More scandals continue to be uncovered by the WikiLeaks documents of the July 2006 war, published by Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar.
In the cable dated August 16, 2006, Saniora told then US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman that he was making every effort to deploy the Lebanese army as quick as possible in the south.
MURR: ISRAELIS FRIENDLY!
Then Defense Minister Elias Murr was not in a better situation.
According to a cable dated August 15, 2006, Murr told Feltman that the army's position in the South should be bolstered "as soon as possible" in order to destroy Sayyed Nasrallah's "rude and arrogant" rhetoric displayed during his August 14, 2006 speech.
Murr told the ambassador that the Israelis were "friendly, asking if the Lebanese army would deploy in the South" as soon as possible.
"The Israeli army's performance during the war was weak, especially during the past two days when tens of Israeli soldiers were killed, which left Hezbollah with a sense of victory," he noted. "The Israeli army has left us in a difficult position … They are the worst army in the world," he went on to say, with a regret sense.
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