Sunday, March 22, 2009
You cannot make this stuff up. Palestinian Arabs in Lebanon say their food aid from Iran has been 'soiled' thanks to security measures that include sniffer dogs:
..."Camp residents refuse to eat what the police dogs have soiled," several Palestinian factions in northern Lebanon, including the Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, said in a statement received by AFP.
It referred to a shipment donated by Iran for residents of the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, which was devastated by deadly battles between a fringe Islamist group and the army in 2007.
The Palestinian factions said they could no longer receive the aid and accused the army of delaying its delivery describing this as a "humiliating" act...
[via Weasel Zippers]
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It's obvious what's going on. Hope the Lebanese army isn't stupid enough to fall for it.
WE would fall for it. They probably won't.