LF: Real Vacuum is Current Situation that is Burdened with Assassinations
The Lebanese Forces parliamentary bloc on Monday stressed that the bomb attack that killed Intelligence Bureau chief Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan and three other people “requires rejecting the conventional approaches” towards such incidents.
In a statement issued after an emergency meeting in Maarab headed by LF leader Samir Geagea, the bloc said “the call for speeding up investigations into this crime is an approach that did not solve the mystery of any of the previous bombings, knowing that the martyr Major General was the one behind unveiling some of the plots that others sought to conceal.”
The bloc voiced support for “the measures taken by the army to restore security,” after al-Hasan's assassination sparked deadly clashes in Tripoli and Beirut.
The conferees also stressed that the bombing “requires the immediate resignation of the government and the restructuring of the executive power in a manner that fills the scandalous security and judicial gaps and reassures the Lebanese.”
Addressing the issue of concerns of possible political vacuum in the country should the current government resign, the LF bloc said “the real and more dangerous vacuum is the current situation that is burdened with assassinations and assassination attempts … in addition to the dangerous security phenomenons, chaos and hegemony over the state.”
“The presence of 30 ministers around the cabinet table does not mean that there is a responsible government,” the bloc added.
It noted that there cannot be a “government of unity between the murderer and the victim.”
The LF bloc also announced that it will boycott any national dialogue and parliamentary meeting until a new government is formed.
23 October 2012, 03:08
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Can someone please tell Geagea that he has not said one single thing that turned out to be true? NOT ONE FRIGGIN THING, not even one friggin action that ever took was "honorably" successful. And when fighting the Syrian occupiers was a disaster, he chose to show his machismo by collaborating with them against balado and ebn balado, after which he spent 11 precious years underground, frequented by rats and cockroaches, only to emerge afterwards dumber and a bigger waste and failure than he ever was! For Christ's sake ENOUGH ALREADY! Only then I would gladly salute the waste and failure.
23 October 2012, 04:42
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Relax... labelling people by their religion is a mistake you shouldn't do. A Druze, a jew, a muslim, a Christian etc. shoo hayda? Label them according to their political affiliation fine but not by their religion.
23 October 2012, 06:52
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Why don't the ministers of m14 and jumblatt resign and collapse the government and then form their own government like before, and without hezbollah. If they are not needed for the parliament vote, why are they needed in the government?
Hezbollah is the only enemy of the state. It's so clear. Why is there anymore discussion?
23 October 2012, 10:27
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m14 is not in the government.
M14 is not trying to wage a war against anyone, rather a war is waged daily on them and now they are saying enough.
if refusing to be killed daily is waging a war , then ... )
some people try to twist reality to an extent they show us how delusional they are.
23 October 2012, 11:24
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i wander if all the murders to date were from the m8 camp what the result to lebanon would be? Flame you and your kind are very redundant , and the day is closing fast.
23 October 2012, 09:28
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this guy is willing to loose the country in order to fulfill his selfishness. I was very impressed by jumblat stand, eventhough I never cared for the guy, he made his decision based on the people of lebanon. While the other kid saad, also didn’t think except for the resignation of the government. The interesting thing is when the west told them both to shut up because the government is staying!!
23 October 2012, 10:25
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"Long live freedom and democracy"
Freedom is when a country is not under the dominance of foreign countries like ours is now: we are under the syrian regime and the iranians rule of no law.
democracy is absolutely not what we have these days :)
so yes I agree with your statement but in its real context.
23 October 2012, 10:26
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it's a pattern of lawlessness and ineffectiveness that you are missing. remember the kidnappings that happened before this, weekly or biweekly closings of the airport road, cannabis growers staging protests, electricity issues, daily burned tires because of the electricity issue--by any means, this has been the least effect cabinet in the history of this country, despite being so one sided. Nothing gets done and they are really good at getting in their own way.
23 October 2012, 11:10
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Flame once again you drag us back in time, and neglect to face the reality that is present day lebanon. You may seem to think one assassination or in his case more than one, doesn't really matter but if your government cannot provide absolute security against such acts to it's people it has then failed it's most fundimental responsibility. Oh that's right we are too busy fighting the israeli ghosts that keep attacking us.. Why do we still have armed grous in Lebanon, this government has been in power long enough to dissarm most surely? what have they done on the electricity bill? public health? living standards? social and agedcare? etc etc.. they over through the previous government after renderring it ineffective now with a majority they are branded the most useless govt in history.
23 October 2012, 11:19
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ashrafieh, i think what lebanon lacked post war was a reconciliation to enable everyone to move forward. instead we were all told that's it , it is all over now go along and live your lives. After wwII germany had a reconcilation and managed to pick itself out of the mess it was in and get on with life. the Berlin wall came down and same thing there. We however were robbed of this right and till today we see the results of this. All sides committed atrocities which ever way you turn it. but we cannot look back everytime we want to move forward, we must take a stand on where we want to be and act accordingly. unfortunately FT and co who cannot look forward enough past their own noses or aren't told to do so keep taking us back to a time in our history not we are particulary proud of, but we must now choose which side is looking forward and which keeps looking back.
23 October 2012, 11:21
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thanks karim, you didn't give me the chance to scroll down enough to read your hot air before i wrote my post but you have illustrated my point perfectly.
