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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
March 14 Memo Rejects 'Shame' Caused by Hizbullah Role in Syria
2013-06-09
[An Nahar] The March 14 alliance's leaders are expected to approve a memo informing the Arab world and the international community that the majority of the Lebanese disapprove Hizbullah's involvement in the war in Syria, An Nahar daily reported on Saturday.

The newspaper said that the coalition's officials are set to hold a meeting next week to study the repercussions of the role that Hizbullah fighters are playing in Syria.

They are also set to approve a memo that the alliance intends to send to 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...
and U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
, An Nahar said.

The document addresses the Arab countries and the international community, saying "the majority of Lebanese call for swiping the shame that Leb has been tainted with over Hizbullah's involvement in Syria," it said.

The memo also criticizes caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour, saying he neither represents Leb nor the foreign ministry. It accuses him of being a Hizbullah complicit.

Hizbullah's intervention in Syria and its major role in taking over the Syrian town of al-Qusayr by government troops threatens to bring that country's conflict even further into Leb, where rebels have vowed to retaliate with attacks on the Shiite group's home turf.

It has also enraged Sunnis in Leb and led to street fighting between rival neighborhoods in the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
Mansour has on several occasions defended Hizbullah. On Tuesday, he rejected attempts to label it a terrorist organization a few days after Gulf states warned that they could take measures against Hizbullah in the near future.
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