Where was the US when Lebanon was under Israeli attack?
While American parents surf the net frantically to find and buy body armor for the sons and daughters who are serving in Iraq and who are not properly provided for by the US government, the US is sending cargo planes of armor and all sorts of weapons and amunition to so-called 'help' the Lebanese army fight the 'Fatah el Islam'. As sheikh Hassan Nasrallah rightly pointed out in his televised address to the Lebanese people yesterday, where exactly was America's help when Lebanon was being bombarded by Israel in the summer of 2006?? Wasn't the United States actually providing Israel with support, additional amunition and cluster bombs so that Israel could adequately bomb its way into Lebanon? Where were the US airforce cargo planes landing then?
This newly found American "loyalty" to Lebanon is truly miraculous to say the least. When the entire Lebanese population was being attacked by the 4th or 5th strongest army in the world, the United States didn't budge. But when 'Fatah al Islam', the 200 or 300 member militia which is financed by the US and its allies made its timely appearance, the United States of course rose to the occasion.
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=02903012007052622404...
More US Arms Arrive in Lebanon
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, May 26--The United States sent more ammunition on Saturday to Lebanon, whose army is struggling to defeat Fatah al-Islam militant group.
The militant Fatah al-Islam group which is holed up in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon and vowed to fight to the death, said in a statement the US military supplies included nerve gas and cluster bombs.
"If they use unconventional weapons against us, we will respond with unconventional attacks everywhere," said the statement, read by the group's spokesman Abu Salim Taha.
A Lebanese military spokesman said he had no reaction to "these false allegations which are not worth commenting on".
Three US Air Force cargo planes landed at Beirut's airport and unloaded ammunition and other equipment for the army, airport sources said. Six planes carrying similar military aid from the US and Arab allies arrived on Friday.
The shipments, promised months ago but rushed after fighting erupted between the army and Fatah al-Islam on May 20, arrived as Lebanese soldiers beefed up their positions around Nahr al-Bared camp, the militants' main base.
A fragile truce between the combatants has held since Tuesday despite sporadic clashes. The fighting, the worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war, has killed at least 78 people -- 33 soldiers, 27 militants and 18 civilians.
Lebanese leaders have vowed to stamp out Fatah al-Islam, however the Lebanese army is banned from entering Lebanon's 12 refugee camps under a 1969 Arab agreement.
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has warned the government against turning Lebanon into a battleground to fight Al-Qaeda on behalf of the Americans.
Nasrallah warned that Lebanon risked getting dragged into the US' war against Al-Qaeda, which he said would draw more militants into the country and potentially destabilize it.
The leader of the Lebanese resistance said Fatah al-Islam fighters who attacked the military should be brought to justice but insisted that Hezbollah opposes any military incursion into the camp where a large number of Palestinian refugees are based.
"The Nahr al-Bared camp and Palestinian civilians are a red line. We will not accept or provide cover or be partners in this,'' Nasrallah said.
Hezbollah leads the Lebanese political opposition to the Western-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Saniora. But it also views extremists like Fatah al-Islam as enemies.
