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40 Army Officers Submitted their Resignation, Suleiman Rejected

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Wednesday, 14 May 2008

The Lebanese army's deputy chief intelligence Brig. Gen. Ghassan Balaa and some 40 officers loyal to the government have submitted their resignation in protest of "the way the military handled the latest violence in Lebanon," press reports said Wednesday. They said army commander Gen. Michel Suleiman, however, has rejected their resignation after summoning some of them. This is what prompted Suleiman to tell his officers that no regular force can contain what Lebanon had experienced -- a civil war. Suleiman reportedly made the remarks in messages addressed to all army officers, in the first such practice in the history of the military establishment. "What has happened in the streets of Lebanon is a real civil war that no national army in the world can confront. Major states encountered such wars and its armies could not contain the fight," Suleiman's message said. Such armies had been "disintegrated," Suleiman noted. "We should not permit outbreak of the civil war," Suleiman told the officers. However, he noted that containing a civil war can be achieved by political efforts. Suleiman said goodwill efforts exerted both domestically and outside Lebanon could result in "settlements to the crisis. We hope such settlements would be reached soon."

 

 

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