{"id":15487,"date":"2018-12-04T05:33:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15487"},"modified":"2018-12-04T05:33:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:33:54","slug":"lebanese-minister-wahhab-hezbollah-saved-the-country-from-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/lebanese-minister-wahhab-hezbollah-saved-the-country-from-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese Minister Wahhab: Hezbollah Saved the Country from Carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Former Lebanese minister Wiam Wahhab praised Sunday Hezbollah\u2019s intervention that had rescued Lebanon from a \u201cmajor carnage\u201d in the wake of Saturday\u2019s clash in the Chouf town of Jahliyeh, as he pointed out that Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri will \u201cend up in prison.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will file a lawsuit Monday against Hariri, [Internal Security Forces chief Imad] Othman and [State Prosecutor Samir] Hammoud,\u201d Wahhab told TV networks ahead of the funeral of Mohammed Bou Diab, one of his supporters who died of his wounds following Saturday\u2019s clash with a commando unit from the ISF\u2019s Intelligence Branch.<\/p>\n<p>Wahhab revealed that \u201che was five meters away from me and he looks like me.\u201d suggesting that there was an attempt on his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was killed by a weapon belonging to the state according to the forensic doctor\u2019s report and he was targeted from a distance by a sniper,\u201d the former minister added, reiterating that \u201cMount Lebanon\u2019s safety is more important than us all but Saad Hariri, Samir Hammoud and Imad Othman must bear the responsibility for what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further added: \u201cMt. Lebanon\u2019s safety must not be jeopardized, even if my blood is spilled.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Hariri-Hammoud-Othman criminal trio is responsible and we will sue them,\u201d the ex-minister vowed.<\/p>\n<p>Adding that \u201cSaad Hariri will end up in prison and will be behind bars when the political circumstances change,\u201d Wahhab said he has asked supporters not to block roads or fire in the air during Bou Diab\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-minister also said that he had intended to appear before Hammoud to testify at the justice minister\u2019s request but that the state prosecutor \u201cdid not answer\u201d his phone call on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s clash erupted during an attempt to arrest Wahhab at his home in Jahliyeh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Editor Former Lebanese minister Wiam Wahhab praised Sunday Hezbollah\u2019s intervention that had rescued Lebanon from a \u201cmajor carnage\u201d in the wake of Saturday\u2019s clash in the Chouf town of Jahliyeh, as he pointed out that Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri will \u201cend up in prison.\u201d \u201cI will file a lawsuit Monday against Hariri, [Internal Security &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-culture","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15489,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions\/15489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}