Syrian conflict spread to Lebanon

Unrest in Syria spread last Saturday to Lebanon. The Lebanese authorities dispatched army units to Tripoli, the second largest city in Lebanon, with the goal of halting the ongoing clashes between supporters and opponents of the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Lebanese troops succeeded in blocking Bab Tabbana quarter, where radical Sunni groups are concentrated, as well as the Jebel Mohsen district, which is inhabited by Alawites who support the Syrian President Assad.

Syrian troops were in Lebanon a couple of years ago. However, after Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in this country as a result of the terrorist attack, Damascus, under pressure from the West, was forced to withdraw its army units from Lebanon. The administration of former US President George W. Bush has charged the Syrian authorities with all the charges of Hariri’s murder.

Rashid Kabbani, who is the supreme mufti of Lebanon, is seriously concerned about the clashes between the Sunnis and the Alawites. He appealed to the Lebanese army to restore order to Tripoli as quickly as possible and to stop all attempts to create civil strife there. Kabbani said that the conflict that has arisen in neighboring Syria requires additional efforts from the Lebanese leadership in order to preserve civil peace, national unity and harmony.

Some observers are inclined to associate events in the Lebanese city with measures taken by the army command to strengthen the security of the Lebanese border in response to the protests of the Syrian regime. Damascus claims that a significant part weapons, intended anti-government formations, comes precisely from Lebanon.

In addition, the Syrian authorities also claim that they are supplied with mined cars that were used to carry out the terrorist attacks in Aleppo and Damascus. Last Friday, in the city of Tripol, one of the warehouses exploded where weapons intended to be smuggled to Syria were stored.

As a result of clashes that occurred on Saturday in the north of Lebanon, 2 people were killed.

Lebanon’s leadership maintains a neutral position in the Syrian crisis and a policy of non-interference in the affairs of the neighboring state. Meanwhile, Saad Hariri, the son of Rafik Hariri, who is the leader of the opposition, openly supports opponents of the Assad regime. He said that the time had come to take the Syrian National Council, based in Istanbul, "as the legal representative of the Syrian people."

Comments

[tronin.maxim]

This American terror is spreading by leaps and bounds already to Lebanon. It is comforting that the Lebanese government quickly and competently reacted in this situation.

[Owl]

A fire, sometimes, starts with one random spark, but now the "great world democratizer", for the sake of possessing a monopoly on OIL, does not drop "sparks" but from a "flamethrower" pours. A war can be started quickly, but ending a war is difficult and very long. Now, after all the "revolutionary" events in the Middle East, the war will spread in all directions and will creep even in those who once supported this war, thinking that it will not touch him. The war can only be defeated together, and this, in the near future, is unattainable (a simple example is the Caucasus, the "probable allies" fanned the fire of the war in the 80s, and it has been burning and not extinguishing for over 30 years).

[ikrut]

Apparently, since the "struggle for liberalization and democratization" began to stall strongly, the Pindos had to begin to change it by fighting for "true Islamic values." So they harnessed Alkaida. And Lebanon. It will be more serious, of course, but only the result of the Pindos will also be more difficult to predict. IMHO.

[Uralm]

Lebanon once went this way. I hope they haven’t lost their memory and will not repeat mistakes