Invraisemblable : les groupes armés de Tripoli, chargés depuis des années d’attaquer les alaouites pour le compte du mouvement de Saad Hariri, se rebellent : ils rejettent désormais leur manipulation par les salafistes et par le 14 Mars, et refusent de participer plus avant à la division des Libanais sur des bases sectaires.
Lebanon : Tripoli’s Armed Commanders Mutiny Against Future
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For years now they have been mobilized, armed, and funded to snipe at the adjacent Alawi neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen by either politicians belonging to the Future Party or local Salafi sheikhs.
To the surprise of many, the commanders met recently under the name of the “Popular Committees in Tripoli” and issued a declaration of principles primarily directed against their traditional patrons, the Future Party and Salafi sheikhs.
“We reject the fact that our people in Tripoli are paying for political instability tied to foreign projects,” it read, adding that the Sunni political establishment represents only itself and not the sect.
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The commanders also singled out the most prominent military face of the Future Movement, former Lebanese army officer Amid Hammoud, saying he was responsible for much of Tripoli’s insecurity. In particular, they say that Hammoud is behind the recent spate of hand grenade attacks.
According to informed sources in Tripoli, the commanders’ “intifada” enjoys the support of a high-level security official in the North in addition to an official from Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s office in the city.
The sources confirmed that the leaders of local armed groups have been meeting over the past few weeks in order find ways to bring calm to the troubled city.
This, in turn, angered Hammoud and other Future officials, who sought to play the role of spoiler, thus prompting the commanders to come out into the open with their objections.
(Évidemment, la sincérité de gens dont la profession est le mercenariat est toujours discutable : les vénaux insincères ne deviennent pas sincères, ils se contentent de changer de bienfaiteur. Tout aussi évidemment : tu n’entendras sans doute jamais parler de cette affaire dans les journaux occidentaux, puisqu’elle est totalement contraire à toute la logique soutenue ici depuis des années.)