Lebanon Talks Big
Charles Johnson
Wed Sep 6, 2006 at 8:09 am PDT • Views: 136
Hizballah is low on weapons and getting impatient, and the Lebanese puppet government is dancing to their tune: Lebanon vows to break Israeli blockade.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon vowed on Wednesday to bust Israel’s eight-week-old blockade of its ports and airport unless it is lifted within two days as envisaged by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Israel imposed the embargo, bombing Beirut airport and denying ships access to Lebanese ports, one day after Hizbollah guerrillas captured two of its soldiers on July 12 and sparked a war that was halted by a U.N. truce nearly five weeks later.
“We will wait for the 48 hours given by Kofi Annan, and if the situation is resolved, we will thank him,” Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh told journalists on the sidelines of an Arab foreign ministers’ meeting in Cairo.
“If it is not, the Lebanese government will take the necessary measures and we will break the blockade with all our might,” he said, without specifying what steps he had in mind.
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