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August 3, 2013   MEMRI TV Weekly    MEMRI | MEMRI TV | JIHAD AND TERRORISM THREAT MONITOR | SOUTH ASIA STUDIES PROJECT

IF YOU LIKE THE FOLLOWING RELEASES, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING NOW TO MEMRI'S SUMMER CAMPAIGN This week on MEMRI TV: Syrian Rebels Display Captured Igla SAM Missiles Lebanese Journalist Charles Ayoub: Lebanon Is An Artificial Country, Which Must Be Partitioned Egypt Defense Minister General Al-Sisi On Morsi's Ouster: The People Felt Terrified And Imprisoned Egyptian Islamist Justifies His Assassination Of Secularist Intellectual Farag Foda In 1992 TV Documentary On Iraqi Village Which Trades In Bodies, People Smuggling, And Leftover Mines Political Analysts Trade Below-The-Belt Insults Over Syria Crisis On Iranian TV MEMRI TV Clip No. 3933 Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. Syrian Rebels Display Captured Igla SAM Missiles Following is an excerpt from a video depicting Syrian rebels displaying captured Igla SAM missiles. The video was posted on the Internet on June 11, 2013. Syrian rebel fighter: "We're in the liberated city of Inkhil. The heroes of the Free Syrian Army's mujahideen brigade possess Igla missiles, which can target the aircraft of the criminal regime. With us is a field commander in the Hawran mujahideen brigade."   Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM).  For membership information, send an email tojttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line. MEMRI TV Clip No. 3928 Lebanese Journalist Charles Ayoub: Lebanon Is An Artificial Country, Which Must Be Partitioned Following are excerpts from an interview with Charles Ayoub, editor of the Lebanese Al-Diyar daily, which aired on Murr TV on June 24, 2013. Charles Ayoub: "There is no such thing as a Lebanese entity or a Lebanese homeland. The best thing we could do would be to partition [Lebanon]: the Shiites in South Lebanon and the Beqa' Valley, the Sunnis in the cities of Tripoli, Beirut, and Sidon, and the Christians along with the Druze." Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV. MEMRI TV Clip No. 3913 Egypt Defense Minister General Al-Sisi On Morsi's Ouster: The People Felt Terrified And Imprisoned Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Egyptian Minister of Defense Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi, which aired on Channel 1, Egyptian TV on July 14, 2013: Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi: "As we have said before, we are an honorable national army, whose toughness derives from our honor. We are not engaged in any conspiracies or deception. We simply could not remain indifferent watching most Egyptians scared and terrified, feeling like prisoners with no one to set them free." Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV. MEMRI TV Clip No. 3926 Egyptian Islamist Justifies His Assassination Of Secularist Intellectual Farag Foda In 1992 Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian Islamist Abu Al-'Ela Abd Rabbo, one of the assassins of secularist Farag Foda in 1992. The interview aired on Al-Arabiya TV on June 14, 2013: Interviewer: "What was the religious justification for the assassination of Farag Foda?" Abu Al-'Ela Abd Rabbo: "The punishment for an apostate is death, even if he repents." [...] "If someone curses Allah or the Prophet in public, he should be punished by death. The punishment for apostasy is death." Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV. MEMRI TV Clip No. 3911 TV Documentary On Iraqi Village Which Trades In Bodies, People Smuggling, And Leftover Mines Following are excerpts from an Al-Arabiya TV report on the Iraqi village of Jurf Al-Milh, which aired on June 6, 2013: Reporter: "In Basra, death always sleeps with one eye open. Death is everywhere – under land, under water, under the trees, and sometimes above them – in the form of millions of landmines, and thousands of tons of war debris, including radioactive material, gunpowder, iron, rockets, and shells. A mere touch by a passing child might cause some of these to explode, destroying everything around." Youth from Jurf Al-Mlih: "There are bombs here. If anyone burns garbage here, a rocket explodes." Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV.  MEMRI TV Clip No. 3924 Political Analysts Trade Below-The-Belt Insults Over Syria Crisis On Iranian TV Following are excerpts from a TV debate which aired on Press TV, featuring political commentators Lee Kaplan and Ken O’Keefe. The debate was posted on the Internet on July 19, 2013. O’Keefe: "At the end of the day, these people who are in power - the panksters in particular – are the ones pulling the strings for a third world war, because they need to keep the people divided. That is really what is happening here. What is being revealed is that despite the immense power of these individuals, these psychopaths, they are losing. They are not able to carry out the agenda as they see [fit], both for Syria and Iran. And thank God for that." Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV.