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| Leb Security Forces Boost Measures near Egypt's Embassy over ISIL Threats | |
| 2015-03-13 | |
| [AnNahar] Security measures have been boosted near the Egyptian embassy in Beirut's Bir Hassan area after receiving threats from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq confirmed in comments published in al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... newspaper on Thursday the threats. "The Egyptian embassy informed the ministry in an official letter that it received threats from ISIL," Mashnouq pointed out, saying: "The concerned security apparatuses took precautionary measures near the mission's building." On Wednesday, Egyptian Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffer warned in a speech that his nation is facing an "existential war" in its battle against "terrorist groups." Speaking to a meeting of Arab interior ministers in Algeria, Ghaffar stressed that the danger posed by ISIL has escalated after local-area terror groups pledged allegiance to the organization. The Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ... Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... and similar local groups in Libya are now linked to ISIL, with Ansar having since changed name to "Sinai Province." Egypt proposed creating a joint Arab force to preserve Arab national security.
He called on the political arch-foes to immediately elect a new head of state to safeguard the country. Asked if his country will engage in a dialogue with Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , Zayed said that Egypt is open to any positive stance by the Lebanese rivals. "Egypt welcomed the dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement... the foreign ministry issued a statement that supports (Speaker Nabih) Berri's efforts to defuse tension," he remarked. He stressed that "the success of dialogue would end the presidential vacuum." Hizbullah kickstarted in December dialogue with al-Mustaqbal Movement under the auspices of Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... in Ain el-Tineh. President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... 's term ended in May without the election of a successor. Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps have thwarted the polls. | |
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