[AnNahar] Israeli soldiers on Wednesday pointed their weapons at a Lebanese Army post near the Fatima border gate as other troops opened fire towards a Lebanese citizen.Twenty Israeli soldiers "loaded their individual weapons and pointed them towards an army post at the Fatima gate, hurling insults at its troops," a Lebanese Army statement said.
| Golly. What d'you suppose happened just before that, that the clever reporter neglected to mention? |
Separately, Israeli troops stationed at the Roweisat al-Alam post in the occupied Kfarshouba Hills "threw a smoke grenade and opened fire towards a Lebanese citizen who was grazing his flock inside Lebanese territory, 150 meters from the Blue Line," the statement said.
| Possibly a simple but well armed kind of a Lebanese citizen, who'd once upon a time taken a correspondence course in assassination from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard? |
Last week, 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...
asked Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil to file a complaint with the U.N. Security Council over recent Israeli violations.
Israeli military aircraft violate the Lebanese airspace on near daily basis while manned patrols frequently cross the U.N.-demarcated Blue Line on the border between the two countries.
Several Lebanese shepherds have also been kidnapped by Israeli troops in recent months before being released shortly after interrogation.