Geagea: Hasan's Murder Brings Hizbullah Closer to Taking over Lebanon
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed that his party will go ahead with pressuring Prime Minister Najib Miqati to resign “no matter what the cost,” reported An Nahar daily on Sunday.
He told reporters: “The assassination of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau head Brigadier General Wissam al-Hasan brings Hizbullah one step closer to taking over the state.”
“The resignation of the premier is the only way to topple the cabinet,” he added.
Hasan was killed on October 19 in a car bomb in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh district.
The March 14-led opposition and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat blamed Syria for the crime.
The opposition has been demanding the government, which is dominated by pro-Syria forces to resign, in the wake of the assassination.
“The other camp resorts to violence from time to time in order to impose a new reality in the country and change the political game in Lebanon,” continued Geagea.
“It then returns to calling for stability and stressing the need for averting strife as if nothing happened,” he remarked.
“We decided to react in a manner that demonstrates that there will be a price to their actions,” he stated.
He accused Hizbullah and Syria of being involved in Hasan's murder, added: “We are not targeting Miqati personally. We are targeting him because he is the head of a government that includes members whom we believe are responsible for murder.”
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