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.
They aren't really like a terrorist group. They are really more like Nazi Germany.
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.'
>>>HezbAllah<<<
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 crimeRussian Vory
o Cambodia, and Philippines
+ Linked with madrasas in Southeast Asia (children)
+ Linked with organized crimeYakuza
+ A word about Abu Sayyaf
* Kidnapping and extortion
o Links to HezbAllah
o Links to FARC and ELN
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?
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.
If it walks like a terrorist and explodes like a terrotist it must be a terrorist.
Hezbollah Freedom Fighters or Hezbollah Insurgents?
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.
The difference is that hamas and hezbollah only kill Jews, hence are not in the terror catagory. Now, if they killed euroweenies..........
They'll get what they are asking for, like the riots in France.
Heads will roll...
Yep.
Sand Nazis... I *hate* these guys.
Those in charge of the EU need to be added to the list.
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