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| 2 More Rockets Land in Hermel Town as Lebanon Asks for Arab League Assistance |
| 2013-04-16 |
| [An Nahar] Two more rockets fired from Syria landed on a border town in the Bekaa valley on Monday, prompting 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... to call for a security meeting which sought Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... assistance in helping Leb confront the attacks. "The safety of any Lebanese citizen is the sole responsibility of the Lebanese state ... and any attack on Leb no matter from which side it came is rejected," Caretaker Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour said in a statement he read after the security meeting was held at Baabda palace. "The foreign ministry will make the necessary contacts to avoid the repetition of the Syrian attacks," he said. "The army and security forces will take the measures along the border to protect the security of the Lebanese," he added. The caretaker minister told news hounds that the foreign ministry should make the appropriate documentation and refer a memo to the vaporous Arab League to explain the nature of the Syrian cross-border attacks and help Leb in stopping them. His remark came only in response to a question on whether the Lebanese authorities intended to file a complaint with the organization over the repeated violations of Lebanese illusory sovereignty. "Any assault from whether the Syrian army or other sides is unacceptable and rejected," he stressed. The statement said that the conferees also tasked the foreign ministry with calling for an extraordinary U.N. Security Council session to discuss the issue of Syrian and Paleostinian refugees in Leb. Media reports said that a rocket landed on Monday morning on the outskirts of Sahlat al-Ma' in the town of al-Qasr that lies in northeast Leb's Hermel district. A second rocket hit al-Qasr at 11:00 am only 40 minutes after the first attack. No injuries were reported. But the assault came after two rockets fired from Syria on Sunday went kaboom!in al-Qasr, killing Ali Hasan Qataya. Two more rockets landed in a nearby village of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali, killing 13-year-old Abbas Kheireddine and damaging two homes. Both victims were laid to rest on Monday amid widespread anger and mourning in Hermel. |
| Posted by:Fred |