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September 21, 2010

Now Lebanon - Chamoun regrets Sayyed’s airport reception - September 21, 2010

Following his meeting with Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, National Liberal Party leader MP Dori Chamoun said on Tuesday that he regrets Saturday’s airport incident, NOW Lebanon’s correspondent reported.

It appears that the state “has no presence at the airport, which [allowed] for the holding of such a reception for someone who’s an outlaw,” he added.

Tension between the Future Movement and Hezbollah ran high over the weekend after armed Hezbollah bodyguards received former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport without the needed permission from any of the relevant bodies.

Sayyed, who had returned from France, was summoned by Attorney General Judge Said Mirza for questioning following the former’s September 12 statement, in which he attacked Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

“We were hoping that the people who received Sayyed would have reached a degree of understanding to know that such behavior would have negative repercussions on all the country,” Chamoun said.

-NOW Lebanon
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