Berri, Army Snap Back at Critics, Defend Military Deployment in North
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Speaker Nabih Berri slammed on Wednesday March 14 coalition MPs who have accused the Lebanese army of deploying in northern areas bordering Syria at the behest of the Assad regime.
“The army is carrying out the duties that its leader Gen. Jean Qahwaji has ordered,” Berri told An Nahar and As Safir dailies. “This is a patriotic institution that implements the government’s policy of distancing itself from the events in Syria.”
“The army is not supporting any side against the other,” he said, adding “it stands at an equal distance from everyone and implements its missions on the ground in accordance with this nationalistic spirit.”
“The army is organizing things on the border of the two countries,” Berri stressed. “Enough attacks on this institution.”
The speaker’s retort came after al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc MPs, who are part of the March 14-led opposition, have accused the army leadership of deploying troops on the northern border with Syria at the request of Syrian authorities to arrest armed men allegedly belonging to the rebel Free Syrian Army which is fighting government troops.
Berri made his comments a day after the army command wondered in a communiqué about the criticism launched by some parties on the timing of the military’s security measures.
The communiqué said that the army is carrying out its duties to preserve the citizen’s security.
“The military’s presence throughout the nation is a very natural phenomenon in addition to being a comprehensive popular and nationalistic demand,” it added.
The army command also urged Lebanese politicians not to shove the military institution in the political bickering, stressing that it is “keen on protecting the residents of northern areas against any attack on their lives or their properties no matter what the source was in parallel with its firm decision to prevent the spread of arms inside Lebanese territories.”
08 February 2012, 09:36
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Wasn't it Khadam who said that berri would even take down his underwear if the Syrians asked him to? Berri has amassed an exorbitant fortune from siding with the Syrian over 30 years or so and is unwilling to give it up even if he were to do like Assad: kill all the lebanese in the name of keeping peace and stability.
It doesn't take much to see that Berri is doing what the Syrian are instructing him to do. He is a slave and will always be. But, time will surely be on the side of those who are right.
08 February 2012, 11:06
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Probably they did not see the circulating picture of the lebanese army truck in DAMASCUS seen over facebook........... probably that truck was just sight seeing??!!!
08 February 2012, 11:22
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this army is only designed to fight the sunis, that is another fact, the illegal army in da7iye enjoys autonomy and a mini state. However, the fall of the Syrian regime will lead to the end of this maskhara in lebanon.
09 February 2012, 09:21
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suni-hate is racism, supporting the murder of thousands of suni syrians is racism idiot, wouldnt you want your bashar to use chemical weapons and wipe out all the sunis and keep the survivors slaves?? and that is not racism?! what is then idiot lol. You are like the serbs in the balkans and the likes of you support genocide, you are not much better than the israelis fyi. But then again you are just a kid.
08 February 2012, 13:55
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oh! why didn t that berry ask for the army to deploy to avoid smuggling arms to hezbollah? why didn t that army do anything in may 2008 but watch people killing each other?
double standards as usual.....
08 February 2012, 14:35
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it is essentially a problem of confidence, when the army needs a militia boss to defend it , this means the confidence is shaking.
already the army is costing the lebanese state budget a lot of money,we need the lebanese national army on ALL THE BORDERS CONTROLLING ARM SMUGGLING in and out.
qahwaji says the army is doing its duties, ALL THE DUTIES??????enough PRESIDENTIAL generals
08 February 2012, 14:45
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Let's see what Berri says if the Army enters Ouzai, Dahyi and other mini-states controlled by Hizb and Amal thugs or even bill collectors as matter of fact? double standards is the motto of M8.
08 February 2012, 15:12
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the filthy zionist media terrorists hallucinate that lebanese army is only here to fight sunni,
and they also stick to their anceint hallucination about lebanese army preventing our glorious resistance to arm itself
08 February 2012, 16:19
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Christians of Lebanon unite!
The Army should be deployed in areas where there is external conflict only.
The security of citizens is not the armys job on a daily basis - that is for the POLICE !
Army defends the country, and POLICE defend citizens...
why does lebanon have it so backwards ?
08 February 2012, 18:36
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from time to time, the filthy zionist media terrorist try to look like lebanese by writing slogans like "citizens of lebanon unite".
like that will work.
09 February 2012, 06:13
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the filthy zionist media terrorists support each other publicly
10 February 2012, 01:21
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the filthy hezb media terrorist hallucinates that it's opinion matters
