TEL AVIV, AUG 6, SPA -- Lebanon's offer to deploy 15,000 troops along the border with Israel is «interesting» and worthy of further consideration, Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert said Tuesday. Olmert said such a move must go hand-in-hand with thedisarming of Hezbollah fighters, the Associated Press reported. Lebanon's government said Monday that it is ready to send the troops to the Lebanon-Israel border as part of acease-fire deal. Israel had long demanded such adeployment. «We are studying these proposal,» Olmert said of theLebanese offer, adding that «the faster we leave southLebanon, the happier we will be, especially if we haveachieved our goals.»--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/381480