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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Some 500 of them blocked a main road leading into Tripoli on Monday and said
they would leave only after Mawlawi was released.
“We will stop when Shadi is freed,” said Abdel Qader Hamid, a
security guard at a Salafist Mosque in Tripoli. “If the army tries to
force us to leave, we will defend ourselves even if 100 of us have to die.”
Tripoli MP Mouin Mereebi said the situation was getting out of control in the
city and accused the army of failing to intervene to please the regime in
Damascus.
“The army does not want to intervene without political cover,” he
said. “Tripoli MPs have urged them to enter the areas (of clashes),
telling them we would walk in front of them, but they refused.”
Some security branches in Lebanon were acting in collusion with Assad’s regime
in a bid to prevent Tripoli from becoming a safe haven for Syrian refugees,
he charged.
But in the evening Lebanese army troops entered the rival neighbourhoods and
deployed in a Alawite and a Sunni area, an AFP correspondent said.
The army ordered gunmen off the streets, a security official said.
A total of eight people, including a soldier hit by sniper fire, have died in
the port city and dozens have been wounded since the fighting began.
The army said in a statement that two soldiers were wounded on Sunday night
when their patrol came under attack by armed men as they were trying to
reopen a freeway between the two neighbourhoods.
The fighting has forced all businesses and shops in and around the area where
the clashes are taking places to stay closed. Many residents fled at the
weekend and those who stayed behind were hiding in their homes.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati, a Sunni Muslim from Tripoli, met with religious
leaders in the city on Sunday and appealed for calm. Meetings between the
army, politicians and religious leaders were also held on Monday.
A security official told AFP on condition of anonymity that the situation
would eventually calm down but warned that the streets of Tripoli were “seething
with anger.”
Since the outbreak of the revolt in Syria in March 2011, a spillover has been
feared in Lebanon, where the government is dominated by a pro-Damascus
coalition led by the powerful Shiite group Hizbollah.
Tripoli is a conservative mainly Sunni town where many activists and opponents
of the Syrian regime have sought refuge.
Syrian authorities have repeatedly charged that arms and fighters are being
smuggled in from Lebanon to help the rebels fighting to overthrow Assad.
Source: AFP
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