The Baalbeck temple complex. (Credit: L'Orient Today)
A video titled, “Hezbollah is storing weapons in the Baalbeck fortress with the aim of making it a target” was posted on Youtube last Sunday, prompting a judicial inquiry against its author, Ahmad Yassin, a Lebanese anti-Hezbollah writer and political activist based in Paris. The inquiry was presented Tuesday before the public prosecution at the Beirut Court of Appeal by lawyer Ziad Baydoun, member of the National Commission for UNESCO and adviser to caretaker Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada, who is known to be close to Hezbollah. Baydoun demanded that Yassin's case be referred to “the competent court” in order to issue an arrest warrant against him via Interpol.In his video, Yassin told his 65,000 followers that the Baalbeck fortress — which was bombed in October, resulting in the destruction of two of its surrounding walls — is “a...
A video titled, “Hezbollah is storing weapons in the Baalbeck fortress with the aim of making it a target” was posted on Youtube last Sunday, prompting a judicial inquiry against its author, Ahmad Yassin, a Lebanese anti-Hezbollah writer and political activist based in Paris. The inquiry was presented Tuesday before the public prosecution at the Beirut Court of Appeal by lawyer Ziad Baydoun, member of the National Commission for UNESCO and adviser to caretaker Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada, who is known to be close to Hezbollah. Baydoun demanded that Yassin's case be referred to “the competent court” in order to issue an arrest warrant against him via Interpol.In his video, Yassin told his 65,000 followers that the Baalbeck fortress — which was bombed in October, resulting in the destruction of two of its surrounding walls...