Posted on 08/18/2006 2:50:21 AM PDT by John Carey
The army jeep, flying a large Lebanese flag and carrying just two soldiers clad in green camouflage uniforms, passed by the Fatima Gate a few yards from the border in Kfar Kila but did not stop......
Villagers throwing rice and Hezbollah supporters holding banners have welcomed the country's army to the south after a nearly 40-year absence. About 15,000 troops are eventually supposed to deploy in the region under a peace plan aimed at securing an end to more than a month of fighting between Hezbollah guerrillas and Israel, but so far the troops have deployed mostly to predominantly Christian towns including Qleia and Marjayoun.....
Overnight, Lebanese forces arrived in the largely Shiite Muslim village of Khiam in the same area, said Lebanese Brig. Gen. Charles Sheikhani......
Sheikhani said he would not deploy troops permanently to Kfar Kila until a border fence destroyed by invading Israeli troops last month was repaired and all Israeli troops there withdrew.
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There is no such as a Lebanese "army".
Wow, two soldiers. At this rate they may have one hundred by Christmas.
Hezbollha hiding among the Lebanese Army.
Why not welocme them . they are just part of the same bunch that are standing there in civvies waving flags.
Even they have a border fence :( what are we, the third world?
Keep in mind, the "Lebanese" army and Hezbollah are one and the same. Kofi, call your office!
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