Geagea Calls for Prosecuting Suleiman's Critics

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea called on the state prosecutor to take measures against the parties criticizing President Michel Suleiman for sending memos to the U.N. and the Arab League on Syrian violations of Lebanese sovereignty.

Geagea told An Nahar daily published Friday that the critics “are trying to target the last legitimate institution that is trying to assume its responsibilities after they succeeded in paralyzing the parliament and the Constitutional Council and the obstruction of the cabinet formation.”

He hoped that the general prosecutor's office “would take the necessary measures against the persons whom we have heard addressing the president inappropriately.”

Geagea also accused them of “threatening him (Suleiman) or making false allegations.”

The Lebanese should raise their voices in support of the president, he said.

Suleiman has come under the criticism of several March 8 alliance figures.

On Wednesday, Hizbullah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said in a hint to Suleiman that “those who are keen on Lebanon should not be subject to the U.S. dictates under the excuse of defending constitutional institutions.”

Qassem also accused the president without naming him of “standing in the same trench of the American-Israeli project.”

Another March 8 figure, Baath Party MP Assem Qanso accused Suleiman of “high treason.”

The memos handed by the president to the U.N. and the Arab League deal with the violations and attacks carried out by all the warring parties in Syria.

Syrian regime troops have carried out attacks on Lebanese border areas, mainly air raids on the northeastern town of Arsal, which has become an escape route for rebels and people running away from the fighting in Syria.

There have also been several attacks from rebel-held areas of Syria on Hizbullah strongholds in recent months.