Monday, November 27, 2006

"“The army will first protect us, but if we find ourselves obliged we will take to the streets, and a peaceful confrontation will be faced with a peaceful confrontation, and clashes will be faced with clashes,” said Walid Eido, a judge and member of Lebanon’s Parliament in the governing coalition, speaking of the challenge from Hezbollah. “We will sell our blood to buy weapons and confront them. We will never let them control the country.”" (This Hariri deputy used to give special dinners for Syrian mukhabarat men in Beirut. During the Lebanese civil war, he was a member of the leadership of the militia, Murabitun. He used the code name Rudwan Sa`adah at the time because he could not as a judge join a political part--a militia here.)