In a statement released late Saturday night, the Israeli Army spokesman's unit said that Sheik Nasrallah's pronouncements "constitute a cruel and cynical move by an organization that flagrantly tramples the most fundamental ethical codes, shows no respect for human rights or the international conventions that govern these matters".
He lectures to its educational corps and spokesmen's unit, and officially, he's been moved out of combat into a reserve unit for preserving the paratroopers' heritage.
An Exxon Mobil spokesman says units not affected by the blast have continued to operate.
David Polk, a Raytheon spokesman, said the unit that Raytheon sold to Washington had guaranteed its customers that it would complete 50 projects that the unit had undertaken at the time of the sale, including 33 maintenance contracts that he said exposed Raytheon to a negligible amount of liability.
Mark Harrison, a spokesman for the unit, would neither confirm nor deny whether Forstmann was being investigated.
"Life in the Marcal river has been extinguished," said Tibor Dobson, a spokesman for the unit.
Colonel Pappas and a spokesman for the unit, part of the Army's V Corps in Wiesbaden, have refused to comment on the affair.
A spokesman for the unit said it would resume international shipments, as well as shipments of four other machines, soon after that.
Kevin R. Ryan, a spokesman for the unit, said that 60 people had been convicted and nine had been acquitted, while two cases were dismissed and the others are pending.
Other details, including the timing of the start of such sales, have not been set yet, said a spokesman at the unit, Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd.
