The United States is stepping up its aid to the Lebanese military to help it enforce government sovereignty in southern Lebanon, now the bailiwick of the Hezbollah guerrillas, the State Department said Friday.The Lebanese Government includes Hizbullah. I understand that there is a significant block of Lebanese people with no love for Hizbullah, but this is extremely reckless. Lebanese government officials have made statements suggesting that the Lebanese Army could join Hizbullah against Israel.
Current allocations for the Lebanese are slightly more than $1.5 million, department spokesman Tom Casey said, and the department has notified Congress it wants to send urgently another $10 million.
"What we are trying to do here is finish the work of Resolution 1559," Casey said, speaking of the UN Security Council resolution that rid Lebanon of Syrian troops for the first time in almost 30 years. The resolution also demands the disarming of militias in Lebanon, which meant Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah.
Casey said the United States wants "to make sure that the government of Lebanon does have full sovereignty and control over the complete length of its territory."
Friday, July 28, 2006
US to send money to Lebanese military?!?!
How do they know the Lebanese Army won't help Hizbullah? From Ha'aretz:
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