Posted on 02/16/2008 12:10:56 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
The Lebanese newspaper A-Safir reported Saturday that the Lebanon-based guerilla group Hezbollah has deployed 50,000 "activists" along the southern border with Israel and declared a state of high alert in southern Lebanon.
According to the report, the organization has also evacuated all buildings in the area designated for social or political purposes in recent days, in preparation for a confrontation with Israel in the wake of the assassination of Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah.
Mughniyah, the organization's deputy secretary general, was killed in a blast in an upscale Damascus neighborhood late Tuesday. On Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for the assassination and vowed to retaliate. Israel denied any involvement in the incident. Advertisement Meanwhile Saturday, another Lebanese newspaper reported that Lebanese officials believe a serious military confrontation with Israel will erupt in the near future.
According to a report in the Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al-Akhbar this possibility has been raised in intensive discussions being held between Hezbollah officials and Iranian and Syrian officials. The various militant Palestinian organizations have also declared a state of high alert, the report added.
Al-Akhbar also reported that Syrian investigators probing the assassination suspect that "official security organizations operating in Arab nations" may have been involved in the killing, and that some of the suspects arrested in the course of the investigation were not civilians.
The report also said the investigation revealed that Mughniyah had been killed from a blast originating from a car bomb nearby, and not from a bomb planted in the vehicle he was occupying, as originally believed. The investigation revealed that the car bomb had been detonated remotely as Mughniyah walked past.
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Deployment of a few Spectre’s would thin the herd down.
What ever happened to the French led UN force that was to keep militants away from the border?
They’re probably either participating or have already surrendered.
I would bet the French went, but the UN didn’t.
What a worthless bunch of pussies.
I remember the frogs threatening to shoot down israeli jets invading Lebanese airspace. As if they could
Who was that under?
You're probably right.
en garde Israel.
Philistines w/ guns.
Have we given the palis enough money yet to fight the Isralies? Maybe they’ll need more. I’m sure condi will help them.
“Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage.”
French UN observers: “Hezbollah? We don’t see any Hezbollah, just peaceful goat herders”
Let it happen. Please, please, please let it happen. Just this one time.
Proverbs 26:27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Hizbollah’s stated first-order goal is the eradication of Israel, followed by the extermination of the Jews.
May this goal fall back upon their own organization.
Imagine a world without Hizbollah.
What have been their contributions to art, science, industry, medicine, literature, peace, prosperity?
Nothing.
In fact, they are destroyers and spoilers of all the above.
I submit that if the Hizbollah organization were destroyed, the only thing we would notice is fewer suicide bombers and fewer rockets raining down on Israeli cities from southern Lebanon.
In that, I have no doubt you are correct. Of course it will be described as aid, just not aid to what.
Rules Of French Warfare:
1: France’s armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman.
2: France only wins when America does most of the fighting.
3: When incapable of any victory whatsoever - claim someone else’s.
First Rule of Muslim Warfare: “We can always beat the French.”
This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.
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