Lebanon Is Called "Hyper-Dangerous" By A Senior UN Official

Photo: Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has dismissed the UN tribunal as an "Israeli project". Photo from The BBC

Lebanon Called 'Hyper-Dangerous' -- UPI

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Well-armed militias and heated rhetoric have turned Lebanon into a tinderbox for violence in the Middle East, a United Nations official warned Thursday.

"We know that in Lebanon you have militias which are very heavily armed and increasingly so. This creates a hyper-dangerous situation," Terje Roed-Larsen, a special U.N. envoy told reporters in New York after briefing the U.N. Security Council in private.

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