Al-Akhbar Daily reported on Saturday that Lebanese citizen
Firas el-Ali has been missing for the past two days in the region of al-Minieh, North Lebanon.
Reports emerged that he had been abducted by unidentified
persons and taken to Syria. El-Ali owns a store in al-Minieh where he raises
the flag of the Future Movement, the party for which he claims to work.
Al Mustaqbal Daily reported on Saturday that MPs Serge
Torsarkissian, Ziad al-Kadiri and Badr Wannous submitted a report to State Prosecutor Judge Hatem Madi yesterday accusing the former
director general of the General Security Major General Jamil al-Sayyed and the Secretary of the Leadership Committee of the Independent Nasserite Movement in
Lebanon, retired Brigadier General Mustafa Hamdan, of
threatening late Major General Wissam Hassan.
In their report, the
above-mentioned MPs included statements made by al-Sayyed and Hamdan on the
late Major General following the arrest of former Minister Michel Samaha
accused of plotting terrorist attacks and transporting arms from Syria into
Lebanon.
The MPs called on Judge
Madi to interrogate both al-Sayyed and Hamdan and to refer them to the
concerned judiciary in order for them to be tried and punished.
Al Mustaqbal Daily reported on Saturday that what proves that
the cabinet’s appointment of a governing body for the oil sector is just a
distribution of shares and gains among officials in power is the government’s
abstention from distributing their resumes. “By doing so, the cabinet is hiding
their competences and skills from the Lebanese people.”
The Daily pointed out that this was an unprecedented move in
the history of governments. “Appointing members of a governing body for such a
strategic and vital sector which is the oil sector through the cabinet has
never happened before without the distribution of their resumes to the media.”
In this regard, well-informed sources voiced their fear that
the “anticipated oil wealth expected to save Lebanon from the financial and
economic crisis would be shared by the supervisors of this sector and state
officials, keeping the Lebanese people under the line of poverty and
destitution, living under a Lebanese state weighed by public debt and high
interest rates.”
Al Mustaqbal Daily quoted the visitors of President Bashar Assad
as saying that Assad has been living “away from reality and in a permanent
state of delirium.” He is reportedly telling his visitors that the U.S.
Administration does not want him to resign.
The visitors added that the Syrian President has been living
in his own world, adding that in less than half an hour, he repeated the
following expression over 10 times: “the U.S. does not want me out.”
“The U.S. does not want me out since it fears political void,
the emergence of a new regime or anarchy that would hinder the calm prevailing
in the Golan Heights, along the border line in the occupied Syrian plateau.”
Al-Diyar Daily reported
Saturday that former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni engaged in sexual
relations with Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat, the second Palestinian
official after PLO Secretary-General Yasser Abed Rabbo.
Livni had said that her
behavior was approved by a rabbi who believes Israeli women should be permitted
to use their bodies in order to help their state.