Suleiman Calls on Army to Strike with Iron Fist, Denounces Attacks against it
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President Michel Suleiman warned on Saturday of the consequences of the continuous assaults against the army, calling on the military to strike with an iron fist.
“We should expressed our solidarity with the army and support it in its national missions inside the country and across the border,” Suleiman said after talks with General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim.
Suleiman stressed that the army is carrying out its role in protecting the nation and the Lebanese.
“Instructions were given to target any member who carries out an assault against the army,” the president said.
He pointed out that attacking the army is “an attack at a national symbol.”
Gunmen have targeted army posts in the northern city of Tripoli in clashes between the two neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
Tensions between the two districts go back decades, but have been exacerbated by the conflict in Syria, where President Bashar Assad, an Alawite, is battling a Sunni-led uprising.
The latest clashes began last Thursday after the death of a resident from Jabal Mohsen.
The clashes are linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria. Jabal Mohsen residents are Alawites from Syrian President Bashar Assad's sect, while Bab al-Tabbaneh is majority Sunni.
The rebels seeking to topple Assad in the three-year-old war are Sunnis.
22 March 2014, 14:51
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parallels, this prince is a nobody, he doesn't rule unlike ur supreme guide http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98d_1268716355
22 March 2014, 15:11
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parallels, he's not ruling anything, his father wasn't as we;;.
Coz ur name is Al Saud doesn't mean u're ruling, there are thousands of them, of course u'll have some black sheep.
If he had done that in KSA he would be beheaded and thrown from a high tower.
Now, are going to denounce Khomenei's fawta on molesting kids and animals ?
22 March 2014, 14:58
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The army should strike 'with an iron fist' on Hezbollah and Co.
22 March 2014, 19:16
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Yes Mr. President.... strike all of them Takfiris, HA and all armed gangs with Iron Fist. Lebanon is in dire need for moderation and peaceful humans
22 March 2014, 19:37
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And this good-for-nothing president-by-parachute has been striking us with an iron loud-mouth in the last 6 months of his pathetic 6-lonnnnnng-year insignificant term of utter nothingness and the nightmare to all decent Lebanese.
22 March 2014, 20:34
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The Lebanese Armed Forces should drop pamphlets over the Palestinian areas in the country informing them that in 24 hours the army will be entering and for anyone who resists by shooting or other methods, the army has orders to shoot to kill. Let's see what the heroes of the camps then do.
Anyone who attacks the legal armed forces of the country deserves a bullet, nothing more nothing less.
22 March 2014, 22:26
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In general politicians of one country have one goal ( a.o. safety and prosperity of their country), but might disagree how to reach that goal; I wonder whether the disagreement between Lebanese politicians is on the goal or how to reach it.
23 March 2014, 15:12
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The army needs everyone's help in defeating you and the takfiris like you.
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