Syrian vice president Abdel Halim Khaddam, in a press interview with the Syrian official news agency SANA, accused all those who demand withdrawal of the Syrian forces from Lebanon of “wanting to blow at the national unity and resume civil war”. He assured that the decision to pull out the Syrian forces is linked to “the Lebanese state’s decision”. Mr. Khaddam reiterated that “Without the Syrian intervention in 1976, the state of war would have been going on until now”. He said the war was not between Palestinians and Lebanese, or between Muslims and Christians, but it was spread over to every quarter in Lebanon. He refered to wars that had erupted inside communities and parties.