"Monday, October 22, 2007
BEIRUT: The administration of US President George W Bush wants the Lebanese to choose between having their country turn into an American military base or face a new strife, Lebanon’s top Shia Muslim cleric alleged on Sunday.
The allegation by Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah came three days after a senior Pentagon official said the US military would like to see a “strategic partnership’’ with Lebanon’s army to strengthen the country’s forces so that the Hizbullah would have no excuse to bear arms.
“We warn that the United States administration is offering the Lebanese a choice either to accept their country being turned into a United States military, security and political base, or to expect a new strife,’’ Fadlallah said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press......"
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