Rifaat Eid's Residence Comes Under Fire
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The Arab Democratic Party handed on Wednesday the army intelligence tapes showing the vehicle used by assailants to open fire on the house of Rifaat Eid.
Several unidentified suspects opened fire at Eid's residence in the northern city of Tripoli around midnight Tuesday, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The guards returned fire without causing any casualties, NNA said.
Eid is the politburo chief of the Arab Democratic Party which takes the Jabal Mohsen district of Tripoli as its stronghold.
The neighborhood's residents, who are mainly Alawites from the sect of Syrian President Bashar Assad, have been engaged in several rounds of deadly fighting with gunmen from the district of Bab al-Tabbaneh.
The Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood's residents are Sunni and support the uprising against Assad.
15 January 2014, 10:36
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That goes true for every region and sect in Lebanon... What's your point? There are only two groups above the law in Lebanon, that's what this whole thing comes down to.
15 January 2014, 10:42
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he's just parroting HA and Assad clan arguments.
HA must keep weapons coz of Israel. Assad must keep power coz he's resisting Israel, the takfiris and protecting minorities. Even if it's the other way around...
15 January 2014, 11:26
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retardo habib.. Rifaat Eid is the scum of the earth abusing his poor neighborhood to do whatever bashar asks, funding snipers against bab al tabbaneh residents and blowing up mosques.
No arms in lebanon are justified other than the state institutions "Period"
15 January 2014, 14:15
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Who protected Harriri, Gemayel, hawi,tueni,chidiac,lassie,hajj,and Eid?
Those that were armed and did not turn in their arms to the authorities continued the hostile Syrian hegemony over Lebanon to repeat the same dance of Israel is behind everything that moves on earth and air.
15 January 2014, 14:31
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I agree, to blame Israel for every murder is getting old. Like we don't ever hurt each other. It's all Israel. It's such a pathetic excuse for all of these crimes.
15 January 2014, 14:19
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Who will protect bin laden? If he did not have those guards shooting back? If you continue to be a warlord and did not turn in your arms then feel the consequences since you wish to take matters into your hands and continue to undermine the state.
15 January 2014, 14:31
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hopefully next time it happens eid will be on his front lawn getting a newspaper or something.
15 January 2014, 16:11
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thumbs up from me too ft :) this is the needed spirit.
no one but the state.
15 January 2014, 17:22
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FT, army aren't there to protect them always, ofcourse they can patrol the streets once in a while, but when the fighting really starts to happend, the army retreats.
That happens everytime, so what are the residents of Jabal Mohsen supposed to do? Lay down and let the salafis slit their throats? Ofcourse they defend themselves, and they got every reason to do so.
The day the army can guarantee 100% security in Tripoli, then the residents will drop their weapons, until then. It's just a fantasy
15 January 2014, 17:22
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Army APCs fall back, when they come under fire from Tabbaneh, they use rocket propelled granades, and heavy machine guns. So the soldiers run for their lives, because they do not get the proper orders to shoot back.
16 January 2014, 02:30
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because only sunni and christians are allowed to go to jail. alawites and shia have ashraf el sla7 to protect them.
