1 Injured as Hizbullah Disperses Crowd Assaulting Charbel
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A man was injured on Tuesday after Hizbullah members opened fire in the air to disperse protesters who assaulted Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel after he inspected the site of a powerful blast in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Charbel was leaving the Bir al-Abed neighborhood along with acting Internal Security Forces chief Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous and accompanying officers when angry residents began pelting him with stones.
TV footage showed several men attacking Charbel as Hizbullah members rushed to cover his head and take him out of the area.
They later opened fire to disperse the men, injuring one of them.
In the evening, state-run National News Agency said Hizbullah MP Ali Ammar telephoned the minister and "thanked him for his solidarity visit to Dahieh and his support for residents."
Ammar also condemned "the spontaneous behavior of some citizens who were in a state of furor."
The caretaker minister earlier condemned the Bir al-Abed explosion that went off in a parking lot near Hizbullah's Islamic Cooperation Center.
He said during his brief tour of the area that it was “an attempt to create Sunni-Shiite strife.”
Speaker Nabih Berri later telephoned Charbel to condemn the assault against him, describing it as an “unjustified fit of rage against an official who shares the people's anger and sorrow.”
“The assault is one of the reasons of the worrisome chaos linked to the current situation in Lebanon,” he remarked.
“All sides should be vigilant of not just conspirators, but barbarians as well,” said the speaker.
09 July 2013, 14:44
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urgent call to our "beloved" leaders:
this is the kind of chaos you get when authority figures dont have any authority and when thugs control the streets!!!
disarm everyone please for the sake of lebanon and its people and reestablish law and order, i dont know how you do it but do it now or you can kiss this country goodbye!!!
09 July 2013, 14:47
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If if werent for your dear Hezbollah, no bomb would have been detonated there in the first Place. And attacking an honorable non-shiah Minister is just what I would have expected from that lot.
09 July 2013, 15:04
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this shows the extremism f the people living there.
they support hizbushaitan to the core, thus they can expect what is coming to them.
09 July 2013, 15:35
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I condemn the M8/M14 Iranian/Saudi lapdogs for using the Lebanese people as pawns in their chess game of murder and mayhem while their masters resolve their difference at the expense of Lebanese people. May God have mercy and ease the suffering of the innocent.
09 July 2013, 20:34
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Wait for the investigation to be over before accusing X Y Z.... It could be anyone behind it. The number one guilty is the army who's to weak to seize all weapons roaming around Lebanon freely. They shouldn't wait for any government's approval, the law is there, the constitution too.... None of them mention that factions are allowed to own deadly weapons.
09 July 2013, 20:32
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Oh my God, ils ont lapidé Charbel! Mort de rire. Want to see the video.... Their own allies are turning against them.... M8 is about to take a serious blow.
09 July 2013, 20:37
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Man, mich ma3'ool, you are so inspired. Naharnet should hire you to write their news reports. ;-)
10 July 2013, 10:13
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Hizbullah Disperses Crowd Assaulting Charbel ?
Quelle Humiliation! Quelle Décadence!
Hizbo's got to END before eating what's left of Lebanon!
10 July 2013, 11:04
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typical cave men .i doubt if Lebanon will ever be a civilized nation.
