Jumblat: Discovery of Terrorist Networks Demonstrates there Can Be No Substitute to State
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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat praised on Thursday the “extraordinary procedures” that led to the discovery of terrorist networks that were planning to carry out attacks in Lebanon.
He said in a statement: “The procedures demonstrate once more that there can be no substitute to the state and its security agencies that are operating under difficult and complicated circumstances.”
“The performance of the security agencies sends a strong message that the state can, once it chooses to, achieve accomplishments,” he continued.
Furthermore, he stressed the need to firmly deal with terrorists, urging against providing them with any “political or non-political cover.”
Jumblat hoped that the security agencies' achievements on Wednesday would pave the way for the discovery of all cells planning terrorist attacks in Lebanon.
“I take this opportunity to urge the entire Lebanese society to seize this important occasion and organize political disputes, should the means to solve them be unavailable,” said the MP.
“Perhaps their unity, despite their disputes could help ease the security weaknesses and prevent the country from slipping further towards fragmentation,” he remarked.
The army succeeded on Wednesday in arrested Naim Abbas, a prominent member of the al-Qaida-affiliated Abdullah Azzam Brigades
Investigations with him led to the discovery of a booby-trapped car in Beirut's Corniche al-Mazraa neighborhood.
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One of those rare times when I agree with Jumblat. Bachir Gemayel said it decades ago, that no militia, no matter how powerful it may be, can even aspire to replace the State, even in its weakest form. Let Hezbollah start to come to terms, that the state is and remains its only refuge. This principle also applies to all those who are either allied or opposed to Hezbollah, that ultimately only the State matters to the people of Lebanon. Now in 2014, all militias have long since overstayed their welcome, even the most reticent of citizens will tell you, the state, the state and the state only. It so happens that in Lebanon there's no shortage of suitcases, now let the militias pack up and go home.
