Akkar Ulemas Urge Judicial Council to Probe Abdul Wahed ‘Assassination’
Ulemas of the northern province of Akkar called on Monday for referring the killing of Sunni Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahed to the Judicial Council but rejected attempts to politicize the issue.
A statement read by Sheikh Khaldoun Oraymet described Abdul Wahed’s death as an “assassination by members of the Lebanese army which is respected by all the Lebanese.”
The Ulemas called on President Michel Suleiman, the government and the army command to speed up the investigation into the killing at an army checkpoint in the Akkar town of al-Kweikhat and take the “strongest punitive measures” against the soldiers who opened fire on the cleric.
They said the issue “should be referred to the Judicial Council because it carries the seeds of strife.”
The incident on Sunday also left Abdul Wahed’s aide Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Merheb dead and drove angry residents to the streets of several villages and towns where they blocked roads with burning tires.
The incident also spilled over to Beirut, where clashes between supporters of al-Mustaqbal movement and Arab Movement party near the Beirut Arab University in Tariq al-Jedideh, left two people dead.
Those who engaged in the Intifada in their quest for justice should withdraw from the streets and allow mourners to reach the town of al-Bireh for Abdul Wahed’s funeral, the statement of the conferees said.
Akkar’s Ulemas also urged the security forces to extend their authority over Lebanese territories. “There shouldn’t be any weapons except for the arms of the state.”
They also held onto “national unity and the institutions of the state, mainly the military institution.”
13 years
This guy in the picture carrying the ak47....do u think he can't sleep at night because he's worried about the future of Lebanon or is he just a paid militia man who if he was shot dead would become a mere number added to the casualties of our never ending civil war!
13 years
@lebneneh and FT
a small imaginative scenario
what if it was a christian cleric that was shot?
just reflect on this for a while, and I am sure you would reach a conclusion different than the one you have.
when things happen, I always try to put myself in the shoes of the others to try to understand their reactions.
hope this helps you see things the proper way.
13 years
Who are you talking to geha? Why do u assume I'm Christian. I didn't say anything that indicates either or. All I said is that if any of us cares about this little shit of a country no one would be holding arms against another Lebanese because that would destroy any idea of a country.
13 years
It is not about the cheikh that died only. It is about the marginalisation of the ''sunnite'' population, whether by attacking its last strong man ( ashraf rifi ) all the time, or the prime minister, or killing the cheikh. It about fairness, why do people from hezbollah are allowed to kill and provoke and then go hide in dahieh and the lebanese army never enters there? why does only the anti-syrian regime people in Lebanon get their ass kicked while in the pro-syrian protests there is no beating them up? this is what happens when your army sides with someone against another. The lebanese army is capable of finishing off all fighters in tripoli whatever side they are with. But no " political decision " has been made.
13 years
Skyfall all this talk is typically the Lebanese mud. It just stimulates emotions and leads us nowhere but revenge and counter revenge thus civil war. When the Lebanese individual realises that the fellow lebanese personal security is as important as his on security then we might consider having a proper country.
In a country were there is no one truth, only the cattle mentality prevail. For once, Lebanese unite and agree that the safety of our country and it's people is more important than any regional plan, goal or affiliation. How is raising arms against another Lebanese, for whatever reason, justifiable?!!