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http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21094377-27197,00.html
"Terrorism Tehran-style"
January 21, 2007 11:00pm
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yet the AMIA bombing is hardly the only case in which Tehran employed its Hezbollah surrogates to score political points through the murder of foreign civilians. In the 1980s, Hezbollah kidnapped dozens of American, French and British hostages in a self-declared campaign to rid Lebanon of Western influence. Many of those abducted diplomats, journalists and teachers were executed by their captors.
When the string of airline hijackings and overseas bombings committed by Hezbollah are added to its organisational portfolio, the portrait of the Lebanese Shi'ite militia becomes uglier still. But despite countless litres of innocent blood on its hands, Hezbollah's defenders insist the movement does not engage in terrorism."
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467790418&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Jan. 22, 2007 22:50 | Updated Jan. 23, 2007 1:39
"IDF builds fake Muslim city to prepare for war"
By SHELLY PAZ
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The IDF unveiled an Urban Warfare Training Center (UTC) on Monday in a mock city that simulates an Arab town, four months after the second Lebanon war ended.
The unit's commanders firmly stated that the city was planned eight years ago and that construction began a year ago. They added that the current pace of the training was two battalions each week.
The mock city is located in the southern Tze'elim military base. From a distance, it looks like any Arab urban center.
Around 500 structures were built for a maximum capacity of 5,000 residents. "Just like in every real city we built mosques, a Casba and even a refugee camp," said Lt.-Col Arik Moreh, the second in command of the Tactical Training City (TTC), part of the UTC, following a large urban warfare training exercise Monday morning.
Arab music was played in the background throughout the entire exercise, to get everyone in the mood.
In the center some of the houses' walls have holes, an imitation of those soldiers leave behind after breaking into houses and taking them over."