‘Israel claims Iran link to crisis’
“Hezbollah’s capture of two Israeli soldiers last week was timed to divert attention from Tehran’s nuclear programme, the Israeli PM has claimed. Ehud Olmert said that the cross-border raid in which the two soldiers were taken and eight others killed was co-ordinated with Tehran.
About 30 people died in a seventh day of conflict, most of them in Lebanon. US President George W Bush has meanwhile accused Syria of trying to use the crisis to return to Lebanon.
“Syria is trying to get back into Lebanon, it looks like to me,” Mr Bush said in Washington”
“It’s essential that the government of Lebanon survives this crisis. We’ve worked hard to free - and we meaning the international community - worked hard to free Lebanon from Syrian influence.”
The US state department refused to confirm comments by an Israeli ambassador that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would travel to the region on Friday.
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