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- Lebanon's Defense Minister: Palestinians Planning Attacks Against Unifil
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's Defense Minister Elias Murr said Thursday that there were intelligence reports of possible attacks being planned against the international peacekeepers in Lebanon. "We have information on threats against UNIFIL," Murr...
- Just What Is It With The French That They Cannot Even Identify Their Real Allies?
French UNIFIL say will fire at Israeli Air Force overflights Commanders of the French contingent of the United Nations force in Lebanon have warned that they might have to open fire if Israel Air Force warplanes continue their overflights in Lebanon,...
- Why Hezbollah Won't Be Disarmed
Nick Blanford, correspondent in Lebanon for The London Times, puts it straight here: "I think you can forget about Hezbollah being disarmed. It is just not going to happen. Hezbollah doesn't want to be disarmed and there is nobody else willing to...
- Ceasefire Takes On New Meaning
I guess the Lebanese "peace" will turn out to be much like the so-called truce that Hamas observed when rockets continued to be fired into Israel. A tense, tenuous cease-fire between Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants appeared to be holding early...
- Breaking - Israel Strikes Deep Into Lebanon >>bekaa
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Israeli troops landed Tuesday near the eastern Lebanese town of Baalbeck, Lebanese security sources said, and the Israeli military engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah forces just across the border with Lebanon. BEKAA ATTACK...
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The spirit of Peace hits the middle east
Truce will be Israel's last, Lebanon envoy declares
I wonder what he might mean.... WASHINGTON (AFP) - Lebanon's UN ambassador bitterly slammed Israel's month-long bombardment of his country ahead of a hard-won truce, and vowed that the treaty would be Israel's last with any Middle East country."Lebanon will be, I think, the last state to sign a peace treaty with Israel," UN ambassador Nouhad Mahmoud told CNN television's "Late Edition" program, without explaining the remark.He called the agreement a "crucial" test for all the parties involved.
"Now it is the moment of truth for everyone, and we'll see who will abide by the Security Council resolutions and who will not, so (what) we have this week is very crucial," Mahmoud said.
The diplomat added that the 15,000 Lebanese soldiers to be dispatched to south Lebanon to help keep the peace alongside a similarly-sized international UN force "are not going to use force" to disarm the Hezbollah militia which has been battling Israel.
But why oh why did Lebanon cancel their cabinet meeting yesterday on implementing the the cease-fire?
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- Lebanon's Defense Minister: Palestinians Planning Attacks Against Unifil
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's Defense Minister Elias Murr said Thursday that there were intelligence reports of possible attacks being planned against the international peacekeepers in Lebanon. "We have information on threats against UNIFIL," Murr...
- Just What Is It With The French That They Cannot Even Identify Their Real Allies?
French UNIFIL say will fire at Israeli Air Force overflights Commanders of the French contingent of the United Nations force in Lebanon have warned that they might have to open fire if Israel Air Force warplanes continue their overflights in Lebanon,...
- Why Hezbollah Won't Be Disarmed
Nick Blanford, correspondent in Lebanon for The London Times, puts it straight here: "I think you can forget about Hezbollah being disarmed. It is just not going to happen. Hezbollah doesn't want to be disarmed and there is nobody else willing to...
- Ceasefire Takes On New Meaning
I guess the Lebanese "peace" will turn out to be much like the so-called truce that Hamas observed when rockets continued to be fired into Israel. A tense, tenuous cease-fire between Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants appeared to be holding early...
- Breaking - Israel Strikes Deep Into Lebanon >>bekaa
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Israeli troops landed Tuesday near the eastern Lebanese town of Baalbeck, Lebanese security sources said, and the Israeli military engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah forces just across the border with Lebanon. BEKAA ATTACK...