Posted on 02/16/2008 12:10:56 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
The Lebanese newspaper A-Safir reported Saturday that the Lebanon-based guerilla group Hezbollah has deployed 50,000 "activists" along the southern border with Israel and declared a state of high alert in southern Lebanon.
According to the report, the organization has also evacuated all buildings in the area designated for social or political purposes in recent days, in preparation for a confrontation with Israel in the wake of the assassination of Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah.
Mughniyah, the organization's deputy secretary general, was killed in a blast in an upscale Damascus neighborhood late Tuesday. On Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for the assassination and vowed to retaliate. Israel denied any involvement in the incident. Advertisement Meanwhile Saturday, another Lebanese newspaper reported that Lebanese officials believe a serious military confrontation with Israel will erupt in the near future.
According to a report in the Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al-Akhbar this possibility has been raised in intensive discussions being held between Hezbollah officials and Iranian and Syrian officials. The various militant Palestinian organizations have also declared a state of high alert, the report added.
Al-Akhbar also reported that Syrian investigators probing the assassination suspect that "official security organizations operating in Arab nations" may have been involved in the killing, and that some of the suspects arrested in the course of the investigation were not civilians.
The report also said the investigation revealed that Mughniyah had been killed from a blast originating from a car bomb nearby, and not from a bomb planted in the vehicle he was occupying, as originally believed. The investigation revealed that the car bomb had been detonated remotely as Mughniyah walked past.
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There was once a game at chuckie cheese called hit the mole. Now that’s the game Israel needs to play with Hezbollah.
Apparently, the neo-cons didn’t trust him b/c he was Polish, at least according to ex-neocon Jacob Heilbrun in his new book “They Knew they Were Right”
They are racists, basing their policies on what’s good for a foreign state.
Whack a mole, one of my favorites, the best part is when they all pop up at the same time and you can whack all of them.
50,000 Lemmings
Watch Kosovo.
Also, Mars is prograde again, and the full moon will be in eclipse next week. For those who watch celestial omens with a greater or lesser degree of interest.
That region has sure been the start of lots of ugly things.
Thx.
No, I don’t go by the stars, at all.
That's only a problem if the IDF is on both points of the pincer and has gotten over the embarrassment of their most recent campaigns.
Ah, but those are male virgins for the homo-hezzies.
I don’t either, but it is possible that some do and we should at least keep a wary eye on that just in case.
I do think that on rare occasions . . .
God throws all the cues available in a given direction.
Thx.
Hey, thanks. I’ll have to read that book.
They’ll be 50,000 pink spots if they do anything stupid.
Sweet. 50,000 targets.
Yes, but is Saturn near Aldebaran in Taurus and will it remain there for a little while?
A human wave frontal assault can't lose.
Go for it.
I thought the Lebanese army was supposed to displace Hezbola?
They are busy "practicing" something... not sure what though.
Man, I don’t care how gung ho you are. Turning yourself in a blow-up doll / shooting rest for your sniper? Not freakin happening.
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