Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

But America has steadfastly disagreed with him on that.

但是美国坚决不同意。

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Well, Ameiricans has been so steadfastly disgreed although most silent on other issue What Karzai said from the very begining was that people who have not commited any war crimes, people who have not murdered people can lay down their arms pledgely.

虽然在其他问题上，美国都保持沉默,对于这件事，却是强烈反对,一开始卡尔扎伊就说,那些没有反战争罪，没有杀人的塔利班成员,可以放下武器。

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