Geagea condemns the Yarzeh attack, says its target was ‘too obvious’

Lebanese Forces Chief Samir Geagea condemned the attack on the Lebanese region of Yarzeh saying he had never imagined that Lebanese factions would target the president of the republic “since Israel itself had never attacked him even during its hardest assaults against Lebanon."           

Geagea said on Friday that the target of the attack was ‘too obvious’, pointing out that both rockets landed near the presidential palace.                    

Geagea praised the national and constitutional stances of President Michel Sleiman, denouncing the media campaign raised against him following his speech on National Army Day.                         

“Some Lebanese factions no longer want a president or a republic and are satisfied with their own 'republic',” Geagea said, stressing that the majority of the Lebanese people still support President Sleiman and praise his national stances.                        

Two rockets slammed on Thursday night into the region of Yarze, the first hitting the al-Frayha building near the Presidential Palace and the second landing near the Khashiqji building, military sources told LBCI on Friday.                 

Well-informed sources also told LBCI that the perpetrators probably used a mobile launch pad and then escaped the area.                 

The blasts were the latest in a series of rocket attacks that have targeted areas just south of the capital in the past two months; a direct fallout from the civil war in neighboring Syria.           

The attack comes on the same day that President Michel Sleiman gave a speech for Army Day in which he criticized the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in the Syrian civil war in support of Assad's forces.