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EU won't label Hezbollah 'terrorist' group
NewsDaily ^ | 8/2/06 | UPI

Posted on 08/02/2006 1:27:56 PM PDT by Edgerunner

BRUSSELS, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- In a rebuff to Washington, the European Union will not add the Islamist Hezbollah movement on its list of terrorist organizations, the EU president says.

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"Given the sensitive situation where we are, I don't think this is something we will be acting on now," said Finland Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, who is also the EU president.

The decision came in response to a letter signed by 213 members of the U.S. Congress demanding the intergovernmental organization join the United States in branding Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

Washington had no immediate response.

The 25-member EU could take up the discussion again after Israel and Hezbollah reach a peace deal, Tuomioja said.

"Everybody in Lebanon should be a party" to reaching a peace deal, he said, suggesting that calling Hezbollah a terrorist organization could risk alienating the Shiite organization and political party, London's Observer reported.

Six countries have designated part or all of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, a label vehemently disputed by other countries.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hezbollah; terrorist
Euroweenies strike again...
1 posted on 08/02/2006 1:27:58 PM PDT by Edgerunner
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To: Edgerunner

They aren't really like a terrorist group. They are really more like Nazi Germany.


2 posted on 08/02/2006 1:31:16 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Edgerunner

Please. Europe couldn't even bring themselves to step in to war in Bosnia going on in their own yard.

'Have you tried appeasement? Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.'


3 posted on 08/02/2006 1:32:34 PM PDT by Sax (You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
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To: Edgerunner

>>>Hezb’Allah<<<

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1521072/posts?page=77#77

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1521072/posts?page=78#78

Terrorism in the Middle East

Law Enforcement Sensitive

New Trends in Financing (continued)

* Human trafficking
o Middle East (Afghanistan and Central Asian Republics)
+ Linked with organized crime—Russian Vory
o Cambodia, and Philippines
+ Linked with madrasas in Southeast Asia (children)
+ Linked with organized crime—Yakuza
+ A word about Abu Sayyaf
* Kidnapping and extortion
o Links to Hezb’Allah
o Links to FARC and ELN


4 posted on 08/02/2006 1:33:57 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Edgerunner
resistance movements like Hezbollah

Although I deplore them and disagree with every stance they take, I can understand the arguments Hamas makes about "legitimate resistance". Israel is on land they call their own (no matter how wrong they are).

Hezbollah, though, I just don't get. Since Israel pulled out of Lebanon a few years ago their claim to being a "resistance movement" leads me to ask exactly what it was they were resisting?

5 posted on 08/02/2006 1:35:18 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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To: Edgerunner

It seems the Euro-peons didn't learn a damned thing from WW2 and the Nazi Germany experience. Their Muslim friends want nothing more than to usher them into concentration camps and exterminate them. Of course, they'll expect the bad old USA to come to the rescue and save their necks.


6 posted on 08/02/2006 1:35:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth shall set you free))))
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To: Edgerunner

If it walks like a terrorist and explodes like a terrotist it must be a terrorist.


7 posted on 08/02/2006 1:37:41 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather?)
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To: Edgerunner

Hezbollah Freedom Fighters or Hezbollah Insurgents?


8 posted on 08/02/2006 1:38:54 PM PDT by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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To: Edgerunner

You must understand that the left-wing fascist took over the EU while the people of Europe looked elsewhere, just like the hard line left took over our universities and our government agencies. Those who were elected to run the EU in Brussels are hard line left-wing fascist some could even call them National Socialist. They have taken over the EU and for the last three decades put out the propaganda that has turned a once freedom loving Europe into a den of National anti-American, anti-Israel Socialist.


9 posted on 08/02/2006 1:39:08 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT
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To: Brilliant

The difference is that hamas and hezbollah only kill Jews, hence are not in the terror catagory. Now, if they killed euroweenies..........


10 posted on 08/02/2006 1:46:11 PM PDT by uscabjd ( a)
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To: Edgerunner

They'll get what they are asking for, like the riots in France.


11 posted on 08/02/2006 1:49:07 PM PDT by TheKidster
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To: Edgerunner
EU won't label Hezbollah 'terrorist' group

Gee, what a surprise.
12 posted on 08/02/2006 1:50:59 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Edgerunner

Heads will roll...


13 posted on 08/02/2006 1:51:00 PM PDT by mrsmel (Men possess talent. Genius possesses men. Chocolate cravings possess women.)
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To: Brilliant
They aren't really like a terrorist group. They are really more like Nazi Germany.

Yep.

Sand Nazis... I *hate* these guys.

14 posted on 08/02/2006 1:56:28 PM PDT by Charles Martel
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To: Edgerunner

Those in charge of the EU need to be added to the list.


15 posted on 08/02/2006 2:35:44 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Edgerunner

Euroweenies, the pit-yorkies of Western Civilization.
16 posted on 08/02/2006 3:07:42 PM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: yankeedame
It's beginning to look like most EVERYONE of value or character in Europe - has already immigrated to the "real world"...

Most of what remains in "Old Europe" - are the dregs of it's own culture and the copulating populating immigrants from Islam and Africa looking for the free ride and ultimate control...

Is Europe blind to this -- or simply impotent to prevent the loss of their own countries?

Semper Fi
17 posted on 08/02/2006 4:51:00 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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