Geagea: Situation Can Never Turn to Normal under Magical Equation of Army, People, Resistance
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea condemned on Wednesday the attacks against the French unit in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon that took place near Sidon on Tuesday, thanking the French government for all its support for Lebanon.
He noted: “The security situation can never turn to normal as long as there are hundreds of thousands of unofficial security apparatuses.”
“It can never turn to normal under the magical equation of the army, people, and resistance,” he stressed before reporters in Mirab.
Furthermore, Geagea pointed out that the attack against the French troops took place shortly after Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji’s return from France where he held talks with a number of French military officials.
“It is as if someone on the internal scene is trying to say that the Lebanese army will never hold sway in the South,” he added.
“The situation in the county can no longer continue like this,” declared the LF leader.
On Tuesday, Geagea accused the government of seeking to take Lebanon backwards, lamenting that Hizbullah was using the Lebanese to turn its ally Iran into the chief regional power.
“The political and ideological project of Hizbullah is just a service to another project aimed at consolidating the Iranian influence in the Middle East,” he told supporters during a ceremony to launch LF’s web television on Tuesday night.
“What does Lebanon have to do with this project?” he wondered, accusing the Shiite party of using the interests of the Lebanese and their livelihoods to “transform Iran into the chief power in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.”
He said the government is not the least interested in the daily needs of the Lebanese, accusing it of refusing to solve the electricity and water crises, or work on alleviating the public debt, or fight corruption.
The cabinet “is very old” although it is new in terms of its formation and date of birth, the LF leader added.
Separately, Geagea hoped that the newly launched LF Web TV will meet the aspirations of the Lebanese and the Arabs and will contribute to spreading the culture of freedom, democracy and human rights.
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