Charbel: All Politicians in Lebanon Could be Target of Assassinations
Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel has warned that all politicians in Lebanon were under the threat of being targeted in assassination attempts.
In remarks to pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat published on Sunday, Charbel said: “Security forces are taking measures in coordination with several personalities, who are threatened to be assassinated in Lebanon, including caretaker PM Najib Miqati.”
His remark came after reports that Miqati's name was on the list of politicians who are targeted.
The security forces are “also taking measures on the level of the entire country to preserve the safety of citizens,” Charbel said.
The caretaker minister refused to name the personalities who are under the assassination threat, saying “every person who deals with public affairs is threatened.”
A car bomb blew up Saturday near a gas station in the town of Hermel in northeast Lebanon, killing several people.
The bomb was the second to hit Hermel, in the latest attack that appeared linked to the war in neighboring Syria.
Charbel said that "given the human remains in the car and next to it, it seems like a suicide attack, but we will not rush to judgment.”
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cityboy aka mowaten, I am happy to be the first one to vote you down on the most logical post you have posted to date.
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yes, yes... let me fill you in on the latest scoop. We have gathered more than 200,000 signatures for a petition to be submitted to the White House asking for his deportation to Dahiyeh.
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some people are seriously stupid, and they think everyone else should be like them!
is there a single person on this earth who doubts that m14 politicians are being blown up by m8?
please explain to the above idiot, maybe he will start understanding what is going on.
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Yes "planet mowaten"
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In theory Charbel is right of course. In real life the picture is a whole lot different. Statistics from previous assasinations speak for itself. I am sure there are sunni-extremists who have popped up over the last few years who could be willing to carry out such assasinations against M8-leaders, but so far they are not that organized and trained. To carry out a targeted assasination you need a lot of ground work, intelligence, training and logistics. Syrian government and their allies in Lebanon has got all of that.
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I think you have the IQ of a chimp
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"all politicians in Lebanon were under the threat of being targeted in assassination attempts."
M14 more than others ma heik ? lol
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Just kill them all- March 8 & March 14... let us Ctrl+Alt+Delete and restart where we were in 1991- thank you!
I have a tendency to believe charbel for once: m8 politicians seem to be a reasonable target for the sunnis extremists.
it seems they are getting finally what they deserve after assassinating so many people from m14.
this does not make me particularly happy, but nevertheless, it is about time they get to taste a bit of what they have been doing for years.
if ever miqati is really on the list, then m8 will lose their puppet prime minister :)