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| Hizbullah Condemns UNIFIL Attack as Opposition Blames It and Syria |
| 2011-12-10 |
| [An Nahar] Hizbullah on Friday condemned the kaboom earlier in the day on a French UNIFIL patrol in southern Leb, as the opposition March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... camp claimed the incident was a message from Syria and that Hizbullah was "the messenger." Opposition MP Marwan Hamadeh immediately blamed Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... for the attack, saying it was orchestrated with the help of its Lebanese ally Hizbullah. "It is clear that Syria was behind what happened today and the messenger was Hizbullah," he told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Nothing happens in that region without Hizbullah's approval," he said. "The Syrians have accused La Belle France of being at the forefront of what they believe is a foreign plot to destabilize their country and everyone felt that something was bound to happen," Hamadeh added. Hizbullah in a statement denounced the attack saying it targeted Leb's security and sought to destabilize the southern part of the country. "We urge the Lebanese security agencies to exert utmost efforts to put an end to such attacks," the party said. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... the opposition Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... warned against the presence of "armed organizations which the state has allowed to operate outside its authority under the slogan 'the army, the people and the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... "The presence of these illegitimate armed forces outside state control is what provides the necessary elements for such security incidents -- from the security cover, weapons and explosives to the trained members and their freedom of movement and financing, " the LF said. The Democratic Renewal Movement noted that "amid these circumstances," the attack "can only be interpreted as an attempt to influence the French stance on the current events in Syria." A bomb struck a French U.N. peacekeeping patrol near the coastal city of Tyre on Friday, wounding five soldiers in an attack President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... said was aimed at driving French troops out the country. The incident marks the third such attack this year against the U.N. Interim Force in Leb (UNIFIL) and comes at a sensitive time when Leb is bracing for a possible fallout from the nine-month uprising in neighboring Syria. A security official told Agence La Belle France Presse that the 9:30 a.m. (0730 GMT) blast was caused by a roadside kaboom that targeted a French UNIFIL patrol as it drove on the southern outskirts of the coastal city of Tyre. Officials said five peacekeepers as well as two civilian passersby were hurt. The Lebanese army said in a statement that one of the peacekeepers was severely maimed in the face. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Kill & condemn. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-10 02:00 |