...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
was probably behind the attack.
"Syria has no link whatsoever with this act which we condemn," foreign ministry front man Jihad Makdisi said in a statement that also criticized French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe for pointing a finger at Damascus.
Juppe said on Sunday that Syria was probably behind Friday's bombing in southern Leb, adding however that so far he had no proof to back his claim.
"We have strong reasons to think that this attack came from there," Juppe told the TV5 Monde television channel and Le Monde newspaper.
Juppe claimed that Syria had used Hizbullah for such attacks in the past.
"I don't have proof," he said, however.
Also on Sunday, Lebanese pro-Western opposition leader and ex-prime minister Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
tweeted that Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
was to blame for the attack.
"Another message from Bashar," Hariri said on Twitter.
"Another Syrian message," he wrote.
In his statement, Makdisi said that "remarks by Mr. Juppe and others are within the framework of premeditated French accusations made to mask the reality concerning Syria."
The five French members of the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
Interim Force in Leb (UNIFIL) were maimed on Friday when a bomb targeted their patrol on the outskirts of the coastal city of Tyre. Two passers-by were also maimed.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack, the third this year on UNIFIL soldiers.