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50,000 Hezbollah men said deployed along border with Israel
Haaretz ^ | February 16, 2008 | Yoav Stern

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hezbollah; israel; lebanon; mughniyah; wot
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To: xJones

There was once a game at chuckie cheese called hit the mole. Now that’s the game Israel needs to play with Hezbollah.


41 posted on 02/17/2008 4:14:09 PM PST by ncfool (Savage said that Islam is a Peaceful religion. Your very peaceful after they slit your throat!)
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To: bill1952

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.


42 posted on 02/17/2008 4:16:34 PM PST by sobieski
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To: ncfool

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.


43 posted on 02/17/2008 4:20:13 PM PST by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: West Coast Conservative

50,000 Lemmings


44 posted on 02/17/2008 4:22:44 PM PST by Theophilus (Nothing can make Americans safer than to stop aborting them.)
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To: Quix

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.


45 posted on 02/17/2008 4:25:11 PM PST by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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To: RightWhale

That region has sure been the start of lots of ugly things.

Thx.

No, I don’t go by the stars, at all.


46 posted on 02/17/2008 4:33:31 PM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: bert
"The Hezzies are now deployed between the Lebanese Army,the French and the IDF"

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.

47 posted on 02/17/2008 4:35:05 PM PST by norton ( There is no longer any choice)
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To: xJones

Ah, but those are male virgins for the homo-hezzies.


48 posted on 02/17/2008 4:37:25 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Quix

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.


49 posted on 02/17/2008 4:38:38 PM PST by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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To: RightWhale

I do think that on rare occasions . . .

God throws all the cues available in a given direction.

Thx.


50 posted on 02/17/2008 5:51:37 PM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: sobieski

Hey, thanks. I’ll have to read that book.


51 posted on 02/18/2008 7:14:27 AM PST by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

They’ll be 50,000 pink spots if they do anything stupid.


52 posted on 02/18/2008 7:20:32 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (www.conservativesgetbonedagain.com)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Sweet. 50,000 targets.


53 posted on 02/18/2008 7:22:01 AM PST by r9etb
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To: RightWhale
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.

Yes, but is Saturn near Aldebaran in Taurus and will it remain there for a little while?

54 posted on 02/18/2008 10:55:10 AM PST by xJones
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To: West Coast Conservative
I hate to give these bastards a good strategy tip but,

A human wave frontal assault can't lose.

Go for it.

55 posted on 02/18/2008 10:57:48 AM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: West Coast Conservative

I thought the Lebanese army was supposed to displace Hezbola?


56 posted on 02/18/2008 10:59:30 AM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: pissant
"What ever happened to the French led UN force that was to keep militants away from the border?"

They are busy "practicing" something... not sure what though.


57 posted on 02/18/2008 11:05:53 AM PST by avacado
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To: avacado

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.


58 posted on 02/18/2008 11:22:08 AM PST by Centurion2000 (su - | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r)
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