Fneish Says al-Faisal Remarks 'Very Dangerous, Threat to Hizbullah, Lebanon'
Caretaker State Minister for Administrative Development Mohammed Fneish, a Hizbullah member, on Thursday hit back at former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal, describing his remarks as “very dangerous.”
“This speech is very dangerous and it cannot go unnoticed and it is a threat against Hizbullah and Lebanon,” said Fneish when asked by the Central News Agency about al-Faisal's remarks.
“Those obstructing the solutions in Syria, refusing Geneva 2 and arming, financing, inciting and playing the sectarian game, are the core of the problem and are responsible for everything that is taking place in Lebanon and the region,” the minister said, in reference to Saudi Arabia.
Asked about the ongoing deadly clashes in the northern city of Tripoli, Fneish held the rival March 14 camp responsible for “igniting sedition and conflicts that are moving from one region to another and spreading the chaos of weapons.”
He also accused March 14 of seeking to maintain the unrest in Tripoli in a bid to confront “the honorable weapons of the resistance.”
“It seems that these unrestrained weapons have become a burden on them, and they are a continuation of the futile behavior and fruitless policies of a camp that no longer has control over its own decisions,” Fneish added.
In remarks published Wednesday, al-Faisal warned that “Lebanon is on the brink of civil war as Hizbullah continues to implement its own agenda without giving any consideration to law and order.”
The party “is willing to risk the foundations on which the entire Lebanese political system was built in order to prevent the collapse of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and impede the work of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon that is probing the assassination of former premier Rafik Hariri,” al-Faisal said in a lecture he delivered at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington.
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