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Libya Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Lebanon | ||||
2003-09-03 | ||||
Libya has decided to sever diplomatic ties with Lebanon after coming under pressure to reveal the fate of a missing Lebanese Shiite cleric. Hussein al-Sharif, the charge d’affaires at the Office of Arab "He’s not missing, why, we have a piece of him in that jar right over there. And another piece here. There’s one stuck to the bottom of the commode in there."
"And there was no excuse for this since the new Chicago Manual of Style was just released!" Lebanese Foreign Minister Jean Obeid refused to comment Wednesday on the reported closure of the Libyan Embassy. While Lebanese Shiites have long blamed Libya for Sadr’s disappearance, such calls intensified after Libya accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Scotland that killed 270 people and agreed to pay compensation.
"um, ’cause we felt like it!"
"And we were close, man, really tight! Well not as tight as we are with Syria, sure, I mean, we wear their clothing with them still in it but still ..." On Monday, Nasrallah, whose militant Hezbollah group is overwhelmingly Shiite, called on Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi to `` To which Gadhafi responded, "In a pig’s eye!" So to speak. Libya insists Sadr and his two aides left its territory on a flight to Rome at the end of their August 1978 visit, but Italian authorities have denied he arrived. Cripes, it’s Italy, man, they lose stuff all the time there. I flew in to Bologna once and my luggage ended up in Naples! Lebanese officials believe Sadr disappeared after having an argument with Gadhafi. Mo is rather Yasser-like in how he handles arguments, apparently. Relations between Lebanon and Libya have often been strained by the Sadr issue. Last year, Libya asked for a change of venue for the Arab summit in Beirut after leading Lebanese Shiites urged the government to bar Gadhafi. The government said he could attend, but he sent an envoy instead.
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Posted by:Steve White |