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US reaffirms its support to Lebanese army despite the freezing of military aid, report

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Lebanese army soldiers position the Lebanese flag on top of a hill in the town of Ras Baalbek that the army recaptured from ISIS , Lebanon August 21, 2017.
Lebanese army soldiers position the Lebanese flag on top of a hill in the town of Ras Baalbek that the army recaptured from ISIS , Lebanon August 21, 2017.  The Trump administration has indefinitely suspended military aid to support Lebanese Armed Forces. Lebanon army and security forces received about $2.3  billion in military aid from the US since 2005

The Trump administration has indefinitely suspended military aid to support Lebanese Armed Forces, a source with knowledge told CNN.

The White House placed an “indefinite implementation hold” on security assistance, including a $105 million package to support the Lebanese Armed Forces, the source told CNN. The source said it did not appear that the State Department or Department of Defense had been looped into the process.
A State Department spokesperson pushed back on the reports about the aid suspension and affirmed support for the Lebanese Armed Forces. At the same time, the spokesperson did not commit to sending military aid to Lebanon in the future.
“The Lebanon (foreign military financing) has been apportioned by the Administration. No Lebanese expenditures or purchases of military material with (foreign military financing) have been delayed,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “The United States remains committed to strengthening the capacity of the Lebanese Armed Forces to secure Lebanon’s borders, defend its sovereignty, and preserve its stability.”
State Department officials have affirmed support for the LAF as “the sole legitimate defense arm of the Government of Lebanon” and as a counter to reliance on Hezbollah, who has been designated by the US as a foreign terrorist organization for more than two decades.
In a briefing Friday, State Department Counterterrorism Coordinator Nathan Sales noted that the US had “worked over the years, over many years, to strengthen the institutions of the Lebanese state, such as the Lebanese Armed Forces, to ensure that there is no felt need in Lebanon to rely on any purported services that Lebanon might receive from Hezbollah.”
“That has been our policy and that remains our policy,” Sales said.
The State Department spokesperson reaffirmed said Saturday that “the United States remains committed to strengthening the capacity of the Lebanese Armed Forces to secure Lebanon’s borders, defend its sovereignty, and preserve its stability.”
A senior administration official told CNN Saturday, “We have no decision to announce at this time, nor do we comment on internal deliberations.”
“At this time, we continue to advance (Department of Defense) security cooperation activities with the Lebanese Armed Forces. DoD remains committed to bolstering the LAF’s capabilities, and reinforcing its standing as the sole legitimate defender of Lebanon,” Cmdr. Rebecca Rebarich said in a statement to CNN Saturday.
An initial report from Reuters that the security aid was being withheld came just days after Lebanon’s prime minister Saad Hariri announced he would resign after weeks of nationwide protests. The massive demonstrations were sparked by proposed austerity measures amid the country’s economic crisis.
Despite concerns of economic collapse in Lebanon, a senior State Department official said that there would be no “bailout” for the nation until reforms were implemented.
“There will be no bailout for Lebanon,” the official told reporters on Wednesday.
“They should have done reform and they had plenty of time to do reform and they somehow couldn’t make it happen,” they said.
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40 responses to “US reaffirms its support to Lebanese army despite the freezing of military aid, report”

  1. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ab9e4039c62fc673cd51678e8461d4a06d3851cc75a972ab9d3ba40fff17e11f.png

    US Government is Israel

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    1. vs Avatar
      vs

      Is Iran islamism free state, infosharmuta Abyad?

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  2. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    https://twitter.com/AmirAminiMD/status/1191052479053680640

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  3. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    https://twitter.com/AmirAminiMD/status/1191052479053680640
    Not allowed

    Proof YaLibnan was sold to Zionistst Israel?

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    1. Y K Avatar
      Y K

      Only Dr. Bumbyad possesses a key to the mysteries of the universe.

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    2. vs Avatar
      vs

      It was a rubber bullet and the man survived and the officer was charged. This was almost 9 months ago
      Sure you are infosharmuta Abyad not for sale?

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      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        zarmouta your mommy

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        1. vs Avatar
          vs

          god is witness no, all my family and hope me also are not zarmoutian
          You are, infected rat, infosharmuta 100%

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      2. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        God is witness, all my family and hope me also are not zarmoutian

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        1. vs Avatar
          vs

          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0d5a4b7384af973ee0cd28202390137d327151f14cc4188de60bbe92540107df.png

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          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You can not change intelligence you can not change biology, vice versa

          2. Niemals Avatar
            Niemals

            As a denier of the Holocaust,
            https://twitter.com/AbyadHind/status/1191532313865261057 you must love the men dressed as Jews hand out Holocaust Denial flyers at Boulder Mall.
            https://twitter.com/koshersemite/status/1190849930249699328 https://media1.giphy.com/media/dJtDZzyjLF66I/giphy.gif

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Stop running after me wih baby GIF find a job
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/410a8ddbc5e0ed05d9b95ff25308d18bfcc07668fec4c8709a86144446064e3a.png

    3. vs Avatar
      vs

      All Orabians (aka FaLIEstinians), if you hate can not tolerate Jews, go live with your “brothers” in Saudia, UOE, Kuwait, Saba Land (Yemen) Coptic Land (Egypt), Berber Land (Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia), Kush (North Sudan)

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  4. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    https://twitter.com/AmirAminiMD/status/1191052479053680640

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  5. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    “The evidence includes textmessages in which members of the unit boasted about the incident and the main suspect’s admission via text messages. She also faces a charge of obstructing justice, since she allegedly asked her fellow police officers not to talk about the incident. However, the incident was eventually reported by Border Police officers.

    The event came to light during the investigation of a different incident,in which members of the Border Police allegedly beat a Palestinian man for no reason.”

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    1. vs Avatar
      vs

      Is this your support of Lebanese Army, infosharmuta?

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      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        vs – Hind Abyad • 13 minutes ago
        Is this your support of Lebanese Army, infosharmuta?
        •Reply •Share ›

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    2. MaImequer0 Avatar
      MaImequer0

      Were the texts from videotron?

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  6. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    ‘Israeli army protects settlers disrupting Palestinian olive harvest’

    https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/IDF-stops-joint-Jewish-Palestinian-olive-harvest-605802

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    1. vs Avatar
      vs

      Olive harvest with left wing involvement will turn to a political event, without harvesting any olives
      Abyad infosharmuta stupid trying distract attention from Lebanon, Syria, Yemen etc. awful situation

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      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        I will protect Lebanon from your Israel and your crass..

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        1. vs Avatar
          vs

          a lie has no legs

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          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            vice-versa

          2. vs Avatar
            vs

            UN Secretary General removes head of UNRWA

            UN Secretary General Antoniu Guterres will meet on November 6 with the head of the Faliestine Refugee Relief Agency, Pierre Krachenbühl, and inform him of his suspension. According to the Galei IDF radio station, the reason for this was an internal investigation conducted at UNRWA.

            The report, prepared by the commission of the ethics agency, indicates abuses by UNRWA management. The document was handed to Guterres back in December 2018 and did not entail immediate consequences, to the indignation of the ordinary staff of the Agency.

            The document, in which ten pages, says that the top leaders of the agency used official powers for personal purposes, suppressed legitimate discontent and abused power in other, unnamed ways. The authors of the report recommend carefully weighing the possibility of immediate dismissal of those involved.

            It was addressed to the UNRWA General Commissioner Pierre Crachenbühle, his deputy Sandra Mitchell, who later resigned, the head of the staff Hakame Shahwan, who also left his post, and the senior adviser to the Commissioner General Maria Muhammadi. They are called “inner circle” in the report.

            “Since 2015, the inner circle has been increasingly concentrating power in their hands. He used the crisis of 2018 to concentrate decision-making in the hands of the leadership clique, which ignored the rules and norms,” the document says, focusing on the frequent and costly working trips of Krachenbyul and his retinues.

            A few days ago, the media reported that the UN Secretary General had asked Israeli non-governmental organizations to help with UNRWA reform. NGO representatives noted that the agency was completely opaque, and in its schools called for the destruction of Israel.

            The United States and Israel are in favor of liquidating the agency, because they are confident that UNRWA actually perpetuates the problems of Palestinian refugees, but does not solve them, and terror is propagated in its schools. The cessation of US funding made the agency work in a permanent financial crisis

        2. MaImequer0 Avatar
          MaImequer0

          You could end up as flat as a pancake… totally deflated like the flattened people in the 80s.

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        3. Y K Avatar
          Y K

          There’s truly nothing more fun than “protecting Lebanon” from a Montreal welfare office! 🙂

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    2. MaryTPresumptuous Avatar
      MaryTPresumptuous

      Lebanon is near crumble and all you have to say is “pay attention to what the Democracy of Jews is talking about in their press”?

      If you are a diasporan Lebanese, you care for your motherland as any Iranian cares for her. And if not a citizen of another country, your care is and views are even more quixotic and inappropos

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      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        “pay attention to what the Democracy of Jews”
        “Beating an 80 years old man attacked by over 30 settlers armed with crowbars with crowbar” published by Jewish Post !!

        Lebanon has nothing to do with with you i write about what i want (Not to you).
        Fed up with Zionist squaters racism non-stop Supremacism insultes.

        “You care for your motherland as any Iranian cares for her”.
        Iran Iran Iran. Hezbollah Hezbollah Hezbollah.”.

        Lebanese are sick of Sectarianism, you just had to bring Iran.

        Persian Jews have lived of today’s Iran for over 2,700 years, they are Semitic Zionists are not.
        Do you have this in Saudi Arabia (Isreali allies)?
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/96ddc10303b552e6269b24ee9127dfebe8caec1ab0fde26bf47b36bd77578119.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/51035e7961f2dc331078c0289a548d32d89eeac7b715ce75247a87114d203be5.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/91838dca4403d29b4132121add1a9282bf4f68feae7528c99e273a3cd3e8e13a.png
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1ada2d4756252a9e607e5a0eb134d0c355071511a06ea61e57ce26a97b28e4e8.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c78c32bef6e2a00017bb08df7159f5f11f02a6bb979513fe22fd9e359ebcde1d.png

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        1. vs Avatar
          vs

          Lol.
          Persian (Iranian) Jews: Israel 200,000–250,000 United States 60,000–80,000 Iran 9,826 (in 2016) Canada 1,000 Australia~740

          At the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution,
          80,000–100,000 Jews were living in Iran. From then on, Jewish
          emigration from Iran dramatically increased, as about 20,000 Jews left
          within several months of the revolution alone.
          The vast majority of Iran’s Jewish population, some 60,000 Jews,
          emigrated, of whom 35,000 went to the United States, 20,000 to Israel,
          and 5,000 to Europe (mainly to the United Kingdom, France, Germany,
          Italy, and Switzerland).
          Some sources put the Iranian Jewish population in the mid and late 1980s as between 50,000–60,000. An estimate based on the 1986 census put the figure considerably higher for the same time, around 55,000.
          From the mid-1990s to the present there has been more uniformity in the
          figures, with most government sources since then estimating roughly
          25,000 Jews remaining in Iran. These less recent official figures are considered bloated, and the Jewish community may not amount to more than 10,000. A 2012 census put the figure at about 8,756

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          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            😉 Keep you “history” i don’t read it. Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Bolshevik Zionists.

          2. vs Avatar
            vs

            And at that time the Turks handed out sweets to Armenians. Primitive fool, your mental masturbation, hate, stupidity are limitless

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You are autistic take care.

          4. vs Avatar
            vs

            My brain is not blocked by orabization yet https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fc2d9eae1d453366b042243ed45f22aa891862ff3e5f4806dba8035d80cd53d6.jpg

          5. vs Avatar
            vs

            https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmnenia.zahav.ru%2FArticles%2F12546%2Fvzlet_padenie_novyi_podem_psihoanalisa

          6. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            But you do believe in invisible mind rays, right sweetie?

      2. Niemals Avatar
        Niemals

        Hind cares more about the Jews she hate so much, so she always finds something about them in Russia Insider.
        https://twitter.com/AbyadHind/status/1191900376666181632
        https://twitter.com/AbyadHind/status/1190459815409131521

        For one being Lebanese, she is reading more that is published in Jewish Post.
        Nothing about the news that “Bassil intransigence holds up progress on govt formation” published in Lebanese press.
        http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2019/Nov-06/495071-bassil-intransigence-holds-up-progress-on-govt-formation.ashx

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        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Israel majority are Russians and Askenazis, so go fry a Russian egg

          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/150113ec5d5dcc4abd1ea2b5479ef74e7f4ffdfdd1f3e16103f6567b86a1d944.png

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          1. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            Then why did you get FGM at age 7? You bragged about this once, everyone saw it.

          2. Y K Avatar
            Y K

            Even a fleeting thought about this creature’s genital parts makes me sick.

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