Posted on 05/12/2008 8:29:41 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gee - that worked out well...
Smoke billows as a Lebanese pro-government supporter flashes the victory sign and holds a poster of assassinated former premier Rafiq Hariri in the northern city of Tripoli. US President George W. Bush heads back to the Middle East this week, where his efforts to forge Israeli-Palestinian peace face growing skepticism with barely nine months left in his term. (AFP)
Hezbollah supporters shout during a funeral of two of their comrades in south of Beirut May 12, 2008. Iranian-backed Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies have swept through Beirut and hills to the east, routing loyalists of the U.S.-backed government before handing its conquests to the Lebanese army, which has stayed out of the fighting. One source said the dead in Sunday's battles included 14 Hezbollah fighters. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (LEBANON)
Now all we need is Green Helmet Guy.
no big surprise here -
Intelligence Report: Iran Behind Lebanon Fighting
(IsraelNN.com) Undercover American intelligence officials in Beirut said Monday that Iran is conducting the current fighting between Hizbullah and government forces that has killed more than 50 people in the past five days.
Persian-language top secret documents signed by senior Revolutionary Guards officials and seized from the Iranian embassy in Beirut outline Tehran’s support for the current uprising and future relations between the Islamic Republic and Hizbullah leaders, who they expect will become the leaders of Lebanon.
[link to www.israelnationalnews.com]
reuters agrees.. just posted this..
Mountain clashes bring Lebanon death toll to 81
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014813/posts
excerpt
Iranian-backed Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies have swept through Beirut and hills to the east, defeating loyalists of the U.S.-backed government before handing its conquests to the Lebanese army, which has stayed out of the fighting.
bwtn this and the situation brewing in Israel (Olmert may be on his way out, and looks like no cease fire bwtn Israel and Hamas), it looks to be an interesting week in the region
When will they break out the picture of the Guy caring around the baby killed by the Israeli’s in Gaza and during the last Lebanon war. You know the picture the one they keep reposting and the world goes crazy and anti-Israel over.
Is he the guy carrying the dead baby that the Israeli’s get blamed on every time a Israel strikes back?
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After the civil war ended in 1990, all of Lebanon's various militias surrendered their weapons and transformed into political parties, keeping only small arms. Only Hezbollah was allowed to keep its arms because it was considered a resistance movement battling Israel.
Hezbollah wasn't allowed to remained armed, the idea that they have only small arms is absurd, they simply didn't lay them down.
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, speaks from his hiding place, via a video link, during a press conference live on television, in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday May 8, 2008. Hezbollah's leader said Thursday that the Lebanese government declared war by deeming the Shiite militant group's private telecommunications network illegal and a threat to state security. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
An image grab taken from the Hezbollah-run Manar TV shows Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivering a televised speech from an undisclosed location. Hezbollah gunmen seized control of west Beirut after a third day of battles with pro-government foes in the Lebanese capital pushed the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war. (AFP/MANAR TV)
Very good, all them money and arms that were meant to defeat America in Iraq went to a nearby, weak country instead, those Americans can’t be defeated by ragtags.
So, when Iraq is finally under the complete control of the Iraqi gov’t, the Syrians have helped scratch Iran’s name off the top of the to-do list. Damn, that Assad family is SMART.
Notice how AP, Al-Reuters, and the rest of the islamofacism supporting MSM always use the term “U.S.-backed” whenever a middle-eastern country that the US has political relations with gets attacked. Parasites.
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