Shahhal: New Defense Tactics to be Unveiled Soon, Arms Incident 'Exaggerated'
The founder of the salafist movement in Tripoli cleric Dai al-Islam al-Shahhal revealed on Monday that he will soon announce new defense tactics, pointing out that the army's confiscation of arms is being exaggerated.
“I will announce a new stage of defense,” Shahhal said in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.
He noted that the case of weapons seized by the army from salafist Sheikh Bilal Diqmaq's apartment last week is “being handled in a negative manner.”
“The matter is being exaggerated,” the cleric told the daily.
“We have every right to be cautious and take the necessary precautions amid the lack of security and the state's incapability.”
On Friday, the army confiscated weapons from Diqmaq's apartment and issued an arrest warrant against him, several days after a similar move against Shahhal over his political stances.
Shahhal had said that the confiscated arms belong to his guards.
For his part, Diqmaq told al-Joumhouria that “he acts according to his personal will.”
“We have never called for the rise of an Islamist Emirat, which has no foundations in Lebanon.”
He told the newspaper that he contacted Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi to inform him that he's under the law.
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over 9 years
no one should be allowed to have weapons except the armed forces.
the armed forces should confiscate all weapons with terrorists like this one, hizbushaitan and all their affiliates too.
any weapon outside the control of the Lebanese state is illegal, and owned by terrorists.
over 9 years
new defense tactics, new defense strategy, all of you people are terrorists.
over 9 years
well said flame lol
over 9 years
it must be the moderators making up all these accounts and deleting my comments.
over 9 years
Shahal is pure evil, the army must at all costs not spare him, for he is a man who is leaning on the side of the terrorists. Now Naharnet, feel free to delete but won't change the fact that Shahal is an evil man.
over 9 years
Burn his ugly beard.
over 9 years
Habib, I have the matches, anyone with paper, yes we need to burn his beard.
Arrest this jihadist terrorist and make him squeal.