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| Bassil Urges International Support for Army, Says Region Fell in Hands of ISIL and Israel |
| 2014-08-05 |
| [An Nahar] Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil called on Monday on the international community to support Leb and offer aid to the Lebanese army to confront terrorism, considering the region to be stuck between Islamist groups and Israel. "Terrorism is moving from an area to another but it will surely be buried on Lebanese territories," Bassil said during a meeting for the Paleostine Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Tehran. He pointed out that the developments in the Gazoo Strip, the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and the northeastern border town of Arsal are the same. "The region has fallen between ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... ) and Israel," Bassil told conferees. "They have the same principles," he added. Bassil vowed that Leb will break the connection between them. "Killing in the name of religion is never justified and as Lebanese we settled our choices since the creation of our country," he told officials gathered in Iran, noting that "there is no room for any unilateral decision in the world." The FM accused Syrian refugees without naming them of aiding gunnies in the town of Arsal. "Instead of thanking the residents of Arsal, who welcomed them, they are assisting" gunnies. Arsal is home to 40,000 residents and increased to 120,000 after Syrians fled the war raging in their country. The Sunni-majority area is sympathetic to the uprising against Bashir al-Assad, whose regime has regularly launched air raids in the area that it says target opposition fighters holed up in the mountainous region around Arsal. |
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