Turkey Cabinet approves Lebanon force

From the AP on Yahoo.

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's Cabinet decided Monday in favor of sending peacekeepers to Lebanon and will seek parliamentary approval for the deployment, officials said.

Parliament will convene to debate the deployment as early as next week, government spokesman Cemil Cicek said.

"In principle, we've decided to join the U.N. peacekeeping mission," Cicek said.

This is good news in the sense that relatively secular Muslims who understand democracy, its freedoms, and benefits will intermingle with the southern Shi'ite population of Lebanon.