[[{"content_id":"81645","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Lebanon facing US threat in its waters","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2008-03-01 12:17:00","content_summary":"","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement Hezbollah denounced the deployment of American warships off the coast of Lebanon on Friday, calling it a threat to Lebanese sovereignty and independence. The American military said Thursday the navy was sending at least three ships, including an amphibious assault ship, to the eastern Mediterranean Sea in an interfering move during a period of tensions with Syria and political uncertainty in Lebanon. "We are facing an American threat against Lebanon," Hezbollah legislator Hassan Fadlallah said. "It is clear this threat and intimidation will not affect us," he stressed on local Al-Jadeed television. The lawmaker called on the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to reject the deployment as well. Lebanese resistance blames America for scuttling any attempts to settle the political crisis over presidency and government that has dragged on for the last 15 months and sharpened since November after Parliament failed to meet to elect a head of state. Fadlallah said Hezbollah would not be affected by "threats and intimidation and such American military shows which do not affect our choices and decisions." "Lebanese sovereignty and independence are clearly threatened through these direct American moves," he added. Stretching its military muscle is proof of failure of America, Fadhlallah said. The deployment was front page news in newspapers in Lebanon. The As-Safir daily called the American decision "provocative" and headlined: "Cole destroyer in Lebanese waters to terrorize the Resistance, Syria and the (Arab) summit." "America repeats 1982 adventure,'' read the headline of the Al-Akhbar daily. The American reports harked back memories of the bloody American involvement in Lebanon in the 1980s. In 1983, at the height of American intervention, about 17 ships _ two aircraft carrier battle groups and two mammoth battleships _ patrolled the Lebanese coastline with a marine contingent deployed at Beirut Airport. A martyrdom bombing destroyed the marine base in October 1983, killing 241 Americans, and an American embassy building was destroyed by another bomber during that period. American warships also were involved in shelling Lebanese resistance positions.","content_html":"Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement Hezbollah denounced the deployment of American warships off the coast of Lebanon on Friday, calling it a threat to Lebanese sovereignty and independence.

The American military said Thursday the navy was sending at least three ships, including an amphibious assault ship, to the eastern Mediterranean Sea in an interfering move during a period of tensions with Syria and political uncertainty in Lebanon.

"We are facing an American threat against Lebanon," Hezbollah legislator Hassan Fadlallah said.

"It is clear this threat and intimidation will not affect us," he stressed on local Al-Jadeed television.

The lawmaker called on the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to reject the deployment as well.

Lebanese resistance blames America for scuttling any attempts to settle the political crisis over presidency and government that has dragged on for the last 15 months and sharpened since November after Parliament failed to meet to elect a head of state.

Fadlallah said Hezbollah would not be affected by "threats and intimidation and such American military shows which do not affect our choices and decisions."

"Lebanese sovereignty and independence are clearly threatened through these direct American moves," he added.

Stretching its military muscle is proof of failure of America, Fadhlallah said.

The deployment was front page news in newspapers in Lebanon.

The As-Safir daily called the American decision "provocative" and headlined: "Cole destroyer in Lebanese waters to terrorize the Resistance, Syria and the (Arab) summit."

"America repeats 1982 adventure,'' read the headline of the Al-Akhbar daily.

The American reports harked back memories of the bloody American involvement in Lebanon in the 1980s.

In 1983, at the height of American intervention, about 17 ships _ two aircraft carrier battle groups and two mammoth battleships _ patrolled the Lebanese coastline with a marine contingent deployed at Beirut Airport.

A martyrdom bombing destroyed the marine base in October 1983, killing 241 Americans, and an American embassy building was destroyed by another bomber during that period.

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