Expect to hear a lot about HEZBOLLAH -- great BBC INFO articles here:

[cyberpj]

Who are Hezbollah?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1908671.stm

If you enter Hezbollah as a BBC search you can obtain an amazing history via articles.

[htuttle]

1. HEZBOLLAH!!!!!! HEZBOLLAH!!!!!!!!

[Gloria]

2. Lebanon guided by the Nasrullah factor--ATimes---read this

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB26Ak03.html


Feb 26, 2005


Lebanon guided by the Nasrullah factor
By Sami Moubayed

DAMASCUS - Any person who was in Beirut on May 24, 2000, the day Hezbollah liberated South Lebanon, understands how immensely popular the enigmatic Hasan Nasrullah is in the country's Muslim, and particularly Shi'ite, community. Any person watching his speech five years later, this month, after the US started to press for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon, and the disarming of Hezbollah, of which Nasrullah is the head, knows how easy it might be for the United States to get Syria to leave Lebanon, but how difficult, if not impossible, it would be to disarm or weaken the Shi'ites.

snip

Hezbollah described the Ashura march this year as "a massive rally in defense of the resistance". "We gather today to express the people's will to protect the resistance movement against all attempts that aim at eliminating its presence and ending its role," Nasrullah said.

And that is exactly what Nasrullah will do: work for the protection of his interests, those of Syria, and the Shi'ites of Lebanon, against all external meddling by the US.

[cyberpj]

4. They may leave, but this will be some kind of fight in the long run.....

"Disarming Hezbollah, and writing them off the political scene in Lebanon, would be like asking the Iraqi Shi'ites, who have now tasted power after decades of oppression under Saddam Hussein, to leave office willingly, abandon their new-found rights, and return to the wretched state they were in during the previous 100 years."

But it will never be explained to Americans that way.

Good article. Thanks.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB26Ak03.html

[flpoljunkie]

3. The" liberal" New York Times today begins the drum beat...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/opinion/01tue1.html

Yesterday, with protests continuing, the pro-Syrian cabinet resigned. Washington, in an unusual alliance with France, continues to press for full compliance with the Security Council's demand for an early and complete Syrian withdrawal. That needs to happen promptly. Once Syria is gone, Hezbollah, which has engaged in international terrorism under Syrian protection, must either confine itself to peaceful political activity or be shut down.

Are Neocons running the New York Times editorial board? This article is also giving a "healthy share" of credit to Bush for the developments in Lebanon: "Still, this has so far been a year of heartening surprises - each one remarkable in itself, and taken together truly astonishing. The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for many of these advances. It boldly proclaimed the cause of Middle East democracy at a time when few in the West thought it had any realistic chance."

Excuse me, but bringing democracy to the Middle East was the Bush/Neocon fall back position to justify the war in Iraq when no WMD were found.

[Roger Pedacter]

5. Don't worry, FLPOL, Muslim Warriors will make BU$H look

stupid in both Iraq and Lebanon, then Syria, and Iran. Our friends there don't want Deomocracy, and won't accept it. This was a futile and expensive WASTE of Amerikkkan resources!

[newyawker99]

6. Hi Roger Pedacter!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: