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| Aoun Says Christian Areas Would Be Spared Civil Strife if Geagea Avoided Resorting to Arms |
| 2010-10-06 |
| [An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah on Tuesday noted that "Christian areas would be spared" the violence of a potential civil strife in the country if Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea avoided resorting to weapons. After the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, Aoun said that Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed, former head of General Security Department, filed his lawsuit with the Syrian judiciary "as a result of the judicial vacuum in Leb." "If Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar had submitted his report on the false witnesses issue to the cabinet and declared that the Lebanese judiciary has exclusive jurisdiction to tackle the case, the Syrian judiciary would have taken no action," Aoun added. "With which court should Sayyed and his On the other hand, the FPM leader noted that "the bloc's ministers didn't receive Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar's report on the false witnesses issue during yesterday's (Monday's) cabinet session." "There are criminals in power, and the blame falls on the silent majority that is encouraging crime, as well as on the civil society and the media," Aoun decried. Asked about the uproar about Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short RoundAhmadinejad's upcoming visit to Leb, Aoun said: "Insolence itself is when domestic objections are voiced over Ahmadinejad's visit, while the foreign objections are not surprising." Aoun rejected the accusations that the opposition was perpetrating a "coup", noting that "the State has been turned upside down since 2005, and the opposition is now seeking to rebuild it according to laws and regulations." "Their State has been acting contrary to the norms since a while: it doesn't respect the other (opinion); it is ridiculing our security and even working to incite civil strife through its apparatuses," Aoun added. On a separate note, the FPM leader revealed that he was preparing lawsuits against MP Elie Marouni over remarks that FPM members have been stockpiling weapons, as well as against ex-MP Antoine Andraous "who talked about Iranian weapons in the possession of a number of FPM partisans" in the Mount Leb town of al-Kahaleh. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Possibly he means, "Everybody is guilty except me and mine." Or not -- my mind isn't twisty enough. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-06 13:28 |
| #2 It's the Levant. They love this stuff. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-10-06 09:11 |
| #1 "There are criminals in power, and the blame falls on the silent majority that is encouraging crime, as well as on the civil society and the media," Aoun decried. Is this Babelfish, or is he generally incoherent? |
| Posted by: mom 2010-10-06 00:36 |