Lebanon Dances to Syria’s Tune
Charles Johnson
Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 8:21 am PDT • Views: 215
When Syria says “Jump!” Lebanon says, “How high?”
Syria objects to U.N. troops on border.
Beirut rejects deployment of UN troops on the border with Syria.
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon is against the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping forces along its border with Syria, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi has told AFP.
“Only the Lebanese army is in charge of controlling the borders with Syria and it is out of the question to deploy the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL),” he said Friday.
“These are ideas put forward by Israel and the United States, but Lebanon does not take orders from anyone, neither the United States, nor Israel, nor Syria, nor Iran,” he said.
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