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Hizbullah welcomes Lebanon, Syria exclusion from Sharm summit
JPost - reg req'dHizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah welcomed the exclusion of Lebanon and Syria from the Arab summit being convened in Sharm el-Sheik on Tuesday with US President George W. Bush. According to Al-Jazeera television's Web site, Nasrallah told a crowd in the Lebanese town of Baalbek on Sunday: "Some might be saddened by this, but he who has precise calculations will be happy for the exclusion of Lebanon and Syria as a testimony to their nationalism, their adherence to their ethnicity and firm stand in defense of their rights". And Assad wasn't gonna get invited, so he said Lebanon can't go either...."as a testimony to their nationalism" Nasrallah alleged that the summit's objective is to improve Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's image. I think it's actually to diminish Arafat's as the paleo symbol of nationalism Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik Hariri denied that Lebanon and Syria were contacted for the possibility of attending the summit, al Jazeera reports. "This summit has a clear direction and I don't see Lebanon and Syria included in it at the present moment," Hariri said Truer words could not have been spoken - do you think he put ANY thought into that statement before he made it? Posted by: Frank G 2003-06-02 |
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