U.N. Urged to Police a Lebanon Pullout
Christian hard-liners Sunday called for the United Nations to send an international force to Lebanon and ensure that all foreign armies pull out.
The request was made at a rally by the Lebanese Forces militia, which opposes Syrian military and political involvement in Lebanon.
Israel, Syria and Iran compete for power in Lebanon, where Damascus has more than 25,000 troops and Tehran has hundreds of Revolutionary Guards in the eastern Bekaa Valley and the south. Israelis and their Lebanese militia allies control an Israeli-declared border security zone in southern Lebanon.
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