{"id":9387,"date":"2012-05-02T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T20:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9387"},"modified":"2012-05-02T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T20:44:04","slug":"arming-syria-through-lebanon-unaccpetable-says-justice-minister-shakib-qortbawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9387","title":{"rendered":"Arming Syria through Lebanon unaccpetable says Justice Minister, Shakib Qortbawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Qortbawi against using Lebanon to transfer arms to Syria<\/strong><br \/>\n2 May, 2012  &#8211; Lebanon Now\t  <\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi said on Wednesday that all Lebanese people reject using the country as a path to transfer arms to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The Lutfallah II vessel] operation is unacceptable to all Lebanese [because they] reject Lebanon be used as a path to transfer weapons to Syria,\u201d Qortbawi told the Voice of Lebanon (100.5) radio station.<\/p>\n<p>The Lutfallah II was intercepted last week by the Lebanese navy off the coast of the northern city of Batroun.<\/p>\n<p>Qortbawi commented on the April 4 incident when snipers targeted Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea outside his Maarab residence, and said that the investigation into the matter was \u201cconfidential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he said: \u201cThe Attorney General of Mount Lebanon Claude Karam is personally taking care of [the investigation], and we cannot disclose anything.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowlebanon.com\/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=391740\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D9387&amp;text=Arming+Syria+through+Lebanon+unaccpetable+says+Justice+Minister%2C+Shakib+Qortbawi&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qortbawi against using Lebanon to transfer arms to Syria 2 May, 2012 &#8211; Lebanon Now Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi said on Wednesday that all Lebanese people reject using the country as a path to transfer arms to Syria. \u201c[The Lutfallah II vessel] operation is unacceptable to all Lebanese [because they] reject Lebanon be used as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9387#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2937],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9388,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions\/9388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}