Si Ashraf Rifi accepte de relâcher des islamistes détenus par ISIS et Nusra en échange des soldats capturés à Ersal, est-ce qu’on aura le droit de soutenir la théorie selon laquelle il devient ainsi responsable du développement d’ISIS au Liban ? (Ou bien ce genre de logique ne fonctionne qu’avec Bachar Assad ?)
Islamic state : Stalemate in Lebanon over soldiers taken by Islamists
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/stalemate-in-lebanon-over-soldiers-taken-by-islamists-9716602.html
According to Hilal Khashan, political science professor at the American University of Beirut, the government will have to acquiesce eventually. “Once all the rhetoric is consumed they will have to face reality,” he said, dismissing the feasibility of a military solution. Professor Khashan predicts that non-Lebanese prisoners will be released first, under the stipulation that they will return to their country of origin. “Although I don’t condone it,” he added, “it doesn’t seem that they have any other options.”
A surprise visit to the protesters on the Tripoli road by Lebanon’s justice minister Ashraf Rifi yesterday indicates the professor might be right. Family members said they were promised in private that their loved ones would be released, and alluded to the militants’ demands being met to achieve this. “I feel better, more relaxed,” said Samir Moghait as the minister’s motorcade took off. “But the only thing I trust in is God, not the government.”