Loyalty to Resistance Accuses March 14 of 'Partnership with Terrorists'
Hizbullah on Thursday noted that the March 14 coalition has become in the same political camp with the “terrorists” who are waging an “aggression against Lebanon.”
“The twin attacks on the army (in Sidon) is a dangerous terrorist development whose execution was based on the March 14 camp's endorsement of terrorists,” the party's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc said after its weekly meeting, in a statement recited by MP Hasan Fadlallah.
“The March 14 camp's cheap political exploitation of the terrorist aggression against Lebanon – one time through finding extenuating reasons and another by justifying their acts – puts this camp in the position of partnership with the terrorists,” the bloc added.
It noted that “the stances of nominal condemnation of the attack on the army do not demonstrate clear intentions" towards the military institution, adding that “it has become necessary to endorse a plan to 'dissociate the country' from terrorism.”
“Hizbullah, which is confronting the takfiri terror, realized at an early stage the threat it poses to Lebanon, and had it not done that, the waves of car bomb attacks would have been much more than they are today,” the bloc went on to say.
The army had announced that a soldier was killed and three others were wounded in twin attacks involving a suicide bomber on two of its checkpoints in Sidon, which coincided with an incident in which a Lebanese soldier shot dead an Israeli soldier on the border near Naqoura.
In the wake of the attacks, the March 14 general-secretariat said “there is a substantive relation between the attacks on the Lebanese army in al-Awwali, Majdelyoun and Hermel and the very ambiguous Naqoura incident.” Meanwhile, Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea and MP Sami Gemayel blamed Hizbullah for “bringing the takfiris” to Lebanon.
“Those who are insisting that confronting the attacks is the reason behind their occurrence are settling political scores with Hizbullah at the expense of Lebanon,” Loyalty to Resistance said in its statement.
“These are the same parties that used to say that Hizbullah was the reason behind Israel's attacks but it turned out that resistance is the best choice to kick out the Zionist occupiers,” it added.
The bloc called on the March 14 forces to “draw lessons from their futile bet on the takfiri groups in Syria,” asking them to end their “obstinacy.”
Separately, Loyalty to Resistance reiterated its call for President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam to “form a cabinet that can rescue the country according to the 9-9-6 formula, which is certainly the only safe exit to avoid vacuum in the presidency of the republic.”
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