Pro- and Anti-Assad Regime Sit-ins in Tripoli Amid Heavy Security
Pro- and anti-Syrian regime sit-ins were held by scores of protestors in different districts of the northern city of Tripoli on Friday as the army and security forces took strong measures to prevent clashes.
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel has ordered security forces to take “extraordinary measures.” He told An Nahar daily that he ordered the measures after he was informed that several sit-ins were planned to protest Syrian President Bashar Assad’s crackdown on protestors.
Scores of protestors amassed outside several of the city’s mosques after prayers. Television footage showed dozens of demonstrators chanting slogans in favor of Assad while other protestors in other areas calling on the Syrian president to introduce reform and stop the brutal crackdown.
“I have asked security officials in Tripoli to contain the demonstration in a certain area in order not to cause trouble,” Charbel said.
The army and the Internal Security Forces have made a heavy deployment in the city to avoid a recurrence of the clashes that left seven people dead last Friday.
The gunfight erupted between mainly Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh and the Alawite Jabal Mohsen following pro-Syrian people rallies in Tripoli.
Tripoli Mufti Sheikh Malek al-Shaar told An Nahar that he rejects demonstrations and marches. “They are useless because they won’t reach any objective.”
The Imam of a mosque in Bab al-Tabbaneh, Sheikh Mazen al-Mohammed, also told al-Akhbar newspaper that the district’s officials have “agreed to prevent demonstrations to spare the city any negative repercussions.”
“Any popular gathering would be prevented (from taking place) through all means out of keenness on the city,” al-Mohammed said.
almost 13 years
guys, stop responding to phenicien. he's a troll.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
almost 13 years
nice one phenicien. you end your first paragraph with "they better watch out , if they want to remain alive . " and start your next paragraph with "No to terrorism". you're an idiot....
almost 13 years
undefined: I don't think you know the definition of trolling, this is the second or third time i read you post the same message with a link to wiki, now that's absolutely trolling in world's defintion book, it seems you posted the very defintion of what your actions represent.
almost 13 years
and why are they allowed to demonstrate in tripoli in the first pace?
Can we not just for once stop pocking for trouble? What have we got to do with the assad regime?? they left lebanon 6 years ago...
almost 13 years
@ leb_atheist ,
FYI and in case you dont know the rules of civilisations and democracies !! Killing a terrorist or more , is a MUST to save humanity and civilisation ..
I dont know where you live , but it look like you are of them . So you are dead .
almost 13 years
phenicien and his oral defecation again. please lecture us about civilisation! the syrian public is fed up with their system. your paranoid conspiracy theories about salafists don't really hold water.
almost 13 years
let le phenicien tell us what he wants: he makes the case of the supporters of the m8 even worse... he give us the image that all m8 are just a bunch of ignorants, haters of human kind, mouths full of insults, no respect for those who don t think like them (if we can say they think!!! given the IQ level of le phenicien!), that more than half of lebanon are conspirators and sionists and so on!
so let this clown talk, he tells us a lot about how the m8 think!
No matter what they do or say these Sunni salafi wahhaby terrorists in Tripoli , one thing is sure , Bashar is here to stay , and Saad will neverrrrrrrrrrrr come back .
They should also know that Ashraf Rifi is no longer the " boss" and cannot cover them anymore .. This time with the new government , they better watch out , if they want to remain alive .
No to terrorism , no to Islamisation of Tripoli and Lebanon , no to Hariristan , no to corruption , no to a Salafi Emirate , no to a Wahhaby Kingdom in Lebanon . If they are not happy about the new rules , let them join their boss Saad eben Rafik at the Plaza Athénée in Paris , he will take care of their expenses as usual on KSA's account .