Berri Warns Security Situation 'Dangerous': My Initiatives on Cabinet Formation were Spurned
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Speaker Nabih Berri reiterated on Wednesday that he has nothing new to add over the cabinet impasse, pointing out that the security situation has reached a “critical stage.”
“I have suggested all my proposals and initiatives but they rejected them, I am waiting for the others now to present me with what they have,” Berri said in comment published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.
Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam is seeking the formation of a 24-member cabinet in which the March 8, March 14 and centrists camps would each get eight ministers.
He is also rejecting granting veto power to any power, which the March 8 camp has been demanding.
The March 14 coalition is meanwhile calling for keeping Hizbullah out of the cabinet over its role in Syria's war.
Concerning the security situation in Lebanon, Berri urged officials to pay attention to it as it reached a delicate stage.
Beirut's southern suburbs neighborhood of Rowais was targeted with a car bomb that killed 27 people and wounded more than 336 other.
The attack, Lebanon's bloodiest since its 1975-1990 civil war, came just over a month on from another car bomb attack in the same area that wounded around 50 people.
Thursday's bombing was claimed by an unknown cell that said it was revenge for Hezbollah's engagement in Syria's war alongside Assad's troops.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah accused radical Sunni Islamists of staging the attack.
21 August 2013, 09:12
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For God's Lebanon & its citizens' sake just dissolve Parliament & hand full power to the LAF ...indefinitely ! Until such time for a referendum concerning the problem of our Refugees ( to the South , Israeli / Lebanese border) place both the Palestinians & Syrians in their face ! Allow HRW/ UN to provide all tents , food , even portable unit sheds until such time is allowed to force the Israelis to admit ALL Palestinians to the West Bank & the Syrians to their Golan Heights !! Let us do what the Israelis did with the help of the international community especially the USA in 1940's ....force the displaced Refugees to their (this time ) TRUE homeland ! Stop this unjustified so called Peace Talks between the Israelis / Palestinians sponsored by the US ! We all know the result of the outcome , what we need is " In Your Face Policy" for it to work ! Then we can work out our internal problems .
Signed Wolf !
21 August 2013, 09:22
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At least he knows how to enjoy & live life to the Max . Who would knock back Italian tanned Silky black haired women ? Only the evil eyed brain dead ! Good luck to him .
Signed Wolf .
21 August 2013, 12:25
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@phoenix
A COUP Is what we really need , not tomorrow , not next week but NOW !
Someone on this site has referred & compared our Military like the Egyptians , what a farce of a difference !
Our LAF wa BAS ! They are our very fabric of our society ! Not our politicians !
A COUP I for one would help with what ever resources I would have , be it a Dollar or my Life Savings including members of my FAMILY !!!
Signed Wolf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21 August 2013, 13:15
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berri, you are part of the problem--stop pretending you are a solution. notice he didn't list his proposals....
22 August 2013, 00:14
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Really, I didn't think the sun was going to rise this morning.
