USELESS U.N. MEANS ISRAEL STILL IN LEBANON

Lebanon Security Talks Fail, Israeli Troops Not Leaving (NYSun)
"A meeting between IDF officers, representatives of the Lebanese army and the UNIFIL commander ended without results on Tuesday, threatening to further postpone the IDF's complete withdrawal from Lebanon until next week. The IDF had initially planned to pull out its remaining several hundred troops from Lebanon by the end of the week," the Jerusalem Post reports.

A source in the Northern Command said that the meeting, which took place Tuesday meeting at UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura -- north of Rosh Hanikra -- was a "failure" and that the IDF threatened to keep its soldiers inside Lebanon for as long as it took for UNIFIL to take its job seriously ...

The meeting exploded after the IDF demanded that UNIFIL adopt more combative rules of engagement. What particularly angered the IDF was an interview UNIFIL's commander Maj.-General Alain Pellegrini gave to The Jerusalem Post last week and in which he said the peacekeeping force would not actively engage Hizbullah guerrillas even if they were on their way or in the midst of an attack against Israel.

"We demand more effective rules of engagement," the officer said. "If they don't adopt them, we are prepared to stay in Lebanon for as long as necessary."