Army: Investigations Ongoing to Determine who Fired Baabda Rockets
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The army announced on Friday that two 107 mm rockets were fired in the Baabda area on Thursday.
The Army Command said in a statement: “Investigations are ongoing to determine the sources of the fire and uncover the perpetrators.”
One of the rockets landed in the garden of the Freiha villa that is located near the Officers' Club.
The second rocket landed near the Khashoqji castle in al-Yarzeh.
No one was injured in the incident.
The Freiha villa is located 100 meters from the secondary entrance of the Baabda presidential palace.
There were reports that a third rocket was fired in the attack, but it has not been confirmed.
Media reports said that it hit an area between Baabda and Bshamoun.
The attack came on the same day that President Michel Suleiman gave a speech on the occasion of Army Day in which he criticized Hizbullah's involvement in the Syrian war in support of President Bashar Assad's forces.
In June, a Grad rocket fired from Ballouneh in Kesrouan district exploded after it hit an electricity line in the Monteverde valley.
The army found a second rocket at the launch site.
In May, two rockets hit Beirut's southern suburbs shortly after Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made a speech defending his party's fighting in Syria.
02 August 2013, 12:19
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Naharnet is not saying that 2 syrians and 1 lebanese salafist from Tripoli were arrested for the ballouneh's rockets?
02 August 2013, 18:45
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I say these were sent by the assadist regime to create strife in lebanon.
02 August 2013, 20:34
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I doubt very much HA would resort to launching rockets at b3abda to send a message to the president. HA has demonstrated on more than one occasion that it is perfectly capable of asserting its will and that it is the sole decision maker in Lebanon, thus no need for such shenanigans. In my humble opinion, this is not their handy work and the timing is awfully suspicious. Deductive reasoning leads me to home in on the reasonable assumption that the group who benefits the most from this action is behind it and not likely HA
02 August 2013, 21:50
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Impossible, HA is already unified with the Syrian army of Bashar and the Iranian Republican guards (there is no room for an entity ass weak as the LAF). Their think tank strategy eclipses Lebanon and has no borders ........ it is the shi3a equivalency of Al-Qaeda's Ummah (called welayat elfaqih)
02 August 2013, 23:45
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Of course Hezbollah did this. Things will get worse, until Iran comes to an understanding with the world community on its Nuclear program.
02 August 2013, 23:52
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As a proof, just read the front page of Hezbollah's. paper, Al Akhbar, today. It has the picture of The president and it says: Leave.
The article says that because Suleiman criticised Hezbollah for their Syrian war, any dialogue with him should be stopped and the only way is to eliminate him by telling him "erhall".
03 August 2013, 04:40
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OK, no one is blaming Israel? This is a first. Very said predicament we are in when Iran builds an army within our boarders and subjects the rest of us to hegemony, despotic and tyrannical rule powers of which are concentrated in the hands of H.A., Syria and Iran.
03 August 2013, 05:52
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I doubt very much HA would resort to launching rockets at b3abda to send a message to the president. HA has demonstrated on more than one occasion that it is perfectly capable of asserting its will and that it is the sole decision maker in Lebanon, thus no need for such shenanigans. In my humble opinion, this is not their handy work and the timing is awfully suspicious. Deductive reasoning leads me to home in on the reasonable assumption that the group who benefits the most from this action is behind it and not likely HA.
