Lebanon's army chief General Jean Kahwaji talks during a news conference in Beirut August 3, 2014. REUTERS/Hussam Chbaro
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamist militants who attacked parts of Lebanon this year could have drawn it into civil war, army chief General Jean Kahwaji said in an unusually direct and political speech published on Friday.
Kahwaji paid tribute to soldiers killed and wounded in battles which prevented what he described as a militant plot to take over parts of the small Mediterranean country.
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