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The head of the unconstitutional government and his ruling decided in the longest cabinet session yet in Lebanese history, to label "illegal and unconstitutional" the Resistance communications network. Saniora and his team also decided to remove airport security Chief Brigadier General Wafiq Shqeir to rejoin the army command.
The US-backed ruling bloc decisions came one day ahead of a general strike to be held across Lebanon to protest the deteriorating economic and social situation due to Saniora's policies.
The decision by the unconstitutional government will prompt the opposition, mainly the Amal Movement and Hezbollah to take certain steps to preserve the sanctity of the resistance that liberated Lebanon from Israeli occupation in 2000 and defeated the most aggressive army in the Middle East in August 2006.
The governmental statement considers the Resistance a legitimate act to liberate the remainder of occupied lands and therefore its arms are also legitimate. In the wake of the 2006 war against Lebanon, Israel admitted that Hezbollah's communication network had played a significant role in defeating Israel. Hezbollah stressed targeting the communications network is like targeting the arms of the Resistance, which is a red line.
Hezbollah's deputy Secretary General Sheik Naim Kassem warned Monday against "playing with fire" and vowed "tough resistance" against anybody who stands in its way.
"Hezbollah will deal with those who interfere with the network as if they were Israeli spies," he said. Sheikh Kassem also stressed that the network was "identical" to Hezbollah arms and "part of its security." "The Israelis, with all their might, couldn't nail the resistance," Sheikh Kassem said.
The decision to remove B.G. Shqeir will also prompt Muslim Shiite powers in the opposition to act so that immunity of Muslim Shiite official posts remains intact.
Hours earlier, the vice president of the Higher Islamic Shiite Council Sheikh Abdul Amir Kabalan said he conveyed a message to Saniora that removing Shqeir would be viewed as an unprecedented violation that will lead to undesired repercussions.
For his part, the head of the Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Aoun defended Hezbollah's communications network, stressing "there are other private communications networks than Hezbollah's." "Finding a camera on airport road is not a security penetration," Aoun said. "The road to Bekfaya is full of cameras and they monitor us all the time," he added.
Aoun also defended Hezbollah's activity in Kesrwan and Jbeil provinces, noting that the "Lebanese Forces exist in Rmeish and Qleiaa (south Lebanon) and they move freely. Why Hezbollah shouldn't move in Kesrwan and Byblos?"
He launched a vehement attack on Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat. "Who is Walid Jumblat to speak about Kesrwan and Jbeil? Jumblat is factional and bloody."
He addressed Jumblatt saying that if he's so concerned about Christians, then let him bring back the Christians to their homes in his Chouf region.
Aoun called for demonstrations on Wednesday to topple Saniora's government, however, he stressed: "Rioting is banned. Security forces are responsible for banning riots, not preventing demonstrations."
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Fadlallah: Network that Defeated Israel Not Secret
Suddenly, and after the presidential election was top priority that should precede anything else, the ruling bloc in Lebanon has decided to play another game. They have proceeded in a flagrant campaign against the national opposition, namely Hezbollah; a campaign founded on hallucinations and baseless accusations.
Indeed, the sequence of these hallucinations and accusations against Hezbollah didn't come out of the blue. Apparently, the are organized campaigns to harm the picture of the resistance.
MP Walid Jumblatt appointed himself the chief of this orchestra. He started by accusing Hezbollah of "kidnapping" a French socialist representative. In the same week, the Lebanese MP attacked the party claiming it was planning a security operation against the airport. Jumblatt's words came as the Israeli media was revealing that Hezbollah had thwarted a massive Israeli security operation in the southern suburb of Beirut, adding that Jumblatt was part of it. Then came the issue of the Resistance's communications network.
MP FADLALLAH: INVESTIGATION SHOULD BE ON HOW DATA WAS LEAKED TO JUMBLATT
Member of Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Hasan Fadlallah retorted slamming Jumblatt's accusations to Hezbollah of monitoring runway 17 at the Beirut international airport as "baseless fabricated story." He emphasized that the containers alongside the cameras were property of "Jihad Al-Binaa'" construction institution put in a private owned land outside the airport. Fadlallah noted that any investigation in the case should start by questioning how official documents have been leaked to the hands of Jumblatt and some media outlets, especially that these documents "as Jumblatt himself said, were secret ones."
On the Resistance's communications network, Fadlallah said that the Israeli enemy had admitted upon its defeat in the 2006 war, that this network was one of the most efficient tools in the confrontation. He added that the resistance possessing a communications network was not a secret. "The network is part of the resistance arms and should not be harmed," he said, stressing that this network was "contrary to how they portray it was limited," denying that it extends to Keserwan - Jbeil.
Fadlallah also said that raising this issue now and handing over secret maps to the United Nations would only benefit Lebanon's enemy; Israel.
HEZBOLLAH: ALL FURIOUS CAMPAIGNS WON'T SUCCEED; RESISTANCE WILL REMAIN STRONG
Earlier, Hezbollah commented on a statement issued by the ruling bloc and the "Jama'a Islamiya" in Eklim al-Kharroub (the Kharroub District) who attempted to attack the party over a fire incident that happened in the Sa'adiyat region seven days ago. The party considered the very late statement as part of the organized campaign against the resistance in harmony with the "terrorist report " by the US Department of State on Hezbollah.
Hezbollah's media relations said Sunday in a statement that the party urged the ruling bloc, the Americans and Israelis to realize that such furious campaigns won't succeed, stressing that Hezbollah along its resistance would remain strong in the face of all conspiracies, namely the Zionist-American scheme against Lebanon and its people.
A SCHEME TO INTERNATIONALIZE THE AIRPORT?
Meanwhile, sources warned that Jumblatt's campaign against Beirut's International Airport and its security body comes in the framework of a scheme to internationalize the airport and request UN interference so that the ruling bloc would control it.
In this context, retired brigadier general Walid Sukkariyeh told Al-Manar TV that the resistance should refuse the presence of the United Nations in the centre of the southern suburb of Beirut. "The resistance should refuse any change in the situation at the airport, or that it becomes under full control of the ruling bloc, because this would mean that the airport will be in the hand of US intelligence," he said. Sukkariyeh also warned that the ruling bloc was seeking to seize the airport "so that they can freely move, bring people and tools, perhaps weapons, without being covered by the opposition or the resistance."
RULING BLOC TERRIFYING ACCUSATIONS HAVE KILLED TOURISM SEASON!
Another important remark is that Jumblatt, through his organized campaign, followed US Undersecretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch and Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea on the course of damaging Lebanon's tourism season, intimidating Arab and foreign tourists as well as emigrants.
Economic expert Louis Hobeika told Al-Manar that all these accusations and the intimidations would result in killing the tourism season. "When you hit the airport security or at least raise doubts on it, then you are damaging the tourism in the whole country."
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