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| Qandil : 'Saudi Arabia conspiring against Lebanon' |
| 2008-02-21 |
| Former MP Nasser Qandil, a staunch ally of Syria, on Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of "conspiring against Lebanon" and supporting an Israeli aggression. Qandil made the charge in a statement to reporters after meeting vice president of the higher Shiite Islamic Council Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan. "We believe that an American-Israeli war is behind the door and it would be a continuity of the July (2006) war Â… unfortunately the same countries that had planned, financed and executed the July aggression stand behind continuity of this war," Qandil said. He noted that the assassination of Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyeh "strangely coincided with the declaration by a group of states about banning citizens from visiting Lebanon, as if the suspect is saying here I am." Saudi Arabia on Monday issued a travel advisory urging citizens to avoid Lebanon due to the persisting situation. Qandil said citizens of such states that he did not mention by name "would not be treated for what their governments do." Restricting travel to Lebanon, according to Qandil, is a "serious indication that the decision to go to war has been taken." He warned Lebanese leaders against "hurling Lebanon in a new civil war that would change it into scorched earth." |
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