...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...
stressed on Thursday that the same bully boyz that carried out the blast in the Beirut neighborhood of Haret Hreik earlier in the day, are the ones planting terrorism, killing and destructing all Lebanese regions.
Suleiman's comments came shortly after a deadly kaboom hit Beirut's Dahieh neighborhood, killing at least 4 people and wounding over 70 others.
The kaboom took place near al-Manar television's old building on al-Arid Street in Haret Hreik, hundreds of meters away from the headquarters of Hizbullah's political bureau.
Suleiman stressed on the importance of solidarity and of being aware of the dangers threatening Leb.
"Dialogue is also important between politicians to protect the country against conspiracies aiming at shaking its stability," he added.
The president held talks with concerned security officials to receive the latest information of the ongoing probe in the incident, urging them to intensify their investigation and unveil those that planned and executed the bombing and refer them to courts for trial.
Speaker Nabih
KnobbyBerri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
also considered that those behind Thursday's blast are the same group that executed the liquidation of former Finance Minister Mohammed Shatah on Friday, and that planted bombs in the northern city of 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...
As well, caretaker Prime Minister
Najib Miqati stressed in a released statements that terrorism does not differentiate between different Lebanese groups."Terrorists do not want stability in the country, they instead plan and execute a despicable plot that aims at promoting sedition," Miqati said.
He called on Lebanese factions to "be wise, overcome political considerations and draw an end to approaches of unilateral decision-making and exclusion."
Miqati warned that tension that is spread in several Lebanese regions indicates that what is worst is coming.
"We should meet and communicate to find a way out of the current dangerous deadlock to protect Leb from evil and from dangers."
PM-designate Tammam Salam also deplored the blast, calling for strengthening common grounds between the Lebanese people.
The blast came less than a week after a boom-mobileing targeted Beirut's central district on Friday, killing former Finance Minister Mohammed Shatah and seven others.
A twin suicide kaboom hit the Iranian embassy in south Beirut on November 19, killing 25 people.
In the summer, the southern suburbs suffered two kabooms. One, on August 15, killed 27 people. A blast earlier in August had caused no fatalities but maimed some 50 people.