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Monday, July 17, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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U.S. approves Nasrallah hit?
The United States reportedly approved Israel´s efforts to kill Hezbollah´s leader. Maariv reported Monday that Washington officials had discreetly given a "big, flashing green light" to Israel to continue targeting Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in its attacks on Lebanon. U.S. and Israeli officials were not immediately available for comment.
Iran said deep in Lebanon
Iran has 200 of its personnel stationed in Lebanon, a senior Iranian military official was quoted as saying.
The London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday quoted an unnamed Iranian military official as saying his country had stationed 200 advisers in Lebanon to help Hezbollah fight Israel.
The official was further quoted as saying that in recent years Iran supplied Hezbollah with 11,000 military-grade missiles.
Scrutiny on Iran’s support for its Lebanese proxy has intensified since an Israeli navy ship was attacked off Beirut’s coast last Friday.
Israel said the missile fired by Hezbollah, which killed four sailors, was Iranian-made.
Iran denied involvement.
Bush: Hezbollah must stop attacking
President Bush called on Hezbollah “to lay down its arms and to stop attacking” Israel.
Bush’s comments Saturday from Russia, where he is to attend the Group of Eight summit meeting of leading industrial nations this week, came as the United States and France prepared to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon.
The summit’s host, Russian President Vladimir Putin, urged Israeli restraint.
Meanwhile, Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo adopted a resolution calling for U.N. Security Council intervention, but Saudi Arabia denounced Hezbollah and blamed it for provoking the conflict.
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