 BEIRUT - The Lebanese army said on Wednesday that the country’s borders were under tight control and rejected Israeli claims of weapons smuggling from Syria. “The land and sea borders are controlled in a very meticulous and effective way, and there are no acts that indicate that there are arms entering Lebanon,” the army command said in a statement. “Therefore, the army command considers that the declaration of the Israeli defence minister is an interference in Lebanese internal affairs that aims at shaking (Lebanon’s) stability,” it said.
| Then their lips fell off and their noses grew. |
On Monday, Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz said Israel would continue surveillance flights over Lebanon as long as arms smuggling from Syria continued in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.
“His remarks are just... pretexts to pursue aggressions on Lebanon, through ever-increasing airspace violations and a failure to abide by Resolution 1701,” it said.
| "Just wait til we sic the French on those dastardly Zionists!" |
On Sunday, a senior Israel intelligence officer charged that Syria was aiding arms smuggling into Lebanon in violation of Resolution 1701 which ushered in a truce on August 14 after 34 days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad was quoted as saying by the Spanish newspaper El Pais earlier this month that no army deployment along the border could be efficient if “there is a will to smuggle arms into Lebanon.”
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