Mouawad Condemns Ruwais Bombing, Slams March 14 Alliance's Carelessness
Head of the Independence Movement Michel Mouawad denounced on Sunday the “terrorist attack that targeted innocent Lebanese citizens in Beirut's southern suburbs,” pointing out that “targeting any Lebanese target all Lebanon.”
“Those who died in Ruwais, Qusayr, Homs and Aleppo have sacrificed their lives in favor of schemes that have nothing to do with Lebanon or its interests,” Mouawad said during a dinner banquet in Ehden Country Club.
Twenty-seven people were killed and more than 336 others wounded on Thursday afternoon in a powerful car bombing that went off between Beirut's southern suburbs neighborhood of Ruwais.
The official also condemned the celebratory gunfire at some areas after the Ruwais blast, stressing that “Hizbullah fault was that it distributed Baqlawa after the Syrian town of Qusayr fell in the regime's control.”
“We have reached a conclusion that intervening in Syria under the pretext of safeguarding Lebanon from Takfiris is a delusion,” Mouawad added.
Hizbullah is a key supporter of President Bashar Assad and has sent fighters across the border to Syria this year to bolster government forces, which have been battling a deadly anti-regime revolt since March 2011.
Lebanon is deeply divided into supporters and opponents of the regime in neighboring Syria and the conflict now in its third year has stoked sectarian tensions and violence in the country.
He noted that the Lebanese should confront the “Iranian-Hizbullah project” in Lebanon by supporting the state and uniting their ranks.
Mouawad called on the March 14 alliance to have a clear plan, saying that he opposes the coalition when “it weakens, contradict itself and haggles.”
He also called on the state to operate the Qlaiaat airport in the North.
“It's a strategic demand to Lebanon and the North,” he added.
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