General Ordered Arrested
A Lebanese general was ordered arrested Wednesday after he appeared in a videotape drinking tea with Israeli soldiers who had occupied his barracks in south Lebanon.
Brig. Gen. Adnan Daoud was ordered held for questioning, Interior Minister Ahmed Fatfat said in a statement. Daoud is commanding officer of a 1,000-strong joint police-army force that had positions in the south and was based in Marjayoun.
Israeli troops seized the barracks there last week and held him and 350 soldiers for a day before allowing them to leave the occupied zone. The Lebanese garrison, which is lightly armed, did not resist the Israeli force.
In the videotape, aired on Israeli television and carried by a Lebanese station Wednesday, Daoud was shown having tea with smiling Israeli soldiers and walking with them in the base courtyard.
Lebanon is in a state of war with Israel, although it signed an armistice in 1949. To this day, it does not recognize the Jewish state.
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