Salam pledges to shield Lebanon from Iraq fallout
By Hussein Dakroub BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam scrambled Thursday to reassure jittery Lebanese increasingly worried about a negative fallout from militants’ military gains in Iraq, pledging to shield Lebanon from regional conflicts. Salam sought to allay what he termed “Lebanese fears” over “painful events” in Syria and Iraq and the prospects of the… اقرأ المزيد