The London Times headline reads Lebanon’s “real” soldiers are put in their place.

TODAY was supposed to be the day when the muchmaligned army of Lebanon took control of its borders and policed the UN ceasefire.

 

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Instead, its military commanders were left humiliated and its troops stranded as Hezbollah told them not to try to disarm its fighters.

The first infantry units were preparing to head south yesterday when Hezbollah demonstrated who exercised the real control by announcing that it had no intention of surrendering a single weapon. General Michel Sleiman, the commander-in-chief of the Lebanese Army, and his lieutenants had been invited to join in Cabinet meetings to finalise plans to deploy their 15,000-strong force in a buffer zone south of the Litani river. However, they ended up being lectured by Hezbollah’s two Cabinet ministers in the coalition Government on what the army could and could not do.

As I said at the beginning of this war. If Lebanon’s leaders were serious about disarming Hezbollah they would cooperate with the Israelis.

They are not.

Hot Air has a great round up of reaction and other news related to this story.

Time magazine quotes Lebanese sources as confirming a weeks-old rumor — that Nasrallah is or was holed up in the Iranian embassy in Beirut.