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Lebanon President condemns rocket attack on Israel
[BBC] Lebanese President Michel Suleiman...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... has condemned a rocket attack launched from Leb towards Israel. "Tut tut!" he said. "And tut!" Four rockets fired from southern Leb landed in northern Israel early on Tuesday, Israeli media reported. Mr Suleiman said in a statement that the attacks were "a violation of the stability of the south [of Leb]". There were no casualties reported from the strikes, the first across the border since 2009, or from return fire by the Israeli army. Two buildings in northern Israel were damaged by the rockets, which fell in the Western Galilee region. The attack was "not conducive to the cause of solidarity with the Paleostinian people", Mr Suleiman said. He also called the attack "a breach of UN Resolution 1701, Lebanese laws and Leb's obligations to the international community". Resolution 1701 ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbullies guerrillas based in Leb which left 1,200 Lebanese and 160 Israelis dead. An obscure Islamist group called the Abdullah Azzam Brigades said it had carried out the attack. The Lebanese army said it had deployed extra patrols around the village of Rmeish, just 2km (one mile) from the border, and had found a rocket launcher there, Rooters news agency reports. The United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... peacekeeping force in Leb, Unifil, said it was looking into the incident. "It is imperative to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of this attack," said Unifil Force Commander Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas in a statement. Posted by: Fred 2011-11-30 |
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