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| Lebanon Orders Army to 'Achieve High Combat Readiness' Against Israel |
| 2008-03-04 |
| (third item) There are more signs of a wider regional war as Tears for Lebanon (TFL) and Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) are reporting Army Commander General Michel Suleiman has ordered his officers to "achieve high combat readiness of their units to confront all expected possibilities, especially defending the southern land, maintain domestic security and stability." General Suleiman was issuing the directives to his senior commanders of Lebanon's most important units from his headquarters at Yarze a suburb east of Beirut. This is definitely within the time-table of Tehran as most of Lebanon's military has close relations with Damascus-Hezbollah. He said the army's "basic duty is to prevent the Israeli enemy from occupying Lebanese territories or attempting to use them as a passage to launch an aggression against Arab brethren." Though Lebanese units in the south began to assist Hezbollah during the 2006 war the rest of the military in the north began to realize they should cooperate with Tehran during the three month fighting last year against the suicide unit Fatah al-Islam at the Palestinian refugee camp city Nahr al-Bared near Tripoli. Fatah al-Islam was sent by Tehran for just that purpose. Almost the day after that conflict finally ended last August General Suleiman stated publicly Lebanon can now turn its weapons against its main enemy-Israel. Now Iran wants them to go into action and I suspect Tehran has helped re-arm Lebanon's army just as Iran has re-supplied Hezbollah. Suleiman also stated yesterday, "The army's determination is backed by the people and the resistance to confront any new Israeli aggression with all available means and capability. Defending the land is a sacred right consolidated by international charters; it is a national priority that deserves unifying resources and efforts." He concluded by pledging the army will not fall back "if the enemy decided to occupy the south because abandoning this territory means abandoning the whole of Lebanon." Though Lebanon has the weakest army in the region they will still be an obstacle to Israel's security in their north as Hezbollah will no longer have to face Israel by itself and Syria will also be active in the area perhaps re-entering the country not as an invader but as a military axis partner with Lebanon and Palestinian groups. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 1967 |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-03-04 21:57 |
| #1 1. Does everyone have their white flag? Check 2. Clean undies? Check 3. Your phonetic card on how to say, "I surrender" in Hebrew? Check |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2008-03-04 21:53 |