Spain's defense minister visits peacekeepers in southern Lebanon
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Spain's Defense Minister Carme Chacon has visited her country's peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
Chacon, who is seven months pregnant, has traveled to a Spanish base near the southern town of Marjayoun after arriving Monday in Lebanon's capital Beirut.
A car bombing killed six peacekeepers from the Spanish contingent in June. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack or another one that followed in July. But al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri blessed the attack against the Spanish contingent in a July videotape.
The 13,500-strong UN force was deployed to southern Lebanon in 2006 along with 15,000 Lebanese troops following a monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
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