The World Lebanese Organization
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LETTER OFCONDOLENCES TO THE PRESIDENT  OF THE USA
THE LEBANESE PEOPLE STANDS BY AMERICA
September 12, 2001

The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Av.
Washington, DC 20500

Mr President,
In the name of the World Lebanese Organization (WLO), we extend our most sincere condolences to you and to the American Government and People for the loss of so many citizens, both innocent civilians and military personnel. The tragedy of New York and Washington was felt deeply in our hearts as Lebanese-Americans,Diaspora Lebanese and Free Lebanese in Lebanon. The many lives which were taken by criminal terrorists are more then just victims. They are American martyrs for freedom and democracy.

The Lebanese People, one of the few small nations which was the victim of international terrorism since the mid 1970s, cannot but share the horrors experienced by the American People. Our small nation of Lebanon was submitted to the barbaric and vicious attacks against civilians as of December1976. Car bombs and cowardly suicide attacks rocked the depth of our neighborhoods of Beirut and other cities for years. Thousands of victims died,vanished or became handicaps for ever. For 15 years, our people in Lebanon were savagely aggressed by the terror groups sponsored by Syria and the Hizbollah, in addition to the radical Fundamentalist organizations.

Since 1983, American blood was spilled on Lebanon's soil to mix with Lebanese blood. The murder of the US Marines, the assassination of US Ambassadors,diplomats and officers. The taking of hostages and the execution of innocent US citizens. All of which ordered, planned and executed by Syria's intelligence, Iran's agents and Hizbollah, is not a not only a crime against American interests but against Lebanon's freedom as well.  

Left alone to the onslaught of the forces of terrorism since the mid 1980s, theLebanese People were made to pay a high price in blood and freedoms. They lost their country's independence and the liberties of their civil society since. As of the early 1990s, the Lebanese civilian population was continuously terrorized by various Fundamentalist organizations. Twenty one months before the barbaric genocide of Americans in Manhattan, the same criminal group which perpetrated the attack against the World Trade Center Towers,  entered a small Christian village in northern Lebanon and perpetrated a horrendous massacre against pregnant women, older men and soldiers.

In addition, we have learned that at least two Lebanese men were among the victims of the planes hijacked from Boston. Many more may be under the rubbles in New York.

Mr President,
American and Lebanese blood has once again mixed under the cowardly aggression of modern barbarians. We join our modest resources and long experience in resisting terrorism to the great efforts you are undertaking to build a world coalition for freedom and democracy to defeat evil.
Rest assured of our sincere sentiments
The Executive Committee