Addiyar: Rumor vs. Slander vs. Truth
Quite a few people have their doubts concerning the "assassination attempt" on Hassan Nasrallah's life. I will not discuss or pontificate on this, because I have nothing but articles and my own speculation - which never amounts to Truth.Addiyar has gone one step further, and has accused some of the mainstream parties of involvement with the captured organization (that was accused of planning the assassination). This claim can easily be taken with a grain of salt and dismissed because of its not-so-hidden agenda, but in the end, who are we to define Truth. I did not link to this earlier because I was waiting to see if the Future Movement would reply. They did.
Addiyar published an article stating that a member of the PSP was somehow involved in the planning of the assassination and that weapons were obtained through the Future Movement. Quite a serious allegation I would think.
Future Movement's reply was aired on the news channel, and can be read here.
It is easy to dismiss Addiyar's allegations because of its political affiliations. However, on rare occasions, Addiyar was the only newspaper that published certain issues which were initially seen as baseless rumors, but eventually were accepted as true, and which the other mainstream newsmedia did not touch upon. On the other hand, Addiyar's outlook is not exactly unbiased, and so there is a chance that this claim is nothing more but slander/rumor.
This is a serious claim. If untrue, would this not constitute slander? There seems to be a parallel between the article Addiyar has published and one Al-Moustaqbal once published on a member of FPM, who later filed a lawsuit because of that. Why is the Future Movement not doing the same?
posted by Lazarus, 10:23 PM
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Article mentions something about a recent incident with Nasrallah's convoy being stopped on the way to the conference. This incident happened with a Lebanese security officer who stopped the convoy and insisted on searching it despite being shown the security clearance. If Ad-Diyar's statement is true, then at least one Lebanese officer is under investigation. I don't think they'd risk lying on something like this.
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Hassan, at 1:56 AM
It's getting dirty, ummm, dirtier, dirtiest... وَسـّـخِـتْ
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Moussa Bashir, at 6:05 AM
Well, as long as only "the good die young", Nassrallah will be safe for a very long time.
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Anonymous, at 8:29 AM
When I read the Diyar article I did not get the understanding that the article in question was making any direct accusations. What it did though was to raise a number of questions that leave the impression of guilt by association. In my opinion the Diyar article falls way short of committing slander.
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Anonymous, at 10:39 AM
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