Gemayel Demands Suspension of Ties with Damascus over Samaha Case
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel lashed out on Friday at Lebanese authorities for not suspending diplomatic ties with the neighboring country Syria after the judiciary demanded the death penalty for a Syrian security official.
Gemayel wondered how the Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali Abdul Karim Ali, wasn't expelled or summoned.
On Thursday, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr referred a death penalty request against ex-Minister Michel Samaha and Syrian security official Ali Mamlouk to the military court to kick off trials.
The criminal court of cassation confirmed earlier on Friday receiving the file.
The MP addressed in his statements President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour, demanding an explanation.
“The Syrian regime is protecting him (Mamlouk) and confirming that he is a security official,” Gemayel said.
He slammed the Lebanese authorities, stressing that the death penalty request requires the implementation of certain diplomatic measures concerning the relations between the two countries.”
“We either respect our judiciary or we don't,” the lawmaker added.
Earlier this week, First Military Examining Judge Riyad Abu Ghida indicted Samaha and Mamlouk on terrorism charges.
A search warrant to identify a Syrian colonel known only by his first name Adnan who plotted for the bombings with the other suspects was also issued.
Abu Ghida said Samaha and Mamlouk should be given the death sentence "for transporting explosives from Syria to Lebanon in an attempt to assassinate Lebanese political and religious leaders.”
The indictment also said that Samaha told the Syrian colonel and general that he would recruit people to carry out attacks in the northern Akkar region targeting Syrian rebels and weapons smugglers to Syria.
Samaha was detained in August, but Mamlouk remains free.
22 February 2013, 21:32
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Who gives a crap about any electoral law ? Sooner or later we will have another militant armed organization in Lebanon. It is really funny how arrogant hizbustanis think businesse will remain as usual
23 February 2013, 09:11
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eh man they had a gun to his head telling him to confess...el3ama ma aghbekon
22 February 2013, 14:30
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Of course they should suspend ties with the butcher of Damascus but this M8 government ministers are just puppets of Hizb, Iran and Assad and they don't work for the interest of Lebanon...they are traitors..
22 February 2013, 14:40
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if anybody remember, kataeb started as boy scouts...and they are finishing same way.
22 February 2013, 14:57
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i am with the closing of all borders with syria n open them with israel :p
22 February 2013, 15:17
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Close the border with a sister country with a criminal regime but open the boder with a crinimal enemy state? That is going to fly in Lebanon!
22 February 2013, 17:59
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Please advise what is your definition of sister country and enemy country
22 February 2013, 19:38
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Sister country: a vague term used in arabic. We share language, close traditions, food, outlook. You can add to it that we both suffer from same regime. And above all, a country where majority of lebanese consider as sister country (wishing of course that this sister be less overbearing).
Enemy country: a country that attack you and your sisterly countries. A country that is made on the ruin of a brotherly people (palestinian people). A country which majority of Lebanese consider as enemy. Before you say that Syria attacked lebanon, note it was a hated regime that did that and the people had no input into that decision making.
Now because both terms are vague and fluid, we can engage in a byzantine debate the never ends, so this is the last I say about this and will leave it to lebanese to decide who is friend and enemy.
22 February 2013, 14:59
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He is a Lebanese citizen and a member of Parliament. Who does he have to be?
22 February 2013, 15:08
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Well said orangitta4ever. Ta7ya Souria & Ya7ya antoun saadeh..
22 February 2013, 15:17
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No need to close the border or expel this Syrian ambassador.
soon this ambassador will be executed and the border with Syria will be safe.
assad days are numbered.
22 February 2013, 15:40
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guys, there is something big happening in Saida: hizbushaitan are preparing to take out al assir apparently.
22 February 2013, 16:01
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idiot ft
get informed then talk.
this is happening now, and if something really happens, this will be the start of the civil war.
22 February 2013, 16:33
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All i can say to all you idiots is....
Long Live The Syrian Civil War!
22 February 2013, 16:46
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Schizo Farsi fagblower enjoying posting to his alias lilfaglee....just look at timing between posts. Pathetic trying to sell/promote HA scums.
22 February 2013, 18:02
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MP Gemayel just signed his death wish. Hezbollah will take care oh him!
22 February 2013, 20:54
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He said out loud what every TRUE patriotic Lebanese believes. Cut ties with Syria!
22 February 2013, 18:36
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lilfaglee stop stuttering and foaming at your own stupid posts....it's pathetic ya Nabatieh’s village idiot! Go wipe your mouth fagblower because we are all on to your usual schemes.
23 February 2013, 08:21
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Je me rappelle que le general aoun attendait l acte d accusation pour prendre position. Parceque il est une personne serieuse dit il.
