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2005-04-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah attempts to gain international and domestic legitimacy

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Posted by Steve White 2005-04-11 12:09:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: As part of this attempted makeover, Hezbollah sent a senior representative to a meeting in Beirut last month with American and British intellectuals, including former government and intelligence officials, to talk about the group, which Washington accuses of killing hundreds of Americans in terror attacks in the 1980s.

Hezbollah claimed credit for killing hundreds of Americans. It's got nothing to do with the US accusing them of it. You gotta love AP - all anti-American propaganda, all the time.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-04-11 12:25:00 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-04-11 12:25:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Its a Shiia speciality to combine armed cadres, social welfare and a political party into the same organization. Hamas is the same.

I am reminded of the IRA slogan of a few years ago - 'A ballot paper in one hand and an Armalite in the other.'

As a political party with elected representatives you have to deal with them as you would any other political party, but at the same time you have to resist their armed activities (whether terrorism or not). Unfortunately, past actions by the USA and Israel amoungst others have led to a situation where Hizbollah can justifiably claim the model works. The solution is the one that appears to have worked with Tater in Iraq - keeping whacking the armed element until it no longer seems like a good idea. It remains to be seen who will do the whacking of Hizbollah.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-11 6:15:59 AM|| 2005-04-11 6:15:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hezbollah still has to answer for the 241 dead Marines.

Hezbollah want legitimacy because they know that Lebanon politics will run them out of the country, and then the Mullahs will have no standing in Lebanon, i.e. no geographic place to attack Israel from.

Posted by badanov 2005-04-11 7:09:21 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-04-11 7:09:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 âNobody knows where it will lead,â said Khashoggi.
I hope it leads to their extinction.

Posted by Spot 2005-04-11 8:45:55 AM|| 2005-04-11 8:45:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 If they start by hanging Nasrallah from a meathook, I might consider that a show of good faith.

Posted by Glosing Slang5997 2005-04-11 10:05:10 AM|| 2005-04-11 10:05:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Borrow a page from the Nazi playbook and hang Nasrallah with piano wire.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-11 11:03:52 AM|| 2005-04-11 11:03:52 AM|| Front Page Top

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