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Have the UN turn down free wine? Even "Zionist Oppressor" wine? You must be insane, Mr. Ambassdor.
And it's "conquered" territory, not "occupied" territory. You can thank the Mighty Syrian Army for that.
(IsraelNN.com) The Lebanese Army Friday arrested what it said was a squad numbering seven people who it says are responsible for the Katyusha rocket attack Thursday against Israel's North.
The suspects admitted that they were members of the Lebanese Hamas movement.
The Lebanese Army and a UNIFIL force discovered an additional, ready-to-launch rocket pod.
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Iranian banks illegally shifted billions of dollars through American financial institutions in recent years, and authorities suspect some of the money may have been used to finance Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
Now that it's after the election the NYT is willing to report on at least some of the nefarious activities of the Mad Mullahs™ ...
Details of the illicit transfers came to light on Friday when New York State and federal authorities announced that a large British bank had agreed to pay $350 million to settle accusations that it had helped the Iranian banks hide the transactions. The British bank, the Lloyds TSB Group, "stripped" information that would have identified the transfers in order to deceive American financial institutions, which are barred from doing business with Iranian banks, Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, said. Lloyds acknowledged its conduct and agreed to turn over detailed records of the transactions.
"They went to great lengths to obliterate any identification," Mr. Morgenthau said.
(AKI) - A pro-Syrian Palestinian group is the prime suspect behind the rockets fired at northern Israel from Lebanon on Thursday, according to a key Middle East analyst. Talal Nizameddin, political analyst at The American University of Beirut, told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC) was believed to be responsible for the attacks.
"This group is based at two refugee camps in Lebanon," he told AKI. "There are expectations that if there is another attack against Israel, I believe both camps will be the first thing the Israeli army will bomb, as a controlled response to send a signal to the Syrians."
Israel immediately responded with mortar shell attacks against southern Lebanon after the rockets struck the Israeli city of Nahariya in the Galilee region, slightly wounding three people.
On Thursday, the spokesman of the PFLP-GC Anwar Raja neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the rocket attacks.
The Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah and Gaza's ruling Hamas both denied any involvement in the Katyusha-rocket attacks, while the Lebanese government condemned the attacks against Israel calling them a violation of a United Nations ceasefire resolution.
Nizameddin, lecturer and associate dean of student affairs at The American University of Beirut, said that people in Lebanon were shocked at the rocket attacks against Israel and feared reprisals. "People in Beirut are silent and a bit shocked about the strikes (in Israel and Lebanon) and are waiting for what will happen next," said Nizameddin in a telephone interview from Beirut.
Nizameddin also said that a speech by Lebanese Shia cleric Hassan Nasrallah, in which he threatened a "new war" against Israel, on Wednesday was 'historic.'
During the speech, Nasrallah said Israel should prepare 'for every scenario'.
"He (Nasrallah) said this is a historic and decisive point in the struggle," Nizameddin told AKI. "To me, it confirms the feeling that the balance of power is being changed. How will the supporters of Hezbollah react to this. This is the question."
Nizameddin said that countries in the region may be polarised and forced to choose between resistance or dialogue.
"Are we ready for a wider confrontation? Or do we just lick our wounds for the time being and come back stronger another time, that is the decisive question," Nizameddin said. "The balance of power is also about Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Jordan, Fatah, the Palestinian Authority on one hand, and Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah on the other.
"It is about deciding the future of the region? Is it resistance or dialogue? But obviously with Israel being the stronger part in the dialogue," said Nizameddin.
The PFLP-GC is a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine or PFLP, which is currently based in the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
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"It is about deciding the future of the region? Is it resistance or dialogue? But obviously with Israel being the stronger part in the dialogue," said Nizameddin.
U.N. peacekeepers and Lebanese army troops found an old cache of rockets near the border with Israel on Friday, a day after at least four rockets were fired into northern Israel.
The U.N. force, UNIFIL, said the cache, consisting of 34 Grad-P rockets and some boxes of ammunition, were placed in two old bunkers covered by camouflage nets and appeared to date from the 2006 war between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel.
"There is no sign of any recent use of the bunkers and the weapons appear to date from the period of the 2006 conflict," a UNIFIL statement said.
The Lebanese army said in a separate statement the weapons found near the village of Kafr Hamam were a rocket launcher and 24 rockets. It described the weapons as old and unusable.
At least three Katyusha rockets were fired into Israel from south Lebanon on Thursday, wounding two people, in an attack linked to Israel's deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The Lebanese government condemned the attack as a violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution that halted the 2006 war while Hezbollah denied any responsibility. Some Lebanese officials pointed a finger at Palestinian militants.
The statement quoted UNIFIL commander Major General Claudio Graziano as saying the peacekeepers and Lebanese troops were taking concrete measures to ensure the border area was free of any illegal armed personnel, assets and weapons.
"Recent developments have prompted us to enhance our joint presence on the ground. It was in the course of this intensified patrolling activity that the weapons cache was found," he said.
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Maybe it was the signs in Arabic, English, Hebrew, French and six other languages that said "This way to the secret Hizbollah rocket cache" that helped.
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Another scoop for PressTV Iran... Iranian hackers have launched a massive campaign against Israeli web sites and have managed to bring many of them to a standstill. Ashyaneh, a group of Iranian hackers brought down the Israeli secret service's web site on Wednesday for more than two hours. The group has hacked over 50 Israeli web sites since Wednesday in a show of anger against Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Fars news agency reported on Friday. The news agency said that it will reveal further details on the serial cyber attacks in the near future.
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And the Iranians have deployed the dreaded 157th Photoshop Brigade!
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Iranian hackers have launched a massive campaign against Israeli web sites and have managed to bring many of them to a standstill. Ashyaneh, a group of Iranian hackers brought down the Israeli secret service's web site on Wednesday for more than two hours. The group has hacked over 50 Israeli web sites since Wednesday in a show of anger against Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Fars news agency reported on Friday. The news agency said that it will reveal further details on the serial cyber attacks in the near future.
