Army Detains Arab Democratic Party Spokesman for Few Hours
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Army Intelligence detained on Saturday Arab Democratic Party spokesman Abdul Latif Saleh, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Saleh was released few hours after questioning by the intelligence over his statements.
Earlier on Saturday, Saleh confirmed that the party's politburo chief Rifaat Eid is still in the northern city of Tripoli, pointing out that the arrest warrants issued against Eid and his father will be resolved through politics.
“Rifaat Eid is still at his neighborhood in Jabal Mohsen along with his 70 thousand supporters,” Saleh said in remarks published in the pan-Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat.
He noted that the arrest warrants issued against Eid and his father, Ali, “is a political matter that will be resolved through politics.”
On Tuesday, the military judiciary issued an arrest warrant in absentia against Eid, days after he was charged with belonging to an armed group, possession of arms and inciting sedition.
Saleh said that the Jabal Mohsen residents are angered by the arrest warrants against Ali Eid.
“Arrest warrants should have been issued against all Tripoli's politicians who funded and supported gunmen,” he added.
He stressed that the residents of Jabal Mohsen are fully cooperative with the security forces to guarantee the success of the security plan.
“We are the main benefactors from it,” Saleh told the newspaper.
Last week, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged 12 Lebanese, including Eid, with seeking to carry out terrorist acts and involvement in gunbattles between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh in Tripoli.
Ten suspects, including Eid, are fugitives and only one Lebanese suspect was apprehended.
Rifaat's father, Ali Eid, is wanted for questioning over an August twin car bomb attack against two Sunni mosques in Tripoli that killed 45 people.
Security forces kicked off last week a security plan in Tripoli, seizing arms depots and detaining wanted suspects, who are involved in security chaos in the area.
Even in this deployment, top wanted men fled, including Rifaat and his father, after they were given a warning of the implementation of the plan.
Tripoli witnesses frequent gunbattles between two of the impoverished neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh, which is dominated by Sunnis who support Syrian rebels, and Jabal Mohsen, which is dominated by Alawites, who share the same sect as Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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-D.A.
12 April 2014, 09:26
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if that is true, then all our security and military forces chiefs should be arrested for not executing their jobs and colluding with a wanted person.
12 April 2014, 12:57
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Warrants cannot be resolved through politics. To resolve it, please arrest him and arrest all these thugs PERIOD
12 April 2014, 12:59
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speakfreely
The top leaders of this terrorist organization must be arrested and hung
12 April 2014, 16:24
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When the army does its job, it is criticized, when it doesn't, it is criticized. Let the army then do its job, simple.
12 April 2014, 16:34
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yes we want the army to do its job and no one will criticize it.
but is it doing its job? why is this ali eid character and his son not arrested yet?
12 April 2014, 20:42
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coz HizbIran/Bashar refused that he got arrested & if LAF had arrested him, others mosques would have been bombed...
12 April 2014, 16:31
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And why weren't you calling for the arrest of the ministers in charge of security when it was an m8 cabinet? Oh nevermind. Forgot it was double standards.
12 April 2014, 19:32
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Oh Flamethrower: Rivers of blood and mountains of corpses will not stand in your way nor the tears of wailing widows. Find your envy and hatred and I will give you all that you desire.
12 April 2014, 16:50
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Geha, do you know under what kind of constraint the army is? Let's thank God that we still have an army working, let us just leave it the room it needs, and soon it will free us from the mafia, of both Ms that it.
12 April 2014, 18:12
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FT - in one month, Rifi and Mashnouq did more to immpose security than the former government ever did. It is true that there is an Iranian Saudi convergence of interest (Syrian regime is out of the game) to stabilize Lebanon, but for now we have the right men in the rigt positions.
12 April 2014, 20:40
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u're right ft, lets arrest all sunnis openly opposed to khamenei and wilayat al fakir, tortured & hanged them like in Iran...
13 April 2014, 04:47
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Executive branch is the same in the country for three yrs=army
What is changed? Political cover during M8 government failed country and weakened the executive branch, we are currently enjoying a real executive branch with real political cover, you just fail to admit that tripoli is now safer than before and the citizens can sell tomatoes and potatoes in bab al tabeneh. Thank you to riffi,mashnuq and our executive branch our brave men in uniform.
