Hariri Slams Al-Nusra Front Threats, Calls on Lebanese Not to Take Part in Regional War
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Former Prime Minister and head of al-Mustaqbal movement Saad Hariri warned on Saturday the Lebanese in general and the Sunni sect in particular from supporting fishy calls that urge them to involve the country in rejected and condemned wars.
“The Lebanese and the Sunni sect reject to be part of any war in Lebanon or the region between Hizbullah and al-Qaida,” Hariri said in a statement issued by his press office.
He stressed that “they also reject threats to target civilians in any region in Lebanon amid a demented war (in the region) and its dangerous repercussions on the the national and Islamic unity.”
Hariri's statement comes a day after a group suspected of links to al-Qaida warned that all areas of Lebanon where Hizbullah operates are "legitimate targets" for attack, telling Sunnis to avoid them.
"We, al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, announce that Iran's party (Hizbullah) and all its bases and... bastions are legitimate targets for us, wherever they are," the group said in a statement posted on the Internet.
Al-Mustaqbal chief said that “suspicious calls issued by extremist groups that are proven to be directly linked to the murderous regime in Damascus only aim at making the conflict in the neighboring country slip over into Lebanon.”
He accused the extremist groups of “serving the regime similarly to Hizbullah that is defending it in Syria.”
The official noted that “every reasonable and patriot from any sect would reject falling into these calls as much as Hizbullah's involvement in Syria is rejected.”
A-Nusra Front's statement comes three days after the group -- which is believed to be a franchise of the Syrian al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaida linked rebel movement -- claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in Beirut's southern suburbs neighborhood of Haret Hreik that killed four people.
Tuesday's was the sixth in a string if attacks targeting Lebanese areas dominated by Hizbullah since it acknowledged sending fighters into neighboring Syria to support President Bashar Assad.
Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon warned Sunnis against "approaching or residing in or near (Hizbullah's) bases, and (to) avoid gathering around its meeting points."
The group had earlier claimed a deadly car bomb attack in the heart of Hermel town in eastern Lebanon, which killed three people.
While Hizbullah is said to the target of such attacks, they have regularly killed civilians.
The war in Syria has inflamed sectarian tensions in Lebanon, with Hizbullah backing Assad's regime and many Sunnis supporting the rebellion against him.
25 January 2014, 13:16
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@mckinl: Didn't your parents teach you not to talk when your mouth is FULL of lies! Shame....
25 January 2014, 13:20
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okok... let me get this straight; the regime is supporting nusra, the regime is also supporting hezbollah, the regime is then using both sides that it supports to fight one another... the regime is sponsoring bombings on hezbollah's supporters as well as supporting hezbollah...
doesnt this stuff have to make sense saado?
25 January 2014, 13:36
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your allegation that i am mowaten is as stupid and baseless as hariri's allegation that HA=Nusra
25 January 2014, 14:15
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Facts:
- the Syrian regime has done what we all know for 30 years.
- the Syrian regime sent us you know who (samaha in case you forgot)
- hizbushaitan has been killing , bombing, ..... us for over 20 years.
- Islamic extremists were freed by the Syrian regime (over 1500)
- naher el bared (hizbushaitan defined it as a red line, and they fled to.... Syria)
-.....
and hizbushaitan is supporting that regime.
is there something wrong in this picture?
25 January 2014, 19:10
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FT - Most Mustaqbal hated Assir as he was undercutting its support in the Sunni community. He was covered by every media outlet in lebanon, and especially those of m8. Future TV gave him very low key covergage while Aljadeed loved to promote him at every point. Having said that, what is coming is much worse than that clown. I said it and I repeat it again: wee either build a strong state with strong army and strong institutions with unity of arms or we are doomed.
25 January 2014, 14:24
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Same do apply to frangieh when he started politics and obviously u didn't knew jebran bassil before the return of the general and before becoming such a great minister...
Ur comments level is going down jocker, are u tired?, feelling bad? Chupachups?...
Anyway u get ur plus one, u r making efforts after all..
25 January 2014, 14:57
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In fact i would follow any politician asking for things i see best for my country, just same as when i used to believe what aoun was telling us and distributing tayyar flyers in the university, patrticipating in sittings so he can go on tv(here again he was not such a brilliant speaker but what he was saying meant something to me)...
Really FT, anyone is free to believe and say what he wants but giving comments like those... man u can do better..
Pas grave, u get ur plus one, now go hv some chupachups
25 January 2014, 15:11
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Who asked hez to go protect me from those? How do u permit urself to descide on my behalf?? I'm borned christian, secular to an extend that i hv a civil mariage and i donnot want hezbollah to decide the fate of my country on my behalf, that's why i go vote...
So please southern stop that crap.
No plus one for u this time, and no chupachups...
25 January 2014, 18:21
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then i guess any other party claiming there are threats against its sect can also do the same as hezbi do and the gvt would have nothing to say! what a brave patriotic stance, no wonder from an M8er....
the north was abandonned and still is by the state so i guess anyone can also put up a militia and do what hezbis do.... stupid antilebanese M8 logic...
25 January 2014, 15:15
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he is such a rookie FT that he basically formed the government we are soon to have and completely cut Aoun il Majnoon out of the process. how does it feel knowing that the only thing standing between your party and complete demise is a parliamentary election to reflect Aoun's current day popularity?
25 January 2014, 15:18
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sure when hariri slams alqaeda it cannot fit M8ers propaganda... they bug! they prefer their convenient lies that he is funding them! LOL simplistic minds cannot see beyond the brainwashing they are submitted to....
25 January 2014, 15:23
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They will say to u: he is lying, u will tell them look fsa fighting el nosra and geting hit by syrian aviation; theywill sayall takfiri
U will tell them just look at hariri's face and look at nassralah's face how they act, how they live, see any difference?; they will say zionist/ksa/imperialist/takfiri...
Well it might be hopless....
But we still will try :)
Plus one to u bro... :)
25 January 2014, 15:18
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Who cares about aoun proudmarch?
I only care about my country and how to live descently in it, aoun,geagea,hariri... Frankly don't really care if their positions are fine and in favor of what i believe.. I use to believe aoun but now since he changed (or i changed not to shok my fellow souni comrads) i support those who i think are right, when hariri will change (aka gov with hezbos while still in syria..) i wont support him anymore...
25 January 2014, 15:19
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that is exactly the problem!!! that hezb believe they can act as if they were the gvt... it does not shock you? who ask them to do that? the gvt wants disassociation...
but it seems that for m8ers the gv tin Lebanon is just something they can spit on when they see fit...tfeh on them!
25 January 2014, 15:40
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As for the realpolitik reality underlining this speech, I believe that the FM and HA have come to an agreement regarding the security and government of Lebanon and it is the following: the FM and its allies will re-take their main role in the government as it was before, and in return the security of the Shia population will enjoy complete political consensus in the form of the 3 billion Saudi grant majority of which will go towards counter-terrorism equipment and efforts.
25 January 2014, 15:42
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I don't think politicians have the room to be idealists, especially those with large support bases ala FM, LF, FPM, HA, etc... but I can understand your POV.
25 January 2014, 19:23
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Thank you Saad. Lebanon needs moderates of all sects to propel it forward and keep it glued together. I know you are taking a risky position, but it is the right position and the path your father charted for the country. Once the Sunni sect follows the HA example for Shia, then we can wave good bye to Lebanon.
25 January 2014, 19:25
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yep, but he needs to be more levelheaded and know what he wants and how. him coming back to leb would give him and m14 a huge push, which they need. but before that i believe he should court the FPM.
25 January 2014, 19:53
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FT Sheikh Saad is more educated than you... I'm in public so I can't open the YT vid but I'm assuming you are making fun of his Arabic...btw half the youth today are starting to speak English, and many Lebanese who live in the GCC speak a Shami mixed dialect...it doesn't mean anything people can have good ideas and be good people even if they aren't Shakespeare-esque articulate.
25 January 2014, 21:15
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Shaker al Absi Brigade deja vu, Nasrallah at the time, Palestinian camps are red line because if they get disarmed then Hizbollah will get disarmed and will have no reason to exist if the palestinians are not carrying weapons.
25 January 2014, 21:31
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Oussama Bin Laden Deja Vu, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, eventually we will get catch you and kill you.
25 January 2014, 21:34
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Imad Mughnieh Deja vu, designer and planner of 1st terrorist acts against the US Embassy and Marines/French Paratroopers + Hijacking planes got his silver coins then eliminated so that the head master is not found, mafia way.
25 January 2014, 21:59
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Shait! Now if this boy gets assassinated with a car bomb for being considered a traitor to the takfiri cause, we'll have another STL implicating HZBLH. Sweet.
26 January 2014, 01:06
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come back to Lebanon than talk. dont talk from abroad as every word you say is incredible and does not count coward.
