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...Ariel Sharon, spoke out bluntly. In the absence of a peace treaty, Sharon warned, Israel would place southern Lebanon in a "security zone," presumably meaning a military buffer sector run by the Israelis or their close allies, the pro-Israeli forces of another Lebanese Christian strongman, Major Sa'ad Haddad...
...problem that is likely to complicate Israeli relations with the new leader is Jerusalem's support for Major Sa'ad Haddad, the Christian commander who has acted as an Israeli surrogate in southern Lebanon for the past six years. Haddad said last week that unless a peace treaty with Israel is signed, he will refuse to in corporate his militia into the Lebanese army as part of an overall Gemayel plan to disband the various Christian factions in the country...
...perhaps wishfully, that the P.L.O. would unite with other Palestinians in Jordan (more than 60% of the country's 2.2 million inhabitants are Palestinian) to overthrow King Hussein and create a Palestinian state less threatening to Israel. The Sharon plan also envisioned uniting the forces of Major Sa'ad Haddad, Israel's Lebanese surrogate who is encamped with his forces in a 600-sq.-mi. buffer zone along the Israeli border in southern Lebanon, with the Christian Phalangists in the north. The combined Christian forces, in Sharon's scheme, would take over the central government and restore what Sharon calls...
...Saleem Haddad Norman, Okla...
...strength from a current level of about 700 to 200 in the region south of the Litani River that is controlled by UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon). At the same time, Israel would remove all of its troops from the area controlled by Major Sa'ad Haddad's Christian militia, which has been working closely with the Israelis. Lebanese government forces would be allowed to take over this area and would absorb Haddad's fighters...