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American dissatisfaction with Rai’s statements

11-09-2011 | 02:08

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A high American official expressed his dissatisfaction with the Maronite Patriarch Bshara el Rai’s last statements on the popular uprising in Syria and Hezbollah’s weapons, saying that such statements are unjustified and affects Rai’s position and image in the world.

The American official told An-Nahar daily that Rai’s allegations on the “Syrian Uprising” will lead to the dominance of radical Sunni movements are completely untrue and vague. “We saw in these statements that Patriarch Rai ignored the assassination on the former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri” he added

“Rai gave his blessing for Hezbollah’s weapons relating it to a possible solution for the Palestinians in Lebanon; I wonder how he saw in these weapons means to defend Lebanon and an extension of the Iranian regime in the region”

An-Nahar reported on the American official. An-Nahar said that the American official expects Rai’s visit to United States in October to be purely religious implying that he will not be received by the American government or politicians

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