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Wednesday Injury Toll Rises to Eight as Clashes Continue in Tripoli
[An Nahar] The injury toll from Wednesday's festivities between the rival Tripoli...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen rose to eight in the evening, with no sign of the fighting dying down. "A man called Ahmed al-Basha was maimed in the al-Baqqar as gunfire was heard on the fighting frontiers of Bab al-Tabbaneh, al-Baqqar, al-Rifa and Jabal Mohsen," state-run National News Agency reported. It said the army was still shooting back with heavy machineguns at the sources of gunfire. Earlier, the agency said five people were maimed and rushed to the Islamic Charitable Hospital, identifying them as Mohammed Badr al-Bahri, Badr Mohammed al-Bahri, Louay Mohmoud al-Fendi, Milad Ibrahim Qlaymeh and Awad Mustafa Walid Stayteh. In the morning, two children were maimed when their bus came under fire in al-Rifa area. Early on Wednesday, "gunnies from the two sides tried storming each other's districts," a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse. "The army fought them off, in a battle that raged at around 3:00 am," he said. All Tripoli's schools stayed closed on Wednesday because of the violence. On Wednesday evening, the two rival districts continued to see sporadic fighting and shooting. An AFP correspondent in Tripoli saw black smoke rising from a shop in Bab al-Tabbaneh, which had been burned down. The Lebanese army fortified its presence during the day in Syria Street, which separates the two neighborhoods. According to the state-run National News Agency, new armored personnel carrier were deployed in the city near Abu Ali roundabout. President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... held talks with caretaker Youth and Sports Minister Faisal Karami on the situation in the city and the need for the army and security forces to contain the unrest and restore calm. For his part, Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc MP Mohammed Kabbara slammed a security plan devised by the security forces to maintain the situation in Tripoli, describing it as a "farce." Posted by: Fred 2013-10-24 |
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