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Baabda Sources Brush Off Soaid's Tweet on Assassinations

Sources close to President Michel Aoun have reassured on the security situation in Lebanon, after a tweet by ex-MP Fares Soaid sparked concerns over a possible return to the era of political assassinations.

“The predictions about assassinations are baseless and the president reassures that Lebanon is the most safe country in the Middle East and the world,” the sources told al-Jadeed television.

Soaid had tweeted in the morning that “a return to assassinations and bombings in Lebanon cannot be ruled out.”

“Beware,” Soaid added.

The former lawmaker however told MTV in the evening that his tweet was not based on concrete information but rather on “personal analysis that things in the country are heading towards a bad situation.”

“There is no government and the repercussions of the regional situation will worsen on Lebanon and things might go back to the pre-2005 era,” Soaid added.


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