Diplomacy of the Absurd

Italian foreign minister Massimo D'Alema paid the Assad regime a visit today to "tell Damascus that it was not the target of a UN Security Council resolution approving an international tribunal to try suspects, including several top Syrian security official, in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri." (AKI)

The Assad regime responded to this Italian Diplomacy of the Absurd by declaring that they would cooperate with the Hariri investigation but not the tribunal, prompting D'Alema to announce that he found "encouraging and useful elements". 

While the Italian was detecting "a willingness to confirm a commitment to resolve problems," the Assad regime was sending reinforcements to pro-Syrian factions in the Bekaa, PFLP-GC and Fatah-Intifada, in the war against Lebanon. Yesterday, Lebanese military officials told the cabinet that they detected "military activity" along the Lebanese Syrian border and entry of weapons and armed elements "in connection with the events in Nahr El Bared, Ain El Helweh and other areas".

A cabinet session late Monday to discuss the military ground offensive against Fatah al-Islam was attended by senior army and police officers. An Nahar said the officers notified the cabinet ministers about the "military activities" recently observed along the Syrian-Lebanese border. The sources said "armed members and weapons" that were seen entering the Lebanese territory likely belonged to the Syrian-backed Fatah-Uprising movement and Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. (Naharnet)

Comments

[Shunkleash]

It is great to know that the army etc are reporting to the gov't about the infiltration and rearming and re-inforceing of terrorists in the camps oe. PFLP-GC etc etc But a question comes to mind (ITS STUPID I KNOW but hmmmm...)WHAT DID THEY DO TO STOP THE infotrating.!?!?!? or do they need orders to shoot men smuggling weapons into the country

Back to the arak...

Shunkleash

[Bad Vilbel]

Indeed. And some people still expect to get results from going to Damascus...

[Arabic Coffee Pot]

Walaw Abu Kais don't u know that Seniora is carrying ammo for Fatah al Islam across the border himself, and that Saad Hariri is driving fighters to Nahr el Bared in his "Mercedes with tinted windows" from Akkar?

Don't you know that Fatfat is nursing the wounds of Fatah al Islam fighters in Dinnieh himself (with the help of his Jordanian nurse-maid of course)?

Don't u know Bahia is buying the Jund al Sham lunch while they aim their sniper guns at our soldiers' heads?

Come on, don't be a Zionist collaborator by saying nasty things about the warm, fun-loving Syrian regime.

(Sarcasm - except for the Bahia bit...what a douche she is!)