Charbel: Army, ISF Will Start Deploying in Dahieh Starting Monday
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Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel renewed on Friday his rejection of “autonomous” security measures in Lebanon, saying that the state's security forces alone should be tasked with such missions.
He revealed: “Starting Monday, the army, Internal Security Forces, and General Security forces will start deploying in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahieh.”
He made his remarks during a press conference after meeting with the committee tasked with following up on case of kidnapped Lebanese pilgrims held in Syria.
Al-Akhbar newspaper had reported on Friday that Lebanese authorities are mulling to form a 2,000-member security unit to keep security throughout Lebanese territories and mainly Beirut's southern suburbs.
The daily said that the move aims at replacing the Hizbullah members who have set up checkpoints near and inside their stronghold in the suburbs after two separate bombings there left hundreds of casualties.
But the issue is still being discussed by the involved officials and Hizbullah, it said.
Al-Akhbar quoted Charbel as saying that Hizbullah is speeding up the process to hand over the security of the suburbs to the new unit.
According to the newspaper, the plan aims at replacing security officers who carry out office work with reservists who have gone into retirement not more than five years ago.
The officers will in their turn patrol the areas that have mostly witnessed security incidents lately, it said.
Another option lies in opening a new round of enrollment to recruit and train new police and army members, it added.
20 September 2013, 10:55
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tayb then let them take care of it themselves.
you dont want them to take charge of their security, and you dont want the state to do it either.
why dont you decide, or just simply cut the hypocrisy and say it: you WANT bombs to blow up civilians in dahiyeh.
20 September 2013, 10:57
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in the mean time, you're nagging about a few millions (which i remind you, are meant to protect the entire territory, not just dahiyeh) while the country is expected to suffer 7.5 billion $ in losses due to the uncontrolled flow of refugees
http://www.trust.org/item/20130919163233-gvq8q
20 September 2013, 11:45
1911
3attelna hamm el dahye ya msammat! mnekhirkon badda tenfarak ariban.
20 September 2013, 13:07
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Mowaten my God that's absolutely terrible! I never thought the figures would be anywhere close to that. I was thinking Lebanon was just requesting some $120million.
20 September 2013, 14:38
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isn't it? and i think that does not even take into consideration the adverse effects of the Syrian war, like reduced trade, loss of touristic revenues due to security degradation etc..
20 September 2013, 15:26
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It sure is.
For all those concerned of the refugee problem:
Lebanon will have lost $7b economically, not factoring in Mowaten's variables.
"Before the crisis, 1 million Lebanese, or a quarter of the population, were classified as poor - defined as living on less than $4 a day. Another 170,000 will be pushed into poverty while the existing poor will face deeper difficulty, it said."
170,000 Lebanese will be pushed into living on less than $4 a day, what's the country coming to?
"The report said 90,000 Syrian children were expected to enrol in schools this academic year, rising to around 150,000 next year - more than half the number of public school students in Lebanon. Even that figure excluded around two thirds of refugees who were not expected to enrol in formal schooling."
With all the debt and inability of the government to pay the teachers, it seems quite difficult that many public schools will be operational this year.
20 September 2013, 15:28
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"The United Nations says 748,000 refugees have registered or are awaiting registration in Lebanon but the World Bank estimated a total of 914,000, excluding the many tens of thousands of Syrians in Lebanon before the crisis."
"It predicted that number would rise to 1.3 million by January and to 1.6 million, or 37 percent of the country's pre-crisis population, by the end of next year - the biggest wave of refugees flowing into the smallest of Syria's neighbours."
Refugees will make up around 40% of the pre-war POPULATION. That's almost inconceivable.
It's time for the international community to stop hiding behind its finger and start contributing to the amelioration of Lebanon's innocent suffering. This isn't a political issue, it's a humanitarian one. I can't predict good things for Lebanon in the near future at least, it seems.
20 September 2013, 19:02
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momo- Here's a thought. How about HA acts a lebenase entity and not fight syria's war? maybe, just maybe it could reduce the risk of the war spilling over. As for the deployment of security- I actually like it. I wish it would be implemented on the entire border and prevent weapons/bombs/terrorists from flowing in both directions.
but we can't have that! that will benefit all of Lebanon instead of your precious militia and mass murderer buddy. right?
20 September 2013, 11:32
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Hizbo is becoming more and more humble, and its due of course to fatigue and lost lives, and knowing that on the long run if they dont retreat they will dissolve in Syria, and if they do retreat they will not regain the same image as before since now they are labeled ennemies of sunnis.
20 September 2013, 17:56
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ISF and army are not in dahiye? who was in charge of the security before then? oh! hezbis? and now they ask for the army? why? failed to secure their country? LOL!
or just to be on the safe side of propaganda if another bombing occurs and throw the blame on the army again? LOL!!!
all this is just populist measures as the ISF and army cannot do anything in dahiye without the approval of the iranian militia...
20 September 2013, 19:06
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36 Million ???? If HA just gets out of syria that amount would be reduced to practically ZERO !
20 September 2013, 23:21
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governent was getting a lot of heat for 'autonomous security' and after hizb iran decided to search a diplomatic car and had a shootout with a wedding party, it is about time the government stepped in.
