Lebanon’s position on Libya

As regular readers of NightHawk will know, I’ve just returned from Lebanon, so I was particularly interested that the country, the only Arab member of the current United Nations Security Council, voted in favour of the resolution imposing a no-fly zone over Libya.

A key factor is the issue of continued concern over the fate of Imam Musa al-Sadr, an influential Shia cleric from Iran who disappeared in Libya in 1978, as explained here.


 




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