Israel Matzav

Terrorists' flunkie visting Washington

Lebanese Prime Minister Sa'ad Hariri, who recently went to kiss the man who murdered his father, will be visiting President Obama on May 24.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri will make his first official visit to the United States at the end of May to meet with President Barack Obama and address the UN Security Council, a government official said on Tuesday.

“The prime minister will make his first official visit to Washington and New York later this month,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

“He will meet with President Obama and address the UN Security Council.”

Lebanon currently heads the rotating chair of the UN Security Council.

On Tuesday, Arutz Sheva reported that Hariri had defended Hezbullah's right to have scud missiles. You know, the ones he compared to Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction last month. But on Tuesday night, Hariri denied ever having said what was reported by Lebanese newspaper as-Safir.

In interviews given to As-Safir newspaper, unidentified individuals close to Hariri quoted the prime minister as saying that he supported Hizbullah receiving Scud missiles in its continuing resistance to Israel.

The sources said Hariri “supported that the resistance in Lebanon acquires all that it needs, including Scud missiles, to defend Lebanese borders against any Israeli aggression attempt in Lebanon.”

“I don’t disagree with Hizbullah over the resistance. I disagree with it over some domestic issues,” the paper quoted Hariri as saying.

A statement from Hariri’s press office sought to distance the premier from controversy.

“While it is true that Prime Minister Hariri is concerned first and foremost with Lebanon’s interests, the quotes attributed to him [Hariri] in As-Safir are in total contradiction with such interests, because they are designed to draw Lebanon into dangerous regional tensions,” the statement said.

“These are the same dangers from which Hariri has been endeavoring to protect Lebanon,” it added.

All comments, Hariri’s press office stressed, were to be taken “in the context of hearsay and are incorrect.”

Hariri’s denial is the latest act in the ongoing drama concerning Israeli-US allegations that Hizbullah has received long-range missiles from Syria, capable of hitting any target in Israel.

Hmmm.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:35 AM