March 14 Holds onto 'Peaceful' Protests Until Cabinet Steps Down
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The March 14 General Secretariat said on Wednesday that the “peaceful protests” that the youth groups affiliated with the alliance had called for after the Beirut bombing in Ashrafiyeh district will continue until the cabinet steps down.
“We are committed to the peaceful struggle through all the democratic and popular means,” March 14 General Secretariat Coordinator Fares Soaid told reporters after the general secretariat's weekly meeting.
The March 14 youth groups had erected tents near the Grand Serail on Sunday, demanding Prime Minister Najib Miqati to resign after clashes broke out between mourners, mainly March 14 supporters, and the security forces near the premier's office after the funeral of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau head Brigadier General Wissam al-Hasan on Sunday.
Police fired in the air and used tear gas to drive back protesters who tried to storm the premier's office.
The March 14 General Secretariat pointed out that the Lebanese people are capable of safeguarding the state.
It considered that the Syrian regime is “insisting” on violating Lebanon's sovereignty by assassinating Hasan in Ashrafiyeh along with two others.
“This crime will only make us more determined to continue the struggle for a free, independent, and Arab Lebanon,” the statement said.
The March 14 alliance held Miqati and his cabinet responsible for “facilitating (President Bashar) Assad's regime criminal plot.”
Miqati said over the weekend in the wake of Hasan's assassination that he doesn't “want to jump to conclusions in the case, but we cannot separate Hasan's murder to that of the arrest of former Minister Michel Samaha.”
The General Secretariat said that that the resignation of the cabinet is a key condition to any efforts exerted to foil threats surrounding the country and maintaining stability.
Friday's bombing has raised fears about unrest in the country, which is divided between supporters and opponents of Assad, whose country supervised its small neighbor for nearly 30 years.
Under Hasan, the ISF played a central role in the August arrest of Samaha, who has close links to Damascus.
He was charged in August with planning attacks to spark sectarian strife in Lebanon.
The agency was also deeply involved in seeking the arrest of those responsible for a host of attacks and assassinations between 2005 and 2008, starting with former Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination, for which Hasan blamed Damascus.
In October 2010, the Syrian courts issued arrest warrants against 33 Lebanese figures, including Hasan, for perjury in the case of the Hariri assassination.
24 October 2012, 14:28
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It should be until the illegal Hizb and cronies militias disarms and the criminals brought to justice...
24 October 2012, 15:28
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Ya battal, l 2asess houwi 2enfijar l ashrafiyeh w 2eghtiyel el Hassan!
L 2assess houwi 2enno wa7doun siyesiyin 14 azar 3am yeghtelo bhal tari2a! ana gheltan?
Iza bihemak Lebnen ydal metmesak, Shou bte3mil ta te7mi siyesiyi 14 azar ( yali bimaslo te2riban, 2elet te2riban, ness l sha3eb el lebneni)?
Haydi l ne2ta l 2asessiyi!!!! w inta 3erif hal shi!
24 October 2012, 16:25
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March 14, hold on tight but relax. You won't have to wait long because as Dr. Arreet 7akeh predicted (and you know when Dr. Arrret 7akeh predicts, things... well... umm... duh... happen?), the Assad regime might fall in 2012 and then everything will be easy for March 14. March 14 warriors, wait a couple of months, that's all, and then everything will fall like dominoes. Take my word for it.
24 October 2012, 16:32
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Why so worried these days @FlameThrower? You have been diligently all over this blog trying to rebut everything and everyone. Is it because the wind has not been blowing the M8 way for some time now? Or maybe you got scolded for not performing by your masters and your pay got reduced as a result?
Whatever the reason, change is coming and the time when Lebanon will be rid of the scum of Damascus is nigh of tha you can be sure. Soon HA will have to decide to either be Lebanese and integrate within the Lebanese society or continue to be beholden to welayat al faqeeh and face dire consequences.
24 October 2012, 16:33
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FT
I wish for once you show us you are as keen as we are to democracy, and freedom.
it is time for your likes to really think about regaining our country back from the syro/iranians.
have balls and start thinking for yourself, and what this country needs: democracy and freedom.
I hope these words mean something to your likes.
24 October 2012, 18:27
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"i was never a proponent of democracy." of course, one who support a totalitarian regime and give it excuses cannot be a democrat. one who support an illegal party which does not obey the state cannot be a democrat. this is M8, they wish for the return of the syrian rules over lebanon...hitler style!
24 October 2012, 17:36
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These posts are kept to show the world what type of trash "dialogue" comes our of the mouth of M8 politicians and supporters !
You are given a chance to speak yet you choose to insult left and right, falsely accuse, turn a blind eye to history.
This is the real image of M8 supporters and followers !
Insults replace arguments because there are none, only made up excuses !
25 October 2012, 00:40
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@Ft, You say Lebanon needs a dictator, I say to you 'Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) What we need is a corrupt free government and law and order.
25 October 2012, 15:18
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It was so friggin peaceful everybody fell asleep and woke up the next morning as if nothing had happened. Actually, they are still waking up every morning since then as if nothing had ever happened! And, by the way, all the foreign dignitaries who swooped on Lebanon almost from nowhere came here to learn about the skillful March 14 crowd, their bros the Palestinians and their newly-found friends the Pales-Syrians and their peaceful methods. What pieces of... Peace!
25 October 2012, 17:52
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As long as Field Marshall Fares Soaid continues to command the snake-head eating warriors of March 14 with the assistance of captain Samir Franjiyeh, you can rest assured that March 14 will be going places! Field Marshall Soaid will make sure that his special home-made homeopathic motion-sickness potion will be included in the diet of the troops, which should take care of the constant revolutions that they will be performing. Take my word for it. As to the unlucky rest of us, well, I guess we're on our own!
