Miqati Confirms Discovery of Cell Planning Attacks on Army
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Prime Minister Najib Miqati confirmed on Monday that the Lebanese army had busted a cell within its ranks planning attacks on military barracks.
In remarks to reporters at the Grand Serail, Miqati said: “The Lebanese army uncovered a terrorist cell that was planning an attack on its barracks and is carrying out the necessary investigation.”
He said the cell is active in northern Lebanon with branches in the Palestinian camps and mainly in Ain al-Hilweh. “But it has nothing to do with the situation in Syria.”
His confirmation came after al-Akhbar daily reported that the army arrested two Salafist soldiers linked to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades allied with the al-Qaida terrorist network.
The men are reportedly part of a larger network consisting of four Lebanese and one Palestinian identified as Abu Mohammed Toufiq Taha who is the Brigades’ ringleader in Ain el-Hilweh and wanted on several charges.
While Taha is on the run, the other six were arrested by the army intelligence, al-Akhbar said.
Miqati also stressed that he rejects “any history book that doesn’t receive the consensus of all the Lebanese.”
“Any country that doesn’t have a history has no future,” he said.
At least 10 people were injured on Sunday when Phalange and National Liberal Party youth protestors clashed with security forces during a rally against a new history curriculum near the Grand Serail.
The protestors and other Christian parties have rejected the curriculum, saying it omits key events in the country’s past, including several incidents that took place during the 1975-1990 civil war and the Cedar Revolution of 2005 that drove Syrian forces out of Lebanon after the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri.
Asked about the appointments of civil servants to top posts in state institutions, the prime minister told the journalists that Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has exerted strong efforts to resolve the controversial issue.
He hoped that al-Rahi’s mediation would lead to positive results.
As Safir daily said Monday that the appointments of civil servants in state posts remained a point of contention between President Michel Suleiman and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun.
The appointment of the head of the Higher Judicial Council hasn’t been sorted out as the two leaders hold onto the names they proposed, the daily said.
12 March 2012, 14:25
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closure of the 12 palestinian camps shouldve been done long time ago
always big sparks comes from these camps , just shut them down and send the innocent refugees to an arab country that is rich enough to cater for them
12 March 2012, 19:28
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That wont solve the problem as crimes take place all over lebanon. In this case only one guy was from the refugee camp, the rest were all lebanese, shall we shut down the poor areas as well? The army can enter the north freely, yet still terror cells exist there. I think we need to see this as a problem but without secterianism and racism. The lebanese army has been attacked by all sects/groups at one time or the other yet it prevailed each time.
12 March 2012, 15:05
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I think Bashar sent them to divert attention from Syria. He is trying to finish what he started in the camp of Naher el Bared.
12 March 2012, 18:34
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Mowaten
Chaker el Absi was in Syrian prison for committing terrorist acts on Syrian soil and was release 2 years later while Albert Kilo a journalist was inprisoned for 10 years just because he wrote an article critisizing the regime.
So Syrian regime released a condemned terrorist only 2 years after his capture - who then immeadiatly goes to a Palestinian camp in Lebanon and became part of a Pro-Syrian Palestinian faction, before splitting that faction into a separate cell called Fath El Islam. If all that doesn't indicate a Syrian implication then i seriously doubt if you have any logic.
12 March 2012, 15:05
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Anyone who dares traget the Lebanese Army should be struck down.
I can't resist but notice how easily the ring-leader sacrfices his stooges. Ring-leaders always find a way to get away while leaving his stooges behind to get caught or killed. Haven't these stooges learned by now that these fanatic leaders have no remores at sacrificing morons who follow them, while they flee with the goodies to enjoy a lavish life and forget about the "Cause" that they had their stooges sacrifice their life for.
12 March 2012, 15:10
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Am glad that we have a strong unified army that protects democracy in our country...I wish all arab worlds have the same, not armies to protect their own chairs.
They don't let us move them out because they need them so to keep trouble in our land that they can trigger anytime they want...but this time we have TIGERS rulling to prevent this from happening
12 March 2012, 16:11
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if you are referring to that tiger who ran in a woman's dress leaving his family behind, and leaving his officers and soldiers be slaughtered at the very hands of the ones he is licking their boots now, then you can keep him :)
12 March 2012, 17:04
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Have you been there when this event happened apparently you know details!?
I bet if he licked once he would have been president long time ago...However this part will leave it to the professionals that their history is full of it n not just. :)
12 March 2012, 15:49
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How interesting...
I think we have a fanatic salafist in our midst...he disliked all our comments
12 March 2012, 16:09
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Ya Mowaten: What a PARADOX you mentioned: Fath el islam funded by Hariri and Hassan Nasrallah warned that attacking the Camp is a RED LINE ;)
12 March 2012, 16:19
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Now he confirms what the minister of defense has been saying since few months now, let`s see what they will do about these terrorists...
once and for all, these palestinian camps must be organized, under the army`s control, like in jordan and syria, thye can have militant groups but their arms must be under the control of the lebanese government. but wait a minute, it`s not about they aren`t able to do that, but politically who will be then armed against the shiaa? that's the only reason palestinian camps are still out of the lebanese gov control..
12 March 2012, 17:30
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Those Salafists are probably sent by the Syrian regime to scare the Lebanese into believeing that Assad is the only one capable of preventing them from taking over.
Lebanon has no "Nursing environment" for extremism especially the salafism. The only one's to benefit from salafism in lebanon are hezbollah and the syrian regime who both claim to have the necessary power to confront them.
12 March 2012, 17:33
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Michel Aoun September 12, 2002: There are about 11 organizations of terrorism in Damascus. Among them, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Democratic Front and the General Command Front, all of them are listed in the United States as classified as terrorist organizations... since Lebanon was occupied by Syria, they extended the base of their terror operations to Lebanon, and they are stationed in Syria, but they act from the Lebanese territory... That's what we call in military terminology "indirect strategy." You make a problem and then you come to solve it.
12 March 2012, 17:39
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A convicted terrorist is released early from a prison in Syria, next we find him a leader of a new group controlling a pro-Syrian Palestinian faction in a pro-Syrian Palestinian camp...
12 March 2012, 17:40
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He's a masochist... But from time to time he relay information that contradicts his principles in order to be rewarded with positive votes. What a sad man....
12 March 2012, 17:41
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Salarfists and Hezbollah terrorists should be target practice for the army.
13 March 2012, 04:24
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I do not think they work for Syria but I think the Syrian regime uses them when convenient to destabilize and weaken anti-Syrian Governments in Lebanon. They are a tool of convenience and they are able to do it because the Syrian regime has mastered this art over five decades.
13 March 2012, 04:27
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I hope so, and along with them hand those who downed their helicopter in the South. Two birds with one stone and Lebanon will be twice as nice.
13 March 2012, 13:58
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Do not confuse Salafists & Hezbollah, they are almost opposite. Not to mention,Hezbollah is Lebanese.
