Salam: We Welcome any Unconditional Military Aid to Lebanon

W460

Prime Minister Tammam Salam stressed that the army is capable of confronting the terrorist groups that are seeking to destabilize Lebanon, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.

He told the daily: “Our army and security forces are waging a war against terrorism and Lebanon's enemies, starting with Israel and we therefore welcome any unconditional military and security aid, even from Iran and any other country.”

He said that he has no fears of the emergence of divisions among the army, saying that the Military Command is performing its duties “ to the utmost and it is unifying ranks.”

“We have not sensed anything to indicate otherwise,” added the premier.

Furthermore, Salam said that “there is nothing preventing the army from entering the northeastern border town of Arsal”, whose outskirts frequently witness clashes with extremist groups from Syria.

The prime minister noted however that the presence of the residents of Arsal is a deterrent for the army to enter the town “because such a step will incur a heavy price.”

The army is instead “doing all it can” to confront the extremist groups on the outskirts of the town, in spite the presence of 120,000 Syrian refugees and 35,000 Lebanese Arsal residents.

“The military will continue with this daily duty as long as the terrorist groups are determined to keep the border situation unstable,” Salam declared.

On Wednesday the army carried out a preemptive attack on militants taking the Lebanese-Syrian border as a refuge, killing six Islamic State militants and arresting 16 others in its biggest operation against the extremist group on the outskirts of Arsal.

The arrested suspects told investigators that the terrorists were plotting an attack on the army similar to the 2014 assault that left scores of policemen and troops dead and injured in Arsal.

Comments 3
Thumb Mystic 07 February 2016, 18:33

Entering Arsal is a great option, to stabilize Lebanon. We must rid it off your takfiris trying to claim their caliphate here.

Your plans must be destroyed at all cost.

Default-user-icon cedrus (Guest) 09 February 2016, 11:05

Sure ya Mystic.
After Ersal, Lebanon should take back another non legal zone called Dahieh

Default-user-icon Ahmad Jomaa (Guest) 09 February 2016, 14:21

Salaam bro, we must get rid of them terrorists, your one of me man lets go braddahh!!!!!