Suleiman Criticizes Monday's Syria Raids on Arsal
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
President Michel Suleiman on Tuesday criticized Syria for a cross-border raid that he said targeted an ambulance in the Bekaa town of Arsal, causing no injuries.
Local officials said the attack was carried out on Monday night by Syrian war planes that fired at an area in the Arsal region, which has regularly been targeted by cross-border strikes.
In a statement, Suleiman said "an ambulance was targeted by Syrian rockets" and called for humanitarian bodies to be protected from "conflict and hostilities".
Local officials confirmed the attack.
"Syrian war planes targeted an ambulance in the Wadi Hmayyed area in Arsal's barren mountain, but there were no injuries," an official told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.
A security source said war planes had fired five rockets in the attack.
The Arsal area is broadly supportive of the Sunni-dominated uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The mountainous area has long been a smuggling haven, with multiple routes into Syria that have been used since the conflict began in March 2011 to transport weapons and fighters.
08 October 2013, 15:27
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Where is the complaint to the UN Security Council on this cross-border raid.
08 October 2013, 15:39
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Mansoor did not get instructions from Syria in this regard... Lebanese instructions do not matter to him..
08 October 2013, 18:43
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"Lebanon needs to beef up its army in order to retaliate to any hostile acts from either neighbor. "
that is why hezbi should give up their arsenal to the army, go under it's sole command, train lebanese soldiers to the techniques they acquired... thus lebanon would have a strong army led by the nation only!
but hezbis cannot accept that, they cannot accept that the army gets strong, it is bad for their business!
08 October 2013, 18:58
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LOL!!! what a stupid answer... who is talking shia apart you sectarian boy?
i am talking of a political party outside the laws of lebanon....
but your answer is so ridiculous i won't even go on discussing with such a fool...
08 October 2013, 15:36
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Perhaps it's time for the Lebanese army to shoot down one of these helicopters.
08 October 2013, 16:12
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so Sleiman instead of criticizing why don't you summon the Ambassador of Syria in Lebanon and give me him a warning that if such action will happen again all diplomatic channels will be canceled and he will be a Persona Non Grata on Lebanese soil. Because the President has the authority to do that individually if he wishes without any consultation.
08 October 2013, 17:57
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"A security source said war planes had fired five rockets in the attack."
if israel carried out the raid you would have seen M8ers bark ... but here? no one to criticize the fact that a foreign army bombs once again lebanon... true, they won't say a thing as it is not on a hezbi village! so they are not lebanese!
i guess they are going to thank syria once more for the bombings they do on lebanese villages ...
08 October 2013, 18:38
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The roar: and who told you that the absolute majority of Muslims don't frown upon the marriage of minors. I'm not sure what Muslims your hanging out with, perhaps its time for you to stop hanging out at centrelink and upgrade your social circle.
and who told you that my sect is muslim, a very stupid assumption for someone who is giving advice on signing papers
08 October 2013, 19:00
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by the way the same applies to shia as you seem to forget they are muslims too! LOL
08 October 2013, 19:11
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oh! shia are not muslims? they do not follow the koran which says that girls can be married when they get to puberty? LOL
thank you for the scoop the roar so shia are not muslims! LOL
08 October 2013, 19:06
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Guys the Amish who are christians marry minors, a lot of cultures still do it. That doesn't mean that we can generalise like that. Just because the roar is a racist bigot, that doesn't mean his stupidity and all swooping statements should be tolerated. If it makes you sleep better, have it your way, all Muslims love 8 year olds, there you discovered gun powder. Happy now.
08 October 2013, 20:56
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Roar. In fairness to my sunni brothers in Lebanon. Marrying off an 8 year girl is not something you would really ever see in Lebanon. There are many sunnis that are disgusted by such a practice especially under the pretext that it is permissible under Islam. The sick wahabism ideology is poisoning the great religion of Islam. I am sure you probably don't have much issue with muslims in Malaysia or Indonesia. I would agree though that Muslim leaders need to regroup and help restore the image of muslims around the world. I would also like to add that the west could use a little looking in the mirror as well. It is very common there for girls in the west to engage in sex at the age of 12 or 13, often with multiple partners and sometimes with the knowledge of the parents. There doesn't seem to be an uproar about this, pardon the pun, in the west.
08 October 2013, 22:28
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sure the roar... the very fact that you try to generalize on all sunnis this filthy practice makes you not worth any respect...especially trying to hint that sunnis in lebanon are just a filthy sect shows what you M8ers believe and the brainwashing you have undergone... you bring no facts just propaganda to scare people, like any facist-like party will do! M8's new policy is to scare people, try and persuade that all sunnis in lebanon are qaeda, terrorists and saudis! your lies are so big that only you sheep believe it!
learn your history, you are just repeating it! LOL
that was my point....
08 October 2013, 23:12
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Peace, you just generalized all M8. Is that fair of you, you didn't exactly see me agreeing with the_roar, did you.
