Excerpts: Lebanon wants Libya's Qadhafi arrested. Egypt offers Lebanon
military help 28 August 2008

+++JORDAN TIMES 28 Aug.'08:"Lebanon issues arrest warrant for Qadhafi"
Full Text: BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon has issued an arrest warrant for Libyan
leader Muammar Qadhafi over the disappearance 30 years ago of a senior
Shiite Muslim cleric after a visit to Libya, officials said on Wednesday.
Qadhafi was also indicted for allegedly "inciting the abduction" of Imam
Mussa Sadr, the spiritual guide of Lebanon's Shiite community, investigating
Magistrate Samih Al Hajj said in a charge sheet. An "arrest warrant" was
issued for Qadhafi and six other Libyan suspects who were also indicted for
taking part in the alleged abduction, according to a copy of the charge
sheet obtained by AFP. Sadr, who founded the opposition Amal movement now
led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, disappeared while in Libya with two
companions Mohammad Yacoub and Abbas Badreddin in 1978. There has been no
trace of the three men since.

+++Arab News (Saudi)28 Aug.'08:"Egypt govt offers help to rebuild Lebanese
army
Agencies"
EXCERPTS:BEIRUT: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has offered
his country's assistance in rebuilding Lebanon's army, in a bid to improve
security amid ongoing sectarian tensions.
North Lebanon has witnessed in the past two months repeated clashes
between Sunni followers of the Western-backed government and others loyal
to the opposition, led by Hezbollah.
The Egyptian official expressed readiness that his country "would help in
rebuilding the capabilities of the Lebanese army and the security sector."
. . ."The Egyptian support would help the Lebanese Army shoulder its
responsibilities," he added. Egypt has "major capabilities in this
respect," he stressed.. . .

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Sue Lerner - Associate, IMRA