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| A Firm No ! to Jibreel's Arms Outside Lebanon's Refugee Camps |
| 2005-10-07 |
| Premier Saniora has ruled out a confrontation with the Palestinians in Lebanon, but rejected the presence of Palestinian arms outside the 12 refugee camps they dwell in across the country. "Self-restraint is necessary," Saniora said in Marcel Ghanem's LBCI talk show of Kalam El Nass that was aired late Thursday night, which grabbed the headlines of the Beirut press Friday. "We are not in the mood for a confrontation with our Palestinian brethren and there is no decision in this direction," Saniora said. "But we all have to admit that there is no need for Palestinian weapons outside the camps." The remark was portrayed by An Nahar as Saniora stretching out a "firm hand' for dialogue ahead of his scheduled meeting with a delegation of PLO Palestinian factions on Saturday, which reportedly excludes Ahmed Jibreel's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. The PFLP-GC, which is the closest Palestinian ally of Syria, was reported lately to have been bringing in reinforcements of guerrillas and arms into its bases in east Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and the hills of Naameh south of Beirut. The Lebanese army has ringed PFLP-GC bases in both territories. Saniora's rejection of Palestinian arms outside the camps is obviously aimed at Jibreel's radical group, which has command headquarters in Damascus. Saniora called on the Assad regime to intervene with pro-Syrian Palestinian groups to "contain all concepts that may generate tensions," asserting "we shall not be provoked" by media publicity of the underground network of tunnels the PFLP-GC maintains in the Naameh hills above south Beirut's Mediterranean coast. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 Try this one |
| Posted by: Fred 2005-10-07 15:16 |
| #1 Is there a map of wee Lebanon handy so we can follow the gunplay ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2005-10-07 14:03 |