One Soldier Killed, 8 Wounded in Ongoing Tripoli Clashes
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Gunbattles rocked the northern city of Tripoli on Wednesday, leaving one soldier dead and eight others wounded.
The clashes, which also injured four civilians, resumed in the morning after a relatively calm night as the Lebanese army came under heavy gunfire.
"Military conscript Hussein Hamad Saad died of his wounds on Wednesday afternoon,” an army communique announced.
"Saad was injured while performing his duty of preserving Tripoli's security,” it remarked.
In another statement, the military institution explained that a troop carrier was hit at 6:40pm with a Rocket Propelled Grenade launched by gunmen in Tripoli's al-Tabbaneh-Hay al-Bazar area in the city.
The attack left three soldiers injured, among them two with severe wounds.
Meanwhile, another soldier was wounded when an army vehicle came under fire at 7:35pm at the Abou Ali roundabout in the northern city.
"Gunmen positioned in Bab al-Tabbaneh's vegetable market area fired an RPG at an army patrol, wounding four troops,” the communique added.
Wednesday's fighting mainly took place in the hotspots of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, two impoverished neighborhoods that are the scenes of frequent sectarian clashes linked to the war in Syria.
Fighters used RPGs and automatic rifles.
The army however responded to the sources of fire.
The highway linking Tripoli with the district of Akkar was blocked as schools and universities were closed amid limited traffic.
One person was killed and several others were injured on Tuesday, raising the death toll to seven after five days of clashes.
The gunbattles erupted last Friday when a Jabal Mohsen man was shot dead in nearby al-Qobbeh.
Caretaker Premier Najib Miqati, who on Wednesday held talks with Tripoli officials, told reporters that several measures will be taken to bring back a normal life to the city's residents.
“We should restore the trust between the citizens and security agencies,” he said.
22 January 2014, 08:36
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I the Sunni & Alawite wanted to kill one another ,why not go and Fight in Syria ya scum.
22 January 2014, 08:38
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That the army gets shot at is totally unacceptable. Let the political powers that be make it clear that the army will deal with such acts with an iron fist no matter the perpetrators.
22 January 2014, 08:50
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You should be locked up for defamation, you paid propagandist. Ashraf Rifi will be your minister of interior and you and your likes including your aoun will be saluting him and asking him for favors.
22 January 2014, 09:07
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Fit-thrower has been given orders to slander Ashraf Rifi, because he knows Rifi is on the assassination list, and Rifi is also a likely candidate for the next cabinet.
Like many of the other victims, propagandists were hired to assassinate their character, prior to and after their actual murder.
No proof is required by the propagandists.
Hezbollah needs FPM to cover their crimes by protecting the phone records, which show proof of their assassinations and other crimes. It was so important to protect their "right of privacy", which was just an excuse to with-hold phone records. They fear that if Rifi gets Interior Ministry, then they will no longer be able to get away with more murders, without getting caught.
22 January 2014, 09:27
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I'm not parroting any media outlet Fifi. the ISF was only allowed a very narrow window of phone data: within a narrow time frame, and within a narrow geographic location.
The murderers and their accomplices argued not to allow a more broadened window of phone data to protect "privacy rights". The additional data that was needed, which covered a broader geographic area, and covered a longer time frame before and after the crimes, was not granted.
22 January 2014, 09:41
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Dear Flamethrower: Somewhere in your post, you mentioned that Jaafar is your real life name. Cool, coz my best friend's name is also Jaafar.
22 January 2014, 09:47
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Fifi, you clam this is parroting, but if you can find where it was previously written in 'al joumhouriyya', or 'al nahar', then it means you are a liar or a fabricator. Which is it?
Where is your link to the article that was parroted?
Do you deny all the talk from FPM and Hezbollah about "protecting privacy"??? Do you claim that never happened?
Douche
22 January 2014, 09:52
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Fifi: Do you remember when you recently admitted that Hezbollah killed Hariri?
That was a big step for you. I'm proud of you.
Here's your quote exactly....
Flamethrower 1/17/2014
"i'm willing to say that hezbollah killed hariri"
22 January 2014, 10:42
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Fit-thrower..... you are a liar. You never said "let's say" and you never said "for the sake of debate".
Here is your exact quote...
Flamethrower 1/17/2014
"i'm willing to say that hezbollah killed hariri. how will the lebanese deal with it? the same way they dealt with geagea killing rashid karami or the frangieh church massacre. they will come to the point where they need to understand that the page must be turned and that there is no way to govern in any cabinet or any parliament without hezbollah by your side. only when hezb itself decides its resistance and military are no longer needed, will it disband by its own accord and without anyone forcing it."
Other can read the details in the comment section from this article...
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/114521-stl-defense-emerges-confused-and-divided-from-first-two-days-of-trial
22 January 2014, 11:09
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1 hour ago Thieves stole copper wire from electricity cables in the Akkar area of Bqarzell
@Jaafar: You wouldn't know anything about that would you now?
23 January 2014, 02:29
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Fit-thrower.... what does it mean "hoarding my posts"????
You wrote very clearly that you are "willing to say that hezbollah killed hariri". I posted a comment rephrasing that you admitted HA killed Hariri, which you denied, therefore I went back and copied your post, and showed you what a liar you are.
You call that "hoarding your posts"? Don't flatter yourself.
It's all semantics now. Saying it's an "assumption you are willing to take", or saying "I'm willing to say hezbollah killed hariri"..... it all means the same thing.
Most of us believe HA killed Hariri. I'm just proud of you that you made that admission publicly, that you are "willing" to assume it is true.
22 January 2014, 09:46
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Where's the honor in sniping! Cowardly baastards.
I suggest reviving the Renaissance duel tradition... Let everyone who has a feud meet his opponent one on one with a handgun, a sword, and a pocket knife.
22 January 2014, 10:56
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I've seen videos of the army being shot at from Jabal mohsen and Sunni Shabab helping the soldiers.
I think we all know that it's the Syrian stooges from the Jabal that are the ones that are really attacking Lebanese soldiers.
22 January 2014, 14:22
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i've seen it as well, from both sides, jabal and tabbaneh, showing what a joke LAF can be sometimes...
22 January 2014, 14:56
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(1). Chronologically abbreviated entry of how things started: About 3 years ago, the so-called Arab Spring wind blew across the Middle East passing through Syria. Syrian boys caught spraying graffiti, not asking for the downfall of the regime, but simply for reforms, reforms that were promised during 10 years of Bachar's office tenure. People started peaceful demos, still asking for those reforms, they were followed by beatings, shootings, apologies from Bachar, then more peaceful protest, in fact they looked more like carnivals than political, then more shootings.
22 January 2014, 14:57
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(2). Then a new term called SHABBI7A came about with new scenes and new elements, Hezbollah wearing the typical Syrian Moukhabarat black attire were committing acts oppression on the people, profaning the Sunni houses of worship, several times blowing to dust their minarets. Still, the people demonstrated peacefully and still the regime called them terrorists. Then the guns started appearing, then new names, opposition, SNC, FSA, Al Nusrat, and all the trash attached top them ISIS etc.., then Sayed Hassan coined a new name for us, TAKFIRI and why he was fighting alongside the regime, then and till now. Tripoli split in the middle, pro and anti Syrian regime, Saida and unsavory Al Assir with his silly Palestinian singer turned radical killer, bombs here and there, just my question: Who came first, the hen or the egg.
22 January 2014, 14:57
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(3). I know one thing, Hezbollah should have stayed out, that simple, now to reverse what was started 3 years ago is costing heavy blood, Lebanese blood and for Sayed Hassan to come again one day and tell us like he did on the 15th of August 2006, that he made a mistake and that he wished he knew Israel would react like that?The cost of intransigence translates into a lot of death, like the death of that angel young girl Mariam yesterday, of destruction, of broken lives, broken economies, of broken promises, of uncertain tomorrows, just because one man and his lackeys don't listen from the moderates, till the crazy radicals come to remind him that he had a chance not so long ago, to listen to when people talk reason to him.
22 January 2014, 15:02
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Assad is just a puppet he probably would make a good president if he wasn't representing a murderous regime. Can someone please tell me the last time syria fired a shot in anger at izrael its all a scam syria and hizbollah are protectors of izrael they are not resistance the only people they resist are their people and their aspirations
23 January 2014, 04:44
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So why do you defend Asaad and attack watan-libnan if they both are guilty of protecting izrael? Could it be for sectarian reasons?
23 January 2014, 04:45
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Stop making up your own facts, lying will not do you much good. HA and salafists are both enemies of the state.
