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A park near Toronto’s university district is named after the poet George Faludy. The author of My Happy Days In Hell passed away in 2006 at 96, having survived terrorists and tyrants in various parts of the world. When asked about the nature of totalitarian terror, Faludy used to tell the following anecdote. In the late 1940s, after the communist takeover of Eastern Europe, bitter bickering...
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hassan Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah on Thursday following a congress that also adopted a new manifesto, which is to be revealed in coming days, the militant Shiite party announced.
Dave's World (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was Political Officer in Jidda in the late '70s in the US Embassy and was accustomed to receiving long missives from the US Amb to Yemen, Tom Scotes, who would dash off three half-dozen page analyses of the Yemeni political situation [which I also covered from a Pol/Mil slant] every week, or so it seemed. Finally, Amb Tom Pickering from Jordan arrived in Jidda with three black Chevy Suburbans armed...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
BEIRUT -- The militant Hezbollah group announced Thursday that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the Shiite Muslim group's leader for a sixth term. A Hezbollah statement didn't say when the group's top officials voted to re-elect Nasrallah, who has held the post since an Israeli helicopter gunship killed his predecessor, Sheik Abbas Musawi. No one ran against Mr. Nasrallah. Naim Kassim...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as Hezbollah leader for a sixth term, the Lebanese Shiite armed group said on Thursday. A Hezbollah statement announced on Thursday the end of its general conference, which lasted for months, saying that the conference adopted a new political document, the second of its kind after the open letter of 1985, the group added. The statement said that the general conference...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Hassan Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah on Thursday following a congress that also adopted a new manifesto, which is to be revealed in coming days, the militant Shiite party announced. Nasrallah, 49, has headed Hezbollah since 1992 when his predecessor, Abbas Moussaoui, was killed in an Israeli helicopter raid. A statement by the party, created in 1985, said Nasrallah would explain the contents...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as Hezbollah leader for a sixth term, the Lebanese Shiite armed group said on Thursday.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The militant Hezbollah group says that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the group's leader for a sixth term.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The militant Hezbollah group says that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the group's leader for a sixth term.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The militant Hezbollah group says that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the group's leader for a sixth term.
Corruption Chronicles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Days after a devout Muslim terrorized a U.S. Army base in Texas several news reports remind that two key Homeland Security posts are occupied by equally devout Muslims, one of them a former Los Angeles deputy mayor who eliminated a crucial program that tracked terrorist activities in the city. Earlier this year President Obama appointed Arif Alikhan to be the nation’s Assistant Secretary for...
Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Dimona nuclear-power plant. I dismissed his claim as a wild boast last...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | yesterday
D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2009 -- Iraqi security forces arrested five suspected members of the al-Qaida in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist groups today during three combined security operations conducted with U.S. advisors in the Iraqi cities of Ramadi, Tikrit and Kirkuk, military officials reported. Iraqi forces and U.S. advisors searched two buildings in Ramadi...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Israel - Hezbollah War 2006. Photo from The L.A. Times From Commentary Magazine: Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport,...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Virtual Reality, Psych Prep Help IAF -- The Jerusalem Post In the face of a growing anti-aircraft and ballistic missile threat against Israel, the IAF plans to conduct special seminars to prepare pilots and ground crews for future conflicts, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The seminar will first be held for pilots who, in a future conflict with Hamas, Hizbullah, Syria or Iran, are expected to have...
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