Suleiman Urges 'Syrian Side' to Stop Shelling Lebanon after Death of 2 Lebanese
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President Michel Suleiman on Sunday urged the “Syrian side” to refrain from opening fire and shelling Lebanon after two Lebanese were killed on the northern border with Syria.
Suleiman “expressed regret” at the death of Lebanese from “military operations near the Lebanese border,” said a statement issued by Baabda palace.
The president reiterated the “importance of commitment to the neutral stance of non-interference in other countries' affairs, mainly Syria.”
He called on the “Syrian side” however “to refrain from opening fire and shelling Lebanese territories.”
The statement said Suleiman held telephone conversations with several officials and asked security agencies to investigate the two deaths.
A man was killed at dawn Sunday by Syrian shells that landed on the town of al-Hishe in the Wadi Khaled area that borders Syria in northern Lebanon, the National News Agency reported Sunday.
NNA identified the man as al-Hishe municipality member Ahmed Shehab. His brother Hani was injured.
Al-Hishe mayor Mohammed Dargham al-Ahmed said the town's residents are angry over the spread of gunmen.
“We call for the deployment of the Lebanese army on the border,” he told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).
The municipal chief of the nearby town of Mashta, Hammoud Naji Ramadan, also said that a house was badly damaged from Syrian artillery fire.
Artillery, mortar fire and automatic weapons were used in battles between Syrian troops and fighters on the Lebanese side of the border overnight Saturday to Sunday, said a senior Lebanese security official.
The violence broke out a few hours after another Lebanese man, Hussein Ismail, 40, was killed by gunfire in the Lebanese area of al-Buqaiaa.
A local Lebanese official told Agence France Presse that some of those involved in the fighting on the Lebanese side were members of the dead man's clan.
The military police launched an investigation into the death of Ismail known as Azou, the army's general command announced late Saturday.
The violence in Syria has increasingly spilled over into Lebanon, with cross-border shellings in the north and east.
24 February 2013, 11:18
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Both parties (rebels or regime) can benefit from getting Lebanon involved. Poor Lebanon.
25 February 2013, 00:04
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La walla shaklak ktir fahmen l ossa int. ya3tik l 3afye khayye you worked hard on your information :p where did you get this? Al Qaida??
24 February 2013, 12:45
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Isn't Hezbollah supposed to defend us? what are their 4O.OOO rockets for then? bunch of wled el 7araam.
24 February 2013, 21:03
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Who says I'm waiting for an Iranian group to defend? What's strange is that HA only shoots back at FSA and not the Syrian Army who've done WAY more damage to Lebanon, double standards for a group claiming to be "Lebanese"
24 February 2013, 15:12
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FT and M8ers here say it does not matter because the syrian army is cleaning lebanon from FSA terrorists... i guess that this won t please them that the president is against their FPM and M8 view points! LOL
24 February 2013, 19:12
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oh!! denying his own self... getting stupider by the day FT...
you always barked when we denounced those shellings saying that syrian are just fighting back FSA rebels taking cover in lebanon, and ma3leh shi!!!
really go and have a check up your neurones are tired....
24 February 2013, 22:00
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yes you said it FPM liar... by excusing syrians and always finding them excuses you are saying ma3leh shi...
you even find it normal that lebanese are targeted from across the border if helping rebels...and never had it shocked you....
pathetic FPM bashar bootlicker
24 February 2013, 19:11
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Maybe that thing calling itself the Resistance should do it's duty... no wait it's too busy defending Shiites living abroad to defend Lebanese actually living in Lebanon. I guess just like the PLO was the Sunni army the Hezbellies is the Shiite army and just like the PLO whiling to sacrifice Lebanon and it's people for their fraudulent cause. Funny how they both were terrorists with illegal arms pretending to be a Resistance, a filthy leader with a soiled rag on his head and a broken compass where South was North.
25 February 2013, 00:09
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@greenie, 1 question.. have you ever considered what the present "defense strategy" that official Lebanon conducts? just food for your brain, whoever you are, and regardless if I believe in it or not.. If you ever thought of actually digging into politics, objectively, you would learn a thing or two that are pre-requisites to all your argumentative political stand-points...
25 February 2013, 13:06
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To all those crying about Hezbollah not "defending" lebanon, where was the rest of lebanon when the south was occupied by the Israelis! You make your own bed that you sleep in !!! Stop complaining..... Far out whinge whinge whinge 3ash tne2o ya wled
