You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Aoun Says No Weapons in Christian Areas
2010-11-21
[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
leader MP Michel Aoun
...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
on Saturday noted that political parties in predominantly Christian areas do not posses stockpiles of weapons, contrary to "some areas in the North, where the presence of weapons is evident."

Addressing a student delegation from the Notre Dame University (NDU), Aoun said: "Should some problems erupt in some areas, (Internal) Security Forces along with the army are sufficient" to contain the situation.

"You may hear a lot of news that the Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
possesses arms ... but no one has anything, meaning that no one is capable of doing anything," Aoun added.

"Some areas are safer than others, where both (political) camps possess weapons."

However,
The infamous However...
as the FPM leader stressed that his party had no intention to create unrest, he also stressed that it is capable of "self-defense."
Posted by:Fred

#1  The have been studying Tai Chi, and watched a bunch of old Kung Fu reruns.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-11-21 03:53  

00:00