Aoun Condemns Shaaban Murder: We Must Await Investigation before Making Stand
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Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun condemned on Tuesday the murder of al-Jadeed television cameraman Ali Shabaan while on duty near the Syrian border on Monday.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting: “We hope the truth behind the incident will be revealed.”
Shaaban was killed on Monday in the northern border area of Wadi Khaled when he and two of his colleagues came under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border.
Reporter Hussein Khreis and cameraman Abed Khayyat managed to escape unharmed.
The TV network said the crew was in the area with the aim of filming a report about the situation there.
Asked on why he did not comment on the failed assassination attempt against Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea, Aoun remarked: “I have no reason for not contacting him.”
“I am the head of a political bloc and a former army commander. I therefore always wait the results of an investigation before making any stand,” he stressed.
“We cannot condemn anyone without an official investigation,” said the MP.
On the March 14 camp’s criticism against Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui’s refusal to hand over telecom data, Aoun responded: “They always attack the minister whenever a murder is committed.”
“There is a legal process that needs to be followed in order to present such information,” he added.
“The committee of judges is concerned with this issue and not the minister,” he continued.
Geagea was the victim of failed sniper attack on April 4.
The March 14-led opposition held Sehnaoui and those who support him responsible for preventing the security forces and authorities from obtaining the telecom data in their probe into assassination attempts.
The minister slammed the accusations that he would be held responsible for preventing the security forces from obtaining the telecom data.
“The ministry will deal with the issue according to principles and will not back down on implementing the law,” he said.
He reiterated that the telecom data will only be given to security authorities if the competent judicial authorities ordered that.
Commenting on retired Brigadier General Fayez Karam’s release from prison last week and his visit to Aoun, the FPM leader said: “He served his sentence, paid us a visit, and then went home.”
“He paid the price for a mistake he committed,” he stated.
“We are not ashamed or embarrassed of what we said last time,” remarked Aoun.
Karam was released from prison after serving two years in jail on charges of collaborating with Israel.
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10 April 2012, 17:15
Aoun: Some sides however are working against this. Lebanon’s salvation lies in adopting larger electoral districts.
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10 April 2012, 17:14
Aoun: We cannot condemn anyone without an official investigation.
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10 April 2012, 17:12
Aoun: I do not comment on any security incident because I am awaiting the outcome of the investigations conducted by the concerned authorities.
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10 April 2012, 17:11
Aoun: Retired Brig. Gen. Fayez Karam paid the price for his mistake. We are not embarrassed or ashamed of what we said last time.
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10 April 2012, 17:11
Aoun: It is clear from the Bkirki meetings that an agreement has been reached over proportional representation over the electoral law. I have proposed this on the basis of the adoption of one electoral district because allows all parties to be treated equally and it eliminates political sectarianism.
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10 April 2012, 17:09
Aoun: We don’t have political differences over the appointments of top civil servants. Those proposed for the vacancies are selected based on their qualifications.
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10 April 2012, 17:09
Aoun: They should halt their criticism in order for the public to become informed of all the facts.
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10 April 2012, 17:09
Aoun: We control two ministries concerned with security and they are the defense and interior ministries. Neither of them have informed us of any tensions.
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10 April 2012, 17:07
Aoun: I have no reason for not contacting LF chief Samir Geagea after the failed attempt on his life.
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10 April 2012, 17:07
Aoun: We hope the upcoming cabinet session would be calm as the deteriorating political rhetoric does not serve anyone’s interests.
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10 April 2012, 17:06
Aoun: The telecom minister is always criticized whenever a murder is committed. Legal action is needed to comply with the demands they are making. The minister has nothing to do with the telecom data.
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10 April 2012, 17:05
FPM leader MP Michel Aoun after Change and Reform bloc weekly meeting: We condemn the murder of al-Jadeed television cameraman Ali Shaaban and we hope the truth behind the incident will be revealed.
10 April 2012, 17:13
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Maybe if Aoun critisized less, he would be less critisized as well :)
La courtoisie et le respect sont reciproque ya General.
10 April 2012, 17:39
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Aoun is an idiot... By the way Mr. Aoun, I have someting to tell you... Our next president is Mr. Geagea... The guy who never compromised on his principles.
10 April 2012, 21:54
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i do hope Geagea won't be our next president. he's got blood on his hands... same goes for Aoun, Jumblatt, Nasrallah. our next president should be irreproachable.
10 April 2012, 18:02
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nw fpm followers heard it from their aoun: Retired Brig. Gen. Fayez Karam paid the price for his mistake.
i hope they will not deny he is guilty anymore :) but he should be shot instead of being released, as this is the military justice for traitors.
on the data: the data shows only to which cells the phones were connected as well as who contacted who, so the conversations are not heard. sehanaoui has no reason not to provide them.
this makes sehanaoui and his group conspirators and accessories to the fact for denying the security forces this data, especially they supply it to the syro/iranians constantly.
11 April 2012, 04:33
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Flame, don't even try and understand M14 logic. A 5 year old child can understand more.
10 April 2012, 18:06
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Yes, maybe the investigation will show that a dingo shot him.
Then it will be australia's fault and the oranges can keep defending bashar.
10 April 2012, 18:32
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Don't worry Aoun......your master in Syria will provide all the details, then you can go back to licking his boots.
How amazing this news team kept reporting the Syrian army was not shooting into lebanon.
10 April 2012, 18:35
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siddo ya Aoun....even when you try to be cordial it comes across cold and insincere.
10 April 2012, 18:58
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. - H. L. Mencken
10 April 2012, 19:02
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Hes special...like every single Lebanese leader pfffttt! when will we ever wake up?
10 April 2012, 19:41
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has anyone noticed there are no stupid comments from fpm followers? suddenly their aoun baffled them and contradicted all their wrong claims :)
all their comments in favor of the traitor karam and so on... and now they are suddenly silent!
hope this is a wake up call for them to understand reality at last :)
10 April 2012, 19:51
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life was not fair with this guy.....bad luck with saddam,with hafez,the american congress,baabda and especially the presidency after paris...he still cries everytime he sees fakhamto with his wife having all the royal receptions...
10 April 2012, 21:56
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Aoun, you are stupid, but the sad part is that you don't know it..
10 April 2012, 22:37
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It is a shame for any Lebanese to accept such an unprincipled flip flopper as a leader.
10 April 2012, 22:53
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Flamefag is the only 1 defending this fool. Where are all his supporters??
11 April 2012, 09:31
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Falanges this is a Harriri owned website so having almost as much FPM then Harriri supporters is almost a miracle
11 April 2012, 17:42
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Keserweneh, you can't compare FPM supporters to Hariri supporters. It's like comparing wolves to sheep.
11 April 2012, 01:49
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Hey boul Mich you need to shut your interior minister up he's making you look like a fool, oh and the check is in the mail you are doing a good job for me.
مروان شربل : محاولة اغتيال جعجع كانت جديّة جداً وهو نجا بأعجوبة
11 April 2012, 03:51
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Funny he never waited for investigations to accuse the revolution in Syria of being terrorists or to announce the end of it last November or accuse the Hariri government of corruption. None of these things waited for an investigation so why does he wait for one now?
He's a Syrian puppet coward who sold his soul in the hope of becoming president one day with Assad's blessing.
11 April 2012, 04:07
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There were mistakes made by both Aoun and GeaGea, do not dare to bring up the past as both of them screwed up very similar to the Amal/HA battles, very similar to the divisions of the PSPP, also Arslan and Jumblat as well as the rest of every religion and party in Lebanon, and our brotherly Syrian friends were always part of or supportive to one side of the above groups as they ran the Country for 30yrs based on the "divide and conquer" concept.
Lesson learned security is above all, assassination and killing of any Lebanese citizen is not acceptable and is not an exaggeration, every True Lebanese must support the investigation otherwise he/she is a collaborator. Collaborators are made of any foreign entity (Israeli, Iranian and Syrian) that lesson very few has learned it which is why the Country will always be divided.
11 April 2012, 04:30
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Do you want the link that condemns Geagea as a terrorist?
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/14/world/lebanon-indicts-former-warlord-in-church-bombing.html
Hahaha, they even called him warlord back then. Now people want him to run for president.
11 April 2012, 06:06
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Syrian Feats in Lebanon – Part IV
By: General Michel Aoun
The explosive that went off at Our Lady of Salvation, killing and maiming many of the faithful, was followed by a climate of terror created by the security agencies under the pretext of maintaining order. Its objective was to accuse the Lebanese Forces, try them in court, then ban them. And so the Lebanese Forces file was opened, Samir Geagea was tried and, even though he was exonerated of this crime, he was imprisoned nonetheless. He remains incarcerated, and to this day no one knows who committed the crime. Yet the repercussions of political terrorism remain hanging over the Lebanese Forces and others to this day, and not even the morally and spiritually protected centers has been spared these repercussions.
http://www.10452lccc.com/general%20aoun/aoun30.9.02.htm
11 April 2012, 14:21
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Le phenicien I tried to follow ur link but it leads only to a page supposedly written by GMA but with nolink to a serious site. would you happen to have something more credible?
11 April 2012, 14:22
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Le phenicien and thenI discovered it's form a HArriri funded organization in Canada...
11 April 2012, 16:17
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kesrweneh my fellow Shiite brother in pretending to be a Christian actually this is a very well known previously pro GMA website that stayed with M14 after Aoun betrayed the cause, but you would know that if you were with GMA before 2006. But before then you were too busy beating up Christian demonstrator and kidnapping Syrian opponents and shipping them off to prisons in Syria or murdering them and stuffing them in car trunks. You need to manage your various identities more effectively your flamethrower, inveritas keserwaneh are overlapping.
Another advise my fellow Shiite bro in all that is brain damaged if you want to really pass for a lifelong GMAer go around that site and read the archived article by the likes of Farid E. Khazen, Pierre Raffoul and GMA himself when was pretending to be magnificent you could learn something.
11 April 2012, 07:26
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The Great Deserter rambles on, as always a truly informative speaker :-)
Mon General reminded us that he was an army commander, but left out the part where he abandoned the army to it's fate... Ran off to Paris, lived the good life while the other Christian leaders had to deal with the Assad regime... Aoun attacked Syria and Hezballa when he was away and then jumped in bed with them when he came back... Yeah, here stands a pillar of a man, we should all bow to him.
11 April 2012, 09:26
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Hello Neighbourgh glad to have another Kesserweneh here. so according to last LF sources ur allies don't wan't you to have a cnadidate in Kesrwen 2013 elections so you don't "burn" the group. how about that!
My friend even most LF dont believe this "the sniper and the flower" movie why would FPM?
11 April 2012, 09:28
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Aoun said that? We have absolutely no control on Cahrbel he's totally pro Sleiman. And BTW there is no "surge in crime' just more media coverage
11 April 2012, 09:30
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Young man if you don't like anyone who thinks differently then you seek professional help
11 April 2012, 09:46
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Syrian you should read more statistics, I know that u Syria is now slowly heading toward modernity and the fact that you are able to access this site prooves it
