[Ha'aretz] Gideon Alon and Aluf Benn - Israel has filed a complaint with the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, saying that the kidnapping of two IDF soldiers was an act of war against Israel by Lebanon, Ambassador Dan Gillerman said Wednesday. The complaint urges the international community to enforce council resolutions calling on the Lebanese government to disarm all militias within its borders and to extend its authority to southern Lebanon and its border with Israel. While the government of Lebanon was the responsible party to be dealt with, "one cannot disregard the bloodstained fingerprints and the twisted minds of Iran and Syria, who are the main perpetrators, harborers, financiers and initiators of terror in this world," Gillerman added. "This axis of terror must be stopped." Iran, Syria, and Hizballah were threatening "the whole region and the world," including moderate Arab states, he said.
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