Hezbollah

Assad’s Lebanese invasion

by News Sources 12.25.2011

Mitchell Prothero writes: The blacked-out sport utility vehicles entered the small mountain village of Arsal, in the furthest reaches of Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, at midnight on a cold night late last month. The mostly Sunni residents of the town immediately knew what was happening: Hezbollah had come to grab someone from his bed. The target [...]

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Hezbollah and the U.S. government — tangled ties to drug cartels

by Paul Woodward 12.14.2011

Make of this tangled web, what you will. All I can say is that the key words — ties and links — don’t have a lot of substance. Lebanon is a small country inside which Hezbollah is the most powerful political organization. To identify a person or a business in Lebanon as having ties to [...]

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Hezbollah claims to reveal 10 CIA spies in Lebanon

by News Sources 12.14.2011

CNN reports: The militant group Hezbollah claims it has blown the cover of 10 alleged CIA officers working in Lebanon. In the latest round of an escalating spy war, Hezbollah’s media arm, al Manar, posted a video Friday accusing the CIA of running espionage operations from the diplomatic cover of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. [...]

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Hezbollah identifies undercover CIA officers in Lebanon in dangerous spy war

by News Sources 12.12.2011

The Associated Press reports: The militant group Hezbollah has revealed the identities of CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon, a blow to agency operations in the region and the latest salvo in an escalating spy war. Hezbollah made the names public in a broadcast Friday night on a Lebanese television station, al-Manar. Using animated videos, [...]

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Iran captures ‘lost’ U.S. spy drone — the first remote hijacking?

by Paul Woodward 12.04.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: A drone that Iranian officials claimed to have shot down may be an unarmed U.S. reconnaissance aircraft that went missing over western Afghanistan late last week, according to U.S.-led forces in that country. “The operators of the UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] lost control of the aircraft and had been working [...]

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The undeclared war against Iran

by Paul Woodward 12.02.2011

Jeffrey Goldberg often sounds like he’s agitating for war on Iran, but even for impartial observers, there is as he notes, plenty of evidence that the war has already begun. Following a (perhaps not-so-mysterious) explosion on a military base last month that took with it the life of Gen. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam — one of [...]

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Assad: Syria will shower Tel Aviv with rockets if attacked by foreign powers

by News Sources 10.04.2011

Haaretz reports: Syria will strike Israel and “set fire” to the Middle East if foreign forces choose to launch a military strike on the protest-ridden country, the Iranian news agency Fars quoted Syrian President Bashar Assad as saying on Tuesday, referring to remarks made by the Syrian leader during a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister [...]

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Evidence that al Qaeda killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005

by News Sources 09.13.2011

Part Two of an interview with Gareth Porter: Part One: See also, Hariri Bombing Indictment Based on Flawed Premise and Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri, by Gareth Porter. For more background on the history of Lebanon, see the RealNews series parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten. Share

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Syrian opposition decides to take up arms against Assad regime

by News Sources 08.28.2011

Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports: The leader of the Revolutionary Council of the Syrian Coordination Committees, Mohammad Rahhal, said in remarks published Sunday that the council took the decision to arm the Syrian revolution. Since mid-March pro-democracy protests have engulfed most of Syria calling for political and economic reforms as well as for the ousting of Syrian [...]

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Nasrallah implies Israel behind Hariri murder

by News Sources 07.03.2011

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The Arab Spring exposes the identical hypocrisy of both the US and Hassan Nasrallah

by News Sources 06.23.2011

Hamid Dabashi writes: Hassan Nasrallah is in trouble. This time the troubles of the Secretary General of Hezbollah, which were hitherto the source of his strength, are not coming from Israel, or from the sectarian politics of Lebanon. Seyyed Hassan’s troubles, which this time around are the harbingers of his undoing as an outdated fighter, [...]

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Hezbollah and the Arab revolution

by News Sources 06.22.2011

Larbi Sadiki writes: Is there something amiss within Hezbollah? It rose from the ignominy of oblivion, feudal exploitation, sectarian bias, and overall marginalisation to occupy political centre stage. In fewer than thirty years it converted Shia socio-political weightlessness into a counterbalancing political gravity. It stood up against the Israeli Goliath. It survived the “incendiaries” dropped [...]

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Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declaration of solidarity with the Arab democratic revolution

by News Sources 03.21.2011

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Obama weighs talking to the Taliban, Hezbollah

by News Sources 03.18.2011

David Ignatius writes: In a rapidly changing Islamic world, the Obama administration is weighing how best to talk with adversaries such as the Taliban and, perhaps, Hezbollah. One model for the administration, as it thinks about engagement of enemies, is the British process of dialogue during the 1990s with Sinn Fein, the legal political wing [...]

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International alliance forming to stop Gaddafi

by News Sources 03.16.2011

Libya’s Deputy Permanent UN Representative warns that a convoy of 400 military vehicles are headed to destroy Ajdabiya and that the UN must intervene in the coming hours. The New York Times reports: The prospect of a deadly siege of the rebel stronghold in Benghazi, Libya, has produced a striking shift in tone from the [...]

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Hezbollah backs Egypt protests

by News Sources 02.08.2011

Al Jazeera reports: Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has said that protesters calling for the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, are changing the region with their battle for “Arab dignity”. In his first comments since unrest began in Egypt almost two weeks ago, Nasrallah said on Monday that his Shia movement [...]

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Hezbollah backs billionaire Najib Mikati as Lebanese prime minister

by News Sources 01.25.2011

Bloomberg reports: Mikati “is seen as a genuinely neutral figure,” said Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a research adviser at the Doha Institute in Qatar. He “is balanced and enjoys good relations with Syria and Saudi Arabia,” the two main powerbrokers in Lebanon, she said. Syria, Hezbollah’s backer, was initially blamed for Hariri’s killing by many Lebanese, and [...]

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Lebanon Druze leader Walid Jumblatt sides with Hezbollah in crisis

by News Sources 01.22.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: The U.S.-backed parliamentary coalition led by caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri was on the verge of losing its tenuous grip on the Lebanese government after a key politician defected Friday to support the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. The decision by Walid Jumblatt, a Druze chieftain and longtime player amid Lebanon’s [...]

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Turkey’s rise points to the post-American Middle East

by News Sources 01.19.2011

In the New York Times, Anthony Shadid writes: In a series of stalemates — from the Arab-Israeli conflict to Lebanon — Turkey has proved the most dynamic, projecting an increasingly assertive and independent foreign policy in an Arab world bereft of any country that matches its stature. Its success is a subtle critique of America’s [...]

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After the collapse of the Lebanese government — what next?

by News Sources 01.14.2011

Lebanon’s government collapsed on Wednesday while Prime Minister Saad Hariri was in Washington. It wasn’t until today that he returned to Beirut. Robert Fisk writes: There are many who believe that Lebanon will now descend into a civil war, similar to the fratricidal conflict which it endured from 1976 to 1980. I doubt it. A [...]

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Troubling trends in the Middle East

by News Sources 01.05.2011

In an examination of the “five mostly troubling trends from 2010 that will probably define and plague the Middle East for the year ahead,” Rami G Khouri writes: The transformation of the formerly localized Arab-Israeli conflict into the fulcrum of a much wider regional confrontation with strong religious overtones bodes ill for the region in [...]

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Wikileaks: Israel plans total war on Lebanon, Gaza

by News Sources 01.03.2011

Juan Cole writes: The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has summarized an Israeli military briefing by Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi of a US congressional delegation a little over a year ago and concludes that The memo on the talks between Ashkenazi and [Congressman Ike] Skelton, as well as numerous other documents from the same [...]

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Lebanon is staring into the abyss

by News Sources 12.31.2010

Fawaz Gerges writes: Once again, Lebanon is on the brink of major social and political upheaval. Rumours of an impending armed clash between Hezbollah and the pro-western governing coalition have spread like wildfire among the Lebanese people, who are hoarding food and arms in anticipation of the worst. On the surface of it, the current [...]

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Threat of civil war looms in Lebanon

by News Sources 12.17.2010

The Guardian reports: More than six months of menacing political rhetoric is likely to reach a potent day of reckoning in Lebanon soon when indictments are handed down after a five-year investigation to determine who killed the fragile state’s former leader Rafik Hariri. The indictments are almost certain to implicate at least three members of [...]

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