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Exclusive: Hizbollah 'stronger than before' and ready to strike Israel
Telegraph UK ^ | Last Updated: 6:55PM BST 02 Aug 2008 | By David Blair in Tyre

Posted on 08/02/2008 3:01:14 PM PDT by Perdogg

The political and military group's senior commander in southern Lebanon said in a rare interview that Hizbollah was far stronger now than when it fought the Israeli army in a conflict in 2006.

Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, who leads Hizbollah's forces on Lebanon's border with Israel - the crucial battlefront of any future war, was speaking in the port city of Tyre. "The resistance is now stronger than before and this keeps the option of war awake. If we were weak, Israel would not hesitate to start another war," he said. "We are stronger than before and when Hizbollah is strong, our strength stops Israel from starting a new war... We don't seek war, but we must be ready."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hizbollah; islam; lebanon; middleeast; mohammedanism
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1 posted on 08/02/2008 3:01:14 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: SJackson

All thanks to Olmert.


2 posted on 08/02/2008 3:02:17 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

That’s okay, Obambi will get a bag of weed and smoke the Peace Bong with them.


3 posted on 08/02/2008 3:03:12 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Perdogg

Israel needs a wartime consiglieri and quick!


4 posted on 08/02/2008 3:04:16 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: Perdogg

Propaganda.


5 posted on 08/02/2008 3:06:26 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: Perdogg

Blah, blah, blah. Talk’s cheap, Nabil.


6 posted on 08/02/2008 3:07:58 PM PDT by surely_you_jest ( Obamarrhoids are a pain in the ass . . . .)
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To: Perdogg
We don't seek war unless our bosses in Teheran tell us to but we must be ready."

There. Fixed it.

7 posted on 08/02/2008 3:10:42 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("[Obama acts] as if the very idea of permanent truth is passe, a form of bad taste"-Shelby Steele)
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To: Perdogg

Need to set up some kind of brigade to go to Israel if war breaks out and help the good guys. As a side benefit, get to whack some M___ies.


8 posted on 08/02/2008 3:14:41 PM PDT by threeoeight
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To: Perdogg

Need to set up some kind of brigade to go to Israel if war breaks out and help the good guys. As a side benefit, get to whack some M___ies.


9 posted on 08/02/2008 3:15:53 PM PDT by threeoeight
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To: Perdogg

Thanks to Olmert + Rice + UN clowns

All dangerous fools who confuse mere words with action and wishful thinking with reality.

Did anyone actually expect that Israel’s failures to annihilate Hizbullah coupled with the protection zone established in southern Lebanon (which allowed Hizbullah to rebuild and re-arm) could come out any other way?

Now Hizbullah has more power in Lebanon’s govt. than ever before AND a growing domination of southern Lebanon and Beirut that surpasses their best previous efforts.


10 posted on 08/02/2008 3:18:06 PM PDT by Enchante ( If oil were botox Nancy Pelosi would have us drilling everywhere!!)
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To: Perdogg

I detest olmert, but he had plenty of help.


11 posted on 08/02/2008 3:19:41 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
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To: Perdogg

Olmert should be tried for treason and executed.


12 posted on 08/02/2008 4:00:34 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Army Air Corps; monkapotamus; All

OH MONK you got check out with AAR said next thing you tell me Army that Barek is new Cheech from Cheech and Chong


13 posted on 08/02/2008 4:40:41 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: threeoeight

“Need to set up some kind of brigade to go to Israel if war breaks out and help the good guys. As a side benefit, get to whack some M___ies.” ...................... I had a couple of JDL types in one of my ARNG units, but by now they probably couldn’t carry a pack or run. Try recruiting in Crown Heights Brooklyn for your volunteer Brigade, I’m sure there may be many there that would jump at the chance to join you if hostilities broke out. I love the threats from Amanutjob that if hostilities break out they will cause destruction to us all over the world. What like the Israelis or the USA are going to let them get away with that?


14 posted on 08/02/2008 4:46:10 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (If everyone stays home and no one votes will Congress disappear?)
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To: Perdogg

Hezbollah before had managed to pull some fast ones because Israeli military intelligence had dropped the ball. However, that MI chief was fired shortly after, and his replacement is under strict orders to insure that Hezbollah does nothing that the IDF doesn’t know about.

When Hezbollah attacks, I suspect that they are going to be very, very shocked when Israel doesn’t do what it did before and send troops into Lebanon to be ambushed. Instead, Israel should do what it didn’t do before and fire its own rockets back at Hezbollah.

Rockets that are a heck of a lot more powerful and accurate than anything Hezbollah has. Rockets that will leave deep craters where Hezbollah positions used to be. Perhaps 1/2 to one ton warheads.

When that has finished, all Hezbollah territory in Lebanon should look as cratered as the surface of the Moon.

If Israel asks nice, maybe the US could even provide a good old fashioned B-52 Arc Light type strikes to turn hillsides into farmland.

Enough with playing nice with an enemy that keeps getting stronger when slapped. Israel should obliterate Hezbollah. No more mister nice guy.


15 posted on 08/02/2008 5:16:10 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: rahbert

Benny and the jets?


16 posted on 08/02/2008 5:24:53 PM PDT by tbpiper (NObama '08 - Unfit in any color)
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To: Perdogg

Another outstanding job by the UN who were tasked with keeping Hezbollah from rearming itself south of the Litani river. Take a bow UN.


17 posted on 08/02/2008 5:40:07 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Perdogg
Of course they seek war. They also lie. And deserve death.
18 posted on 08/02/2008 5:44:22 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Alouette

For the Israel list. Oh, and while we’re about it, what’s Hebrew for ‘Molon Labe’?


19 posted on 08/02/2008 6:41:33 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy.)
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To: Perdogg
Let 'em try to strike, which they may do -- but there won't be a second time, I can tell you.

Seriously, does Hezbollah even know who they're gonna mess with? (he asked, expecting the answer No)
20 posted on 08/02/2008 6:44:57 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy.)
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