Who says the Tories can’t do ethno-politics? Throughout the Chrétien and Martin years, the Liberals had a lock on urban ethnic constituencies. Sikhs, Jews, Tamils, Somalians, Ukrainians, Arabs: The Liberal Party’s urban machines were staffed by a tightly corralled rainbow coalition recruited and programmed at mosques, temples and community centres. On election day, the Tories and...
Michael Totten on the Third Lebanon War: 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...
Remember Hezbollah's Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's Ba'ada Haifa ? Which was his signal trashing of Israel - that his rockets will hit Haifa and beyond . Here : "We are entering a new phase in the confrontation with Israel and it is the phase of (firing rockets) beyond Haifa ," Nasrallah said in a televised speech on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV. Well, it very well might be that Haifa is coming right...
Lebanon's Hizbullah group said that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as its leader for a sixth term. According to the AP, the statement said Naim Kassim also has been re-elected as the group's deputy leader.2009/11/21
BEIRUT: The militant Hezbollah group has announced that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected unanimously the Shia Muslim group’s leader for a sixth term. A Hezbollah statement did not say when the group’s top officials ...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Naim Kassim also has been re-elected as Nasrallah's deputy, according to the statement. Hezbollah's leadership elections are usually held every three years but they were last held in 2004. A Hezbollah official said the two-year delay was caused by internal Lebanese differences and the 2006 war with Israel. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media....