Lebanon’s Daily Star reports on Syria’s desperate lies:
DAMASCUS: Syria has roundly denied claims by UN Middle East envoy Terje Roed-Larsen of illegal arms trafficking from Syria into Lebanon. A senior Syrian Foreign Ministry official, quoted by the official Syrian Arab News Agency, called the claims “false.”
On Monday, the UN Security Council reiterated “deep concern” about “illegal movements of arms” across the Syrian-Lebanese border. The council issued its non-binding statement after hearing from Roed-Larsen, who cited Lebanese Army reports of “a steady flow of weapons and armed elements across the border.”
“The information from the government of Lebanon on trafficking of arms and militants across the Syrian-Lebanese border is disturbing,” the envoy said.
He also cited detailed reports from Israel and other states “on illegal transfers of arms,” indicating that some weapons produced outside the region arrive from third countries and are brought clandestinely into Lebanon via Syria.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently sent an independent mission to assess monitoring of the border, and the team’s report is expected at the end of the month.
But the Syrian Foreign Ministry official, whose name was not given, said that “Roed-Larsen is [taking verbatim] information that Israel is spreading about arms trafficking,” adding that “his claims made to the UN Security Council are aimed at damaging Syrian-Lebanese relations.”
Syria denounces the misleading reports that Roed-Larsen typically presents to the Security Council. It has therefore cut all links with Roed-Larsen, who is at the service of known international interests and does not serve the UN agenda,” the spokesman said.
He also accused the envoy of “always ignoring the flagrant interference in domestic Lebanese affairs of known parties who are blocking the Lebanese from reaching a national understanding and resolving their problems.” In particular, he accused Israel of “violating the sovereignty, unity and independence of Lebanon and of continuing to occupy Lebanese lands in defiance of international law.”
In case you were not sure whether Syria was indeed guilty of Terje Roed-Larsen’s accusation or just a victim of a blood libel, let’s examine that last sentence: he accused Israel of “violating the sovereignty, unity and independence of Lebanon and of continuing to occupy Lebanese lands in defiance of international law.” The fact remains that in 2000 Koffi Annan (not Israel’s best friend, remember?) praised Israel as he certified that the Zionist Entity had removed itself from every last inch of internationally recognized Lebanese borders according to the borders set in 1920.
What does this tell you? It shows that Assad and his rats, when caught red handed, will not hesitate to accuse one and all in desperate efforts to obfuscate the truth. Like Jozef Goebbels they hope that by repeating a lie long enough people will become to accept it as the truth. What will they gain by that? Why, gentle reader, if they can convince the EU and the US that not Syria but Israel is the aggressor then everybody will turn their attention on the Zionist Entity which will give Assad and his boys more time to plan further murders of Lebanese politicians who oppose them. In fact, if Syria feels safe from prying eyes it may try many more terrorist acts like yesterday’s murder of lebanese MP Wallid Eido, his son, two bodyguards and two innocent bystanders. Eido was the chairman of the Lebanese Parliament’s Defense Committe and a staunch opponent of Syria’s bid to take over Lebanon.
Syria’s UN ambassador, Bashar al-Jaafari, made similar complaints on Monday.
The 15-member Security Council also reiterated its full support for Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s government.
In its statement, the council called on all Lebanese political parties to show responsibility “with a view to preventing, through dialogue, further deterioration of the situation.”
Roed-Larsen also highlighted “allegations of widespread rearming and the possibility of renewed fighting among the Lebanese.”
Baby Assad’s neck is starting to warm up alarmingly, for the sake of a free and independent Lebanon, for the sake of the downtrodden Syrian people… let’s permanently tighten the noose around his neck by speeding up that international tribunal.
Chaim
