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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Baidoun: Political Shiism Must Correct Its Mistakes, Lebanon Can't Have Two Armies
2011-02-15
[An Nahar] Former minister and AMAL Movement defector Mohammed Abdul Hamid Baidoun on Monday called on "political Shiism" in Leb to "correct its mistakes."

Speaking at a ceremony organized by the March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
 forces to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the liquidation of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, Baidoun said: "We have said more than once that the Resistance
That'd be the Hezbullies, natch...
 (Hizbullah) considers its weapons sacred
I can never keep the military lingo straight. Are the sacred weapons called rifles or guns?
and that a majority of the Lebanese considers the (Special) Tribunal (for Leb) and justice sacred."

As he stressed that "everyone respects the Resistance's achievements,"
Which include getting the Shiite part of Lebanon pounded to rubble the last time they 'resisted' Israel.
Baidoun went on to say that Hizbullah "cannot go on as a separate army and Leb cannot have an army that is subject to accountability -- the Lebanese Army -- and the Resistance's army, which is above accountability."

"If the Resistance wants to go on as an army, it should behave like the Lebanese Army, which does not interfere in politics and whose arms do not belong to a sect or a group," Baidoun told a rally of several-thousand people at the Beirut International Exhibition and Leisure Center (BIEL).

Addressing the issue of the U.N.-backed tribunal probing ex-PM Hariri's murder, Baidoun stressed that "the international tribunal is not a conspiracy," adding that "not everything issued by the (U.N.) Security Council is a conspiracy."

On January 12, Hizbullah and its allies toppled Saad Hariri's cabinet in a long-running feud over the STL.

Hizbullah-backed Najib Miqati was then appointed to form a new government, which Hariri's alliance has refused to join and has labeled "Hizbullah's government".

Hariri has refused to join Miqati's government unless he guarantees his cabinet will see the tribunal through.

Hizbullah meanwhile is demanding Leb end all cooperation with the court, which it says is a U.S.-Israeli conspiracy.
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Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-02-15 00:46  

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