Assafir and Tarfelsay's Garage Door

For those who instinctively jump into devilish conclusions based on Israeli fed information on every issue related to Hezbollah, a must read investigative report waits for them on today’s Assafir front page.

The Israeli distributed video, in which the army claims that rockets were being moved from an explosion site in the Lebanese southern village Tarfelsay, is a propaganda production which aims at establishing a pretext for an Israeli aggression on Lebanon.

Assafir nails down the misinformation.

The 4 meters “body” which appears in the Israeli video is the garage door where the explosion took place, Assafir quotes a so called “official narration”.

“After the explosion, 7 to 8 guys from the neighborhood started to collect the leftovers, among them the garage door which was wrapped in a white blanket, and transported them in a small truck, to a moor (boura) in the neighboring Deir Qanoon Alnahr” says Assafir.

The paper might have not heard of You Tube, where one could retrieve the video, which Hezbollah didn’t deny its authenticity but rather its interpretation, and count around 2 dozens of human beings in the explosion site hurriedly moving stuff into at least 2 trucks while many other vehicles could be spotted.

Anyway this is a ridiculous detail missed by the paper that is well known for it’s “A class” investigative reporting.

For example, a couple of weeks ago Assafir broke the news with a front page story on a US military base being established in Lebanon, before the Lebanese Army corrects that this is a base of his and has no attachment, whatsoever, to any American entity. Or when the paper, unequivocally, kept reminding its readers of the marginal position the Lebanese issue enjoyed on the Saudi Syria summit in Damascus, before Assad himself testified to the contrary in a phone call he placed to the Lebanese President.

Now Back to Tarfelsay!!

Reading the well sourced investigative front page piece in Assafir today, one could draw the following conclusions.

• There is no moor (boura) in Tarfelsay. The villagers had to hurriedly transform the fire leftovers and the garage door to a moor in a neighboring village.
• Tarfelsay inhabitants, not known for any cotton related business, give no damn about their white blankets. They even use them to wrap black smoked garage doors ripped by minor explosions that are caused by the marriage of electrical contact and flammable material. (Assafir doesn’t bother to qualify the fact that a minor explosion shouldn’t have ripped the garage door from its frame).

But why did the villagers feel the urge to transform the garage door to another village on the spot and didn’t wait till the morning?

Are you insane?? Would be an expected answer from Assafir reporter.

Who would, in his/her straight mind, leave a garage door in a village with no moor? Would you sleep in a house knowing that a garage door is left outside till the next morning?

Hell no!! So why do you expect Tarfelsay villagers to act differently you discriminating son of the bitches….

I bet you find me one similar incident in any village, all over the World, not followed by inhabitants moving the leftovers to another village, especially if among these a garage door!!!

Assafir would have reported that the Titanic docked safely.