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(The year 2000′. Actual Conversation on the Blue Line)

Madeline Albright to President Lahoud : “The Israelis pulled out, and we need you to ratify that so that we can proceed at the UN …”

Lahoud: “but Mrs. Secretary, they have not … I have an officer at the border who informs me that over a million sq. meters are still occupied…”

Albright: “… you sign off on the ‘withdrawal… and I promise you, we’ll deal with that later…”

Lahoud: “No, I will not … Unless the withdrawal is complete, I will not allow it…”

Albright: ” DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO? I am the representative of the government of the USA!”

Lahoud: “And I am very tired (after 3:00AM) and I need to go to bed… Goodnight!”

Most of the territory was later evacuated prior to ratification, but the government of Lebanon signed off “with reservations.”

“… In a statement on Wednesday, Unifil said its investigators were still on the ground and that inquiries were continuing. “Unifil established, however, that the trees being cut by the Israeli Army are located south of the Blue Line on the Israeli side,” it said.

Unifil added that in the area in question, the Lebanese government had “some reservations concerning the Blue Line,” which was demarcated by the United Nations when Israel withdrew its forces from Lebanon in 2000, “as did the Israeli government at some other locations.”….”

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Views from the Occident, Conversation with a Cyber Jihadi, 5 Feb 2010 online dialogue, together with screenshots from various sources
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“In a conversation with Rogers, Kissinger interpreted Hussein’s request as an invitation for an Israeli aerial action and an American ground action. Rogers agreed that there was no alternative – the Israeli air force would have to act or else everything would fall apart.” (thanks Dina)

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The story of the assassination attempt on Muhammad Bin Nayif is still developing. Today, Saudi media released an audio tape of a phone conversation between the prince and the assassin. But the conversation reveals a degree of familiarity, nay intimacy, between the prince and the assassin. It was so bizarre especially when the prince told the Al-Qa`idah member that “you are our kids.” Al-Arabiyya TV (the private station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law) realized that while they are airing the tape they are also unwittingly revealing the relations between the prince and those Bin Ladenites, and the able Syrian broadcaster, Zeina Al-Yaziji, even asked a Saudi journalist to explain this intimacy of the phone conversation. He answered by wishing people a happy Ramadan.

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