Rifaat Eid Accuses Lebanese State of Adopting 'Law of the Jungle'
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Arab Democratic Party official Rifaat Eid accused the authorities of adopting the “law of the jungle” as caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel refused to approve a request for the party to hold a march on Friday.
In remarks to As Safir daily published on Wednesday, Eid said: “Charbel's rejection to grant a license (for the demo) means there is no security in Tripoli and that the state cannot protect a march and cannot definitely protect a sect.”
“The state is now adopting the law of the jungle and inciting citizens to follow it,” he said.
Eid warned that he should not be blamed for failing to call for self-restraint on the residents of Jabal Mohsen, a neighborhood in the northern city of Tripoli that is an Arab Democratic Party stronghold.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Tuesday Arab Democratic Party chief Ali Eid and his driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali with helping a suspect in the Tripoli mosque bombings escape justice.
They were charged with hiding suspect Ahmed Merhi and smuggling him to Syria.
In remarks to An Nahar, Charbel said any march out of Jabal Mohsen would lead to unwanted repercussions.
“We won't allow it under such delicate circumstances,” he said.
But Eid told al-Joumhouria newspaper that his party had three options – “either to surrender to the Saudi plan, which will not happen, or head to civil war, which we rule out, or to extend our hands and say enough bloodshed.”
Jabal Mohsen, whose residents are from the Alawite sect of Syrian President Bashar Assad, has been for years at odds with the majority Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh.
The rival districts have been involved in several rounds of deadly gunbattles, which intensified after the rebellion against Assad in March 2011.
Eid accused the state of inciting for civil war and stressed that his party was avoiding bloodshed.
06 November 2013, 08:49
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only in Lebanon!
a terrorist is actually threatening the Lebanese state! "Eid warned that he should not be blamed for failing to call for self-restraint on the residents of Jabal Mohsen"
this guy should be hung.
06 November 2013, 08:52
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Ajoutée au capitalisme sauvage, cette loi naturelle qui laisse crever les plus faibles siérait bien oui à des fanatiques de la peine de mort, du port d'arme comme droit inaliénable et de la supériorité de l'homme blanc. La panoplie et l'arsenal des moyens utilisés par terroristes chiito-alawites pour discréditer la Republique Libanaise encore pour eux si redoutablement équitable, sont riches en enseignements. Tout étant toujours plus gros chez nos voisins, on y voit aussi plus facilement les lianes des stratagèmes les plus grossiers pour tromper la population, procédés que l'on pourra d'autant mieux reconnaître quand ils prendront chez nous leur couleur locale. Que Dieu nous aide.
06 November 2013, 10:08
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Eid warned that he should not be blamed for failing to call for self-restraint on the residents of Jabal Mohsen, a neighborhood in the northern city of Tripoli that is an Arab Democratic Party stronghold.
What he is saying is exactly the opposite... It means he will order his thugs to go out and kill.
06 November 2013, 14:44
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This eid guy bugs the crapiola out of me. Someone gives his father an MP position and now both are threatening the state. walla zaman.
06 November 2013, 16:18
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That is a funny story, Eid complaining that the government is adopting the Rule of the Jungle. Why complain, Eid? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
The ADP has already created the law of the jungle, along with its antagonists in Tripoli, for the people of that city. Settling disputes with open gunfire out in the street! What do you call that?? Civilized conduct, or is that the Law of the Jungle?
Charbel is only engaging in a reasonable exercise of the police power of the state. If it can be reasonably anticipated that this march that Eid wants to lead will result in aggrivating the jungle that is Tripoli, then it is wise, not to grant the permit. I find it amazing that this guy would not give in to his own appetites just because he could not secure a license. Does he stop at red lights too?
06 November 2013, 19:10
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so? does it mean we have to approve everything he does?
get out of that saudi mentality, where the king plays music while gaga and saadoun dance.
06 November 2013, 21:49
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yes you approve as you ARM them! LOL so cut your hypocrisy moowaten....
06 November 2013, 18:37
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this criminal wants to take the whole country into a civil war just because of his bloody militia?? they should evacuate jabal mehsen from its innocent citizens and eliminate this guy and his militia.
06 November 2013, 22:14
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at least Eid is being constant as an M8 member. Indeed, so far M14 areas and leaders have suffered bombing and killing, M8 followers are accused by justice of being behind the crimes, but no one of them get transferred to justice. This is what it takes to be an M8.
07 November 2013, 14:28
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tanks... backyard... authorities... terrorists... red handed... defiant... arrogant... noble... Tripoli... tribe... al-Qaeda?
