Geagea Says Hizbullah are 'Hariri Killers' after Nasrallah's Tayyouneh Remarks

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea snapped back Monday at Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, after the latter said that “anyone who allies with the LF would be allying with the killers of the Tayyouneh ambush martyrs.”

“These remarks are wrong, seeing as all of the Military Court’s preliminary and complementary investigations have so far proven that there was no ambush in Tayyouneh. Unfortunately, Sayyed Nasrallah and his group are the ones who objected against the judge and obstructed the investigation, the same as they did in the port crime. I wish they would let the probe continue in order to unveil all the facts,” Geagea said.

“Sayyed Nasrallah is the person who knows the most about what happened in Tayyouneh, and therefore it is unacceptable to launch arbitrary accusations and to continue to deceive his own popular base,” the LF leader added.

Accusing Nasrallah of “exploiting what happened in Tayyouneh for electoral motives,” Geagea said that “if anyone is responsible for the blood of the young men who were killed in Tayyouneh, it would be the camp who sent them and caused them that incident in which they were killed without any reason.”

Moreover, the LF leader added: “With a very clear conscience, truth and facts, we tell anyone allying with Hizbullah in the upcoming electoral juncture that they are allying with the killers of martyr premier Rafik Hariri, based on the high-level international judicial ruling that has been issued over this crime.”

Geagea also reminded Hizbullah of “all the martyrs of the Cedar Revolution” and “the martyrs of the Beirut port blast crime,” noting that “Hizbullah is still insisting on obstructing the investigations into this blast.”

“Accordingly, it is very important, even if we are currently in the middle of electoral campaigning, to enjoy the least level of objectivity,” the LF leader urged.