Posted on 06/11/2002 8:43:43 AM PDT by Dog Gone
BEIRUT, Jun 11, 2002 -- The Lebanese government placed the southern border with Israel on maximum alert against possible infiltration of mad cow disease, the official NNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Troops and police units in the districts of Kfar Shouba and Shebaa were ordered to shoot any infiltrating cow on sight.
NNA quoted a medical source as saying that these areas were more vulnerable than the rest of the U.N.-drawn Blue Line along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
The move was taken as a precaution following reports from the international epidemics bureau that there had been cases of mad caw disease in northern Israel and Syria's occupied Golan Heights.
The authorities ordered the alert on the strength of a letter from a Lebanese doctor in south Lebanon, who informed the government and local district commissioners that the Israeli authorities abstained from destroying mad cows in northern Israel.
There were plenty cases of cattle infiltrating from Israel into south Lebanon in recent years.
Don't take chances.
Shoot the calves, too.
In response, the Israeli foreign minister stated the following, "This ia a bunch of bull, they don't need to have a cow over it. They're trying to milk this for everything they can. I mean, obviously, the cattle took a wrong steer and ended up across the border."
Troops and police units in the districts of Kfar Shouba and Shebaa were ordered to shoot any infiltrating moose on sight.
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