Al-Rahi: State Should Assign Security Duties to Official Authorities
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi hoped on Sunday that the state would bolster trust in the armed forces.
He said during the Christmas mass that was held at Bkirki: “The state should assign all security and defense duties to the political authorities.”
“The state is obligated to guarantee the people’s safety, gather all arms, and limit security duties to the state, which will therefore ensure an arms-free Beirut and arms-free Lebanon,” he noted.
On Monday, Beirut MPs had demanded that the Beirut be stripped of all armed groups in order to avert armed clashes that had erupted in the capital in recent years,
In addition, al-Rahi said that the judicial authority should act independently and away from external meddling.
It should be fortified and protected in order to ensure that all sides are treated equally, he stressed.
“We look forward to justice that can be exacted by brave and honest judges,” said the patriarch.
“No one can obstruct justice or politicize it,” he continued.
Al-Rahi also hoped that amnesty would be granted to Lebanese citizens who were forced to flee to Israel, saying that the Lebanese should all be reunited.
The mass was attended by President Michel Suleiman, Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel, Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, and other officials.
25 December 2011, 13:41
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there is no mistrust in the army. it's just that we can't get weapons for the army from usa and europe and former PM refused it from iran.
25 December 2011, 17:15
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@Amal supporter: “No one can obstruct justice or politicize it,” he continued.
It means the Army can get weapons from Israel if it's needed for the security of the state.
So do what you are supposed to do and disarm and do not shoot at Hizbollah over a parking dispute but rather handover your weapons to the state authority and call on your cell the local ISF to solve the parking dispute instead. This is what this means.
25 December 2011, 19:51
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habalkamel, did you learn the art of misinformation from the filthy zionist information war department you do it well and your sect is the bee2at al 7adinat of the spies and traitors, groundhog Hassin said so. You forget that the Islamic Revolution in Lebanon and the Syrian occupation were forever against arming the Lebanese army, that president Sleiman called the Iranian bluff on the arms, the MPs Sahili and Fadlallah istead of helping complained when the US sent arms to a Lebanese army short on ammo fighting Fatehelislam, and last but not least that Assteez Nabih had his ass handed to him by Syrian the the Islamic Terrorists in Lebanon when in 2001 from Bkerke he called for the Army to go the the South. Your diploma from the filthy zionist information war department should be on the way you can display it next to to your zionist informer of the year diploma. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
26 December 2011, 17:19
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the filthy zionist information war department is advocating that lebanese army gets weapons from non--existing entity???????
and than some stuipidities from mehdi, not even worth of commenting.
and than shab, who wants militia free, so disarm than
