Posted on 07/09/2007 8:47:10 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Syria has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon ahead of an expected "eruption" in that country, Arab and Iranian press reports have said.
The media reports were translated and made available by MEMRI in a special dispatch on Sunday.
"In the past few days, Arab and Iranian media reports have pointed to the possibility that Lebanon's current political crisis may become a violent conflict after July 15, 2007," the MEMRI dispatch said.
July 15 comes one day before a special UN Security Council meeting which is expected to discuss the possibility of stationing international experts on the Syria-Lebanon border, in order monitor the ongoing illegal cross border arms traffic to Hizbullah, thought to be originating from Iran and Syria.
The UN Security Council is also expected to meet next week to discuss a key report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a development which may bode badly for Syria.
"On July 5, 2007, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported that Syrian authorities had instructed all Syrian citizens residing in Lebanon to return to their country by July 15, 2007.
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The whole middle east is a powder keg waiting to go off..
Not to worry. France is on the scene.
hahahahahaha
fixin' to get ready to begin the start of the initial discussions about possibily commencing the onset of a dialog about beginning ...
Yeah, put "experts" on the border. In fact, put the entire UN General Assembly on the border, linked arm to arm and let them sing "we thought we'd buy the world a joke ..."
My guess is beyond that. Syria wants its people out as they are anticiating doing something large...Initially launch attacks to which Israel will retaliate, between the two, they will probably level lots of real estate and then Syria will step it up...biological? chemical? which will wash through lebanon....
I would bet on Saddams WMD coming out.
Iran too will be busy making snowballs while syria pitches them.
Yes, the fuse will be lit and no one will be able to blow it out.
When was it not, except when it was actually exploding?
Well, at least we know what our boys first mission will be in any new war .... save the French ... again.
And are canada and the US again going to evacuate “citizens” of their countries from Lebanon when the stuff hits the cooling device? God, I hope not. SHould have learned lessons last summer.
Weak Administrations in Washington and Isreal are going to cause more, not less agression.
Meaning what? They should be left there? And why are you putting “citizens” in quotes?
The severity of the clashes between the Lebanese army troops and gunmen movement "Fateh Islam" Salafi in Nahr el-Bared camp for Palestinian refugees today, Monday, where violent battles between the two sides used different kinds of weapons.
واكدت المعلومات الوارده ان معارك ضاريه تدور علي مختلف جبهات القتال لا سيما في حي سعسع الواقع عند الحد الفاصل بين المخيم القديم والمخيم الجديد، ويتخللها كر وفر علي اكثر من محور، وخاصه في الجبهه الجنوبيه وعند مجري نهر البارد.The information contained in fierce battles that are taking place on various fronts, especially in the neighborhood Sasa located at the boundary between the camp and the old camp, the new, punctuated Kerr provided on more than one axis, particularly in the southern front and in the course of Nahr el-Bared.
وتحدثت المعلومات الوارده من مناطق الاشتباكات عن سقوط العديد من القتلي والاصابات في صفوف المسلحين السلفيين.She spoke information from the regions of the clashes many deaths and injuries among armed Salafis.
وذكرت هذه المعلومات ان وحدات الجيش اللبناني تقوم بقصف مركز منذ الصباح لمواقع المسلحين داخل المخيم بمدفعيه الدبابات الثقيله.The information that the Lebanese army units based Center bombing since the morning of sites gunmen inside the camp compound with tank heavy.
واشارت المعلومات الي ان وحدات الجيش اللبناني تحاول تسجيل اختراقات جديده داخل مناطق نفوذ المسلحين للتضييق عليهم اكثر فاكثر.The information indicated that the units of the Lebanese army is trying to register new breakthroughs in the areas of influence of gunmen narrowing them more and more.
واقدم مسلحو "فتحالاسلام " علي قصف احياء سكنيه خارج مخيم نهر البارد بقذائف الهاون، من دون ان يبلغ عن اصابات في صفوف المدنيين اللبنانيين.The oldest gunmen "opened Islam" to the shelling of residential neighborhoods outside the Nahr el-Bared camp mortar, without reported injuries among Lebanese civilians.
Absolutely true. I have lived there and if you postponed your trips because of a fear of war, you would never go. My wife and I will be there in a month (G-d willing.)
I put it in quotes because there are huge numbers of people who hold canadian citizenship and spend 98% of their time in Lebanon, and when the stuff hits the fan, they scream and holler to be evacuated, complain bitterly about the evacuation they are given (at government expense), and then come back to canada, go immediately to the medical system and get all fixed up, and when the unpleasantness is over, they demand to be taken back to Lebanon. Hence the quotes, and my opinion that they should be left in Lebanon to fish or cut bait.
Oh, ok, I understand. I didn’t know a lot of Candian citizens (with or without quotes) spent time in Lebanon. You learn something new everyday on FR.
Are these Canadians of Lebanese origin? Did they get Canadian citizenship through their French connection in some way?
If the Americans went back there knowing how dangerous it is there..let them get out their own way..
I’m betting on a Syrian invasion of Lebanon, banking on the Israelis to stay out of it. The Syrian sock-puppet regime in Lebanon will then piss all over Israel, and the Israelis won’t have any effective way of retaliating.
Basically, Syria is going to take the Lebanese population hostage and dare Israel to punch them out.
Agreed. You won’t catch my @ss there.
Yes, they are Lebanese holding canadian citizenship. I don’t know if they used a french connection to get their citizenship.
Thanks
From my experience in NJ, ALOT of Lebanese born Citizens and permanent legal alien residents have no real allegiance to the US. Most lie on their first application to get a visa to the USA and use altered birth certificates, saying they are 5 to 10 years older than they really are, so they can collect Medicare/SS 5 to 10 years earlier. They were born in Lebanon, marry someone from Lebanon, have their weddings funerals and summer homes in Lebanon, but carry the US passport as a citizenship of convenience thing. This refers to recent Lebanese migrants to the US, not to the migrant wave of Lebanese-Americans who have been here for 50 to 100+ years.
As I sit here in Jerusalem, just one year after being evacuated from Beirut, I wonder if your callous comments apply to Israel as well as Lebanon? You simply need to get out more. :)
I don’t see you in Lebanon..why not???
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With all the other threads about a looming war between Syria and Israel, something is up. Syria would be quite insane to use a first strike of WMD though. Quite insane.
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