Beirut MPs Demand Miqati’s Resignation: His Govt. is Facilitating Return of Civil War
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Beirut MPs commended on Monday the clashes that erupted in the city on Sunday, accusing some powers and military agencies that are affiliated with the Syrian regime of seeking to create instability in Lebanon.
They said after an extraordinary meeting at the Center House: “We demand Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s resignation because his government is facilitating the return of the civil war.”
Former Premier Saad Hariri, who spoke to the MPs via Skype, accused the Syrian regime of creating unrest in various regions in Lebanon, stressing: “We all have a great duty to maintain the calm.”
“Beirut is dear to our heart … and it has paid hefty prices in the past, which requires us to maintain unity and defend its people against plans to create strife that is being led by the Syrian regime’s mercenaries,” he declared.
The lawmakers noted that Miqati “claimed that his government will achieve stability in Lebanon”, but it has so far failed in this task.
They held him “completely responsible for all of the unrest that has erupted in the capital, especially in the Tariq al-Jedideh neighborhood.”
The government has failed in its duties in confronting the attempts to create strife in Beirut, Tripoli, and Akkar, they noted.
Furthermore, the Beirut MPs added that it failed in responding to Syrian Ambassador to the U.N. Bashar al-Jaafari’s letter to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday accusing charitable organizations managed by Salafist groups and the Mustaqbal Movement of harboring terrorists from al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood.
They also accused the government of “covering up the militia activity of Syrian intelligence agencies that are aimed at fueling sectarian strife and serving the Syrian regime” by turning attention away from its country’s revolt.
The gatherers therefore urged the residents of Beirut and the whole of Lebanon to exercise restraint and vigilance to confront the conspiracies against their city and country, warning them against falling victim to provocations.
“Beirut has and will always be an example for coexistence among all the Lebanese,” they stressed.
They vowed to follow up on the case of those wounded in the Beirut clashes through all legal means and to pursue all who have violated them and their city’s dignity.
The meeting was attended by MPs Michel Pharaon, Tammam Salam, Mohammed Qabbani, Nohad al-Mashnouq, Nabil de Freij, Jean Oghassabian, Atef Majdalani, Ammar Houri, Serge Tor Sarkissian, Ghazi Youssef, Imad al-Hout, Nadim Gemayel, and Sebouh Kalbakian.
Armed clashes broke out on Sunday night between supporters of al-Mustaqbal Movement and the Arab Movement party near the Beirut Arab University in Tariq al-Jedideh in Beirut, leaving two dead.
The unrest was sparked by the death on Sunday morning of Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahed at an army checkpoint in the northern town of Kweikhat.
21 May 2012, 19:14
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Took you forever to form one, now when everything is heading in the civil war direction, you feel better off without it. Personally, I would resign and get the hell out. If God came on earth, he couldn't fix Lebanon.
21 May 2012, 19:16
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Resignation is the wrong medicine. Who would replace him right now? And where is the momentum to form a new government under current dynamics. Hezbollah would love not to have a formal government right now. From the Serail, Mikati can do more for the country than he could sulking in Tripoli. Leave him be.
Now the rest of the communique is spot on. Maximum restraint is the order of the day to all of those whom Hezbollah is attempting to incite.
Lebanon is not Syria when it comes to this sectarian war. Lebanon has already done that, spent 30 years of the nation's life on it. This is something new to the Syrians. Meaning, the Lebanese know better than to pass through this hell again, regardless of the Hezbollah inspired incitements, present and future until Assad finally falls.
Dear resident Lebanese, the best fight against Hezbollah is not to bend to their will. Do not take up your weapons to fight your fellow citizens.
21 May 2012, 19:23
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The real harm to Beirut is contained in the companion story of Kuwait putting out a travel ban on Lebanon due to the unrest created in Tripoli and now in Beirut between the sects. The tourist season, the hotels, restaurants and the rest that depend on Gulf Tourism will take a hit. And I believe I heard that several thousand Lebanese working in the Gulf are being sent home due to some Hezbollah activity out there. More lost revenues in the form of foreign remittances lost to the Lebanese. All thanks to Hezbollah, clawing and scratching trying to hold its place in Lebanon as it is going down the drain with Assad.
Dear Lebanese, let Hezbollah fall, better than participating with Hezbollah in taking Lebanon down to hell with it.
21 May 2012, 20:37
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The filthy Persian wannbe militia will love if the Mickey Mouse goverment resigned
21 May 2012, 22:08
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@ mfawaz F U and UR Dishonorable band of Murdering Terrorists. We're up to here with your inglorious and dishonorable IRAN bought and paid for mercenaries. D7ashon where the sun don't shine.
21 May 2012, 23:27
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Bandoulito de mi corazon calmate amigo! Take a deep breath and lookup the definition of terrorists :) Is geagea for instance a terrorist for having EXTERMINATED so many innocents in camps? answer simply : yes? no?
Then we can talk.
22 May 2012, 03:46
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@reformist, if you want to live in the past, and talk about the past like a broken record that is your business. Like all the warlords of his era, they all murdered in cold blood. The difference being Geagea sat in a jail cell for 11 years and thought about all the murdering he did. The rest of them did not. Let's talk about what your party has done in recent history and is doing now to take Lebanon to the abyss and then you may graduate to being someone I can debate
22 May 2012, 07:57
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@Bandoul , do not answer reformist, he is but a supporter of a cockroach that always was an SSNP and that was playing cards in Baabda during the war. Then when it got hot, he ran away not even in pyjamas but in his underwear to save his pathetic senile life. What a hero this general is. Not to forget also the 15 million he took with him and disappeared afterwards. he was living la vida loca in france everybody knows that. and his return to Lebanon was facilatated by no other than the son of Emile Lahoud another bootlicker. oh well, guess the FPM supporters forget a lot. Its ok, we forgive but do not forget idiots.
@Mfawaz, yes , such a glorious resistance, serving the zionists by protecting its northern border from extremists palestinians. Also glorious for having destroyed Lebanon and put up 10 billion $ debts in one month and still complainng about hariri 40 billion in 15 years ( with the syrians, lebanese prosyrians and construction of downtown and airport )
22 May 2012, 08:03
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@mfawaz and reformist, one can never get enough from people like you, you are hilariously killing every brain cell left in your weak,pathetic, microscopic brains of yours. I love how you repeat urselves and never answer questions but only repeat like sheeps what both your masters ( well lets say One master cause anyway Aoun is but a servant for nasrallah) . patriotism surely didnt come from FPM or hezbollah, it came from people who resisted for 15 years under heavy bombardement, in Zahle, Ain-el RUmmaneh, Ashrafieh, Tel el zaatar, wen kentou lama kena ne7na ya watyin wou jebana. rou7o ndabo instead of uniting againt the syrian conspiracy ahead, all you do is put all of this against your fellow lebanese citizens who some are helping people defend themselves in Syria... I wonder when your people in the south got bombarded and came over to christians and sunnites area, didnt we welcome them ? tfeh 3aleykom moustawekon men el zenar wou nezel.
