Showing posts with label General Michel Aoun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General Michel Aoun. Show all posts

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Ex-Lebanese Army Commander: Assad Fall Would Plunge Middle East in Chaos


Syrian war - blood and sorrow mixed up in the fights of all against all. The chaos is frightening and confusing. Millions of lives off track, splashed over the neighboring countries. Lebanon is one of them, absorbing a tsunami of refugees and trying to lock the conflict outside of its borders. How successful is this attempt? Will Lebanon take sides in the conflict? Who can stop killings in Syria? Sophie travels to Beirut to talk to General Michel Aoun, a former Lebanese Army Commander, currently a politician and leader of the Free Patriotic Movement.