Sunday, February 26, 2006  

Lebanon admits it approved weapons transfer to Hezbollah
By Ze'ev Schiff, Haaretz Correspondent 26 February 2006
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/687109.html
The Lebanese government publicly admitted recently, for the first time, that
it had permitted the delivery of a convoy of arms from Syria to Hezbollah.
The United Nations responded by issuing a condemnation.

According to Lebanese sources, Lebanese soldiers halted a convoy of
arms-laden trucks from Syria at an army checkpoint in the Lebanon Valley on January 31. However, the Lebanese Defense Ministry ordered the soldiers to allow the convoy to proceed.

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