Posted by: sadleb | May 11, 2008

Day 5: Mount Lebanon on fire, Lebanese Army takes control

Finally things seem to be going positively: the army is taking control of most of Beirut and the pro government parties are handing their weapons.

Siniora corrected himself after Ali Hassan from Amal party proved him wrong when the former said the ministry counsil hadn’t taken decision in its last meeting.

Tensions in Tripoli were still ongoing. The most noticeable event on this day was the clashes that began to happen in Mount Lebanon between PSP militants and the democratic party (headed by Arslan) militants. The PSP has shown that it is ready to fight with all its strenghts and fears nothing especially after it had executed 2 Hezbollah militants it had kidnapped the day before. The house of Ghazi AlAridi (PSP) was hit by a rocket. Nevertheless the clashes stopped before 7 pm, then Jumblatt appeared on TV claiming he is ready to cooperate with Arslan to hand in his weapons to the army and keep the calm in the mountains

Finally at 7 pm, most parties have accepted the armies request to stop all violence.

The Arab foreign ministers have gathered…. Well…. as usual nothing much expected as outcome.

Yalla Inshallah things are getting better now….


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