Lebanon: Does the Future Movement still have pull in Tripoli?
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The fighting began in Tripoli as a rebellion during the Future Movement’s anger over the appointment of Najib Mikati to lead a new government after Saad Hariri’s government collapsed. Then people started to publicly arm themselves under the eyes and ears of the Future Movement after the death of Sheikh Ahmed Abdel Wahed. Soon, various regional security agencies found in this overwhelming chaos an opportunity to prove their existence. Many political factions were preoccupied with turning the city into a field feeding the Homs countryside with everything that its fighters need.
The Future Movement thought that one day, Hezbollah will come exhausted to the negotiating table and give up the party’s weapons in return for army weapons that come from the hands of the Future Movement. Tripoli, donning an armed takfiri mask, was part of a project aimed at blocking the way of the Resistance in Saida and sending car bombs through Ersal.
Hariri’s attempt to sell the theory that Hezbollah took power by force was a preface to saying that what was taken by force can not be restored except by force.