Gemayel, Moussawi Trade Barbs over Hizbullah’s Telecom Network in Tarshish
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Phalange lawmaker Sami Gemayel and Hizbullah MP Nawwaf Moussawi clashed in parliament on Wednesday when the issue of the Shiite group’s attempt to expand its telecommunications network was discussed.
During a Question and Answer session, the second since the formation of the cabinet, Gemayel criticized Hizbullah over its “illegal excavation and installation works in the town of Tarshish.”
But Moussawi snapped back saying the cabinet had given the resistance legitimacy through its ministerial statement.
“We reached the stage of seeking protection against the resistance,” Gemayel said.
They later traded accusations of being agents. “My shoe is more honorable than you,” the Hizbullah lawmaker told Gemayel when he asked him to “respect” himself.
But Speaker Nabih Berri interfered, telling Moussawi that he “shouldn’t defend the resistance that way.”
He later called for deleting the verbal attacks from the minutes of the session.
After the session, Sami’s father, Phalange leader Amin Gemayel, held talks with Berri who sought to reconcile the bickering MPs.
In remarks to An Nahar newspaper, Gemayel, a Metn MP, said: “They (Hizbullah) have admitted to infiltrating our cities, towns and neighborhoods.”
“Who are they and who gave them the right to monitor, accuse, investigate and request to hand over (people) whom they call agents?” the lawmaker asked. “Where is the role of the state,” he wondered.
Moussawi said Monday that CIA officers were meeting Lebanese agents in restaurants and nightclubs in the Metn towns of Dbayeh and Jounieh.
Gemayel’s comments came after An Nahar asked him what he expected from the Q&A session aimed at inquiring the government about several issues.
Among the questions filed by the MPs, was Gemayel’s inquiry about Hizbullah’s work in Tarshish.
In October, Tarshish residents thwarted attempts to construct the network after forcing the telecommunications ministry to interfere and put an end to the violation.
Other questions in the Q&A session include illegal construction on private and public property in Beirut’s southern suburbs and southern Lebanon, the legality of awarding contracts to service providers in the electricity sector and pollution caused by the Deir Ammar power plant.
But An Nahar said that March 14 opposition MPs are expected to stir the issue of Berri’s alleged disrespect for the parliament bureau committee’s demands on putting certain issues on the agenda of discussions and the timing of the Q&A sessions.
The security situation in southern Lebanon is also expected to be discussed by the lawmakers when the issue of Hizbullah’s telecom network in Tarshish is raised, An Nahar added.
14 December 2011, 10:00
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this will be interesting, although it will be a waste of time. this network was and still is monitored by israel, thus it is useless
14 December 2011, 14:09
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That's OK, nothing new, as long as they don't start throwing chairs at each others.
14 December 2011, 14:11
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last time mr faqih reacted by 7th may..... this time all mr faqih can do is hawbara......bravo sheikh sami but all mr faqih's network is useless now as ( everybody knows) the network is completely infiltrated by ,what we call, "adou el sahyuni".
all hassoun's strenght is based on syria/iran..and soon gangrena in syria will reach hizb of allah.
14 December 2011, 15:17
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Shame on Mousawi, Hizballa and his cronies like Aansou etc...they cannot imaging or accept any criticism to the idols they worship like Assad, Iran and what so called mouawameh. If you criticizing them you are quickly insulted and labeled as a traitor. They are pathetic thugs.
14 December 2011, 15:27
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Good job Sami. Your uncle Bashir is still a traitor, but good job defending Lebanon against the Hezbollah traitors. Don't be a traitor like your Israeli uncle Bashir.
14 December 2011, 15:39
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bashir gemayel tej rassak enta wsliltak wbezertak kella w thank god he was sent him to us ta naddaffelna el zbele men beirut in the 80's, ness ma 2ella 3eze
14 December 2011, 16:27
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The sad thing is both of them are right... Let's get rid of all these corrupt , treaterous politicians and of the system that keeps on breeding them.
14 December 2011, 17:39
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Lol, maybe by being their allies and allowing them to enter our country and the fact that he became president through them and LF and the army used to be allies and both worked together in the massacres of Sabra and Shatila.
This is the past everyone was bad, I have nothing against LF of 2011 all March 14 should work together against these terrorists in Hizb al shaitan.
14 December 2011, 18:22
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Small correction libnene .bachir was already dead wen sabra and shatila happened.
Ask ur hairdresser to cut ur ears not oy ur hair
TARA
14 December 2011, 18:31
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To the "genius" libnani
Bashir (God rest his soul) was fighting against Lebanese of all sects who allied themselves with Palestinians and Syrians and Somalis and Libyans and Iraqis and Yemenis and Sudanese ad infinitum.
The yardstick of unholy alliances seems extremely flexible to suit your arguments.
14 December 2011, 18:58
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"my shoe have more dignity then you " . this is the language of a law maker?. or a thug ?. remember when the intentions are not good the defense gets violence . and that what is Hezbollah is doing . their intentions are not good and they will defend it with violence .
14 December 2011, 19:47
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Israel = #1 Arab enemy
Palestinians, Sudanese, Iraqis etc. = Arab brothers.
But the Syrians you speak of are the evil Assadi Syrians anyway who lied to all their allies.
Don't put Palestinians and Syrians in the same boat, that is, the Assadi Syrians, normal Palesttinians, and the Syrians being killed now, are all our brothers.
14 December 2011, 20:20
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The holier-than-thou Moussaoui is starting to talk like Wi2am Wahhab, this tells lots about the great strides his shoes are taking him towards the kind of fall where no sole searching could provide solace.
14 December 2011, 20:24
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Hizbula is like the zionists, copy paste, building settlements in christian areas and taking over property with impunity under the banner of "resistance". Either way, their lies are expiring and they have become so many. Sooner or later the shee3a community would realize that no one can control lebanon and that lebanon has to be shared with no arms...i hope it does not take us another civil war and thousands of casualties and another taef..the shee3a must strategicaly realize that regime change in Syria potentialy means arming other factions in lebanon if they remain stubborn. Lebanon's fate is really in their hands.
14 December 2011, 20:35
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and iranian farsis= enemy #1 of lebanon and the arab countries.
as for sheikh bashir he was fighting for bilad el arz his own way and i fight for lebanon my way,no problem, we have the same objective.
at least sheikh bashir was not a thief, he was killed by israel and syria , having a bank account of L.L.3472 in banque libanaise pour le commerce agence mar mikhael
14 December 2011, 23:19
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Tell the Shia to pay their electri bill and stop bankrupting the country. They live on handouts like beggar M'tweli.
15 December 2011, 02:46
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Oddly enough had Mr Mousawi taken off his smelly shoe and brought it up to the level his own ugly face the ambient odor would be much improved, the well used smelly shoe would act as an air freshener as it were a little tree air freshener stand in so to speak masking the overwhelming stench emanating from the person of Mr Moussawi and his fellow Loyalty MPs who's well documented aversion to bathing would alarm even a Frenchman on a tropical vacation.
15 December 2011, 03:43
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Allah alwatan al aelat are with the Great Sami!! God bless you. they are Iranian agents and they will lose
