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| Lebanese MP: ''We owe it all to Iran!'' |
| 2002-08-20 |
| A Lebanese parliamentarian said on Monday that his countrymen owe their victory in pushing Israeli forces from their territory to Iran's unsparing political and spiritual support for them and will not forget it. Won't be allowed to, either... And for all the money and arms and ammunition — it's like Islamic Christmas, every day! Kharrazi for his part welcomed expansion of parliamentary cooperation between Tehran and Beirut and said political activities of Islamic Resistance on the Lebanese scene foiled wide-scale publicity launched against it. He underlined continuation of political activities by Islamic Resistance in Lebanon. He said Lebanese Islamic Resistance managed to remove Israel from the scene in Lebanon. He added that Lebanese Hizbollah is now playing a key role in Lebanon and has put maintenance of national solidarity and unity on agenda of its activities. I think that, roughly translated, that means that Hezbollah's gotten a good foothold in Lebanon and given time they expect to be able to take over the entire machinery of the government. It's both an independent military organization, outside the control of the government, and an integral part of the government through its political presence. Given Iranian money and support, and shipments of arms and ammunition, its strength is expected to grow. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 I dunno, Laurence -- they've got a kind of Alawite - Shi'a alliance going on. And Syria's quite happy to let the Hezbies do all the fighting and dying. |
| Posted by: Dan Hartung 2002-08-20 22:55:56 |
| #2 Actually, there is widespread pro-American sentiment in Lebanon, because of the Syrian occupation. I have talked to Lebanese who would like to see a Shatilla solution applied to Hizbollah-Palestinians and the Syrians. Read my lips: nobody wants the Palestinians. Most Arabs would rather see them occupied, than in their sandbox. |
| Posted by: Allah the Dog Faced God 2002-08-20 18:21:24 |
| #1 Won't the Syrians get annoyed that the Iranians are getting credit for the success of their little colony there? |
| Posted by: Laurence Simon 2002-08-20 08:21:52 |