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Hizbollah warns: We'll open new front on Israel
London Telegrph ^ | 10/12/2003 | Damien McIlroy

Posted on 10/12/2003 11:02:19 AM PDT by Mossad1967

Syrian-backed terrorists have vowed to escalate attacks on Israel from Lebanon, describing last Sunday's raid near Damascus as the "first round in a new Middle East war".

Senior leaders of the Lebanese-based Hizbollah group warned that the raid, on an alleged Palestinian training camp, would inflame a border that had been relatively quiet for 30 years.

Syrian president Bashar Assad said that the raid was an Israeli attempt to provoke war "It is wrong to bear an attack without a response. This changes the region," said Mohammad Raad, the deputy leader of Hizbollah...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assad; hezbullah; hizbullar; lebanon; syria; terrorism; terrorists
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1 posted on 10/12/2003 11:02:20 AM PDT by Mossad1967
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To: Mossad1967
Except, you damn morons, the attack on Syria WAS a response to a bus bombing that killed 19, and wrecked tons more lives.

Idiots.
2 posted on 10/12/2003 11:03:32 AM PDT by Monty22
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To: Mossad1967
bye-bye Hizbollah...
3 posted on 10/12/2003 11:05:55 AM PDT by Bobby777
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4 posted on 10/12/2003 11:06:53 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Mossad1967
>Syrian president Bashar Assad said ... "It is wrong to bear an attack without a response"

"Unless," he added,
"you're Israel. Israel
must never respond

to terror attacks
or Arab escalations.
That would be unfair..."

5 posted on 10/12/2003 11:09:03 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Mossad1967
What about the sovereignty of Lebenon?
6 posted on 10/12/2003 11:12:56 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
re: "What about the sovereignty of Lebenon?"

It was invaded by an Arab country, so that's all right!

7 posted on 10/12/2003 11:16:25 AM PDT by RonHolzwarth
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To: Mossad1967
Syrian president Bashar Assad said that the raid was an Israeli attempt to provoke war "It is wrong to bear an attack without a response an attempt to commit suicide.
8 posted on 10/12/2003 11:19:08 AM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Mossad1967
Syrian-backed terrorists have vowed to escalate attacks on Israel from Lebanon,

In other news, the sun rose in the east.

10 posted on 10/12/2003 11:20:21 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Paladin2
It is the terrorists who are sovereign in Lebanon.
11 posted on 10/12/2003 11:20:49 AM PDT by jwfiv
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To: Mossad1967
...first round in a new Middle East war".

When did the last one end. I must have missed it.

12 posted on 10/12/2003 11:23:38 AM PDT by stevem
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To: jwfiv
It is the terrorists who are sovereign in Lebanon.

Looks good on paper that Lebanon is soverign, however in real life it's a haven for terrorist thug's without national doctrine.

13 posted on 10/12/2003 11:26:15 AM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Mossad1967
Syrian-backed terrorists have vowed to escalate attacks on Israel from Lebanon...

They will be dismantled like an old-ugly fireplace.

14 posted on 10/12/2003 11:29:28 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: EGPWS
Yes...a truly 'rogue' state.

The Bekaa Valley is a terrorist homeland.

Someday, it's gonna catch fire.
15 posted on 10/12/2003 11:31:16 AM PDT by jwfiv
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16 posted on 10/12/2003 11:33:19 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: Mossad1967
Damascus will be a pile of rubble very soon.
17 posted on 10/12/2003 11:33:42 AM PDT by bulldogs (go cubs)
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To: Mossad1967
These half-baked, immoral, godless murderers missed something in Sunday school.
18 posted on 10/12/2003 11:34:37 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: jwfiv
It is the terrorists who are sovereign in Lebanon.

Yes, there is nothing sacred about the sovereignty of present-day Lebanon.

19 posted on 10/12/2003 11:34:43 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: jwfiv
Someday, it's gonna catch fire.

Or receive tons of fire!

20 posted on 10/12/2003 11:35:37 AM PDT by EGPWS
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