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630 pm EDT, Lebn Press calls election for the March 14 (anti Syria) coalition
Posted by: lord garth ||
06/07/2009 18:33 Comments ||
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a very very good thing. I have affection and admiration for the Lebanese who have persevered and pushed for power against the Syrian-Iranian backed forces. They do so at personal peril, and did so again at the voting box. Fuck Nasrallah, Iranian tool!
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/07/2009 18:46 Comments ||
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"630 pm EDT, Lebn Press calls election for the March 14 (anti Syria) coalition'
But will they be allowed to take control of the government? Or will Nasty and his minions throw a Hezzy hissy fit and prevent it?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
06/07/2009 19:17 Comments ||
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Miss Barbara,
I suspect that you are right - Hezbollah are not going to be good losers about this.
Mike
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06/07/2009 22:24 Comments ||
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Two members of the Jundullah terrorist group who were involved in terrorism in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan have been executed. "Abdolhamid Rigi, brother of the notorious terrorist leader Abdolmalek Rigi, was hanged in provincial capital city Zahedan Saturday morning," ISNA quoted a source in the Justice Administration of Sistan-Baluchestan.
Pakistani authorities handed over Abdolhamid Rigi and three other members of the Jundullah group to Iran last year.
"Abdolhamid Rigi has been sentenced to death on charges of moharebe [enmity of God], through membership at his brother's terrorist cell. He was executed after his verdict had been approved by Iran's Supreme Court," the source added. "Warring against the Islamic Republic of Iran, storage of ammunition and weapons and smuggling of drugs are among other charges."
Pakistani authorities handed over Abdolhamid Rigi and three other members of the Jundullah group to Iran last year. Reza Qalandarzehi was also executed on Saturday on the same charges.
The Pakistan-based Jundullah terror group claimed responsibility for a major terrorist attack in a mosque in Zahedan near Iran's southeastern border with Afghanistan and Pakistan. The bomb blast killed 25 people and wounded 125 others last week.
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06/07/2009 00:00 ||
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Polls will open in less than 24 hours for Lebanon's parliamentary elections, and civil servants are preparing polling stations and ballot boxes for Sunday's crucial vote. International election monitors, including former president Jimmy Carter, will be overseeing the voting process.
Lebanese civil servants, who oversee polling stations have been dispatched to their assigned posts across the country, and paper ballots, along with plastic ballot boxes have been expedited to each electoral district.
Beirut's acting governor, Naseef Kaloush told reporters that all systems were go in the capital when polling begins Sunday.
There have been complaints, however, in other far-flung electoral districts such as the West Bekaa, bordering Syria. One teacher, who is in charge of a polling station in Baalbek Hermel complained that the "situation is chaotic."
At another polling station near the Christian Bekaa Valley town of Zahle, the situation appeared under control, with security forces guarding the area in an armed personnel carrier.
Lebanon's top political leaders, including those of the pro-Western March 14th movement such as Druze chief Walid Jumblatt, former president Amin Gemayel and parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri all went on TV urging supporters to vote.
There have been some charges of unfair election tactics, including the forging of national ID cards. Interior Minister Ziad Baroud insisted to reporters that he thinks such forging is difficult, if not impossible.
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06/07/2009 00:00 ||
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