Al-Rahi: Illegitimate Arms Pose Threat to Army, Security Agencies
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stressed on Sunday that the army guarantees Lebanon's security and sovereignty, while condemning the spread of arms outside the state's authority.
He said during his Sunday sermon: “The illegitimate weapons pose a threat to the army and other security agencies in Lebanon.”
“We demand a defense strategy for Lebanon and an end to the phenomenon of autonomous security,” he added.
Furthermore, he called for unity in Lebanon in order to resolve the crisis over the formation of a new government.
The government should include all powers and be able to revive constitutional institutions, declared al-Rahi.
He condemned officials for stalling in the government formation, saying: “You have no right to tamper with Lebanon's fate and you are violating the nation, its people, and institutions.”
08 September 2013, 11:52
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First among all illegitimate arms are those of the Hizb thugs your Eminence, which have assassinated more lebanese politicians than Israel ever did!
08 September 2013, 11:56
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Ice-man don't be a smart aleck. You know exactly what he means, and most lebanese would agree.
08 September 2013, 12:47
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@fpm, it speaks for itself I think; "Al-Rahi: We demand a defense strategy for Lebanon and an end to the phenomenon of autonomous security. " (live news)
08 September 2013, 13:03
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@fpm - I dunno if ur also being smart, but he means he doesn't want hezb weapons or any other weapons outside the army control, fhemit ya shatir?
08 September 2013, 14:58
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Al Raï's ambiguity is bad. He's playing it's words instead of being straightforward.
09 September 2013, 01:28
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He meant defense strategy and confining arms to the LAF only. It is difficult to have a defense strategy with LAF out-manned and out-armed by everyone,. and when HA decides war and peace,.
08 September 2013, 12:01
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Absolutely ice-man! The very same person who claims his support for institutions demands a defense strategy thus undermining the army and its role! Show me one country, one banana republic, one outlaw state that has an army and an armed militia claiming to defend the country. Then he talks about illegal arms without ever naming them. What defense strategy? Israel is minding its own business after 1701 and has repeatedly called for peace with Lebanon. Who is attacking us? I see HA waging war in Syria and nothing else.
08 September 2013, 12:17
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God bless Al Rahi for dropping hammers on the February 14 Saudi-Wahabi terrorist coalition.
08 September 2013, 15:35
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If the arms were legal, the government would be able to check them, validate them, use them, detroy them, whatever the government (= the representative of the people) wants or needs to do.
If the resistance doesn't answer to us, then this resistance isn't here for us.
Va jouer gamin now.
08 September 2013, 20:50
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al rahi is a politician for the most part....he could have said including the weapons of the resistance .....but he does't ....because he is biased and I am ashamed that he was elected...he surely does not represent me....
08 September 2013, 22:23
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stop calling hizb iran a 'resistance'--there are no Lebanese lands to liberate, so therefore they don't have a real raison d'être. They just look for excuses to keep their iranian weapons in their hands to do iran's bidding.
09 September 2013, 06:54
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ice-man. Cardinal Beshara Al-Rahi, should leave the business of running a country to those who are qualified to run a country, and leave the business of forming armies to those whose business it is to train armies and wage wars. Having said that, the Cardinal surely is praying to the one true God brought closer to us by his Son, Jesus. Who are those Ayatollahs in Ian praying to? Not God when they have invested and spend billions of dollars and their souls towards building nuclear power capable of killing millions in one blast.
09 September 2013, 10:56
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"acoording to the hariri rule"
let us rfresh your memory.... it was the SYRIAN rule "of over 20 years ... do not twist facts...
hezbis are not needed in a democracy apart if you praise dictatorships à la syrienne, syrian boot licker....
