Lebanese Sunni majority leader MP Saad Hariri has lashed out at Syrian President Hafez Assad, accusing him of insinuating that Lebanon was responsible for security situation in Syria, local Daily Star reported here Tuesday.
A Syrian press report said Monday that the car which blew up in Syria last week came from a neighboring country, which was understood by many observers as hinting to Lebanon.
Media reports also quoted Assad as saying Monday that north Lebanon had become "a base for extremism and poses danger for Syria."
In his response, Hariri denounced that "the Syrian leadership was looking for any excuse to obstruct normal relations with Syria."
Hariri, meanwhile, noted that some agencies are smuggling extremist fighters over the borders "to spread chaos and carry out terrorist acts against Lebanese army and civilians."
A car explosion targeted a Lebanese army military bus on Monday in north Lebanon, killing five soldiers and wounding 30 others.
Hariri urged the international community not to accept any Syrian intervention in Lebanon under the pretext of fighting extremists.
On Feb. 14, 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, father of Saad Hariri, was killed in a bombing attack, which the Lebanese ruling majority and the West have blamed Damascus for.
In the aftermath of the assassination, Syria, under great pressure from the international community, pulled out its troops from Lebanon in April 2005 after 29 years of presence.
Earlier in summer, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and his Syrian counterpart Assad, for the first time, have agreed to establish diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Source: Xinhua
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