March 14: Targeting the Military is Taboo

The March 14 majority alliance on Tuesday warned against a “suspicious campaign” by the Hizbullah-led opposition targeting the Lebanese Army, saying it would not allow it.

The secretariat-general of the alliance said in a statement the “suspicious campaign launched by some factions of March 8 persisted despite publication of the initial report on investigations into the Mar Mikhael incidents.”

Such a campaign, the statement said, “aims at distorting facts and making purposeless charges aimed at raising doubt in loyalties” of military personnel.

 

“The March 14 forces warn against persistence with this suspicious attack on the army that falls within the framework of a programmed plan to tear down state institutions in favor of creating a state that does not represent the Lebanese.

 

“The plot targets first the nomination of Gen. Michel Suleiman for president as well as the national role of the military establishment,” it noted.

 

“Any devoted Lebanese would not permit this to happen,” the statement concluded.