Israelis Asked to Take Down Barbed Wire (Lebanon)

[Eugene]

Israelis Asked to Take Down Barbed Wire

By JAMEY KEATEN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 13, 2006; 8:21 AM

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- U.N. peacekeepers on Wednesday asked Israel's army to pull
down a new barbed-wire barrier that Lebanon said encroached on its territory,
a U.N. spokesman said.

Alexander Ivanko, a spokesman for the UNIFIL peacekeeping force, said new wire
coils were put up in Lebanese territory between the northern Israeli village
of Metulla and Kfar Kila, a town in southern Lebanon.

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New barriers were put up in several places, including the Khiam plain and the town
of Gadjar, covering an area about 15 yards deep and a total of nearly two miles wide,
the officials said.

The barriers run parallel to existing coils laid out along the Blue Line frontier
designated by the United Nations force in 2000, the officials said.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091300483.html

[acmavm]

1. Don't worry, it's only temporary. Until the put up the cement

wall, that is.

[breakaleg]

2. If this is on Lebanese soil, it's yet another not so subtle way to steal

land. Typical.

[Tom Joad]

3. Next thing they'll be asked is to remove the landmines...

some of which have been there for years. in lebanon. that it supposedly left.