Envoy: Al-Qaeda smuggling arms to Syria
Syrian Ambassador in Beirut Ali Abdelkarim Ali has urged the Lebanese government to prevent cross-border arms smuggling.
Thursday, 29.12.2011.
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Syrian Ambassador in Beirut Ali Abdelkarim Ali has urged the Lebanese government to prevent cross-border arms smuggling. The Lebanese prime minister has denied the allegations. Envoy: Al-Qaeda smuggling arms to Syria Ali linked the issue of suspected arms smuggling to claims that Al-Qaeda was operating along the Lebanese-Syrian border, made earlier this month by Lebanon's pro-Syrian Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn and called on Beirut to take "serious, strict measures to end arms smuggling from Lebanon into Syria and... not give in to international pressure." "Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn's exposure of Al-Qaeda members who are infiltrating Syria via the Lebanese border village of Aarsal is an issue that must be dealt responsibly and seriously," Ali was quoted as saying by Hezbollah-run Al-Intiqad website. The Syrian ambassador said that "arms smuggling and terrorism are complementary, and measures to put an end to this matter must be clear and decisive," the AFP has reported. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has denied Ali’s allegations and stated there is "no conclusive proof" that Al-Qaeda is operating along the Lebanese-Syrian border. "There is no conclusive evidence of the presence of Al-Qaeda in Aarsal," Mikati told reporters late on Wednesday. The Lebanese defense minister said last week that Al-Qaeda insurgents were operating on the border disguised as Syrian opposition activists, Reuters has reported. Lebanon has tried to distance itself from the events in Syria where the uprising started off in March as a wave of peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad but is now overshadowed by an armed insurrection, Reuters points out. Shiite militant group Hezbollah heads an alliance that dominates the Mikati government and is a staunch ally of the Assad regime, which blames the violence within its borders on "armed terrorist" groups. (Tanjug, file) Tanjug
Envoy: Al-Qaeda smuggling arms to Syria
Ali linked the issue of suspected arms smuggling to claims that Al-Qaeda was operating along the Lebanese-Syrian border, made earlier this month by Lebanon's pro-Syrian Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn and called on Beirut to take "serious, strict measures to end arms smuggling from Lebanon into Syria and... not give in to international pressure.""Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn's exposure of Al-Qaeda members who are infiltrating Syria via the Lebanese border village of Aarsal is an issue that must be dealt responsibly and seriously," Ali was quoted as saying by Hezbollah-run Al-Intiqad website.
The Syrian ambassador said that "arms smuggling and terrorism are complementary, and measures to put an end to this matter must be clear and decisive," the AFP has reported.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has denied Ali’s allegations and stated there is
"no conclusive proof" that Al-Qaeda is operating along the Lebanese-Syrian border.
"There is no conclusive evidence of the presence of Al-Qaeda in Aarsal," Mikati told reporters late on Wednesday.
The Lebanese defense minister said last week that Al-Qaeda insurgents were operating on the border disguised as Syrian opposition activists, Reuters has reported.
Lebanon has tried to distance itself from the events in Syria where the uprising started off in March as a wave of peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad but is now overshadowed by an armed insurrection, Reuters points out.
Shiite militant group Hezbollah heads an alliance that dominates the Mikati government and is a staunch ally of the Assad regime, which blames the violence within its borders on "armed terrorist" groups.
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