Sami Gemayel Meets Geagea, Says Tripoli Clashes Result of Inability to Control Arms Possession
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Phalange Party Central Committee Coordinator MP Sami Gemayel blamed the ongoing clashes in the northern city of Tripoli on the state's “inability to control the possession of arms.”
"The state is unable to control the possession of weapons or the situation in Tripoli,” Gemayel said after holding talks with Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea in Maarab.
He continued: “We asked the state more than three years ago to seize the fighters' arms to save the city's residents from paying the price of the Syrian conflict.”
"The policy of disassociation, the implementation of the law and seizing weapons are the step that should be adopted to protect Lebanon and the Lebanese people.”
The young MP considered that officials in the country do not pay any respect to the principals upon which Lebanon was established, to the law or to the Lebanese constitution.
"The Lebanese state today is hostage in the hands of groups that decided to wait until the Syrian war is over,” Gemayel stated.
He added: “We are in front of two options. It is either we act like everyone else and overrule laws, or we resist until achieving the change we aspire.”
"We ask the Lebanese people to love their country and to demand changing the manner in which it is being ruled.”
The toll in the ongoing fighting in Tripoli rose to at least six dead and more than 70 injured on Friday.
The clashes broke out on Monday evening as celebratory gunfire erupted in the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen over Syrian President Bashar Assad’s appearance on al-Mayadeen television for an interview.
25 October 2013, 18:36
712
Wow ...
smiles all around ...
they don't look too worried about Tripoli.
25 October 2013, 18:36
712
Wow ...
smiles all around ...
they don't look too worried about Tripoli.
25 October 2013, 18:38
1014
Both Sami's will be busy
using their cash counting machines
recording the gift of wisdoms from the KSA
25 October 2013, 19:27
810
@ slash
Oh please ... Geagea is known for his being on the take. Shady land deals, illegal toxic waste disposal ... you name it ...
25 October 2013, 20:42
106
So lemme get this straight, Gemayel and Geagea should not talk about Tripoli but it's cool for Bashar to say that Jabal Mohsen is a Syrian area. Ok now what if Bashar tomorrow decided that Harisa is also a Syrian area or Jbeil, Tyre, Jezzine, Akkar, Hermel, Batroun, Beit el Dine. Well at least he's got his eye on one small piece of Lebanon unlike his papa who wanted to annex the whole thing.
25 October 2013, 22:32
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I want to caution you on publicizing Lebanon by cooperating with the new Woody Allen movie about Lebanon, "I Thought You Were the Enemy!?"
Due to production limitations, Mr. Allen will be able to portray at most only two or three of the leading Lebanese Establishment figures, such as the two gentlemen pictured here and of course Patriarch al Rahi.
So the effect will be less than you might hope.
26 October 2013, 02:57
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sami Gemayel thinks he's the next Bashir. well to tell you the truth most Lebanese who still hold the BASHIR HAY FINA banner are out of their mind. Because they never saw What Bashir really would have been as a president and i bet if i could but unfortunately can't since he's dead that he would have been worst than anyone else because he was not even strategic, he was nothing but a militia boy lead to the top by other tools who killed him because they wanted his brother instead from the beginning but they figured out that the only way to bring his brother is to bring him and then end him. Bess yalla ma fi min yfakker .
