Beirut MPs Hold Govt. Responsible for Security Unrest in Capital
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Lawmakers representing Beirut criticized on Monday the security situation in Lebanon, saying that “no reasonable individual” would accept the armed clashes that have erupted in the city over the past few months.
They said after a meeting at parliament: “The government is responsible for the unrest.”
“The unrest that has taken place at various locations, the most of recent of which was at al- Zaydaniyeh neighborhood, which some sides like to call security incidents, cannot be ignored because the citizens’ lives are being threatened and terrorized,” they added.
“The MPs have decided to form delegations to meet with the president, prime minister, and speaker to ensure the establishment of an arms-free Beirut,” they said.
Clashes erupted on Friday at Zaidaniyeh-Aisha Bakkar neighborhood between Amal and Hizbullah supporters.
The gunfight erupted over an argument on a parking space.
In August 2010, armed clashes broke out between Hizbullah and the radical pro-Syrian Sunni group Al-Ahbash in the Borj Abi Haidar neighborhood.
Three people were killed in the unrest and several others wounded.
In July 2009, one woman was killed and several other people were wounded when fighting broke out between supporters of Speaker Nabih Berri and the Mustaqbal Movement in the Aisha Bakkar neighborhood in Beirut.
19 December 2011, 16:12
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Animals...animals with guns. These incidents are to be expected. What happend out our country? What an uncivilized jungle it has become.
19 December 2011, 16:30
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Every time fighting breaks it's always between supporters of Speaker Nabih Berri and "insert name here". Mr Berri fosters thugs like mouwaten ever since he took over Imam Sadr's Amal movement, when they are not mugging and robbing people they terrorize them. That;s why the use of "supporters of Speaker Nabih Berri" is more descriptive and appropriate than Amal party members.
19 December 2011, 16:43
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Gotta love the useless comments in line with the greater situations at hand
19 December 2011, 19:17
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where is the problem? the gvt says that hezb have the right to be armed to defend the country. i guess then that what happened was to defend the country... as they claim they would never use their arms against lebanese!
and they didin t : they used it against each other from the same side.
that parking space was strategic to the defense of the nation against israel...
19 December 2011, 20:10
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@mowaten
Your hypersensitivity does not sit well with your mentor's recklessness and wanton disrespect of human lives.
19 December 2011, 20:38
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As it says in the Psalms, one truth-teller defeats a hundred liars.
20 December 2011, 04:17
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One more time I enlighten the blind men, if Hizbollah is going to defend the Country against Israel then everyone else in the Country is going to do the same thing and arm themselves, guess what the end result? back to the dark ages and history will repeat itself, back to the war days when the economy and jobs existed.
