PARIS, July 18, 2007 (LPAC)--During the first day of the Lebanese all-party summit in Paris last Saturday, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyassah reported that the French government had strongly warned Israel against any aggression toward the conference participants, stating that France would consider any such attempt an attack against herself, and that Franco-Israeli relations would be severely affected.

According to the Kuwaiti paper, the warning came after French secret services discovered that the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, was scheming to kidnap members of Hezbollah or Amal on their way to the conference. The information came from both Israel and an Arab state, probably Jordan, the paper reported.

As a result, France increased the security detail for the conference to 400, the equivalent required for a European summit. An eyewitness at the final press conference of the Lebanese summit, observed strong police intervention when two cars tried to bypass the security perimeter.