Charbel Launches NYE Security Plan: Country Going Through Difficult but Not Dangerous Period
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Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel on Tuesday announced that the country is going through “a difficult but not dangerous period,” urging citizens to avoid celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve.
“There's no doubt that we're going through a difficult period, but it's not dangerous, and there are indications that dialogue will be held in the new year so that we form a new cabinet and start building the state and its institutions,” Charbel reassured, as he launched a security plan for the NYE from the Dbaye barracks.
“We thank security forces and all those who will spend the night in the streets” to preserve public safety, Charbel said.
“We wish you a night free of any security incidents and we hope no one will drive while drunk,” he added.
The minister called on everyone not to shoot in the air to celebrate the coming of the new year, warning that “the bullets might hit their relatives, friends or innocent passersby.”
“Anyone who opens fire will be arrested,” he noted.
“We thank the army which is coordinating with the security agencies,” said Charbel.
Lebanon witnessed numerous security incidents that are linked to the Syrian crisis in 2013, the last of which was the assassination of former minister Mohammed Shatah in a powerful bombing in downtown Beirut on December 27.
Throughout the year, deadly bombings also rocked Beirut's southern suburbs and the northern city of Tripoli.
31 December 2013, 19:13
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I agree with Charbel. Despite all the events, the situation in lebanon is relatively calm.
Who would have beleived that our big neighbor and bully, Syria can be in the throes of the biggest civil war of the 21st century while life in lebanon can manage to stay quasi normal?. For those who like to see the glass half empty, keep on ranting and dwell in your negativism. I personally back Charbel on his optimism.
31 December 2013, 18:15
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Difficult but not dangerous period?
Is this guy for real or what??
He is the interior minister?
Pity Lebanon
Pity Lebanese
31 December 2013, 18:31
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I wish all of u for 2014 a year without m8/fpm/ha/Syrian terrorismo. A government without any of them. Happy new year todos!
31 December 2013, 18:42
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I definitely would disagree with Charbel on this one. Lebanon is on the brink of catastrophe, mostly thanks to Saudi agenda.
Im assuming primesuspect will be celebrating new years alone again this year.
31 December 2013, 19:16
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anonymetexasusa new years resolution list:
-stop being racist
-start making sense
-try to un-brainwash my brain
-try harder to be funnier cuz im clearly failing
-keep trying to hide the fact that Im secretly a supporter of Israeli/Saudi project in the region.
-move out of my parents house
31 December 2013, 20:40
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Texas, dont stoop so low and answer this bill character. I mean look at his ugly avatar! Look at his negative post...
You in Lebanon? or in the US?
31 December 2013, 19:17
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anonymetexasusa new years resolution list:
-stop being racist
-start making sense
-try to un-brainwash my brain
-try harder to be funnier cuz im clearly failing
-keep trying to hide the fact that Im secretly a supporter of Israeli/Saudi project in the region.
-move out of my parents house
01 January 2014, 06:36
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Thanks to charbel's peer aoun for supporting the militia that invited the Israeli evil in 2006 by kidnapping their soldiers to start unnecessary destruction + 2000 innocent lives, then again in 2013 interfered in Syria's affair to bring us bombs and insecurity as well as more deaths to innocent Lebanese citizens.
The army is capable to hit the Fed up people recently formed such as assir but we need them to purify the southern suburbs from the Iranian Syrian agents such as Eid, Iranian embassy unarmed killers, all leadership that undermine the state disassociation policy and pledge allegiance first to the foreigners before their own state.
01 January 2014, 06:48
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@texas, I understand where ur coming from, but that's not a fair statement. I know ha supporters that can drink both of us under the table! U have to understand, right now in Lebanon, almost the entire Shia population is pro nasrallah/hizballah. Poor or rich, I have shi3i friends from gymazi to dahyi that are regular lebanese ppl, only they idolize nasrallah. He's seen as a symbol of Shia strength, and comming up from the bottom. A lot of the posters here are propagandists, and when they say "ha supporters" they just mean the Shia as a whole. Cause really that's what it is. The idea that Shia and ha are two separate things in Lebanon, is false.
01 January 2014, 07:00
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I wish ppl only knew how inefficient and corrupt the cops are out here
