Qahwaji to Jordan Sunday to Discuss Equipping Army
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Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji is scheduled to travel to Jordan Sunday to discuss means to boost the army's readiness in the face of the extremist groups, media reports said on Thursday.
“Qahwaji will hold a meeting with Jordan's king in Amman on Sunday to discuss equipping the Lebanese army,” LBCI television reported.
Al-Jadeed TV for its part said Qahwaji and King Abdullah II will discuss the issues of “combating terrorism and equipping the army.”
On February 23, Jordan delivered armored personnel carriers and gun motor carriages to the Lebanese army.
During a visit by Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq to Amman on February 12, King Abdullah had expressed readiness to aid and train the Lebanese army.
“We are one... Jordan is ready to offer the Lebanese army all its needs of arms and military equipment, including free training at all our bases,” sources quoted the king as saying in comments published in al-Mustaqbal newspaper.
In December 2013, Saudi Arabia donated three billion dollars for the purchase of arms from France for the benefit of the Lebanese army. It offered another $1 billion donation in August 2014 in the wake of deadly border battles between the army and Syria-based jihadist groups.
Some Western nations have also offered aid to the army in recent months.
Y.R.
13 March 2015, 00:18
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Tex, they'll sing that same rhyme, resistance weapons equal prime weapons, army weapons???!! Antiques!! We're used to that song now, what won't change though is the fact that our army is on its way to glory, and the militias plus their lackeys starting with their caporal Speedy Gonzales Aoun will meet a sorry fate.
13 March 2015, 12:22
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Tex, I am with you 100%, I am also fully subscribed to the line of thought that only a strong army can pull us through. The Lebanese Army is the only constitutional institution that is still cohesive and working properly, literally almost everything the civilians have handled in this country of ours is so rotten and well beyond hope. So personally I see things this way: a strong army equals a strong state, one that will be able to translate its will with little resistance (oh how I love the word resistance). Once the state begins to recover and impose its will, plus the constitution and the law over the land then Lebanon could finally become the nation that every single decent patriot dreamt of and still dreams of. If things go as we all hope, then within 5 years max, Lebanon would rise of its ashes and become the vibrant, peaceful and prosperous nation we want to see yet many in the region fear to see. I know one thing, God is great.
14 March 2015, 02:12
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Lebanon should lobby the US to try to get their hands on a few A-10 Warthog airplanes (they are looking into decommissioning them now). In the war against terrorists and militias the best weapon is these airplanes. They are lethal when it comes to ground assault, but are no match in air-to-air combat so there would be no objections from Israel about that.
