Zureiqat Urges Tripoli's Militants Not to Fall into 'Trap' of Fighting Army
The spokesman of the Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades on Monday urged Islamist militants in the northern city of Tripoli against “falling into the trap” of fighting the Lebanese army, asking them to instead focus their efforts on confronting Hizbullah.
“The entire army is a malleable tool in the hand of the party (Hizbullah), with which the Sunnis are being killed and arrested,” AAB spokesman Sirajeddine Zureiqat, who is a fugitive Lebanese cleric, said on Twitter.
His remarks come in the wake of recurrent armed attacks against the army in Tripoli and the neighboring northern region of Akkar, where the soldier Milad Mohammed Issa was recently shot dead.
“Hizbullah is the manipulator of the army and other security agencies,” Zureiqat alleged, urging the youths in Tripoli to “strike the head, not the tools.”
“You are being dragged into a battle with the army with which Hizbullah wants to exhaust you – through your blood and the blood of the Sunni members of the army,” the spokesman warned, addressing the militants in northern Lebanon.
“Only the party will emerge intact from such a confrontation,” he said.
He urged the militants “not to repeat the mistakes of the past and to refrain from falling into the recurrent trap.”
“You have the party's posts, checkpoints, supply routes, convoys, leaders and members in front of you throughout Lebanon ... so kill them and take vengeance on those who fought the children of Lebanon and Syria,” Zureiqat added.
Media reports have recently said that the fugitive cleric has been appointed as the “emir” of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, knowing that his role only became known when he claimed responsibility for the double suicide bombing that targeted the Iranian embassy in Beirut on November 19, 2013.
Y.R.
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