Security Forces Play Down Sami Gemayel Murder Plot as Family Stresses Assassination Thwarted
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Phalange party leader Amin Gemayel stressed on Friday that an assassination attempt against his son, MP Sami Gemayel, had been thwarted although security forces tried to minimize the impact of the new revelation, saying the lawmaker had only been advised to avoid attending a dinner.
In remarks to al-Liwaa newspaper, the Phalange chief said: “We received information from the generate-directorate of the Internal Security Forces -the Intelligence Branch about a plan to assassinate MP Sami Gemayel whose preparations were made at the time and place where he would be.”
According to the daily, Gemayel was going to attend a dinner in the Metn town of Bhersaf.
An Nahar newspaper said that Intelligence Branch chief Col. Wissam al-Hassan contacted the MP and asked him about his dinner plans. The lawmaker then wondered “where did you get that information?”
Al-Hassan replied: “I will let you know and I urge you to take your precautions and not to attend the dinner.”
The two men met the next day and discussed the issue, An Nahar said.
Gemayel family sources told the daily that an official report was referred by the security agencies to Premier Najib Miqati about the alleged plot.
“Thank God that the plot was thwarted” in its early stages, Amin Gemayel said.
But security sources stressed to An Nahar that they only advised the MP not to attend a dinner that he had been invited to on Wednesday.
This means that “an assassination attempt hasn’t been thwarted as claimed by the media last night,” the sources said Friday.
They added that only Gemayel had been advised to take the precautionary measure and “not any other personality.”
In remarks to al-Balad daily, the MP said it was “unfortunate that security tension could return to the country.”
He hoped that this stage would end peacefully and “no one would get hurt.”
Lebanon was rocked by a wave of assassinations after ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 14, 2005 murder. Sami Gemayel’s brother, then Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, was among a series of politicians who were targeted.
He was killed on Nov. 21, 2006 by gunmen who approached his car and shot him in broad daylight in New Jdeideh.
03 February 2012, 10:05
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You're not like the other rat that hides in the sewer, still, be cautious Sami, we cannot afford to loose you...
God Bless!
03 February 2012, 11:28
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the filthy zionist information war department is hallucinating something, about the event that was also a hallucination from their friend in lebanon
03 February 2012, 12:48
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the filthy Hezbollah and Aoun information terrorism department is planning something to cover up their failure to provide the electrecity to Lebanese people as well their failure to bring Lebanese back from Syrian prisons and to protect the north Lebanon borders from Syrian army.
03 February 2012, 14:10
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Joyce finally knows that Samy felt in love with a aounist girl ... the daughter of Ibrahim Kanaan ...
Kidding...
03 February 2012, 16:26
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I find it strange that it is always a Gemayel who either gets assassinated or is threatened by an assassination, but never Geagea or any of his thugs!!! Very, very strange especially when that the Gemayels are extremely mild and a lot more docile compared to Geagea and his thugs. Very, very strange!!!
03 February 2012, 16:35
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I wonder why Naharnet still allows this idiot to post on their website! Please block this idiot as his comments are worthless.
God Bless you Sami ... please take extra security measures ... Lebanon, and mainly the youth of Lebanon can not afford to lose you.
03 February 2012, 18:06
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well we all saw YOU try and get a crowd on M8 galiboun... a nice crowd... of syrians and syrian lovers!
03 February 2012, 18:55
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I hope that they could capture someone this time before it happens rather than after and even after they are uncapable...we hope one day to have a strong government where no one is above the law is that too much to ask for do we not deserve this after 30 yrs of wars and conflicts?
03 February 2012, 20:03
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Is jabalamel for real? It's been quite a time am reading comments here , unbelievable the gap in different point of views, but to talk about zionnism if someone had a flue is the hallucination my friend, am afraid uv been brainwashed, check ur comments it's always the same story...
03 February 2012, 20:18
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Jabalamel are you for real? I always read readers comments , never actualy participated, but did u notice that u keep on talking about same sionnists ? Do u have any new ideas or theories man? I think ur brainwashed or very narrow minded person... Am sorry ti say that but ur way takes me few decades back , to totalitary ruling.. Hitler Mussolini ,ex soviet union,and it's circle to our great Arab leaders who are either executed or on their way to be... Do u know they all used the same vocabulary? It's not an offend my friend but I believe ur young enough to use the future way of thinking not the past,I think if u care so much about the sionnjst media/informations war, you should go to their blogs and online informations and use their own ways of propaganda, I think that way you would make your country proud , and saved urself some shame.
03 February 2012, 22:33
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بدي علق بس عتغيير صفحة جريدة النهار . معقول يا جماعة حدا بيروح من جيد لسيء جداً. ما بقا إلنا نفس نفتح الموقع ،
04 February 2012, 11:07
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the filthy zionist information war department cannot believe that naharnet editors allow me to label their stupidities every day.
that's because there is no free media in zionist entity. all they know is brainwashing and censorship
04 February 2012, 13:17
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There's more free media in Israel than in Lebanon (especially when Syria ruled Lebanon where there was zero free media), this is a fact that only a brainwashed idiot can't notice. If the Iranian militia had total control, there would be no naharnet.
