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Accusations Mount Of Hezbollah Fighting In Syria
Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo ^ | 15 October 2012 | Nicholas Blanford

Posted on 10/15/2012 10:38:41 AM PDT by edpc

Beside the arrow-straight road between the northern Lebanon town of Qaa and the border with Syria stands a small, bland mosque decorated with the yellow flags of the militant Shiite group Hezbollah.

The mosque is the lone Hezbollah bastion amid a flat agricultural landscape populated mainly by Sunni Lebanese and used as a safe haven by Lebanese and Syrian members of the Free Syrian Army. But parked discreetly – and incongruously – in the shade of a tree beside the mosque is an ambulance waiting to transport wounded Hezbollah fighters returning from fighting against the FSA over the border, says Syrian fighter Hussein, a former irrigation engineer who today heads a small unit of the FSA’s Jusiyah Martyrs’ Brigade, named after the nearby Syrian border village.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assad; hezbollah; middleeast; syria
Since Assad and Hezbollah are both propped up by Iran, common sense dictates all parties are coordinating and cooperating in the current situation within Syria.
1 posted on 10/15/2012 10:38:53 AM PDT by edpc
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To: edpc

You can GUARANTEE that Hezbollah is helping Assad. THe only question is degree.

If Assad falls, Hezbollah will no longer have a land-bridge to their main benefactor, Iran. It will also be non-stop fighting between them and the Sunni Islamists. Israel will be able to clean up Hezbollah as they choose.

Of course they will fight.


2 posted on 10/15/2012 11:12:06 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: edpc

Some supposed freepers actually support Assad, Hizb-allah and the Ayatollahs. How revolting! They want to be the Ayatollah’s dhimmis.


3 posted on 10/15/2012 1:05:37 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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