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Middle East
Hezbollah reshuffles military command...
2003-01-20
Hizbullah has completed a major reshuffle of its military command as part of preparations for any Israeli war against the Iranian-backed insurgency force. An unidentified Iranian military officer said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has completed training and equipping of Hizbullah forces in southern Lebanon. The officer told the UAE Al Bayan daily that Teheran supplied mortars, rockets and other equipment to Hizbullah. "We have undergone preparations to face any developments and possible changes in the geopolitical situation in the Middle East in the event of a U.S.-led war against Iraq," the officer was reported as saying. The officer did not detail the reshuffle of the Hizbullah military command. The military leaders of the Iranian-backed movement have never been announced.
I'd guess that when we go into Iraq, Hezbollah intends to open a second front in Israel's north. We can probably count on this happening. Bashir, in Syria, has military ambitions, and the ayatollahs in Iran see opportunity with the Great Satan otherwise engaged...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#4  All the more reason why Saddam should be f***ed with or without any evidence of WMD.
Posted by: Rw   2003-01-21 00:25:26  

#3  A free and democratic Iraq is more dangerous to Iran than 150,000 heavily armed worshippers of the Great Satan.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-01-20 14:30:33  

#2  If I were a turbanned nutter ruling Iran, I would be very careful when 150.000 heavily armed worshippers of the Great Satan are occupying the country next door. Making the Hizbullah loons invade the Little Satan's place doesn't seem very careful to me. Next thing you know, the worshippers of the Great Satan show up in Qom to have me and the other nutsoes properly ventilated. And that would ruin all the fun that is to be had in torturing cartoonists and university professors.
Posted by: Peter   2003-01-20 13:25:27  

#1  Even if they don't, Mofaz should preempt. Just because, you know...look, Esquimeaux!
Posted by: Brian   2003-01-20 10:40:38  

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