Arabic News Weekly Edition for Lebanon, 3/4/2002
Weekly Edition, Lebanon - Week of March 4, 2002
- Nasrullah officially discloses sending Katyusha to the Intifada
In his first "official" declaration on a practical support for the Palestinian Intifada, the secretary general of the Hizbullah party Hassan Nasrullah on Friday said that there are detainees for the party held by the Jordanian authority "while trying to bring into Palestine amounts of Katyusha." Lebanon-Jordan, Politics, 3/9/2002 - Iraq: trade agreement to be signed with Lebanon
Iraq's vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said on Wednesday that Lebanon and Iraq have completed measures to sign an agreement for free exchange to be signed very soon. Iraq-Lebanon, Economics, 3/7/2002 - Lebanese army, resistance fighters intercept Israeli warplanes
The Israeli warplanes on Tuesday renewed its violation of the Lebanese airspace and sovereignty and were intercepted by the anti- warplanes means of the Lebanese army and national resistance forces. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 3/6/2002 - Al-Assad held a historic visit to Lebanon
President Bashar al-Assad said that the victory Lebanon attained in deterring the Israeli forces from most of the Lebanese territories, came as a result of the steadfastness of the Lebanese people and their national resistance was rather another manifestation of the achievements of cooperation between Syria and Lebanon. Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 3/4/2002