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To: StillProud2BeFree
Notice this morning that the US announced that the Red Cross will be visiting Saddam shortly.

That has been in the news since the latter part of last week.

There is no way Saddam would have been locked away in Fallujah which is still overran by Saddam loyalist.

It was reported last night that during the raid and the firefight in Fallujah yesterday the Iraqi police to the US army not to come to the rescue that they (the Iraqi police and their new military) had it under control. I believe that was reported on Geraldo last night or one of the later shows.

3,487 posted on 02/15/2004 5:35:50 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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Hezbollah Leader Vows to Confront Israel

By HUSSEIN DAKROUB, Associated Press Writer

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The leader of the militant Hezbollah group vowed Sunday to continue attacking Israeli troops in a disputed border area and to prevent any Israeli violations of Lebanese territory.

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah also said his guerrillas would plant explosives on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel in an attempt to stop Israeli infiltrations.

"The Israeli air, sea and land violations amount to attacks on Lebanon's sovereignty. We will confront these violations," Nasrallah told a rally in the southern Lebanese village of Jibsheet, about 55 miles south of Beirut.

"Any Israeli soldier who sets foot on an inch of Lebanese territory must bear the consequences of his action. Whether we will kill him, injure him or take him prisoner, it is our choice."

Nasrallah said Hezbollah's anti-aircraft units will continue firing on Israeli warplanes flying in Lebanese airspace, and his guerrillas will continue attacking Israeli troops until they vacate the disputed Chebaa Farms area captured during the 1967 war.

Israeli warplanes sometimes fly over Lebanon on apparent reconnaissance missions — occasionally rattling residents by breaking the sound barrier — and its ships have sailed into Lebanese territorial waters, prompting complaints by the government.

Sunday's rally was attended by about 5,000 Hezbollah supporters waving the party's yellow flags. The gathering marked the 12th anniversary of the death of former Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas Musawi in an Israeli attack and the 20th anniversary of the killing of Sheik Ragheb Harb, another Hezbollah leader, by unidentified gunmen.

Hezbollah blames Israel for Harb's killing.

Nasrallah's organization led a guerrilla war against Israel's 18-year occupation of a border zone in southern Lebanon that ended in May 2000.

Lebanon has rejected American demands to dismantle Hezbollah, which is branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

3,489 posted on 02/15/2004 5:46:05 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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