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| 12/05/2008 The Arab FMs committee headed by Qatar that was due in Beirut on Monday said it will not arrive in the country before Wednesday. The committee was formed in Cairo following a tense extraordinary session on the situation in Lebanon. The Arab ministerial gathering expressed deep concern over developments in Lebanon and called on Speaker Nabih Berri and the head of the unconstitutional government Fouad Saniora, MPs Saad Hariri and Michel Aoun and Hezbollah's Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and Phalange Party leader Amine Gemayel to attend a special session with the ministerial delegation. The delegation headed by Qatar and including Algeria, Djibouti, Jordan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa will head to Lebanon "very soon" for the talks, Mussa told reporters after the meeting.
Sunday's Arab FMs dispute was somehow violent, especially between Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Faisal and Syria's representative in the Arab League, Ambassador Yussuf Ahmed. Indeed, al-Faisal assailed the Lebanese national opposition, claiming there was a "crazy war" on the unconstitutional government of Fouad Saniora. He accused Iran of controlling the war, saying Arabs couldn't remain passive or indifferent towards it. "It is necessary to interfere," said al-Faisal.
Syria's representative to the meeting reiterated the Syrian view of the Lebanese events as internal affairs, noting that al-Faisal's speech was biased in favor of a specific portion of Lebanese against another and that it included a series of delusions. "Saniora's government is a fait accompli government, it doesn't represent all the Lebanese, it took the latest decisions knowing the repercussions of its stances, but it was studying them from its own point of view and what's happening today is because of his stance" he said.
"Do you (al-Faisal) want Arabs go to battle the majority of the Lebanese, and defend (Lebanese Forces chief) Samir Geagea who has become your ally whom you support and finance? "Now you want to send forces to Lebanon? Why didn't you think of sending these forces to confront the Israeli invasion when Lebanon was incessantly being bombed? You are also talking about Hezbollah in an aggressive way, while you and all of us know that this party has made tremendous sacrifices for Lebanon and the nation. These are prices that are only paid by those who want the best for their country."
On al-Faisal's accusation to Iran, Ahmed retorted saying: "Do you want to impose your conception and tell us that Iran is the enemy, not Israel that is killing children on a daily basis? You want to impose on us that Iran is the enemy; this country that has always been standing by our causes?" | 
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