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| MP Gemayel Hints Hizbullah Hiding 4 Suspects, Slams Party's Arms and Ideology |
| 2011-09-02 |
| [An Nahar] MP Sami Gemayel hinted on Thursday that Hizbullah is aware of the whereabouts of the four suspects in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's liquidation case but is not helping Lebanese authorities in finding them. In a presser he held at the Phalange Party The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology. headquarters in Saifi, Gemayel said: "Hizbullah said that the TIME magazine interview didn't take place meaning it called the suspects and asked if they gave the interview." "This means that it knows their whereabouts and is not helping (authorities) in their arrest," he added. The politician was referring to a TIME interview with one of the four suspects in which the unidentified man told his interviewer that the Lebanese authorities knew where he lived but could not arrest him. Gemayel said that Hizbullah either doesn't know if the suspects are culprits and is hiding them or knows that they are involved in Hariri's Feb. 2005 liquidation and has decided to hide them. Such acts are punishable by law, he added. Gemayel accused Hizbullah of "adopting the same approach of the Syrian occupation" and establishing a state competitive to the authority of the Lebanese state. The Shiite party is working on establishing a religious state, he said. "It is adopting the (Israeli) settlement policy by infringing on public property," Gemayel said in reference to construction on church property in the predominantly Shiite town of Lassa in Jbeil district. Hizbullah is acting in Leb the same way the Zionists acted, he said. "We don't approve your project, the presence of your arms and your ideology," he told Hizbullah. "However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... we don't accept but to build the state with you and with everyone else but not through the use of force and coercion." He vowed not to remain silent, saying the Phalange "will continue the search for the truth." Leb has second class citizens that abide by the law, while first class citizens do not implement it, he said in reference to Hizbullah and the rest of the population. Leb would be stable only when the first class citizens unite with the others and transform a single class, he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |