Lebanese PM Salam rebuts Hezbollah chief over sovereignty, war decisions

INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam has hit back at Hezbollah chief Naim Kassem, who accused the government of aiding Israel instead of defending sovereignty. Salam: the greatest help to Israel came from those who pulled Lebanon into "absurd" aid wars, giving Israel the reasons to strike its cities, kill its children and displace hundreds of thousands. He added that whoever seizes the state's war decisions and ties Lebanon to external agendas "has no right to hand out certificates of patriotism, and certa