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| Saniora Rejected Transfer of 500 and 300 Million Dollars 'So They Don't Go to Berri's Pocket' |
| 2011-04-07 |
| A leaked U.S. Embassy cable published exclusively in Al-Akhbar newspaper on Wednesday revealed that then Prime Minister Fouad Saniora had rejected a transfer of 500 and 300 million dollars to Leb aimed at rebuilding the country after the July 2006 war. The WikiLeaks cable spoke of a meeting between Saniora and then U.S. Ambassador to Leb Jeffrey Feltman on August 18, 2006, during which the former explained that he rejected the aid money from Soddy Arabia and Kuwait "because he didn't want the money to go to Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri's Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... pocket." Regarding the war, the premier said that the Israeli attacks are only strengthening Hizbullah and not weakening it. Furthermore, he rejected accusations that the Lebanese government was ignoring United Nations ... aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council resolution 1701, asking Feltman: "Doesn't your government understand that the deployment of the Lebanese army in the South is an historic achievement?" |
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