Geagea calls for forming a popular ‘brigade’ to protect the Bekaa area

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Samir-Geagea 100Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea declared  Friday that his party  would support the creation of a popular brigade to defend border towns in the Bekaa area against any jihadist attack, while stressing that such a paramilitary force should only operate under the supervision of the Lebanese army.

In a speech in Maarab during a Lebanese Forces  ceremony, Geagea called for “preventing the movement of arms and gunmen convoys across the border and halting some parties’ continued involvement in the Syrian conflict.”

Geagea  was apparently referring to Hezbollah, which has dispatched fighters into neighboring Syria to bolster Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime against an Islamist-led uprising.

He suggested that the Lebanese state “exert strenuous efforts with the relevant regional and international sides in order to deploy international observers along our eastern border to help the army in the mission of controlling and defending the border.”

Geagea said he supports  vigilante groups that have been created in some eastern border towns to fend off any attack by Syria-based extremist groups  “if it is making the residents feel reassured and safe, ” but he stressed that such groups must operate under the army’s supervision, and “not for the benefit of political parties that brought the Syrian war to Lebanon’s gates.” In another reference to Hezbollah .

Geagea proposed the formation of “a brigade from the Lebanese army supporters, comprised of the sons of the Bekaa border towns who are seeking to guards their towns and villages .”

In reference to the presidential vacuum he underlined that “the fate of four million Lebanese and their political and economic life” should not remain suspended over “the equations in the region and Iran’s share in them.”

“Impeding the presidential vote has not brought a strong president but rather vacuum,” Geagea pointed out, warning that the protracting presidential void might “undermine the political, security and monetary stability.”

“The only way to restore the regularity of the work of institutions … is the immediate election of a president, a president representative who also has the ability to reassure all Lebanese,” he added.

 

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58 responses to “Geagea calls for forming a popular ‘brigade’ to protect the Bekaa area”

  1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    i am wandering what execuses hezbollah and their supporters going to find to blame this call on Geagea. but of course anything that falls under the gov’t control it doesn’t suit them.he will be still called Wahabi and paid by the saudis. as if Aoun and Bassil woke one day and found several hundred millions dollars in their lap. Let alone Nassrallah and his entourage.. when did Nassrallah leave the house to make hundreds of millions of dollars? why is it that’s okay for him to get that much money a year? i am not jealous ok i am i just want one million lol. otherwise those of us who are fighting to defend these guys are not getting paid. so why are we fighting?

    1. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
      Michaelinlondon1234

      It is a region grab by Geagea and his party…
      Better if they set up there groups as fire fighters. This effectively is the same structure as military, Can coordinate with Local services..And has the added advantage of during the hot months being able to help put out fires in forests and orchards. No reason as fire fighters they can not have light arms training. and fire fighting equipment.

      1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
        nagy_michael2

        he is not advocating to grab anything and again folks all he is asking to be under the command of the LAF. here you are everybody jumping on him for no reasons. i am not saying the guy is a Saint but again if hezbollah doing it. all of you would say well somebody needs to protect lebanon from extremists. again he is saying if you going to have group of fighters along the border so keep them under the control of the army. what’s wrong with that? when he said let’s not fight in Syria Every M8 said he is a wahabi.. who protected lebanon when assad and his troops were bombarding and torturing lebanon. Not Saudi arabia, not the syrian populations who even once protested the brutality of their regime against us. Yet we had Hezbollah standing guard to help the syrian army tortured us. why do we have to fight Assad dirty war.. the resistance as it stands was created by Syria and Iran under the umbrella of protecting Lebanon even though we had reservations about that we accepted the fact they were doing great by kicking Israel butt in 1990’s. we have since Iranian general lining up to say that Lebanon is a second front for Iran and we will do as we will with Hezbollah. and you guys jumping on Geagea for calling on Militias to be controlled by the LAF.. do you know how ridiculous you all sound?

        1. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
          Michaelinlondon1234

          Read with interest what you have to say…
          The section you left out on this is western involvement in the equation. Your hole argument is based on promoting western interests. Not objective or balanced.
          Like I said fire fighting teams in each town and village would have the same structure as early armies and militias..But the advantage is that they save life and property…Not just kill. Costs less to organise, equip and set up. With the increase in orchards and gradually increase in forests it is needed.
          If you save 100 acres of wheat crop from being burnt that is over 3000 tones of crop.

          1. What is it with shites and lack of education?
            A “hole” is not a whole!

          2. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            Thank you for the spell check and edit advice.
            So what do you think of a volunteer fire service which would benefit every one?

          3. As long as they put out that shite fire.

          4. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            Fine then read this site….the history and structure
            http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/about-us

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            (she loves editing … ;-)))

          6. Looks who’s barking. You are one sad lonely old fart

          7. nagy_michael2 Avatar
            nagy_michael2

            it’s always western involvement but you hardly mention Iran or accuse them of any wrongdoings.. nobody is clean but again the west is more human then the east. it was the US and western allies who stopped the serbian from killing muslims. it was the the US who interfered to help Europe against Hitler. yes they have done wrong many times but if you weigh the goods and the bad the west comes out way better. many countries are taking refugees from the east while their own countries treat them like shit. we all come here to the the US and then we don’t like them but it’s okay to work here and benefit from it but no heaven forbids if they go against Iran or Syria or Saddam.. yes i wanted Saddam to stay in power as a leverage against Iran but in the end he was a dictator with his two clowns who brutally murdered many shiites and kurds. and how many buildings and fields the syrian and iran burned in Lebanon? the syrians kept killing us for 30 years plus and hezbollah is finishing the job. tell me why did we have 2006 war? because iran wanted to try the new technology and free samir quntar.. anything else can you say about that war? why did hezbollah take over beirut and shot anyone in site? what is hezbollah doing taking over christians land in Jubeil and other areas? just last year a hezbollah member shot and killed a christian girl in a bar for refusing entry.. his name was Ali Hussein and he was labeled as palestinians but he ran to dahia. why didn’t he run to the camps instead? stop build fantasies in your mind about the west. it all starts and ends with us. take for example Lebanon we invite the bears to our country to protect our own turf. in the end you can’t blame those bears for divide and conquer we are to blame.. Bassil when he was electricity minister he promised us 24 hours electricity then we got 2 and hardly any water. every asshole we have all they do is pocket their money and we fight each other here and other like cats and dogs and protect these mother fuckers and we have not learned anything.
            All i was saying that geagea is saying keep it under the law umbrealla and you jackasses jumped on his back. i do not like anyone involved in the war but at least what he is saying is common sense. he is not out there paralyzing the country for the likes of Roukoz who by the way failed misreably to plan the attacks in Sida against Assir and got more then 20 troops killed in matters of hours.. why do we want to allow such stupid man to lead the army?

          8. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            Do you know that when western civilisations invaded/ Migrated to the Americas the burnt all the Books of the aztecs.
            In the US….Well I am sure you know the history of chopping down forests and taking the locals land? Symptomatically all I see with the USA is a self styled empire rising of the backs of every one else. This is just historical fact.
            Re wars in Europe and the middle east…We have been chasing each other around for thousands of years. Use any label’s you like.
            Re Bassil…Under his watch the 2 power barges were brought in from Turkey and a new on land power plant almost finished commissioning. He was moved to the foreign office after putting plans together for Oil exploration …..Still sitting in parliament 2 years latter. We all know America is trying to move in on that…God knows who was suppose to commission dams? I understand the Americans put spanners in the works of that…
            Mean while…

            First phase of Ningbo Metro Line 2 completes unloaded test runCovering a total length of 28 kilometers, the first phase
            of the city’s line two, successfully completed its first test run in
            unloaded condition.

            The test run was conducted on the morning of July 7. Liu Qi, member of
            the Standing Committee and secretary of the Ningbo Municipal Party
            Committee, was among the first passengers to ride aboard the new train
            cars.
            So how is Lebanon railway line getting on?

          9. nagy_michael2 Avatar
            nagy_michael2

            yes blame america they give you weapons but they are afraid to give you electricity? or america wanted to hog the project.. if they wanted to, they had decades to do it why now?
            i blame many civilizations for death and destruction and i am talking about the past decade.. Stallin killed millions of russians and so did hitler.. currently we have North Korea who forget other nations murdering his own people and starving them. so why is South Korea striving when the US base is there? Bassil was electric minister for two terms practically.. and who has been deciding the gov’t the past decades since hariri is gone? why is it every time an M14 supporter gets killed it’s israel or no one can find the bastards. but when they hit dahia they’re found within hours.. stop the B.S man and all i ask forget the west forget the arabs look inward toward lebanon and let’s stop fighting for the sake of these ministers who has done anything whether it’s m14, m8 and m16. again if a politician seek reconciliations and wanted people to protect their area under the control of the army what’s wrong with this picture. let’s focus on that and stop mixing so many gyrations here.

          10. michael is actually Hussein from Tehran

          11. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            You and your fantasy’s…And you have not answered the question of what you think about a volunteer fire brigade….

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            Michaelinlondon1234

            2 hours ago

            As long as they put out that shite fire.

          13. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            The ‘Professional fire-fighters’ wouldn’t enter the area where the street-battle was going on with the army, so a friend’s home burned up over 8 hours because a small fire was started in a store, which could have been put out in 10 minutes otherwise. The fumes&smoke also killed an old guy sleeping with an open window, who was not in danger from the fire.
            Now, what do you think the ‘response time’ would be with a volunteer brigade who normally have other jobs to do as well.

          14. Geez give it up already with your virtual friends in tripoli. Why would a young doctor in tripoli want to be with an old drunk?

          15. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            5 to 10 minutes in a situation like that as some of them would be neighbours. I am not suggesting getting rid of the professionals.

          16. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            And you actually Aisha from Raqqa performing Jihad el Nikah.

          17. Do half cocks believe in the koran?

          18. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            You really have no idea about American imperialism..
            I think you should do a lot more research on the subject.
            AlI was suggesting is that it would be more usefully to society to have a volunteer fire brigade. You have not answered why you have issues with this….

          19. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            “Under his watch the 2 power barges were brought in from Turkey” – after much haggling over the idea that more Lebanese (than hotel owners) should be allowed some electricity for more than too many years (while we know some don’t pay their bills at all let alone regularly), to decide who’s private pocket and how much the ‘kick-back’ from a Company Contract would go to; and then ‘someone’ promptly supplied the wrong fuel to screw up the engines, which cut the output again anyway, and cost ALL for the repairs which (under contract) had to be made.
            If you think Americans are controlling the Babble of Baabda, just because ‘the assumed confessional country’ decided to make the contract with the Turkish Company rather than the American Company, then you need to bring out ALL the babble that went on while ‘the people’ suffer with the fact nothing really changed. (maybe bills went up)

          20. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            I do like your sense of cynicism. If the deals had been done in the UK you would have been swarmed by US contractors…Unless the US wanted to do a “Favour” or the UK wanted to do some “leverage”…

          21. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I managed to find one of those old Aztec books, buried under some rubble, and hid it away for many years. It has an interesting calendar that ended – I think because they ran out of space to continue it – and now some people still claim it ‘predicts’ (like Prophets) that the world, as we know it, has already ended.

          22. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            They did a lot of maths and weather /season observation….
            By all accounts very accurate

          23. nagy_michael2 Avatar
            nagy_michael2

            All we are talking about Geagea asking for brigade to be formed under the armed forces. you are bringing centuries and i am bringing now. we are talking about people who have been hurting lebanon for the past 40 years. i live in the US and i am proud to be americans and i am ever grateful to this country. if you don’t like it then feel free to go back to wherever you came from nobody is stopping you. we are talking about people who have been killing us in Lebanon and you guys keep venturing somewhere in the aztec land. who cares what happened two hundred years ago. the turks also caused massacre against christians by arming the muslims. you don’t see us go around and protesting and asking for reparations. my grandmother told me the families ate their kids and orange peelings and garbage because the turks took everything from them. i am talking about many good american leadership and yes there are bad ones but at least these people are accepting many people in the country from many walks of life. you always want to point the bad and they ugly. show some appreciation.. what have the Syrians regime done for Lebanon except kill us and rob us with the help of Hezbollah and lebanese traitors..

          24. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            Geagea has killed a lot of people over the years to achieve power.
            As you quite rightly point out you live in the USA not Lebanon…
            Re America..It is trying to build its empire the same way Germany,Ottoman, Britain and other European countries have over the years…..
            Does this justify the USA slaughtering its way in to Syria?.
            my grandmother told me the families ate…What period in history? Certainly not recent…
            Quote” at least these people are accepting many people”
            The USA has always had restrictions on who can migrate….
            Quote “what have the Syrians regime done for Lebanon except kill us and rob us”
            I could rewrite that with the USA regime doing similar….
            If every one involved spent as much time on planting forests, Upgrading water systems and education and reserch. as they spend on trying to kill each other and political power…How much better would Lebanon be?
            Lebanon had billions in “Aid” from the USA most went on arms and political control…..Trade balance is lousy between lebanon and the US…

          25. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Tribes, Michael … Tribes. You need people thinking ‘Country’ first.
            They can’t even think ‘City’ as ‘one’, most of the time.

          26. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            Point taken…Just have to keep batting… There is a very nice silent comedy film about different fire brigades turning up to put a fire out…Lots of conflict over who is going to. While the place is robbed and the building burns down…

          27. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
            Michaelinlondon1234

            I would like you to think about something.
            The USA, Europe and South east Asia (Including china)
            Extract millions of cubic meters of forests from South America and Africa each year…How much do we replant?
            Assuming we have between 20-30 years of material left that can be cut down…Where are your children and grandchildren going to even see a forest? I am possibly overstating the case but not by much…

          28. well said Nagy.

          29. samir cunt-ayr more like it

        2. “not the syrian populations who even once protested the brutality of their regime against us.”

          That is unfair and ridiculous!
          The Syrian population couldn’t protest against the government’s brutality against their own people! Perfect example of what happened when they did is Hama 1982 and Syria 2011!!
          Stop fucking blaming the Syrian population for the actions of the alawites!
          I wonder how brave you would have been in that situation!

          1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
            nagy_michael2

            so why did they protest in 2011 then if they were so afraid? we were treated as a second class citizen in our country. if we ever said anything bad to any syrians who was cheating us all he did call the army on us and we were beaten and practically run over.
            again tell me if they were not afraid why did the start the revolution in the first place?

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Like in Egypt the Syrian Moslem Brootherhood ..remember the first massacred in the so called “revolution”, Homs Christian province.

          3. Fuck off whore! The first massacred were Muslims in daara!! You lying Iranian shite whore!
            You don’t give a fuck about Christians, taqqiya whore!

          4. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            Well you can’t really classify them as Muslims. I mean they Sunni’s after all.

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            LOLOL ….

          6. You are a disgusting white supremacist senile old fart. Go get drunk and piss yourself. How’s your wife?
            :))))

          7. Are you seriously asking that question????

          8. nagy_michael2 Avatar
            nagy_michael2

            well you said the reason they didn’t protest against the regime remember hama in 1982. all i was telling if they were afraid to protest against their regime that was brutally killing lebanese why did they protest since 4 years ago? why weren’t afraid?

          9. Something about a “Arab spring” maybe.
            L3t me ask you this; would you have protested, the Syrian atrocities committed in Lebanon, in Syria?
            And if you did protest the what would have have happened to you ?
            What would the alawite dogs have done to you?

            One other thing, why did the Lebanese only get the courage to protest against the Syrian occupation only AFTER Harriri was massacred by Hezbollah ?

          10. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            The Alawites would have done what they are doing to your fellow Omar animal followers. Stepping on your filthy heads. Bwahahahahaha.
            Have you gone to seek help regarding the sexual abuse.
            Daddy must have stuck it to you REAL good.

          11. Omar must be your daddy. You seem overly obsessed with Omar.
            Xx

      1. There it goes hinding again

      2. nagy_michael2 Avatar
        nagy_michael2

        Hind all he is asking that the brigade be reporting and under the control of the army command. i do not want to read trash. even when he is trying to do good you have to always stick him as Saudi. while your boys fucking lebanon left and right and you are still ignoring it. you people keeping playing with fire and you are going to burn lebanon once and for all. they started their adventure in 2005 and then 2006 then 2008 and then 2011. i am tired of aoun and nassrallah and i am tired of hearing saudi this and saudi that.. get over it and be lebanese for a change.

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Saudis: Iran, Hezbollah, Christians , to take Beyrouth !??

          1. Make sense you dumb slag

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          When i was a child i heard my uncle say..el dahab bil shisma want their brothel to be in Beyrouth.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Here again, however, the world’s oldest Trade makes choices. A brothel can be kind to it’s workers, or not, depending on both it’s ‘House Rules’, the allowed Clientele, and it’s Tops.
            The best ones have always been well managed, and fair in the pension plans.
            And then, there’s Russian ones ….

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            And then, there’s 1000 & 1 lashes for bad service…

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            A modification of Russian ones. ;-)))

          4. Obviously you provided good service

        3. Now they are words that make the hair on the back of your neck stand. . . Be Lebanese for a change. . read it slowly and let it sink in.
          Why do we care about what Iran wants, what Saudi intentions are, what the west wants to dictate. . to hell with them all. . . Stand fast, unite and repel borders. Each sect has warrior blood and look at the defending and attacking that was done from 75-90, imagine, imagine just for a min that they all stood together under the SAME flag the Lebanese flag. . . now that would be a force to recon with. . .

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Oh .. Geagea … you begin to disappoint me … why not just call them ‘Police’???

  3. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
    Maborlz Ez-Hari

    Here’s a new twist, thanks Dr G, you just threw egg over the faces of Many of your supporters. Civilians are civilians and the defence forces are the defence forces. Your idea gives HA loyalists a degree of credibility and God knows they don’t need this assumption backed by any members of government. Give the army more unity not more diversity, I trust he had a lapse in judgement and will reconsider this approach. The enemy wants division and Lebanon can’t afford a divided population.

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