Army Arrests Several over Celebratory Gunfire in Jabal Mohsen
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The Lebanese army staged raids in Tripoli’s neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen over celebratory gunfire after an attempted coup in Turkey, the Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported Saturday.
The army arrested several individuals who opened fire into the air in celebration after media reports said that the Turkish military had assumed power over Turkey.
A Turkish army faction backed by tanks and fighter jets launched a coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that appeared to be faltering on Saturday.
Turkey's acting army chief, General Umit Dundar, said late Saturday morning that the coup attempt had been foiled.
Alawite residents of Jabal Mohsen have been in conflict with the Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood since the Lebanese Civil War and have often engaged in violence.
They are divided along sectarian lines, as well as by their opposition or support of the Alawite-led Syrian government.
Violence flared up during the Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon, but a security plan that was put into effect in 2014 was able to restore calm.
Syrian President Bashar Assad accused Erdogan of supporting jihadists fighting in Syria and of facilitating their movement across the Turkish border into Syria.
16 July 2016, 13:48
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How about using the army for more important matters such as arresting nassrallah and putting him on trial for treason.
16 July 2016, 21:23
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Celebratory gunfire is not allowed and these primitive people must be arrested to be able to understand.
17 July 2016, 19:16
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Do you know who provided weapons to those people?
Tell me which country in the world uses gun fire in celebrations, are these weapons being used against the Israeli enemy as you claim? Or anyone who opposes your ideology gets a car bomb or assisinated or attacked by those weapons, which in turn creates an automatic "for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction". You used these weapon to attack assir community then he fell in the trick to counterattack you at which point you called the army to help you.
Iranian money and arms must stop if you want to live in this country peacefully, otherwise you are no different than the Israelis living in fear all your life.
