Samir Geagea has indirectly accused Syria of trying to re-control Lebanon even at the expense of leveling it to the ground and leaving a big portion of its population dead, the Beirut media reported on Sunday.
Geagea made his stinging attack on the Assad regime, without mentioning its name, in a telephone speech he made from Paris to a Lebanese Forces rally in Sydney, Australia, to celebrate his July 26 release from 11 years in Jail at the Lebanese Defense Ministry prison in Yarze.
Referring to Syria as "the adversary," Geagea charged it was responsible for the terror campaign that began with the attempted assassination of Marwan Hamadeh Oct. 1 last year to the attempted assassination of May Chidiac three weeks ago.
Geagea also accused Syria of plundering Lebanon's entire economic revenues in a way that plunged the nation in a staggering debt of unparalleled proportions.
"But all of this was regrettably not enough to satisfy them, and they are still insisting on controlling Lebanon," he said. "Against this reality, we have to declare our full and deep determination to defend ourselves and our country to the bitter end, through the legal and constitutional frames available."
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