Miqati Meets Tripoli MPs: Army Will Continue its Mission to Restore Calm in City
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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Friday that officials are determined to tackle the situation in the northern city of Tripoli “wisely and calmly.”
He said after meeting a delegation of Tripoli MPs: “The army and security forces will continue their mission to halt the unrest, restore calm, and protect its residents.”
“We are responsible for all our sons and brothers, but this should not take place at the expense of the authority of the state,” he declared.
“No one can consider themselves more powerful than that state,” he added.
“Regardless of what happens, the state will remain more powerful than all sides and everyone should abide by the law,” Miqati said.
The Tripoli delegation included MPs Robert Fadel, Samer Saadeh, Mohammed Kabbara, Ahmed Karami, and Samir al-Jisr.
On the investigations in the twin blasts that targeted mosques in Tripoli in August, Miqati remarked: “We will not be lenient in tackling this file.”
“No one is above the law … and we urge the authorities to arrest all who planned, participated in, and executed this cowardly act,” he stated.
Islamic Alawite Council head Sheikh Assad Assi on Thursday stressed that the council will not tolerate the summoning of top Alawite leader Ali Eid for interrogation in the case of the deadly twin blasts.
Arab Democratic Party top official Rifaat Eid, Ali's son, warned that “the ISF Intelligence Bureau crossed red lines when it summoned my father and he will definitely not comply with the request.”
He declared that the accusations against his father are not based on any facts and that they are part of a Saudi Arabian agenda to settle scores with Syria.
Forty-five people were killed and over 800 wounded in the twin bombings that targeted al-Salam and al-Taqwa mosques in Tripoli.
The Arab Democratic Party has denied any involvement in the attacks and stressed that the suspects are not members of the party while slamming media leaks attributed to the ISF Intelligence Bureau.
01 November 2013, 16:25
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anti palestinian propaganda like usual, Sabra-Chatila LF fascist heritage...
Same way u were refugee in the UK, those people are refugees and are welcome in Lebanon, they just need to be disarmed and stop leaving in camps.
01 November 2013, 16:48
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dont worry habibi FT, i do my best, u should do the same, just remember how syrians welcomed shia lebanese refugees...
01 November 2013, 17:04
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@ the1phoenix : sur le rapport aux palestiniens, la comparaison avec banima3rof m'honore, bien que je sois sunni. Les druzes ont moins de sang palestinien sur les mains que les LF, chose qui ne te derange pas outre mesure...Par contre pour ce qui du sang innocent chretien, c'est autre chose...
01 November 2013, 17:47
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faut se faire soigner l'ami, l'un m'appelle benzona, l'autre wahabi et papy veut faire de moi un druze. tu critiques Banina3rof mais vs vs ressemblez.
toi tu soutiens bachir le facho qui a du sang palestinien sur les mains, lui soutien le genocidaire des chretiens du chouf. Vous devriez bien vous entendre...
01 November 2013, 19:12
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correct me if i am wrong but officially syrians need no paper apart an ID card to enter or to work in lebanon thanks to the syrian laws that no lebanese politician dared touch! so all the syrians in lebanon are here legally, no?
