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| Two Clerics Assaulted in Khandaq al-Ghamiq |
| 2013-03-18 |
| [An Nahar] Dar al-Fatwa holy mans Sheikh Mazen Hariri and Sheikh Ahmed Fakhran were beaten up on Sunday while passing through the Beirut area of Khandaq al-Ghamiq, state-run National News Agency reported. They were transported to the Makassed Hospital in Tariq al-Jedideh for treatment, NNA said. As the news broke out, angry protesters blocked roads in the Beirut areas of Tariq al-Jedideh, Qasqas and Corniche al-Mazraa, as well as Sidon's entrance in the South and al-Masnaa's road in the Bekaa. Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani urged calm and restraint after the attack, stressing that the perpetrators "will not go unpunished." "We urge calm and restraint to enable security forces to investigate the incident," Qabbani said in a televised address. "We have full confidence in security agencies and the state, but we will not let things go unpunished," the mufti said. "We will not allow these elements to achieve their goals," Qabbani stressed, declining to accuse any specific party. Later on Sunday, the army managed to arrest three people involved in the attack in Khandaq al-Ghamiq, Interior Minister Marwan Charbel announced. The army also placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... two people accused of assaulting Sheikh Omar al-Imami in the Beirut suburb of Shiyyah. He was transported to a Chtaura hospital after receiving first aid at a Beirut hospital. Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... Hizbullah and AMAL Movement condemned the attack on the holy mans, describing it as an attempt to incite strife and stressing that the perpetrators must be arrested and punished. |
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