Geagea Urges Arrest of Takfiri Network Head: Aoun Waging War of Ethnic Cleansing against Sunnis
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed on Thursday the need for the Lebanese authorities to remove all arms within and outside Palestinian refugee camps.
He told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3): “If we are forced to wage a battle similar to the one at Nahr al-Bared, then so be it.”
“The army should enter the Ain el-Hilweh camp and arrest the head of the takfiri network,” he added.
“The opposition will support the government should it take such a decision … and the Palestinian Authority had voiced its readiness to cooperate with it to such an end, he stated.
Geagea noted however that “Syria, Hizbullah, and its allies, starting with Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, oppose such a measure.”
“Aoun is defending the Syrian regime more that President Bashar Assad,” remarked the LF chief.
In addition, he accused the FPM leader of waging a “battle of ethnic cleansing against Sunnis in the area through portraying them as extremists.”
“He is attempting to portray the Mustaqbal Movement as a fundamentalist group, while the MP allies himself with Iran and Hizbullah, whose people and members do not even where neckties,” Geagea noted.
As Safir newspaper reported on Tuesday that an extremist network arrested by the Lebanese army intelligence was planning to carry out terrorist attacks on the military school in al-Fayyadiyeh and the army barracks in Hamat.
Prime Minister Najib Miqati had confirmed on Monday that the army had uncovered the subversive cell following a detailed report by al-Akhbar newspaper on the arrest of the network.
As Safir’s sources, which described the cell as takfiri with links to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, said the army began to find leads into the case after the arrest of a clergyman in northern Lebanon.
President Michel Suleiman called on Wednesday for the coordination of the defense, interior and telecommunications ministries to resolve this case.
Suleiman told the cabinet that convened at Baabda palace that “the army is the backbone of stability in the country.”
He condemned any attempt to attack it, saying the file has been referred to the competent judiciary.
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