Sunday, November 7, 2010

"The army will be firm... in all areas and particularly Christian areas"

"... Lebanon's top army chief admitted on Saturday that he is concerned about tensions in the country ahead of an indictment from a UN-backed court on the assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri. "I am worried but I am not afraid ... We have deployed sufficient troops in Beirut and have studied all other areas at risk, .... The army will be firm... in all areas and particularly Christian areas," he said without elaborating.....  General Kahwaji also expressed concern about the possibility of attacks by fundamentalists, three years after troops battled an uprising by the Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam group in a Palestinian refugee camp....."

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