Damascus Denies Syrian Warplanes Bombed Lebanese Border Area
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Damascus on Tuesday denied that its warplanes had bombed areas on the Lebanese-Syrian border, accusing “hostile” countries of circulating the media reports.
“The reports circulated by some Lebanese, Arab and international media outlets about Syrian warplanes dropping bombs inside Lebanese territory are false and baseless,” Syria's state news agency SANA quoted an unnamed foreign ministry official as saying.
On Monday, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said “Syrian warplanes bombarded the outskirts of the towns of Khirbet Younin and Wadi al-Khayl in Arsal's barren mountains.”
But the Syrian official said “some countries that have endorsed the approach of hostility against Syria, through arming and financing armed terrorist groups, are behind circulating this false report.”
The Syrian foreign ministry “stresses that this report it totally false, and as it denies it in its entirety, it underlines its respect of Lebanese sovereignty and its keenness on the security and stability of brotherly Lebanon.”
President Michel Suleiman tasked on Tuesday Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour with sending a letter of protest to Syria over air raids in the northeastern border area.
Suleiman said the air raids were “unacceptable” and “violated Lebanese sovereignty.”
On Monday, a high-ranking Lebanese army official confirmed to Agence France Presse that Syrian air strikes took place along the border area, without saying whether they had struck inside Lebanese territory.
But a security services official on the ground told AFP that Syrian planes had fired four missiles at Arsal, where many residents back the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Al-Manar television, which belongs to pro-Damascus Hizbullah, said the warplanes had targeted two barns used by "armed men" in the Wadi al-Khayl area of Arsal.
Washington also confirmed Syrian forces had fired at northern Lebanon, calling the strikes "a significant escalation in the violations of Lebanese sovereignty that the Syrian regime has been guilty of."
19 March 2013, 18:11
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what a bunch of crap
is there any idiot that believes them anymore?
19 March 2013, 18:24
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According to Syrian doctrine and a few Lebanese MPs lebanon does not exist so the unnamed Syrian foreign ministry official is not lying. But wait an unnamed Syrian official confirmed to al Manar (as reported in their Monday night news bulletin) yesterday that the Syrian planes bombed structures in Lebanon harboring terrorists, what gives Ghawarmongers?
19 March 2013, 19:07
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Ya Geha the Syrians are worried about this. If the West can establish that Syria is attacking Lebanese territory in violation of UN resolutions concerning Lebanese Sovereignty, it will give the West a pretext, a cover to hit the Syrians.
19 March 2013, 21:16
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They denied it and there were reports that even Al Manar said they attacked Lebanese territory. Of course the Syrians are going to lie--it happens whenever a member of the regime opens his mouth or when their mouthpieces 'report' a story.
19 March 2013, 22:14
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So Al Manar said the Syrians bombed in side Lebanon, but the Syrian government says whoever reports this is an enemy of Syria. So Al Manar is an enemy of the Syrian government?
