The head of Lebanon’s Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, MP Michel Aoun, has reportedly informed Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah that the pending indictment by the international tribunal for the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Al-Hariri would be followed by an Israeli attack on Lebanon, with the aim of creating tension and seeking sedition in the country, according to a Lebanese paper.
The Lebanese daily Al-Safir said that Western diplomatic sources have given the information to Aoun, who in turn, told Assad and Nasrallah that the alleged indictment of Hizbullah members in the affair would be accompanied by Lebanese-Lebanese and Lebanese-Palestinian tension.
According to the paper, Aoun expressed fears that once the indictment was issued, Israel would launch a large-scale war against Lebanon, during which the resistance would be hit by "Israeli fire" from one side and "internal strife fire" on the other. He also reportedly warned that given this situation, some Christian parties in Lebanon would seek to impose a new status quo in their regions, while fundamentalist groups in Palestinian camps would act the same way.
The paper reported that Aoun asked his allies, particularly Hizbullah, to ready themselves to confront such strife and to review the current structure of the national unity cabinet, which would be incapable of facing such threats.
Source: Almanar.com.lb, July 17, 2010
