A joint Lebanese-American military committee was set up to improve bilateral military relationship, local Al-Moustaqbal daily reported Tuesday.
The commission was formed after a meeting on Monday between Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr and Mary Beth Long, U.S. assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, who arrived in Beirut late Sunday.
A joint statement by the Lebanese army and the U.S. embassy in Beirut said that Beirut and Washington had signed three military contracts of 63 million dollars in U.S. grants to the Lebanese army.
The grants are to provide the Lebanese army with secure communications, ammunition, and infantry weapons, the statement said.
The Lebanese army has been targeted with terrorist operation mainly in the northern city of Tripoli.
Seven people were killed and 32 others wounded, most of them Lebanese army soldiers, when a car explosion blew up in a military bus in Tripoli last week.
The Lebanese army fought fierce battles with extremist Islamists of Fattah al-Islam in the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Naher al-Barid in 2007.
The leader of Fattah al-Islam Shaker Abbsi who escaped the battles vowed to target the Lebanese army in revenge operations.
Source:Xinhua
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