IDF raising fears about Lebanon, ctd.

Gregg Carlstrom | July 28, 2009 7:45 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

The IDF is walking back those allegations of impending war along the Lebanese border.

"We are seriously tracking the events on the northern border," IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi said during a tour of the IDF recruitment headquarters in Tel Aviv. "It is quiet up there, and I am not aware of winds of war in the area."

Again, there's no denying that things got tense over the last few weeks. But leaping from a few dozen unarmed Shi'a protesters to an all-out war led by Hizballah fighters? That's an absurd stretch.

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