AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Lebanon deployed its army on its southern border with Israel for the first time in almost 40 years on Oct. 2, vowing to reassert control in the area by stopping attacks and arms smuggling.
At a ceremony to mark the occasion, army commander Brigadier General Michel Sleiman called on his troops to confront any violations of an August 14 UN-brokered ceasefire that ended Israel
