Bassil Urges Arab Foreign Ministers to Declare War against ISIL
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil proposed during the opening session of the Arab League Council of Foreign Ministers to “declare war on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” ISIL.
Media reports said that Bassil, who is attending the Arab League meeting in Cairo, urged conferees to issue a decision under the slogan: “The Arab World Declares War on ISIL.”
The opening session's agenda includes the political and security developments in Palestine and Libya and Syrian.
It will also focus on ways to confront terrorism.
On Saturday, several pro-jihadist Twitter accounts published gruesome pictures apparently showing Islamic State militants beheading a second Lebanese army soldier, around ten days after the same group executed captive army sergeant Ali al-Sayyed.
The so-called Qalamun branch of the Islamic State also published a statement confirming the execution of 20-year-old army soldier, Abbas Medlej, after he reportedly tried to escape.
Medlej hailed from a large Shiite clan from the eastern city of Baalbek.
About two dozen more members of the country's security forces remain held captive by the militants. They were seized in August when several Syrian rebel factions, including the Islamic State group and al-Qaida linked Nusra Front, overran Arsal, killing and kidnapping soldiers and policemen in the most serious spillover yet of the neighboring civil war.
The captured soldiers and police are from country's many religious sects.
07 September 2014, 15:46
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What a big discovery! Our local Talleyrand has discovered the egg of Christopher Columbus.
07 September 2014, 15:46
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What a big discovery! Our local Talleyrand has discovered the egg of Christopher Columbus.
07 September 2014, 19:52
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Bassil: Hello. M14: Boot licker!
Bassil: Milk is white. M14: Bassil imbessil!
Bassil: We should fight IS. M14: Don't lie!
and so on.
07 September 2014, 19:57
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So let's have all the Arab countries declare war on ISIS and invade Lebanon to eradicate the terrorists. Great idea Bassil.
07 September 2014, 20:54
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Media reports said that Bassil, who is attending the Arab League meeting in Cairo, urged conferees to issue a decision under the slogan: “The Arab World Declares War on ISIL.”
Talk about someone out-idioting himself. Flame, you cannot take this guy as the foreign minister seriously. You'd be an idiot to do so. He should use this slogan for the parliamentary elections, maybe he'll actually win this time.
07 September 2014, 20:50
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For god's sake whatever you do if you capture any ISIL terrorists don't put them in Assad's jails he'll let them loose again and then buy gas from them and you'll have to do the whole thing over.
07 September 2014, 22:08
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By the time Aoun dies, Bassil will siphon off more money on his behalf than the $15 million Aoun took himself from the treasury to live his luxurious lifestyle in France.
07 September 2014, 22:18
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Remember $15 million 25 years ago is more than today's 15 million. Inflation...
08 September 2014, 06:50
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Not to deny that HA are using their weapons to terrorize the nation, yet I would not label them as the deadliest terrorist organization in modern history, this title was grabbed and being defended daily by IS who has proven to have no value for any human life, even from their own sects. HA has not reached that stage yet and I doubt they ever would.
