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| Saudi Arabia quits Lebanon mediation efforts |
| 2011-01-19 |
| Saudi Arabia on Wednesday abandoned efforts to mediate in Lebanon's political crisis, warning of a "dangerous" situation as all eyes turned to a Turkish-Qatari bid to defuse tensions. In an interview with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television news channel, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said the Saudi king was "pulling his hand" from Lebanon. He said the monarch -- whose country is a key ally of Lebanon's embattled caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri -- took the decision after Saudi-Syrian efforts for rival camps in the tiny Mediterranean country to reach a compromise failed. Faisal said the King and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had endeavoured in recent months to address the situation in Lebanon as a "whole". "When that did not happen, the (king) said he was pulling his hand out," Faisal said. He added that the situation was "dangerous" and could lead to the partitioning of the multi-confessional country. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 TURKEY is also starting to waffle. * ION JPOST > EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT, + hold new Elections. Ditto as per JORDANIAN WING OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ala demands to dissolve Jrdanian Govt + hold new "democratic/popular" National Elex. MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD = US SecState HILLARY? = warns that CORRUPT ARAB-MUSLIM GOVTS, LEADERS ARE "NOT SAFE" FROM THE SEETHING "VOLCANO" [tip] THAT IS ALLAH'S + PEOPLE'S WRATH??? * HURRIYET DAILY NEWS this AM > ONLY TURKEY, QATAR [Base-too-far Qatar] REMAIN AFTER SAUDIS QUIT BERUIT TALKS. ARTIC > SAUDI FM SAUD-AL-FAISAL = Lebanon situation is very "dangerous" as it could ultimately result in PARTITIONING OF LEBANON. * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > EGYPTIANS BELIEVE THEIR TURN IS COMING. What happened in Tunisia can also happen in Egypt. Egyptian President HOSNI MUBARAK = BEN ALI = should get ready to "leave on a jet plane". ["PETER, PAUL, + MARY" here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-19 19:53 |