Qatari paper: US warns Lebanon over Hizbullah
09-01-2005 , 05:31
Qatar's Al Watan on Sunday reported that Washington has recently sent a stern warning to Beirut over the issue of Hizbullah.
According to the report, US ambassador to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, during a meeting with Lebanese officials, said the United States would include Lebanon in the list of states sponsoring terrorism, if the stands towards Hizbullah would not change.
The US warning came soon after Lebanese Prime Minister, Omar Karami, held a meeting with Hizbullah chief, Hassan Nasrallah.
The newspaper was also told by sources in Damascus that the US and France were offering Iran to abandon Hizbullah in exchange for easing the international pressure on Tehran over its alleged nuclear development plans.
On 7 January 2005, Honduran authorities arrested a Nicaraguan man suspected of being contracted by drug traffickers and other criminal groups, possibly including street gangs, to assassinate Honduran President Ricardo Maduro.
The suspect was traveling in a taxi on a highway near the town of Pavana, located approximately 60 mi/100 km south of Tegucigalpa, the capital, when he was detained. According to a Honduran government spokesperson, the suspect may have also been planning to target Honduras’ security minister as well as the president of Congress, Porfirio Lobo Sosa. During the arrest, police officers confiscated a grenade launcher with 40 projectiles as well as an assault rifle equipped with a tripod and ammunition.
Hi Oorang.
That's interesting.