Geagea Urges Arrest of Takfiri Network Head: Aoun Waging War of Ethnic Cleansing against Sunnis
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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.
15 March 2012, 17:29
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You thought wrong and the reason is you hate the guy and your understanding of what you read is colored by such blindness. The contradiction is not in what Gaegae is saying but in how you read it. His position in weapons is clear.... now one except the army and ISF should carry them PERIOD. So go ahead disarm the takfiris (whether they are Salafis or Hezb)
15 March 2012, 19:28
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@helicopter
I don't hate Mr. Murderer. As I wrote: I appreciate the necktie of Mr. Murderer. The color reminds me of his victims flesh.
15 March 2012, 22:48
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Back then he was a warlord like Nasrallah, Berri, Jumblat, and others. However since the end of the civil war the only ones with blood on their hands are the M8 folks (center player Hezb and theri supporters). Also they (M8) murderedd the only one who did not have blood on his hands during or after the civil war (Rafic).
15 March 2012, 15:02
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I fully agree with the camp invasion if the Wahhabi leader isn't surrendered. However, stating that the FPM, Syria and Hezbollah are against that, well I guess he is just trying to be funny. Finally as for Mustaqbal, as you know the Harriri family is Wahhabi which by definition is a Salafi current, so yes of course not all suunis are salafis but a very small minority called Harriri and co.. And regarding the Hezbollah, of course they are a religious movement and they never denied it unlike the Harriri family, also for Hezbollah defense I would say that they never had connections with Al Quaeda, their leader is Lebanese and they had nothing to do with Fat7 el 2esalm (again unlike HArriri)
15 March 2012, 17:33
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Go ahead take him up on his statement and push your Government to invade the camp and disarm the Salafis..... seize the opportunity he and all of M14 will support you (this will be a good start to the eventual goal of confining all arms to the army and ISF only). If you do nnot support that then you are the hypocrite.
15 March 2012, 15:09
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he accused aoun 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,” !!
Wow... I mean what the hell is this guy on? Neck ties? What about the gulf Arabs, do they wear neck ties too? I understand geagea lives and breaths Aoun but he is really getting desperate, attacking the batrak and now this.
15 March 2012, 15:31
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ado, Iran and HA in particular dont believe in wearing ties because it somehow has Western influence and resembles a crucifix. So you will never see any one in Iran or HA wearing any ties. As for Gulf States this is not the norm and wearing ties is perfectly normal, not that im implying that they are not extreme in other ways.
17 March 2012, 09:41
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did you know that they don't take photos of the burj al arab in dubai from the see cause it resembles a cross. kinda extreme if you ask me
15 March 2012, 15:19
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GeaGea please shut up! The way that i see it, you would love to see the army go in and attack the camps, then let me guess, rebuild them with lebanese taxpayer money and say its for the good of the country. Just like naher el barid yea?
NO WAY IN HELL - not at the cost of Lebanese soldiers lives. I have a better idea, what if you re arm the Lebanese Forces then go into the camp yourself? That way after you take care of the problem mabye you can rebuild it with funds from your own pocket.
Your an under cover spy - why are you so worried about sunnies? did you forget they did the worst to the christians in lebanon during the civil war... or did you forget that like many other things you 'conveniently forget'
15 March 2012, 20:13
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Eh...did worst to the christians? I think this man himself killed more christians than any "sunni". The sunnis did not massacre a camp with only children, women and elderly left in it. As a Lebanese, you should not refer to specific incidents from the civil war as done by "sunnis" or "maronites" or whatever. Because it´s more complex than that, and the fractions did many times cross the religious boundaries.
15 March 2012, 15:21
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So... is everyone ok with that? M8 people always claimed that Hariri & co seek to protect the Palestinians and their weapons... Geagea is demonstrating the contrary and is encouraging a raid to disarm them... but of course the M8 stooges will find ways to attack him and complain (like the 3 jokers above)... Let's see now if Aoun and Nessy (the syrian collaborators) will come up with more red lines...hehehe...
15 March 2012, 15:36
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unfounded claims? Aoun is declaring war on the Muslim Brotherhood whose members are winning elections from Tunisia to Egypt to Morocco and soon in Libya....
15 March 2012, 15:57
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Haha I don't think Geagea's argument is based SOLEY on neckties...so for you to rest your case on that one line that neckties=civilization,makes your argument not credible. What is barbaric is that Aoun and all of his followers,along with Hizbullah are barbaric to think it is okay for Assad to kill thousands and thousands of people. If Aoun kept silent the world would be a WONDERFUL place!
15 March 2012, 17:39
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I can see from the pro M8 comments here that all of you are against disarming the Palestinians. I am not surprised, this has been the official position of the M8 camp all along. Their position makes sense, removing all illegal weapons will strengthen the state and strengthening the state presents danger to Hezb.... because they will find it more difficult to hold on to theirs then.
15 March 2012, 15:25
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to keserwaneh - their leader is Lebanese?? - are you sure. i heard he is official rappresentant of someone in Iran. a solsier in his army.
15 March 2012, 16:48
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Well he IS Lebanese and he proved it so many times. Of course he is related to wilayat al fakih but does that make him any less Lebanese? Does the Christians religious relation with the Vatican make them Italians, or the sunnis toMakah Saoudis? What I was referring to was that the Harriri family (not tayyar el mustakbal) are Saoudis and Wahhabis (the largest Salafi group in the world as you know)
15 March 2012, 15:52
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So a neck tie makes you civilized??? The Pope doesn't wear a neck tie either ya Mr.Ignorant. What a stupid comment against neck ties. We're u wearing a neck tie when u helped murder all those innocent women and children in their camps?
15 March 2012, 15:59
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gegea is uncovering some of the truth about clowny aouny - although the comment about neckties is out of sync, the point is aoun the clown allies himself with religious fanatics and with repressive regimes more so than anyone else.
15 March 2012, 16:26
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Who said Lebanese people are smart or educated? Judjing by this small sample of commentators, we can only be described as dumb and ignorant as we've done to our country over the last 50 years. And we're so smart that we always find other external powers for our misery: American or Sionists!!! Both who hate Geagea and those who hate Aoun/Nasrallah made no sense in understanding what this guy is saying! the best are those who pretend that Al-mustaqbal movement is Salafist while Hizbollah is a modern movement. How funny??? Just chut up and let smart people talk and act!
15 March 2012, 17:19
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Dr. Mustafa Geagea al Manfalouti has finally lost it. No wonder he was inducted into the Sunni Hall of Crazies during his last visit to Qatar where he was circumcised (and as I was told, nothing was left down there) and officially became a nut.
15 March 2012, 17:27
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@ Flamethrower, it would be nice for once to support the idea of disarming the palestinians all together and stop attacking left and right. I dont support geagea for many reasons but this one should be a reason for all to enter the camps and finish everybody off . I might be against Hezb, but im for sure for the disarming of non lebanese factions first, be it palestinians or salafis or al Qaida brigades or i dont know what other scumbags there is on our soil. Lets at least agree all on that.
15 March 2012, 22:52
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@ flame thrower - I did my share, I gave you thumbs up (I go by the message, not the messenger).
15 March 2012, 23:46
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FT.... your posts are voted down because of your history of being a Persian propagandist, and everyone knows you are an idiot.
16 March 2012, 00:40
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Finish everbody off? Ya 3ein. Will you put them in gas chambers as well? Go finish off your own filth before wanting to murder hundreds of thousands of refugees of whom not even 0,5 % are with the extremist groups, in fact these groups are majority lebanese, some are even in the army. You always put your problems on non-lebanese. I wish all non lebanese will leave lebanon so that you guys have no one to blame for your problems. The most racist people on earth. I hope bashar falls soon so that syrian refugees can return otherwise you will blame them for everything just like you do with the other non-lebanese.
17 March 2012, 09:31
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funny sruff this, it doesn't matter what is being said most of the time, it is always about who is saying it. I think we all agree on a lot of things but disagree on who is saying it. I think all these scum bags have 'blood' on their hands in some capacity so it is pointless for us to defend or attack them on these points. Good to see some agreeance from Flame on this issue :)
15 March 2012, 17:27
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to ado.australia
I don't like Geagea but did we forget when aoun and frangieh attack former batrak.
you attaking Geagea for saying that the batrak should not take sides
16 March 2012, 00:37
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Joe A, no one has forgotten the tension between batrak Sfeir and Aoun and franjeih, but removing what their supporters might of said or done they never verbally attacked like geagea did the other day. The LF were the most vocal defenders of the maronite patriarchate, picking fights with people who dared question the batrak.
Batrak Sfeir actually took sides in the election, publicly advising who to vote for. How has batrak Rahi taken sides? What has he said that has been anti geagea or kataeb?
All he has said is that he doesn't fear hezballah and that we must have dialogue with them. He said that what is happening in Syria is worrying and he hope reform and dialogue will win over violence. That the opposition is also causing much of this violence. All this is now known as true and now western leaders like the British p.m. David Cameron are saying the same thing.
15 March 2012, 17:28
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thank you for your answer Keserwaneh, if i'm not wrong Khamenei has another rappresetant for religious questions, Nasrallah is for political questions, and this is the main difference. It's like having the ambassador of another country a chief of the strongest army in your country. you understand i can't accept it ? thanks.
16 March 2012, 15:12
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Again it's one of the fundamental differences between Christians and Muslims (you know the “dine wa Dawla concept). So a religious Christian leader sticks only to religion while Muslim religious leaders will extent their influence to earthly matters as well. So you are right Khomeini has the right to interfere in political matters (religiously speaking) the same goes for the Saudi king and the Harriri family, or the Ottoman sultan and the local Muslim chiefs during the Ottomans occupation, while the pope can’t in theory influence Christian leaders (and this is true in Europe but sadly not in Lebanon)
15 March 2012, 17:32
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Pink necktie? Pink necktie? Where did you buy it from? From Victoria Secret. I love pink.
15 March 2012, 17:51
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When it comes to Islam They all stand hand in hand to fight us , Allah Akbar min geagea Allah akbar min aoun Allah is the creator of all this universe, and were going back to him sooner or later
15 March 2012, 18:48
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A brain is terrible thing to waste and yours was wasted by a zealot Shaikh when you are a toddler still. Hard to grow a new brain, but maybe one day they can perform a brain transplant on you. WOu must have gone to sleep some 1500 years ago and you just woke up ....
15 March 2012, 20:19
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I guess you, mister helicopterbrain just proved his point. Just because he said that "when it comes to Islam.." you made a fool out of him..
15 March 2012, 19:07
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whatever you say, the most dangerous extremists are hizbushaitan thugs.
15 March 2012, 20:31
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If anyone is to be arrested (or in his case re-arrested) it is this crazy maniac.
15 March 2012, 21:36
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LOL all this ignorant talk about islam and neckties is amusing. The reason fundamentalist muslims don't wear neckties is because they are typically made of silk which mulsim men are forbidden from wearing. This is because silk is considered a feminine material. It's the same reason muslim men are forbidden from wearing gold. Most mulsims aren't too strict with this since it isn't haram but rather discouraged. You would think living in a country full of muslims would make Lebanese people aware of such things. Instead, the deep hatred Lebanese people have for anyone who doesn't share their religion keeps them from learning anything.
As for Geagea accusing Aoun of wanting to ethnically cleanse muslims, that's rich for a guy that's been accused of murdering thousands of Palestians (Sunnis too if I remember correctly).
15 March 2012, 21:40
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This guy used to kill young allies by throwing them to the sea with concrete bucket.
This guy used to bomb the Lebanese Army.
This guy is talking about our patriarch because he seeks strife in the country between Christian.
This guy has nothing to lose and don’t give a shit if Lebanon is destroyed and its future of the country since he has no children.
This guy is being paid millions of Dollars to talk and talk and talk.
This guy has killed more than what has been killed till now in Syria.
This guy does not deserve 11 years in jail, but an eternity.
15 March 2012, 23:51
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Sure Judge, he deserved more than 11 years of jail time. But Aoun did the same.... and more recently Nasrallah with a much more destructive effect on Lebanon's economy.... pretty much all of the old school politicians should be sent to the Hague. (Berri, Jumblatt, etc....)
16 March 2012, 00:27
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So one guy of the takfiri network was palestinian while the rest of the five were lebanese (at least three wich were even in the army) and the focus turns against the non-lebanese as usual? Racism at its best. When a lebanese comits a crime in syria nobody turns it in to racism. Its a shame how racist you are.
16 March 2012, 07:10
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When a Lebanese opposes Syrian occupation of Lebanon he disappears in Syrian jail (I prefer racism over that). At least it is based on a real crime committed within our borders. America deports a foreigner who commits a crime back to their home country (after serving jail time).... I wish Lebanon will do the same.
16 March 2012, 03:46
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“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,” I don't like Geagea any more than the other sectarian leaders running Lebanon but this is very well said.
@hakawati: Why is it that Geagea is the only murderer in the war? Berri was killing people before Geagea even had any power, Huzb Allah killed thousands of Shia, Aoun tried to wipe out the Christian militias by force..
That was all during the war, when it ended it was agreed that the past was done with. What has happened since the war? Huzb Allah and Amal and allies took over Beirut on May 7, the Syrian controlled government arrested Ouet and Aounis, Huzb Allah launched divine victories while getting half the country destroyed in the process.
Can you tell me what violence Geagea and his followers have committed since the war ended?
16 March 2012, 09:05
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Another bald, moustached Christian murderer flip flopping. And here I thought Jumblatt was enough.
16 March 2012, 11:16
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what's very funny is he opposed Homs raid but is OK with a second Naher Al Bared... when soldiers in Syria are killed, they should not attack but in Lebanon we should do it... ??? we should never attack a civilian area even when it's heavily armed just to get one or few people... unless forced i.e. when too many people are at risk because of the said arm group and that no other solution was possible... but it's a very hard call and not something we can decide by just adhering to the necktie principle.
16 March 2012, 14:45
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Reading comment like the above from all sides shows me why Lebanon is in termoil. Its like driving with your eyes on the rearview mirror the pace is slow and the path is crooked.Always thinking about the past,rarely the future.Incapable political class,coupled with a tribal mentality foreign alighnments is a perfect recipe for disaster.
