Cautious Calm Prevails in Tripoli after Man Dies in Renewed Unrest
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
There was cautious calm in the northern city of Tripoli on Tuesday after a tense night that left an elderly dead and around five others injured, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Salim Amin al-Ashqar, 75, died after inhaling smoke from shops that were burned by armed men to protest the arrest of a suspect who had appeared alongside singer-turned Salafist Fadel Shaker in a video circulated in the wake of the gunbattles in the southern city of Sidon, NNA said.
Tripoli municipality workers were seen on Tuesday morning removing the debris from Abdul Hamid Karami square and its surroundings after gunmen hurled hand grenades and opened fire in the air in addition to using Rocket Propelled Grenades at night.
The army also carried out patrols and set up checkpoints at several squares and roads in the city on Tuesday, hours after it quelled the armed men and forced them back to the markets area.
The army command said in a communique late Monday that the protest carried out at Abdul Hamid Karami square was accompanied by road closures in Bohsas and an attack on the army base in al-Jemmayzat.
The army responded to the sources of fire and reopened the roads that were blocked with burning tires, it said.
The communique added that the military was pursuing the assailants to arrest them.
02 July 2013, 08:58
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The seditious violence continues ... Time to take the political cover completely off and prosecute the patrons of these attacks on Lebanon's sovereinty.
THE LIST OF ASSIR BACKERS SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC SO THAT THESE PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE, DEATH AND MISERY ARE BROUGHT TO BOOK.
02 July 2013, 14:34
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u want them lynched? is this the kind of justice u seek? because if this is wat u desire, then we'll desire the same and have ur shia thugs hung for killing gemayel and hariri.
02 July 2013, 15:16
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No, the names and affiliations should be known so that the people of Lebanon know who is sponsoring terrorism in their towns cities and country. Let's see once and for all who is behind the violence.
02 July 2013, 16:46
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Wat's the point in knowing? Don't u want justice above all?
Knowing as u say is only useful for electoral purposes.... Who cares about political filth like Aoun, Berri, Jumblatt, Nosrallah, Amin Gemayel, and the others. They all have blood on their hands, yet they're still around today.... Unlike the people they massacred or the people who fought for them but never returned.
Lebanon is a banana republic, and you're a banana.
02 July 2013, 14:33
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Poor lebanon.... the foreign powers are making it bleed once again.
