Lebanon's opposition has agreed to a proposed government line-up, Hezbollah said on Saturday, paving the way to the end of five months of tortuous negotiations following a June general election. Hezbollah, which heads an alliance of parties supported by Syria and Iran, said in a statement that its leadership, including the head of the militant party Hassan Nasrallah, met late on Friday and agreed...
Fighters rearm and reinforce positions in valleys amid fears that Israel is about to launch attack on Islamic group Hezbollah is rapidly rearming in preparation for a new conflict with Israel, fearing that Benjamin Netanyahu's government will attack Lebanon again prior to any assault on Iran's nuclear facilities. Last week, Israeli commandos seized a ship in the Mediterranean loaded with almost 400...
UN condemns Israel, Hezbollah violations: "Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned recent violations of the 2006 cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and urged both sides to exercise maximum restraint...."Read the full story at the link.
Anne Frank's diary has been censored out of a school textbook in Lebanon following a campaign by the militant group Hezbollah claiming the classic work promotes Zionism. The row erupted after Hezbollah learned excerpts of "The Diary of Anne Frank" were included in the textbook used by a private English-language school in western Beirut. Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel ran a report...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the ship carrying hundreds of tons of weapons believed to have originated in Iran and meant for Hezbollah, which Israel intercepted early Wednesday, constituted a war crime that should be reviewed by United Nations bodies.' Read more... Netanyahu is making it really obvious that this shipment of arms is an Israeli staged operation to help Israel's...
I feel like I should be trying to learn more about this : "Lambasting the dubious role being played by Iran in the stand-off between government forces and Al Houthi rebels in Yemen, Saudi analysts accused Iran of breeding ‘Al Houthi Hezbollah' in order to create a security headache for the kingdom. "Dr Ali Al Atiyyah, a political analyst, said Al Houthi rebels are simply tools in the...
The Guardian report that "The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation...
Obama Praises Bravery at Fort Hood -- Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama dedicated his weekly radio address Saturday to the shooting that occurred at the Fort Hood military base this week. Mr. Obama said he will be tracking the investigation into how suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, allegedly shot and killed 13 people and wounded dozens of others on Thursday. The president...
Beirut - Lebanon's ruling majority and the opposition led by Hezbollah have agreed to form a national-unity cabinet, thus ending a six-month political impasse in the country, sources said Saturday. A high-ranking source in the Western-backed ruling m...
And Darwish was intimidated at Canadian airport too (below). The Muslim Student Association (MSA) is a Muslim Brotherhood founded organization that has continually supported Islamic terror groups Hamas and Hizbollah. Much more here on the MSA. Story by Katie Farden in the Seattle University Spectator. Members of Seattle University’s Muslim community have been gathering signatures on a [...]
A ship intercepted by Israel for allegedly carrying Iranian weapons destined for Hezbollah entered on Friday Lebanese waters where authorities are questioning its crew, the army said. "The Francop ship entered Lebanese territorial waters at noon today and, upon its arrival off Beirut port, the navy in cooperation with UN naval forces searched the vessel," an army statement said.
Gee, do you think the UN will do anything about this'?? The IDF issued Thursday what it said were damning photos showing Katyusha rockets discovered last week by UNIFIL troops in Lebanon that are of the same make as the rockets seized by the Navy when it boarded the Francop cargo ship Wednesday. On Thursday, the IDF finished removing the weaponry from the containers and transferred it from Ashdod to...
Yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu held a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Tuesday's capture of the ship Francop that was smuggling a massive Iranian weapons cache to Syria for Iran's terrorist buddies. This was Netanyahu's statement: First of all, I would like to commend Defense Minister Ehud Barak, IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, GOC Navy Adm. Eliezer Marom,...
Israel has spared no effort in bringing the world's attention to its seizure of a ship carrying tonnes of apparently Iranian-supplied weapons bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon, via Egypt and Syria. If history is any guide, the incident could be used as a pretext for waging another war on Hezbollah, or even a strike against Iran. - Sami Moubayed (Nov 6, '09)
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel's U.N. ambassador complained to the United Nations on Thursday about what she said was an Iranian attempt to skirt a U.N. arms embargo and supply weapons to the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah.
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