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"Hezbollah to Lebanese army: Stay out of refugee camp," from CNN:
(CNN) -- The leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, has warned the Lebanese army not to enter the Palestinian refugee camp north of Tripoli where it has been confronting Islamic militants.
Nasrallah -- in a televised address to mark the seventh anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon -- said that to enter the camp would be crossing a red line, and the Palestinians should not be touched.
"Suppose that the government is having a war on terror, that doesn't mean they should kill half of the people on the street," he said in a reference to Palestinian civilians crammed into the Nahr el-Bared camp.
He also criticized the militants of Fatah al-Islam, who are holed up inside the camp, accusing them of an aggression against the army that was an aggression against all of Lebanon.
Hezbollah, a Shiite organization, views extremist Sunni groups such as al Qaeda and Fatah al-Islam as enemies.
While tension between Hizballah and al-Qaeda is nothing new, it's possible that there's even more to this, in light of reports from last fall that Hizballah was moving rockets into Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon: assets to protect, and secrets to hide.
Nasrallah said that a negotiated political settlement according to the rule of law should be reached to preserve the integrity of the Lebanese army. The Lebanese military stays out of the Palestinian camps under a 1969 agreement that allows the Palestinians to run them.
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Nasrallah was also critical of the Lebanese government's request to the United States for military aid during the crisis.
"We should be aware of the American interference," he said. "[As for] the American intervention in this incident there should be an investigation into who took the decision."
The Hezbollah leader also said that Lebanon must not be allowed to become a battleground between the army and groups affiliated with al Qaeda. He said this would tempt the United States to bring the war on terror to Lebanese soil, as it had in Iraq.
"Are you willing to fight the wars of others inside Lebanon?" he asked his audience. "I want to warn that we should not be dragged by the Americans to fight their battle in Lebanon."
Fighting the wars of others... like Iran?
Posted by Marisol at May 26, 2007 7:22 AM
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To put it quiet simple you only have peace in a country when the Government of that country has the monopoly control of organized violence. When you have two centers of organized violence in a country you have civil war. King Husein of Jordan understood this in 1970, his solution was simple and too the point, eradicate the other center of violence. How many lived have been saved in Jordan over the last 30 odd years we will never know, but I would like to put a bet on that the total no who died in the bloody action against the Palestinian Liberation organization is much lower than if that organization had been allowed to fester in Jordan for another 30 years. The problem is does the Lebanese Government have the testicular fortitude to crush this band of thugs once and for all and is the Army Loyal enough to do it?
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at May 26, 2007 7:48 AM
Many of the Lebanese soldiers killed were Sunnis. Fatah al-Islam is Sunni, as are the "Palestinian" (Arab) "refugees" (almost none of whom are "refugees" in the normal sense, but at the very most, the children or grandchildren of those who left the area of Mandatory Palestine, and then Israel, beginning in late 1947, and continuing through the attack on the newly-declared state of Israel in May 1948). during the hostilities of 1947-1949. Sunnis in Lebanon never treated the lower-class Shi'a well, and they are now worried about the menace of Hezbollah as a force within but not subservient to, the state.
And here is Nasrallah of Hezbollah, handmaid to Iran's geopolitical schemes and dreams, defending the hyper-Sunnis of Fatah al-Islam, against the Lebanese state.
In this respect, he may be compared to Bashir al-Assad. The member of a not-truly-Muslim faith, the Awalites with their syncretistic worship of Mary, Assad has to worry about the fate of the Awalites, a military caste who got their start under the French (as part of the non-Muslim local "troupes speciales"), and managed to gain power, even though at this point the Alawites are no more than 12% of the population.
Hafez al-Assad crushed the Muslim Brotherhood at Hama, after the killings of 82 Alawite cadets and many other smaller attacks by the Ikhwan on Alawites and their interests. His son Bashir does not know how to do that; he was not in the military himself, and has apparently set upon a different course: to allow the Sunnis of Syria to travel freely (and good riddance, as far as he is concerned) to Iraq to wage Jihad (better than doing it against the Alawites at home -- but is he quite sure that none of them will come back?), and at the same time to do Iran's bidding, and for that matter to attempt to keep Lebanon as a source of revenue, for the otherwise economically floundering Syrian state.
The entanglements, the sudden surprise alliances and mesalliances, and un-alliances, the declaration of eternal hatred toward one leader or sect followed by a declaration of eternal friendship for your "brother," followed again by the declaration of endless war -- this is the Muslim world, and this is the Muslim Middle East.
Posted by: Hugh at May 26, 2007 8:21 AM
Somehow in the translation, the ending was probably omitted by accident.
""We should be aware of the American interference," he said. "[As for] the American intervention in this incident there should be an investigation into who took the decision."
The full statement was probably:
"We should be aware of the American interference," he said. "[As for] the American intervention in this incident there should be an investigation into who took the decision so that person can be duly assassinated with a swift beheading, god willing".
at May 26, 2007 8:53 AM
How many Christians are there in the Lebanese army as compared to muslims, shites, sunni? if Nasrallah is calling them "Crusaders" would it mean that Christians are the majority in the army and or at least in the command of the army? If Christians are in the majority and leadership, why dont they just go in completely destroy these thugs, as long as they get aid and support from the West.
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at May 26, 2007 9:01 AM
Again we see the cost of the Arab obsession with group rights and social status by group association rather than individualism. If Lebanon would offer these self-styled refugees a choice of citizenship or emigration, these type of groups would not be so ready to form themselves, they would not have practically sovereign towns to organize in, and groups like Hezbollah would not be able to stand up for them because they themselves would never have gotten anywhere. Where are the leaders who can speak up about these fundamental problems? When we associate ourselves with the Arabs' and Muslims' internal squabbling we always lose. The rules of the game have to change. Enough prattling about democracy, more about the social and cultural underpinnings of it.
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at May 26, 2007 9:30 AM
Sydney's Nazi's see Sister City in Hebron
More proof that far left lunatics are nothing but Nazi’s and attention seekers:
A SYDNEY council’s proposal to build a sister-city relationship with the Palestinian town of Hebron has triggered outrage among Sydney’s Jewish community and accusations of “gross abuse” of ratepayer trust.
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/05/26/sydneys-nazis-see-sister-city-in-hebron/
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at May 26, 2007 12:00 PM
Un ha, I thought this, then they will take over and make their way to Israel, their whole plan! The lebanese army would not even fight Israel, it was hezballah! As this seems to be a deterent!
Posted by: MZ at May 26, 2007 12:54 PM
They all so announced the shipments and aiplane loads and relief from U.S. is on it's way there!
Mthrs! I must not understand a f' thing! This is why the troops got a little money, what about the Iraqi army?! What the .....
at May 26, 2007 12:58 PM
What another telling statement; He does not want al-gaeda there for he is afraid it would make U.S. come there. The dhimmicrats here in denial! They are helping support this!
Posted by: MZ at May 26, 2007 1:47 PM
For once, I wish they'd finish the comment...
"...stay out of refugee camp"...because we don't want anyone to see our stash of weapons we claim not to have, nor what we're doing with them.
Who are they trying to fool?
Oh, yeah, that's right...the political correctness kooks of the 5th column running cover for them.
never mind. lol
at May 26, 2007 8:41 PM
Who's on our side?
Not Hezbollah,
Not Pals.
Not al qaeda.
only ones that can be trusted are Lebanese Christians. These, however, have been shafted by our side too often before.
Suffice it to say, no matter how much they squabble amongst themselves, no Islamics--sunni, shi'ites, or whatever--are our friends.
Posted by: unicorns62000 at May 26, 2007 9:04 PM
..coming to a McIslamberg near You soon..
Or has it already?
Why is NOONE acting on the islamocamps here in the USA?????!!!!
WHAT the F*CK are they AFRAID of??!!
That the 'reverendes' Jesse Jerkson and Al Slim Shady Sharpsack will 'raise every voice and sing'??
Lord have mercy!
I'm not worried about *Lebanon*.. I am worried about right here in my HOME STATE!
And Virgina and and and and and and...
LET US fight them OVER HERE - since they are.....
...ALREADY HERE.. STUPID!!
Sugggested slogan for Romney or Tancredo:
It's the Jihad, STOOPID!
Posted by: Allahfanculo at May 27, 2007 4:17 AM
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