Aoun Takes Jab at Officials over Abducted Troops
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Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Wednesday criticized how political and security officials are dealing with the case of the troops and policemen who were taken hostage during Arsal's clashes.
“I was asked what would I do if one of the captives was a son of mine and I said 'ask me what I would do if I were in charge' (of the situation),” Aoun said on his official Twitter account.
“The first question would then become irrelevant,” Aoun added.
The FPM leader's jab could be a hint that has to do with the stalled presidential race, in which he is running in an undeclared manner. He is reportedly still engaged in negotiations with al-Mustaqbal movement over the presidential vote, although eleven fruitless electoral sessions have been held so far amid a boycott by his bloc and that of his ally Hizbullah.
Around 35 soldiers and policemen were abducted by militants from the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front during deadly clashes with the Lebanese army in and around the northeastern border town of Arsal in early August. The fighting erupted after the army arrested a top militant leader, Imad Jomaa.
A few of them have since been released, while two others were beheaded, prompting a backlash against Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
A ministerial panel tasked with following up on the case of the captives is mulling “all the available options” in coordination with a Qatari delegation, which is negotiating the release of the hostages with the Islamist kidnappers.
In the wake of the Arsal battle, the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc led by Aoun had demanded official clarifications regarding the gunmen's pullout from the town and their abduction of the troops.
Aoun himself has rejected any deal involving the release of Islamist inmates from the Roumieh prison in return for freeing the Lebanese hostages.
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10 September 2014, 18:40
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20 minutes ago FPM chief MP Michel Aoun via Twitter: I was asked what I would have done had one of the captives been my son, but I say ask me what I would do had I been in a position of power.
What, please tell us?! By the way, thank the Lord that you are not in power, and will never be.
10 September 2014, 20:40
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Holly cow, the thumb robot is in full force defending Aoun the lunatic.
I've never seen 42 users on one topic, has anyone?
10 September 2014, 21:11
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Is this the same Tsunami of an ex-defector general that vowed he will bring all of our prisoners from the Syrian jails home??? What an absolute hypocrite. Ya 3eib el shoum 3ala heik heik makhlou2.
@ex-fpm 43 thumbs down???? LOL the M8 Mercenary Terrorist Group really hates you!
10 September 2014, 21:24
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tony heida el FT raheeeb...rabna khala2o w'kasar el 2aleb. Lezim killna nirkod wara 7emlin satl la2inno el zaka 3amb bi shirr minno.
10 September 2014, 22:07
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lol @band; it is flamethrower with his one man army of 50 voters:)
10 September 2014, 21:15
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Better him than someone like you. Mr. Let's shoot all M14 supporters in the head and gas Palestinian camps. You are the definition of what a low information, propagandist low life is. I only feel sorry for your parents and your children for the major disappointment you are in their lives.
11 September 2014, 04:30
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answering ex-fpm for GMA ...
"If it was my son, he would have never became a captive in the first place. I would have put him on the first flight to France even if he was still in his Pijamas, and if his friends became captives, I would never acknowledge their status. And if IS leave Lebanon (leaving their proxies in Lebanon of course), I will be their ally".
10 September 2014, 18:58
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no need to ask we know what you did when you were in a position of power you ran away deserted your troops without telling anyone
10 September 2014, 19:24
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Relatives of Captive Troops Rally in Beirut: Political Exploitation Will Not Lead to their Release
come on guys who cares about your loved ones safety, Aoun cannot help but work on Political Exploitation it's his only shtick!
10 September 2014, 19:28
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he who has abandoned his country, troops and supporters twenty years ago would not hesitate to do it again
army support strategy for M8: parole, parole, parole
a bunch of cowardly traitors
10 September 2014, 21:14
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There’s one characteristic that explains Aoun: opportunism. Opportunism in Aoun has gone as far as going to Syria to place himself in the service of Bashar al-ASSad and not even asking a single question about the fate of the Lebanese people in Syrian prisons or the fate of a fine number of soldiers and officers who were by his side when Syrian troops invaded Christian areas, including the Baabda presidential palace, in October 1990.
10 September 2014, 19:58
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I see all the Aouniyeh are on this forum today. Flamer is recruiting people to like his propaganda and dislike all those who hate Aoun. I mean seriously, how do you get 25 people to dislike ex-FPM's comments and 20 to like yours?
10 September 2014, 20:55
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my brother is doing a thesis on the art of debating and asked me to ask you if he can borrow some of your comments as reference, please?
10 September 2014, 21:37
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Lol that's hilarious Mowaten got 100 dislikes. But I just think the thumbs shouldn't be abused. It starts getting fishy when 20 people like/dislike something because it's no longer genuine
10 September 2014, 20:29
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hahah! How you expose them one by one is just brilliant, flamethrower! Something another
10 September 2014, 20:40
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'ask me what I would do if I were in charge'
Hmmm. You were in charge in 1988. You attacked the Christians, attacked the Muslims, attacked the Syrians, forced thousands to emigrate, let his soliders die uselessly while he ran away in his pajamas,...
No thanks. We don't want you in charge.
10 September 2014, 20:44
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I sometimes visit Naharnet not to read its sided articles but to read FlameThrower's comments. Now I visit it all the time
10 September 2014, 21:16
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Aoun never understood he can fool some people some of the time but cannot fool all people all of the time. He forgot that most people have a memory of their own.
10 September 2014, 21:18
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Huh? What? In what reality TV show is this? Is this the same Tsunami of an ex-defector general that vowed he will bring all of our prisoners from the Syrian jails home??? What an absolute hypocrite. Ya 3eib el shoum 3ala heik heik makhlou2.
10 September 2014, 21:42
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According to Naharnet, Aoun uttered this gem: "Whoever frequently changes his stances cannot build a nation". Yes, Aoun has never changed his stances. And he might be right. Illusions of grandeur's rarely leave a person sane. So in that sense, the man has not changed.
10 September 2014, 21:44
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According to Naharnet, Aoun uttered this gem: "Whoever frequently changes his stances cannot build a nation". Yes, Aoun has never changed his stances. And he might be right. Illusions of grandeur's rarely leave a person sane. So in that sense, the man has not changed.
11 September 2014, 01:13
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Aoun said on his official Twitter account.
oh good he's finally replaced Hussein Shaman al-Hussein
11 September 2014, 10:12
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Ya asrafieh... some people follow ideas, not people... should Aoun spit in the face of the Syrian Regime and Hezbollah, and scream Independence, Freedom, Truth, Sovereignty for Lebanon... he will get my vote!
