Mashnouq: Truth in al-Hassan's Case Imminent, We Refuse to be 'Sahwa Leaders'
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Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on Saturday announced that authorities are about to unveil the “truth” in the case of the 2012 assassination of General Wissam al-Hassan, the then commander of the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau.
“We are on the verge of unveiling the truth behind the assassination of Maj. Gen. al-Hassan and it will be announced at the appropriate time and I'm responsible for my words,” Mashnouq said at a ceremony commemorating the second anniversary of al-Hassan's assassination.
The general was killed in a massive car bombing in Ashrafieh on October 19, 2012. Seven other people including his driver also died and nearly eighty people were wounded in the huge blast.
“He is the martyr of the state -- the state that he competently worked to consolidate its institutions,” Mashnouq said at the ceremony.
“We want to protect Lebanon and the Lebanese from the (regional) earthquakes and blazes in order to protect the martyrdom of Wissam al-Hassan and all the martyrs,” the minister stressed.
Turning to the domestic political scene, Mashnouq stressed that the leaders of his political movement will not accept that they be turned into "Sahwa leaders."
He was referring to the Sahwa network of Sunni tribal fighters created by the U.S. in 2005-2006 to combat al-Qaida in Iraq. Sunni tribes are now also contributing to the fight against the ruthless Islamic State jihadist group which has seized vast swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territory.
“We won't accept that we be turned into Sahwa leaders specialized in imposing security on a part of the Lebanese as the other part enjoys 'partisan immunity',” Mashnouq said, in an apparent reference to Hizbullah.
“There can't be security without consensus and there can't be stability without justice,” he stressed.
Commenting on the affairs of the unity cabinet, Mashnouq added: “I'm at the vanguard of those who seek to avoid stirring thorny debates in the cabinet but the controversial files are accumulating and we're trying to avert their 'explosion' inside the council of ministers.”
He also warned that some parties are “trying to blow up these issues outside the cabinet.”
“We have devised a complete security plan that provides the conditions for security in Lebanon and the security forces will be partners with the army in combating terrorism,” the minister added.
In August, Syria-based jihadist groups overran the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, sparking clashes with the military that left dozens dead.
The retreating jihadists took with them some 30 Lebanese police and troops as hostages, and have since executed three.
Hizbullah for its part has recently repelled a deadly militant assault on its posts along the Syrian-Lebanese border and clashes are still raging in the Syrian border region of Qalamun.
Y.R.
19 October 2014, 01:18
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Watch your back, that's all I can say. Revealing that it is HA won't gain us anything, we need to work a plan to exterminate the cancer from the body, that is what we need to bring the system back to normal.
19 October 2014, 17:56
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if they have any "truth" let them show it. for now it's all talk, insinuations and incitement.
18 October 2014, 19:13
710
Mashnouq: Truth in al-Hassan's Case Imminent
and it will come as no surprise that the murderers are members of hezbollah and I am responsible for my words.
18 October 2014, 20:17
710
Just note who the sectarians on this forum attack the most and you will know the order in which HA will carry out the assassinations:
1- Ashraf Rifi or Dr. Samir Geagea or Saed Hariri
2- Khalid Daher
3-Ahmad Fatfat
and the list goes on.
18 October 2014, 22:38
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Texas, yes Syria killed Hobeiqa, but Israel could also be involved. Syria and Israel were both worried Hobeiqa would testify against them about the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Syria killed him for sure, as they controlled Lebanon, but Israel could also be involved.
18 October 2014, 22:55
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It's funny how Flamer brings up Hobeiqa. All he remembers him for is massacring Palestinians without thinking that much of his family and his fiancée were massacred in Damour
18 October 2014, 19:37
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And life will go on as normal and no punishment for hizbullah and march 14 will continue to serve in cabinet
18 October 2014, 19:43
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There is an interesting phenomena here that I cannot help but notice and that I'm sure many of you have as well, when the so called flame thrower is away most other M8 spammers are also away. Following his first post there is a deluge of them posting like their life depended on it. I wonder if they are all bused in like little mentally handicapped children going to the lollipop factory or do they pile into one clown car and come over together, the contents of most of their posts suggests the later. Or just maybe the spam squad are really just the Johnny punch-card AKA flame thrower.
19 October 2014, 10:40
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hahaha! We all noticed that too flamethrower!!! How do you keep doing it? You expose them and make them retreat. They flee when they see you. Something another flamethrower, completely another
19 October 2014, 11:08
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TaqiyaThrower.... you are just a hateful person, with a pitiful life.
You spend all day posting hate-filled comments on a website that you claim is biased against you. You come here to post lies and insult people all day long, every day of the week, and every week of the year. You complain that your comments are deleted, and yet you keep coming back???? Why are you here???
There is only one explanation for your odd behavior, you are obviously a paid propagandist, and your pitiful job is to defend Iran, Assad and HizbIran, and to insult anyone who is against your axis of evil.
What a sad life you have.
19 October 2014, 19:41
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Lol Flamer reports on his own comments to get them deleted and make it look like we're talking to ourselves. Because his comments are so ridiculous and we pick them apart like cotton candy, he has no choice but to get his own comments deleted. If you go on articles in the past (like weeks and months ago), you'll notice we're always addressing Flamer but all his comments are gone.
19 October 2014, 19:42
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Speaking of the devil, he just deleted his comments on this article, look at my posts below. I'm talking to myself hahahahahahahaha
18 October 2014, 20:22
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“We are on the verge of unveiling the truth behind the assassination of Maj. Gen. al-Hassan and it will be announced at the appropriate time and I'm responsible for my words,”
Of course you're responsible, whoever you accuse will blow you up...
18 October 2014, 20:24
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Flamer, why are you still ignoring me. I'm gonna keep asking you until I get an answer. Tell me, were you wrong this whole time for saying Aoun wasn't a candidate, or did Aoun deceive you?
19 October 2014, 02:46
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Has not applied??? This is Lebanon you don't have to apply. All you have to say is I'm a candidate, or in your idol's case not withdraw his candidacy. No paperwork involved
19 October 2014, 07:15
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flamethrower is a very busy man and does not have time to answer questions. Contact his press secretary if you are seeking answers
18 October 2014, 20:47
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best thing ever in Lebanon if this happens whatever the outcome is
the truth will be said
to my humble opinion who killed general Francois el hajj , killed wissam , and all the others
god bless the truth
18 October 2014, 21:30
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thanks southern, it seems your job here is to defame mustaqbal every chance you get.
18 October 2014, 22:19
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t's the truth and not defamation... for example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCltslVqsM4
18 October 2014, 22:50
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lol@norma! But the Houthi paid mouthpieces always praise Iran for its tolerance and democracy.
18 October 2014, 22:56
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Still waiting for Flamer to answer the question: were you wrong about Aoun not being a candidate, or did he deceive you?
19 October 2014, 01:05
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What about you? You support the terrorists and the traitor of rabiyeh
19 October 2014, 03:43
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qawmibigjohn is admittedly so pissed he thought that the syrian comrades had done the job when they murdered wissan hassan and the others . but he thought wrong qawmibigjohn was always called "SPECIAL" teachers spoke very slowly around him
19 October 2014, 07:46
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Every crime committed and every assassination were done by hezbollah the terrorist party.
19 October 2014, 17:59
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"the only enemy we have is within and to the east"
this is what the enemy in the south would like us to believe.
19 October 2014, 11:08
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who killed general Francois el hajj , killed officer wissam and all the rest
19 October 2014, 19:16
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Big Qawmi what are you saying? The only enemy in Lebanon is Israel hahahahahahahahahahahahaha so Daesh isn't an enemy??? And please explain how Israel is an enemy of Lebanon rather than that of Hezbollah...please elaborate on all the famous battles that took place between the LAF and IDF...
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the LAF sent like 1,000 men to be used as pawns by the Arabs. In 1967 the LAF provided a grand total of two aircrafts. In 1973 (Yom Kippur War for the Zionist lovers), the LAF provided radars for the Syrian air defines systems. Did you know North Korea and Pakistan provided fighter pilots in the 1973 war??? They contributed more to than Lebanon...
19 October 2014, 19:22
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air defence* systems
North Korea provided 20 fighter pilots in the 1973 war, Lebanon provided no men at all. They just let the Palestinians use southern Lebanon to attack Israel. It seems that everyone but the State of Lebanon is attacking Israel.
19 October 2014, 19:19
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But of course, you're go into this rant how the LAF and Hezbollah are united in eliminating the Zionist entity, without even considering how Israel does sorties all over Lebanon everyday. Really what has the LAF done to Israel??? They shot at Israelis for digging out a tree on the border, and a Lebanese soldier acted on his own and shot an Israeli... wow what a way to fight our enemy...
