LF leader Geagea calls leaders to support President Sleiman's stances

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea urged on Sunday Lebanese leaders to show support to President Michel Sleiman, adding that the rockets attack on the Baabda area is launched from a Hezbollah stronghold.

Geagea also slammed calls for dialogue with Hezbollah, describing the party as a “totalitarian”, noting that rockets launched at Baabda area came from Dohat Aramoun and Bshamoun regions, in reference to areas controlled by Hezbollah.

He concluded by calling on the judicial authorities to take the appropriate measures in this regard.

Two rockets slammed on Thursday night (1st of August) 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 delivered a speech on the occasion of Army Day in which he criticized the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in the Syrian civil war in support of Assad's forces.

In his speech, Sleiman called for Hezbollah's weapons to be folded under that of the Lebanese army.

The group has a formidable weapons arsenal that rivals that of the national army.

Lebanon is deeply divided along sectarian lines and between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad.