Posted on 05/13/2008 9:09:12 PM PDT by Flavius
Sleiman Jaafar's smiling thinly-bearded face beams down from his "martyr's" portrait at the funeral procession inching its way along the narrow street in Qmatiyeh, a small village clinging to a mountainside overlooking Beirut. Handfuls of rice and pink and white rose petals hurled from windows and balconies shower the throng of mourners below. The funeral was a moment to absorb the human cost of the recent deadly clashes between Hizballah and the Lebanese government in which nearly 40 people are thought to have died. But it also generated a mix of seething anger, anxiety and an ominous feeling that more violence is to come.
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“The fighting ended with the Shi’ites demanding that Jumblatt’s Druze forces must turn over all their medium and heavy weapons.”
Druze forces response to Hezbollah should be, “Come and get them.”
As a Result Of Hizbullah’s Victory,
The US’s Influence in the [Middle East] Region Will Stop
MEMRI | 5-13-08
Posted on 05/13/2008 5:19:42 AM PDT by SJackson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015189/posts
Hezbollah ‘redrawing’ Mideast map
washington times | 5/12/08 | By Joshua Mitnick
Posted on 05/12/2008 5:35:25 PM PDT by Flavius
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015030/posts
In Lebanon, a Call for U.S. Action
washington post | 5/13/08 | By Thomas Erdbrink and Robin Wright
Posted on 05/13/2008 7:23:22 PM PDT by Flavius
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015600/posts
Iranian citizens caught fighting for Hezbollah in Lebanon
http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/20...an_citizen.php
Posted on 05/13/2008 6:24:21 AM PDT by jhpigott
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015221/posts
Lebanon: Syria ‘protecting Hezbollah’
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2157880268
Posted on 05/13/2008 9:00:18 AM PDT by jhpigott
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015297/posts
Lebanon to West: Wake Up Fast!
GLORIA Center | May 12, 2008 | Barry Rubin
Posted on 05/13/2008 5:34:26 AM PDT by SJackson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015196/posts
Saudis sends sharp warning to Iran over Lebanon
AP on Yahoo | 5/13/08 | Sam F. Ghattas - ap
Posted on 05/13/2008 6:55:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015592/posts
Scary Iranian-Syrian Islamic Hezbollah
fascist victory, terror & Occupation over Lebanon
Posted on 05/13/2008 10:51:58 AM PDT by PRePublic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2015347/posts
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