Arab Monitor, Italy
March 29 2005

Lebanese Armenians and Shiites call for national unity

Beirut, 28 March – in his Easter sermon, Catholicos of the
Armenian-Orthodox in Lebanon, Aram al-Awal, called for growing
awareness of the necessity to build a strong internal front, based on
solidarity among the various Lebanese communities.

Contemporaneously, the Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Shiite Higher
Council in Lebanon, Sheikh Abdul-Amir Kabalan issued a statement in
which he denounced the recent bombing assault carried out in a Beirut
quarter, declaring that the denotations and connotations of this
criminal act is “a black letter that contains Zionist fingerprints
that would lead to foreign intervention in Lebanon.”

Also today, the Beirut office of the Al-Jazeera news outlet was
threatened to have the building in which it’s offices are located,
blown up unless it desists from further investigating into the above
mentioned bombing assault.

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