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| Lebanese president accuses Israel of spying |
| 2009-10-22 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Lebanon's President Michel Sleiman on Tuesday accused Israel of spying on his country in violation of a United Nations resolution intended to promote peace in the region. "There is a difference between spying carried out by people who have been detected and detained and detectors and spying equipment which have been found during last week," he told reporters in Spain where he is on a state visit. "Both these spy networks and these means of spying are a clear violation of Israel of (U.N.) Resolution 1701, even more so than the violation of Lebanese air space that is routinely carried out by Israel." Resolution 1701 calls for the removal of weapons in southern Lebanon from the hands of everyone except the Lebanese army and other state security forces. A Lebanese military source told AFP in Beirut on Sunday that three "Israeli spying devices" which monitored communications in Lebanon had been destroyed near the border with Israel, two of them blown up by the Israeli army. Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite movement, said it discovered a spying device installed by Israel on a cable between the villages of Mays and Jebel after the 2006 war between it and the Jewish state. It said the Lebanese army and troops from the United Nations Interim Forces in Southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) later discovered the two other devices. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Isreal was ....... spying! say it aint so |
| Posted by: 746 2009-10-22 10:49 |
| #2 Israel could have some fun with this, by suggesting that they knew of some nasty scandals among the top Lebanese, involving things so nasty and disgusting that they would not only be forced from office, but imprisoned. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-10-22 10:08 |
| #1 Next thing you know, he'll accuse them of plotting to impose excise taxes on imports from Lebanon. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-10-22 08:12 |