Lebanese army chief defies government as Syria steps in to back Hizballah’s conquest of Beirut districts

So, Syria is moving in, the army is sitting on its hands and allowing it, and the world is standing by. What a mess. I can't blame anyone for failure to enter this mess, but the UN has forces there to force Hezb'allah to disarm. WHY AREN'T THEY DISARMED? Frackin' UN is as useful as ticks. They suck out our life blood and return diseases.

DEBKAfile - Exclusive: Lebanese army chief defies government as Syria steps in to back Hizballah’s conquest of Beirut districts: "Lebanese army chief defies government as Syria steps in to back Hizballah’s conquest of Beirut districts

May 9, 2008, 6:19 PM (GMT+02:00)

At least 11 people were killed Friday, May 9, Day 3 of fierce clashes between Hizballah and pro-government forces, the worst since the 1975-90 civil war. At noon, Syrian Social Nationalist Party’s units entered Beirut to support Hizballah’s advancing occupation of Sunni West Beirut districts.

DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that Thursday night, army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman refused to obey prime minister Fouad Siniora’s order to declare a state of emergency for the crisis created by Hizballah’s declaration of war against the government. The general warned that if the government enacted an emergency, he would order the troops to return to barracks.

The SSNP is a Greek Orthodox arm of Syrian military intelligence.

Hizballah and fellow Shiite Amal fighters were thus able to seize control of most of pr-government Sunni West Beirut in clashes that have spread to other parts of the Lebanon while the government was left unprotected.

The urban warfare shut down Lebano"