the town itself. The town's Hizbullah civilian militiamen, with their families, attacked the UNIFIL soldiers (French contingent) with stones when they tried to search the houses close to the scene of the explosion, injuring 14 of them and aborting their search assignment.



At a time when Hizbullah leaders boast and brag openly that their stockpiles of missiles have doubled, their military capabilities are increasing, and that they are militarily still as strong in the southern region adjacent to the Israeli border as they were before the war in July 2006, the Lebanese state only buries its head in the sand and adopts stances that are childish, forged, naive and void of any kind of credibility.



Official statements issued by the UNIFIL forces confirmed clearly and explicitly that the weaponry caches that exploded in the town of Khirbet Silm belonged to Hizbullah. They tagged the incident a serious violation of
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, notably the provision stating that there should be no presence of unauthorized assets or weapons in the area of its operations between the Litani River and the Blue Line.



In spite of the solid facts that the UNIFIL statement presented, the Lebanese authorities turned a blind eye to all the infringements that were committed by Hizbullah; not only in regard to the explosion of its weaponry caches, but also other incidents that targeted UNIFIL forces afterwards, which were engineered and executed by Hizbullah
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In the first incident, cited above, fourteen UNIFIL soldiers were injured. In the second, a group of Hizbullah-directed civilians crossed the Israeli-Lebanese border near Shabaa Farms and overran an unguarded Israeli outpost.



Meanwhile, the letter that the Lebanese Foreign Ministry sent to the United Nations regarding the Khirbet Silm explosions and the incidents that followed was void of any credibility. It made the ministry a mere mouthpiece for Hizbullah. Anyone who thoroughly read the letter knew immediately that it was written by the Hizbullah leadership and not by Lebanese diplomats.



The Lebanese political analyst Bechara Charbel described the letter as a "diplomatic joke", and said: "It would be great to know who is that genius diplomat who wrote the letter to the United Nations addressing the Khirbet Silm explosions, because it is so bad and so fake that he in return deserves to be stripped of his university degrees, fired from his job, slapped in the face and kicked in the [backside]."



The letter alleged that the explosions were due to a fire breaking out in an abandoned building that housed unexploded munitions from the summer
2006 war with Israel. It stressed that cooperation between the Lebanese Army and UNIFIL was strong, adding that Lebanon was fully committed to the implementation of Resolution 1701, and that an investigation committee was formed by the Lebanese Army and UNIFIL officers to supervise the scene of the explosion. According to the letter, the investigations had been launched the day after the explosion, "because experts judged working the first day to be too dangerous since explosions continued until late July 14." The letter said that the Lebanese soldiers stayed on location despite possible hazards, adding that one soldier had been injured.



The letter goes on to say that the investigations revealed that the unexploded ammunitions bore writings in Hebrew and were of the type used during the summer 2006 war. It slammed Israel's claims that Hizbullah endangered civilians by storing its weapons in populated areas. "Israel is trying to justify any future deliberate attack on Lebanese civilians," the letter said.  



Regarding the
July 18 incident in which a UNIFIL team investigating the blast was hampered by civilians from the Khirbet Silm town, the Foreign Ministry's letter revealed that the Lebanese Army had decided to investigate intelligence saying that unexploded ammunitions might have been transferred to three houses in Khirbet Silm. "UNIFIL was informed and decided to crack down on the three houses without being escorted by the Lebanese

For heaven's sake, is there any sane individual who would take such a report seriously?

Army," the letter said. "Clashes with the residents ensued." The letter-writer added, "As a result, 14 UNIFIL personnel were slightly injured."



The letter is not only diplomatic nonsense, but also stupid and a forgery of the facts. For heaven's sake, is there any sane individual who would take such a report seriously and grant any kind of credibility to those who wrote it, and to the Lebanese government that adopted it? Definitely not, if we exclude Hizbullah and its Iranian masters, the mullahs.



It is sad, shameful and heretical that the Lebanese foreign minister, Mr. Fawzi Salloukh, is actually Hizbullah's Minister for Foreign Affairs and has nothing to do with Lebanon. He is Hizbullah's man and its diplomatic mouthpiece.



In conclusion, Lebanon will remain a mere hostage - and will not become a free, democratic and independent country again - until the terrorist organization Hizbullah is dismantled and disarmed.