Suleiman from Mrayjat: Criminals Will Be Punished, No One Should Harbor Armed Men
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President Michel Suleiman on Sunday said that “no one should harbor armed men,” stressing that the killers of Major Pierre Bashaalani and First Sergeant Ibrahim Zahraman “will be punished.”
“The state and the army must come first and we hope that justice will be served and the criminals will be arrested,” Suleiman said from the Bekaa town of Mrayjat, where he offered condolences to Bashaalani's family.
The president also called for “embracing the army, rejecting extremists and terrorists and refraining from harboring armed men.”
Bashaalani and Zahraman were killed in clashes in the Bekaa town of Arsal on Friday as the army was seeking to apprehend a wanted suspect, who was also killed in the unrest.
Hundreds of suspects are linked to Friday's incident in the Bekaa border town of Arsal, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.
Military sources told the daily that the army has identified all of the suspects and that raids to capture them will take place at "the appropriate time."
03 February 2013, 18:42
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This where the prez falls in the trap of armed militias outside state control. keeping the arms of hizballah, even after israel gOt out, and now the push of the formula ( people, army and resistance, meaning we will never give up our arms) has given others every reason to get weapons which made the state looks like an anarchy state than anything else. Here is an army, is playing the role of internal security devoid of any strength or legitimacy to protect our borders while internal security has turned out to be traffic police when in flooded cities and towns. This is the county that hizballah and aoun wants us to live in.
03 February 2013, 21:35
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The problem is not the formula of "people, army and resistance." The problem is that since the syrian withdrawal, the hizb has expanded to most parts of lebanon, armed different factions, created security zones which are effectively outside government control, confiscated the lebanese decision making, stormed beirut and instigated a coup. Continued.
03 February 2013, 21:44
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Continued from previous post:
In addition, the hizb is engaged up to its knees in the mess in syria. All what I mentioned is giving excuses and reasons for rival factions to arm themselves and create their own security zones to protect themselves and (see arsal). Lebanon needs the resistance at this juncture because the army is week. But this resistance has become far more a liability than an asset pushing lebanon into external adventures that the country cannot handle. Another problem is that the shia community in particular is solidly for the resistance and does not question the actions of the hizb while the other communities largely oppose the actions of the hizbs and dragging lebanon into "the wars of others" -- continued
03 February 2013, 21:49
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Continued (2)
The solution has always been multi-faceted:
- strengthening of the lebanese army. This may mean the re-institution of a system like israel or swizerland. This may mean a draft.
- the hizb agreeing to limit its activities to south lebanon. It also must agree not to initiate combat or drag the country into conflict.
- as the lebanese army become stronger, the resistance is merged or subsumed by the army
- I think a 10 years plan to effect this and to get rid of sectarianim is in order.
03 February 2013, 20:05
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Lebanese’s army should punish anyone try to heart its soldiers, anyone. Mr. president , you were the head of the army when Hezbollah killed Samer Hana, why then you didn’t apply your thesis as now? Fairness is not by one side, right!
03 February 2013, 20:19
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FlameThrower why don't hizb then hand over the suspect in Botros Harb's assassination attempt?
03 February 2013, 20:27
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FT. True Hezb has been acting pretty responsibly these last 2 years, I would even say that Hassan has exhibited statemanship and pragmatism i never would have expected of him. However, they are "acting" this way because it suits them right now. We dont know when acting responsibly (arresting mokdads etc...) will stop suiting them, and they revert to milicia behaviour. Bottom line, Hezb is a wild card which is currently , and only currently, "reasonable"
03 February 2013, 20:45
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i am sure that fakhamto knows where is the problem , deal with it! samaha, wissam el hassan, samer hanna then will,deal easily and proudly and swiftly with arsal
03 February 2013, 20:53
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phoenician,the partition idea is very very appealing to myself also. However, our problems and conflicts of interests are not between chiite, sunnite and christian. They are between sectarian and non sectarian. Between liberal and conservative. Between working class and the rich. Between politicians and the people. So partitionning will yield nowhere as we still will have those problems. (still, sometimes i see it as a dream come true when i look at the junk we have around...)
03 February 2013, 21:52
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Partition will never work in lebanon. Too much diversity in too small of a country.
03 February 2013, 21:20
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Have they turned over the guy that tried to murder Butrous Harb and anyone else who might have been in the elevator with him? Hizb only turn over people who go do things on their own without the hizb's permission such as the meqdads. Sorry to burst your buble flamer. You either support the army or you support a militia that the army must ask permission from. Can't have it both ways. I support Lebanon and Lebanon's army
03 February 2013, 21:58
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@Lebanonfirst
Sir, all these problems you mentioned above are because of Lebanon is not partitioned yet,too many retards holding and pulling our country back from both Christians and muslims and hopefully when partition does happen then 99% of the Christian politicians needs replacing coz they are nothing but thieves and crooks,God save Lebanon and Israel.
03 February 2013, 22:13
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God save israel? Are you out of your mind? Come on man, israel is a racist supremacist cancer designed and built on the suffering of people. I agree to tolerate israel. No need to do further wars. But I would never celebrate or trust them.
Compare that to lebanon. a beautiful mosaic of 17 communities living together, (of course there will be some differences, but what puts us together is much stronger.) A mission as JP2 said.... Give some time for the chiites to come of age, they will soon start beleiving in the state like the sunnites did in 1993.
03 February 2013, 22:19
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So now all the march 8 ppl are excited and think the incident that happened is a sign that sunnis are the main problem in lebanon and only March 8 are pro army........i guess they forgot who killed Samer Hanna,,,who was also an officer in the army...shame on all of these ppl who use such incidents for their own advantages.
03 February 2013, 23:55
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And thats why i have always believed that PARTITION IS THE ANSWER,yes there is moderate muslims but there is no such thing as moderate Islam and we will always end up bickering and have done so for the past 1400years enough is enough.
04 February 2013, 02:37
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Please spare us the racist hysterics. Human history is steeped in blood and those purporting to be christians killed far more than those purporting to be muslims. May be it is a matter of "christian"-dominated countries reached the age of industrial mass murder well ahead of muslim-dominated one.
04 February 2013, 00:58
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Now we can be assured that more bags with millions of dollars are on their way to the punksident of the Scumpublic.
04 February 2013, 00:59
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We are witnessing another example of professional prostitution versus inexperience one. Hizbollah executes and eliminates high ranking targets meanwhile idiots in Nahr el Bared and Arsal follow the doctrine of Ussama Bin Laden. Both are equal as the outcome of their deeds so stop defending any of them as both are cancer to Lebanon.
04 February 2013, 02:45
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Nahr al bared and arsal are two fundementally different cases. At any rate, the moment I see military intelligence raiding homes in the dahiye searching for those accused of killing hariri, I will have time to hear from the anti-sunni biggots (do not mean you) on this forum. Also, you cannot arrest those helping the syrian people while doing nothing vis the hizb who is involved up to his knees in syria. But then again, the military intelligence in lebanon is still staffed by the same people as during the syrian regime.
04 February 2013, 02:33
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FT - where do you get your info from or do you simply have a hate for sunnis and for mustaqbal?
04 February 2013, 03:40
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Good comment FT ,no point trying with them people as they will always bring Hezb into it,for the record I'm not a Hezb lover @ all ,we are talking about them scum in Arsal that attack our army for no reason.
04 February 2013, 14:37
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by far the most useless president Lebanon has ever seen. Makes me miss Emile Lahoud or even worse Elias Hrawi
