Kanaan: We Reject Claims that Takfiri Assault on Lebanon is Aimed at Creating Strife
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Change and Reform bloc stressed on Tuesday that a new budget for Lebanon should focus on properly equipping the army given the terrorist challenges it is facing.
MP Ibrahim Kanaan said after the bloc's weekly meeting: “An armed takfiri group assaulted Lebanese territories and attacked the army.”
“We therefore reject any claims that such an attack was aimed at creating civil war in Lebanon,” he remarked in reference to August clashes between the army and Islamist militants in the northeastern town of Arsal.
“Claims of civil war can be interpreted as favors to those who assaulted the army,” he added.
“The government has granted the army the necessary cover to eliminate the takfiri groups,” continued Kanaan.
Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq had warned in remarks to As Safir newspaper on Tuesday that the Islamists were seeking to create Sunni-Shiite strife in Lebanon.
The Islamists abducted at the end of the August clashes a number of soldiers and policemen.
Efforts are underway to ensure their release despite the gunmen's execution of three of the captives.
Commenting on the possibility of resuming legislative sessions to tackle pending issues, Kanaan said that the Change and Reform bloc has never stood against these meetings.
He added however that it will remain committed to the stances it has made over the contentious affairs such as the state budget and new wage scale.
The Mustaqbal and Kataeb parliamentary blocs of the March 14 alliance have rejected holding legislative sessions in light of the ongoing presidential vacuum.
The Lebanese Forces bloc recently announced its readiness to return to the sessions.
23 September 2014, 17:50
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The FPM are the champions of causing civil strife. Their whole political culture is based on their hatred for Sunnis. Who are you fooling Mr. Kanaan; we know each other personally:)
23 September 2014, 18:08
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Is this guy for real?
Enlighten us as to what other purpose you believe to be the core reason?
Choose form the following:
1- ISIS is just a benign entity seeking to vacation in our beautiful country
2- ISIS inadvertently crossed our borders in error and they have since apologized
3- No such thing as ISIS as it is only a figment of the world's imagination
4- ISIS is really just a friendly and misunderstood ideology and one shouldn't read much into their actions
Way to insult our intelligence Mr. kana'an
23 September 2014, 20:01
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But of course @_Southern_., stick to your two rules
1- @_Southern_. Et al are always right
2- if @_Southern_. et al are wrong, see rule #1
If revenge is indeed their motive, HA supplied it in spades.
23 September 2014, 20:32
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MP Ibrahim Kanaan said after the bloc's weekly meeting: “An armed takfiri group assaulted Lebanese territories and attacked the army.”
“We therefore reject any claims that such an attack was aimed at creating civil war in Lebanon,” he remarked in reference to August clashes between the army and Islamist militants in the northeastern town of Arsal.
“Claims of civil war can be interpreted as favors to those who assaulted the army,” he added.
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Which paragraph, above quoted, rings of ambiguity?
23 September 2014, 22:40
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This just in
1 hour ago Nasrallah: The extremists want a sectarian strife in Lebanon and they want to bring the battle into Lebanon.
What more is there to say?
23 September 2014, 22:43
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And in Arabic lest there be any remaining doubt:
منذ ساعة نصر الله: المتطرفون يريدون فتنة مذهبية في لبنان ويريدون نقل المعركة الى لبنان
23 September 2014, 18:17
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Kanaan, so when the takfiri accuse the army of being Hezbos, what exactly do you call it?
23 September 2014, 20:28
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the most sectarian hypocritical party of modern times allied with the most hateful and sectarian terror organization in recent history... ISIL will be immobilized soon but HA is a cancer among us. History will not forgive you Michel Aoun nor will the Lebanese Christians
