Salam Hits Back at Aoun: Our Stance was Not Ambiguous on Captive Servicemen
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Ex-PM Tammam Salam stressed Friday that his stance was “not ambiguous” on the need to liberate the troops and policemen who were nabbed by jihadists during the 2014 clashes, in response to remarks by President Michel Aoun.
“I join my voice to that of the president on the need to clarify all facts, and I call for launching an extensive probe and declassifying the meeting minutes of the cabinet sessions so that the Lebanese, topped by the martyrs' families, can look into them, and so that the fallacies of today do not appear as the facts of yesterday,” Salam said in a statement.
“Our stance in the government of national interest... was not ambiguous at all and was rather clear as the sun on the need to exert efforts to liberate the captive servicemen with all available means, while showing keenness on the lives of the residents of the dear town of Arsal, in order to preserve stability and protect civil peace – in the Bekaa in particular and in Lebanon in general,” the ex-PM added.
He noted that the “ambiguity” that Aoun referred to can be used to “describe the stances and roles of the political forces who obstructed the cycle of life and citizens' interests for around three years, and who today are permitting what they had prohibited in the past, allowing themselves to launch accusations in all directions.”
Salam added: “Lebanese citizens have the right to know who supported negotiations with the terrorist kidnappers and who rejected them. They have the right to know who foiled the efforts that were exerted by the Muslim Scholars Committee and other parties.”
Aoun had on Thursday called on authorities to probe the 2014 abduction of around 30 troops and policemen during clashes that were fought in and around the eastern border town of Arsal.
The president's move came after Lebanon recovered the bodies of nine troops who were kidnapped by IS in 2014 before being eventually executed.
The fate of the soldiers was unveiled as part of a Hizbullah-led ceasefire agreement with IS that followed separate but simultaneous offensives by the Lebanese army and Hizbullah and the Syrian army on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border.
Hizbullah, the Free Patriotic Movement and some of their allies have pinned the blame for the abduction of the servicemen on Tammam Salam's 2014 government, former army chief General Jean Qahwaji and al-Mustaqbal Movement, accusing them of preventing the army from continuing a military operation against IS and al-Nusra Front.
Hizbullah, meanwhile, has been accused of facilitating a smooth withdrawal “in air-conditioned buses” for the IS militants who surrendered during last month's border battles.
08 September 2017, 18:38
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1) “I join my voice to that of the president on the need to clarify all facts, and I call for launching an extensive probe and declassifying the meeting minutes of the cabinet sessions so that the Lebanese, topped by the martyrs' families, can look into them, and so that the fallacies of today do not appear as the facts of yesterday,” Salam said in a statement.
2) the “ambiguity” that Aoun referred to can be used to “describe the stances and roles of the political forces who obstructed the cycle of life and citizens' interests for around three years, and who today are permitting what they had prohibited in the past, allowing themselves to launch accusations in all directions.”
3) “Lebanese citizens have the right to know who supported negotiations with the terrorist kidnappers and who rejected them. They have the right to know who foiled the efforts that were exerted by the Muslim Scholars Committee and other parties.”
08 September 2017, 18:40
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Hizbullah, the Free Patriotic Movement and some of their allies have pinned the blame for the abduction of the servicemen on Tammam Salam's 2014 government, former army chief General Jean Qahwaji and al-Mustaqbal Movement, accusing them of preventing the army from continuing a military operation against IS and al-Nusra Front.
Ok..Ok.... forget these 'traitors', but YOU had the chance last week to continue the military operation against both Nusra and IS but you chose to shuttle them in air conditioned buses.
GTFO!
08 September 2017, 18:50
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Tamam Salam's government was exercising executive powers in the absence of an elected President. As such any and all its decisions had to be taken "Collectively" according to the constitution. Salam's government had both FPM and Hezbollah ministers in it who were as much responsible for the fallacies of today as any other party represented in that government.
End of one Story..... fine Another.
08 September 2017, 19:00
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Yes, Salam is right. Declassify the cabinet minutes of meetings for that period and let the people see who was 'trading' and 'bidding' for the soldiers lives in a bazar.
08 September 2017, 22:26
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Salam added: “Lebanese citizens have the right to know who supported negotiations with the terrorist kidnappers and who rejected them. They have the right to know who foiled the efforts that were exerted by the Muslim Scholars Committee and other parties.”
“العلماء المسلمين”: من عرقل التفاوض بالرصاص والدم وفبركة التهم هو الذي أَمّن فرار القتلة بالباصات المكيفة
https://www.lebanese-forces.com/2017/09/08/oulamaa-mouslimin-2/
08 September 2017, 22:27
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- لقد كان مطلب المسلحين في بداية الأمر إطلاق سراح أحد المعتقلين*، مقابل *إطلاق كل العسكريين وانسحاب المسلحين إلى خارج عرسال، ولكن هذا الطلب قوبل بالرفض من قبل الطرف الذي دونت مواقفه في محاضر مجلس الوزراء.
توقف دور هيئة علماء المسلمين عندما تقاطع موقف حزب إيران الرافض للتفاوض مع موقف داعش الرافض لدور هيئة العلماء، وفي ذلك الوقت تعرضت الهيئة لحملة إعلامية شرسة من الطرفين.
- إن من عرقل التفاوض بالرصاص والدم وفبركة التهم*، بدءًا من استهداف موكب هيئة العلماء وصولاً إلى اغتيال أحمد الفليطي، هو الذي *أَمّن فرار القتلة بالباصات المكيفة.
09 September 2017, 00:29
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Caporal needs to clarify how he run away to French Embassy in 1990 leaving behind him the troops without giving any directives which resulted in the killing of more than 300 soldiers by the Syrians.
A commission must be appointed as long as there are witnesses who are still alive.
