BEIRUT: A fifth column is working to destabilize Tripoli, north Lebanon Mufti Sheikh Malek al-Shaar warned Saturday, blaming recent attacks on the Lebanese Army on foreign provocateurs.

"Everything that is happening is the act of foreign individuals. The problem is not between the residents of the north and the Army or between Muslims and Christians or even Shiites and Sunnis, there is a fifth column that wants to destabilize,” Shaar told reporters after meeting Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X Yazigi at Balamand Monastery near Tripoli.

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