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Blood & Treasure (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
OK, here’s a survey of the government’s deradicalization efforts, also available from a homeless person near you. There are obviously a lot of things here that could do with a less cursory treatment, but pressure of space, etc. Anyway: enjoy, or not. In many ways, the Hassan Butt affair has been a tale of our times. The 27 year old activist from Manchester first came to public attention...
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Israelated (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... of the Palestinian Liberation Front, who bludgeoned a four-year-old girl to death with his rifle butt on an Israeli beach in 1979. There followed a huge rally in Beirut, where Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah exulted that the “age of defeats” was over. Cheered by the crowd, Kantar and the other freed jihadists walked a red carpet to the grave of Imad Mughniyeh, a senior member of...
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Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
This is just another example of the love affair between Islamic jihadists and their so-called moderate-muslim sympathizers. Samir Kuntar—who shot a child’s father in front of her, then bashed the child’s brains out with a rifle butt, called Israel the “disease” in the region and that the “disease” needs to be destroyed. Not surprising we see nothing but praise and admiration from Al Jazeera....
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Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... of the Palestinian Liberation Front, who bludgeoned a four-year-old girl to death with his rifle butt on an Israeli beach in 1979. There followed a huge rally in Beirut, where Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah exulted that the age of defeats was over. Cheered by the crowd, Kantar and the other freed jihadists walked a red carpet to the grave of Imad Mughniyeh, a senior member of...
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Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... Shi’ite movement Hezbollah, a flood of propaganda immediately followed. Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, depicted the return of five prisoners and the remains of 199 Lebanese killed in the 2006 war with Israel as a way of achieving Hezbollah’s original goal when it kidnapped two Israeli soldiers — an act that ignited the war. … But beyond all tactical and political considerations, there...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
In Israel, Samir Qantar is reviled as a child murderer accused of crushing the head of a four-year-old girl with the butt of his rifle.
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Jesus is Lord, A Worshipping Christ (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
... in front of his 4-year-old daughter, and then killing her by crushing her skull with a rifle butt. While I am glad that Goldwasser and Regev are home, I am furious that the price was far too high for any self-respecting nation to have to pay. There was no reason on God’s green Earth why an animal like Kuntar should ever have seen the light of day; he is an unrepentant child murderer, who...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
BEIRUT, Lebanon Five Lebanese militants got a hero's welcome from tens of thousands of cheering Hezbollah supporters and kisses from the U.S.-backed prime minister Wednesday after being set free by Israel in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers.
The lopsided exchange was hailed as a triumph by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who declared that the "age of victories has come,"...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... bodies of two Israeli soldiers.The lopsided exchange was hailed as a triumph by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who declared that the "age of victories has come," and solidified the Iran-backed militant group's rising political power in Lebanon and the wider Arab world.For Israel the swap closed a painful chapter of its 2006 war in Lebanon, but it prompted critics to question whether...
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Pros and Cons (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... unsuccessful attempt to rescue the soldiers. [snip] “They were kidnapped alive. [Hezbollah leader] Hassan Nassrallah swears on it the first day that he announced to the world he kidnapped two soldiers alive,” the father said. “If tomorrow he brings them in coffins, it means that he killed them — his words. It means that they killed them, and if he killed them, I am waiting for him to be...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
... details.The Israeli Cabinet approved the deal with Hezbollah on June 29, and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah later announced his group had accepted the agreement.Several hurdles must be overcome before the agreement is implemented.Israel has yet to receive a final report from the Lebanese militant group on Ron Arad, an Israeli airman who has been missing since being forced to eject from...
