As the Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora slammed Friday the Al-Qaeda claim that it attacked Israel from Lebanon as a "hoax," the Lebanese Army discovered and dismantled two rockets mounted for firing at Israel in South Lebanon. "Just carefully study the posted statement and you will see it was posted by amateurs," said Siniora after a meeting with Speaker Nabih Berri, referring to the statement posted Thursday on an Islamic Web site that was signed by "Al-Qaeda in Iraq," claiming responsibility for the latest rockets attacks on Israel from Lebanon.
"It is a fabrication and a joke," said Siniora, who also stressed the importance of not "over blowing" the issue and repeated his calls for greater vigilance over finding the real perpetrators of the attack on Israel Tuesday via three "Katyusha" rockets to which Israel responded with air strikes on a base of the pro-Syrian Palestinian group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) located on the southern outskirts of Beirut. Following Siniora's remarks, the Lebanese Army is currently exerting greater control around the borders with Israel and through its presence there discovered "two Katyusha rockets primed for launching at Israel from South Lebanon" said security officials to the media under conditions of anonym |