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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea: We Will Not Perform Any Routine Duty until Assassinations End
2012-11-22
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
issued on Wednesday an open letter to Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
, condemning the continued parliamentary meetings in light of the 25 liquidations and failed liquidation attempts in Leb in the past few years.

He declared: "We will not perform any routine duty until liquidations in Leb end."

"Isn't it a crime to convene parliament as if nothing has happened after the 25 liquidations and failed attempt
Curses! Foiled again!
s?" he wondered.

"Tell me, isn't it a crime that six MPs have been killed for political purposes since 2005 without parliament once coming to a stop?" he continued.

Parliament never once halted its routine duties and remained in a constant state of session to tackle these crimes, noted Geagea.

No one was held accountable for the liquidations and no plan was set in place to stop them, he remarked.

"Don't you feel embarrassed to meet at parliament with a political camp that has been legally accused of being behind the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri?" asked the LF leader.

Four Hizbullah members have been accused of being involved in the 2005 liquidation of Hariri.

The Lebanese authorities have failed to arrest them and they remain on the lam.

"What kind of political life lives under the constant threat of political violence and liquidations?" Geagea wondered to Berri.

"What kind of political life is this where a parliamentarian is targeted because he has a high chance of being victorious in the upcoming parliamentary elections?" he continued.

"Aren't you covering up the crimes, directly and indirectly, by acting normally after each one is committed?" he asked.

"I believe it is time for us, regardless of our political affiliations, to call for an end to political liquidations," he stressed to the speaker.

The March 14-led opposition announced its boycott of government-linked activity, including the national dialogue and parliament sessions, in light of the liquidation of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau chief Brigadier General Wissam al-Hasan.

Hasan was killed in a massive car boom in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh district on October 19.

The opposition accused Syria of being behind the crime and blamed the government, which is comprised of mainly pro-Syrian allies, of covering up crime.
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