 Lebanon commander of Fatah Sultan Abul-Aynayn denied claims that Syria had provided the movement with weapons, saying that the Palestinians were neither part of the Lebanese equation nor part of the parties' conflicts.
| "Yeah! Leave us out of it! We're just innocent bystanders!... Well, bystanders, anyway." |
Abul-Aynayn held a news conference Saturday in Rashidieh refugee camp in Tyre, in which he said the Palestinians were separate from Lebanon's political conflicts, which occurred in the wake of UN Security Council Resolution 1559. "The Lebanese factions are trying to include the Palestinians in the political conflicts between the government and the opposition," he said."The Palestinians have nothing to do with any of that,nor with Ahmed Abu Adas who held himself responsible for killing former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri." According to the Abul-Aynayn, the movement's position regarding the interior conflicts should be neutral, and the Palestinians should only be concerned with their own social, economic and living problems. Concerning Resolution 1559, Abul-Aynayn said it was an American- Israeli resolution aimed at "disarming the country from the Syrian and Palestinian weapons and making it available to the Israelis." |