Hello,

I received this from Beirut this morning.

Feel free to distribute it but please remove attributes and signatures
(including mine), as the author is anonymous.

Regards
Michael Davie



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>NATO TO BOMB ISRAELI TARGETS TOMORROW IN RETALIATION FOR MIDNIGHT RAID ON
>BEIRUT: CLINTON ANNOUNCES A CONTINUATION OF THE HUMANITARIAN CRUSADE BEGUN
>IN KOSOVO
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>>Brussels (Agencies): Shortly after the United Nations Security Council
>>unanimously imposed a total embargo on Israel for its continuing
>>occupation of southern Lebanon, NATO Secretary General Javier Solana
>>announced that the alliance would begin an air campaign against Israeli
>>targets. "Our aim," said Solana, "is to degrade the Israeli military's
>>ability to sustain its occupation of Lebanon." According to sources close
>>to NATO's high command, the alliance plans to start systematically bombing
>>Israeli military targets in southern Lebanon as well as northern Israel.
>>NATO has already sent several anti-aircraft missile batteries to Lebanon
>>to protect Beirut and other civilian areas from further indiscriminate
>>bombing. British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook suggested that the NATO
>>campaign against Israel would continue until all objectives had been met.
>>"This includes," Mr Cook insisted, "full reparations for the twenty years
>>of Israeli occupation of Lebanon." Mr Cook also added that an upcoming G8
>>meeting in Bonn would consider measures to ensure a total Israeli
>>withdrawal from all occupied territories by 2001, and the establishment of
>>an independent Palestinian state. "The Labour government promised a clean
>>and honest approach to international affairs, and this is our chance to
>>demonstate our credibility," he said.
>> Meanwhile, at a press briefing in Washington, President Clinton
>>declared that the people of Lebanon have suffered long enough, and that
>>last night's bombing of Beirut showed that the Israelis were insensitive
>>to the rule of law. "Israel is a rogue nation, an outlaw state living
>>beyond the norms of the family of nations," Clinton declared. He added,
>>"our objective is to make sure that the leadership of the Zionist
>>government understands that it must obey the will of the international
>>community, as expressed in UN Security Council Resolution 425 of 1978."
>>Mr Clinton met earlier with his Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright,
>>who bristled against the Israeli bombing of Beirut. "We cannot allow such
>>actions to continue," Mrs Albright said, promising swift action against
>>the government in Tel Aviv. Defense Secretary Cohen indicated that a long
>>list of targets had been drawn up for US and NATO airstrikes, including
>>several sensitive targets in Tel Aviv itself.
>> In a separate development, the US State Department announced a
>>reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and
>>capture of Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other Israeli war
>>criminals indicted by a UN human rights and war crimes tribunal meeting in
>>the Hague. The tribunal had issued indictments for a further 342,131
>>Israelis for various crimes against humanity. "This," said Mr Clinton,
>>"shows how far the family of nations will go in its effort to rid the
>>world of crimes against humanity. The Israelis have been on a rampage for
>>far too long, and the international community has now decided that it must
>>stop." His announcement came just after the UN declared its total air,
>>sea and land embargo on Israel.
>>
>>(sighs....)
>>

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