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AMERICA'S LATEST PUPPET REGIME ; As the West looks anxiously at Iraq and Afghanistan, dangerous cracks are opening up in Lebanon - and the White House is determined to prop up Fouad Siniora's government . Robert Fisk reports ++ US power games in the Middle East
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The Independent - London
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March 19, 2007
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The spring rain beat down like ball-bearings on the flat roof of
General Claudio Graziano's office. Much of southern Lebanon looked
like a sea of mud this week but all was optimism and light for the
Italian commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon,
now 11,000 strong and still expecting South Korea to add to his
remarkable 29-nation international army. He didn't recall how the
French battalion almost shot down an Israeli jet last year - it was
before his time - and he dismissed last month's border shoot-out
between Israeli and Lebanese troops.
No specific threats had been directed at Unifil, the UN's man in
southern Lebanon insisted - though I noticed he paused for several ...
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