At least 11 people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in three days of street battles in West Beirut between the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah fighters and gunmen to the government, security officials said. The satellite TV station affiliated with the party of Lebanon's top Sunni lawmaker, ...
Hezbollah militias assume control of western Beirut
cnn.comFound 6 days, 19 hours, 25 minutes, and 27 seconds agoHezbollah militias took control of western Beirut on Friday, dealing a major blow to the U.S.-backed government in Lebanon.
Lebanon take 2 Steps toward Civil War; Beirut in Chaos
juancole.comFound 6 days, 12 hours, 17 minutes, and 28 seconds agoOn late Friday, the Lebanese army moved into some neighborhoods that had been taken during the day by the Hizbullah militia. Hizbullah routed Sunni militiamen loyal to Saad Hariri and set fire to the offices of al-Mustaqbal newspaper, his press outlet. ...
English News Updates - May 9 2008
bloggingbeirut.comFound 6 days, 18 hours, 8 minutes, and 25 seconds agoUpdated 13:24 Lebanon Time - Aoun has just gone on TV to say that the fighting is over, the opposition has won, and the tomorrow all life will be back to normal in Beirut, with a greater sense of safety as the militias have either disbanded or fled, with militia offices and weapons now controlled ...
Hezbollah's Subtle Takeover
lebop.blogspot.comFound 6 days, 16 hours, 28 minutes, and 27 seconds agoHezbollah has taken control of the media in Lebanon, and their propaganda campaign has already begun. They are currently presenting themselves as liberators of Lebanon, and allies of the Lebanese Army against a corrupt government supported by pro-government snipers and brigrands. ...
Hezbollah's Beirut's Blitz
counterterrorismblog.orgFound 6 days, 12 hours, 5 minutes, and 24 seconds agoAs many among us have warned several times over the past year, and many articles later, Hezbollah has indeed waged its expected blitzkrieg against the democratically elected Government of Lebanon. Within 24 hours, the pro-Iranian super-militia blocked all accesses to the Beirut International Airport, ...
Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
news.yahoo.comFound 6 days, 16 hours, 27 minutes, and 26 seconds agoShiite Hezbollah gunmen seized nearly all of the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday in the country's worst sectarian clashes since the 15-year civil war.
Lebanese army moves into W. Beirut after Hezbollah takeover
haaretz.comFound 6 days, 13 hours, 55 minutes, and 53 seconds agoA senior security official said the army began deploying on some streets with the end of the clashes and would soon take over the Sunnis' last stronghold of Tarik Jadideh. Shi'ite opposition gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the United States-backed government, ...
Civil War in Lebanon?
littlegreenfootballs.comFound 6 days, 10 hours, 7 minutes, and 51 seconds ago
Beirut Clashes Trap Citizens
pajamasmedia.comFound 6 days, 9 hours, 6 minutes, and 15 seconds agoCuban Bloggers: The Next Revolution
At Ransacked Future TV Office, Hariri Photos Down, Assad Photos Up
beirutspring.comFound 6 days, 18 hours, 6 minutes, and 51 seconds agoIn case you still believe that this has nothing to do with Syria and Iran. Photos Credit: Reuters ( source )
All Hell Breaking Loose in Beirut
back-to-iraq.comFound 6 days, 10 hours, 11 minutes, and 51 seconds agoDUBAI -- First of all, thanks to people for writing to check on me. The long radio silence has worried people, but there's a reason for it. My wife and I left for Dubai back in February, and there's not been much to write about from here. ...
Hezbollah gunmen seize large swathes of Beirut
msnbc.msn.comFound 6 days, 17 hours, 25 minutes, and 55 seconds agoIranian- and Syrian-backed Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday.
Gun battles as Hizbollah claims Lebanon is at war
independent.co.ukFound 6 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes, and 20 seconds agoHe had spoken in that careful, thought-through, distressing way in which he always threatens the Hizbollah's enemies. He even swapped the names of the Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, with that of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt - calling Jumblatt the real prime minister and Siniora his deputy ...
Hizbullah believes way to Tel Aviv passes through Beirut
ynetnews.comFound 6 days, 15 hours, 42 minutes, and 46 seconds agoGunmen loyal to Nasrallah take control of Muslim part of Lebanese capital, seize outlets owned by governing coalition leader Hariri; Lebanese troops begin taking up positions in some Sunni neighborhoods. "Hizbullah has turned from an opposition party into a militia attempting to impose its control. I ...
Hezbollah fighters overrun West Beirut and media HQ
timesonline.co.ukFound 6 days, 14 hours, 54 minutes, and 16 seconds agoOn-the-spot: the 'one-sided civil war' Hezbollah fighters seized control of rival pro-Government strongholds in Beirut today as gunbattles ro
Hezbollah overruns west Beirut as Lebanon on brink
breitbart.comFound 6 days, 10 hours, 47 minutes, and 22 seconds agoHezbollah gunmen seized control of west Beirut on Friday after a third day of battles with pro-government foes in the Lebanese capital pushed the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war. The sectarian fighting had eased by early afternoon as the army and police moved across areas now in the hands ...
Hezbollah takes over west Beirut
news.bbc.co.ukFound 6 days, 9 hours, 13 minutes, and 22 seconds agoGunmen from Shia militant group Hezbollah take control of western Beirut, driving out government supporters.
11 Killed in Hezbollah, Sunni Fighting in Beirut
foxnews.comFound 6 days, 8 hours, 13 minutes, and 21 seconds agoShiite opposition gunmen seized control of large areas of Beirut's Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday, in street battles that left 11 dead, security officials said. ...
The dark age of Hizbullah is upon us
beirutbeltway.comFound 6 days, 19 hours, 25 minutes, and 22 seconds agoHariri's Future TV is off the air after being threatened by the Hizbullah militia. Hizbullah is in control of much of West Beirut, spreading a reign of terror. Hariri and Jumblatt are being surrounded by the Hizbullah orcs, who also set fire to the al-Mustaqbal newspaper building. ...
Hizbullah takes control of west Beirut
guardian.co.ukFound 6 days, 8 hours, 22 minutes, and 45 seconds agoHizbullah gunmen today took control of west Beirut in street battles that left 11 people dead and forced government supporters into hiding. Hizbullah described the demand as a "declaration of war". It also protested about concealed surveillance cameras found at Beirut airport and sacked an army general ...
Hezbollah takes over west Beirut
news.bbc.co.ukFound 6 days, 23 hours, 22 minutes, and 7 seconds agoGunmen from Shia militant group Hezbollah take control of western Beirut, driving out government supporters.
Hezbollah routs pro-govt gunmen
reuters.comFound 6 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes, and 47 seconds agoThomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters. Thomson Reuters journalists ...
Hezbollah seizes Beirut districts
dailystar.com.lbFound 6 days, 16 hours, 55 minutes, and 24 seconds agoBEIRUT, May 9, 2008 (AFP) - Hezbollah gunmen seized control of west Beirut on Friday after a third day of battles with pro-government foes in the Lebanese capital pushed the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war. The fighting had eased by early afternoon as the army and police moved across ...
Beirut convulses in violence
chicagotribune.comFound 6 days, 12 hours, 17 minutes, and 46 seconds agoThe battles spread within moments of a rare news conference by the leader of the Shiite Hezbollah movement, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who effectively endorsed the use of violence by his supporters against fellow Lebanese. This is a first in the history of the group, which had always declared that it is ...
Lebanon in turmoil as Hezbollah takes west Beirut
afp.google.comFound 6 days, 11 hours, 34 minutes, and 40 seconds agoBEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah fighters, their guns blazing, seized control of west Beirut on Friday after three days of deadly street battles with pro-government foes pushed Lebanon dangerously close to all-out civil war. Convoys of triumphant Shiite opposition gunmen firing into the air and flashing victory ...
Iran blames US, Israel for Lebanon violence
khaleejtimes.comFound 6 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes, and 3 seconds agoTEHRAN - Iran on Friday accused the United States and Israel of fueling the deadly sectarian fighting in Lebanon between its Shiite militant Hezbollah ally and the Western-backed ruling majority. "Adventurous efforts and interventions by the United States and the Zionist regime are the main cause of ...
Iran backs Hizbollah fighters in Lebanon, says Israel
telegraph.co.ukFound 6 days, 6 hours, 6 minutes, and 21 seconds agoSyria, Iran's only Arab ally, was forced to withdraw its army from Lebanon in 2005, ending 15 years of control of Lebanese politics from Damascus. "The armed and bloody coup which is being implemented aims to return Syria to Lebanon and extend Iran's reach to the Mediterranean," said Samir Geagea, ...
hotair.com
One of my very least favorite things to blog about, as there are just as many moving parts and hidden agendas as in Iraq but the cast of characters is totally unfamiliar. […] Read the rest »
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news.bbc.co.uk
Lebanon's government says the seizure of most of western Beirut by Shia group Hezbollah is "a bloody coup".
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news.bbc.co.uk
Gunmen from Shia militant group Hezbollah take control of western Beirut, driving out government supporters.
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ft.com
Hizbollah gunmen took control of large areas of Beirut in a third day of fighting between the militant group and fighters loyal to the pro-western governing coalition.
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msnbc.msn.com
The leader of Hezbollah said Thursday the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its communications network, pushing the country closer to civil war.
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abumuqawama.blogspot.com
This line in the Washington Post's article on Lebanon jumped out at Abu Muqawama for obvious reasons. Sunni supporters of Hariri's Future Movement, allied with the government, closed roads leading to the south and to the Bekaa Valley in the east in retaliation for Hezbollah's closure of ...
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rss.cnn.com
Western Beirut fell under the control of opposition Hezbollah militias Friday in what amounted to an army-negotiated surrender of pro-government positions, Lebanese Internal Security Forces and Western military observers said.
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alertnet.org
Hezbollah launched a new street campaign on Wednesday, piling pressure on the government after it declared the network illegal and removed the head of airport security, a figure close to the group, from his post. Supporters of Hezbollah and its allies have blocked roads leading to the airport -- Lebanon's ...
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instapundit.com
A MEDIA COUP IN LEBANON: HEZBOLLAH'S SUBTLE TAKEOVER: "Hezbollah's militant takeover of Beirut and its systematic destruction of the authority of the state and freedom of the press suggests a sophisticated and planned campaign to take power. There is no hiding the violence Hezbollah used to seize Beirut and cut it off from the rest of the country. But as their media campaign is already showing, Hezbollah is employing subtle and sophisticated mechanisms to take over the rest of Lebanon." And, of course, Iran and Syria are the real puppet-masters here.
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ace.mu.nu
Much more on Hezballah's takeover at Michael Totten's blog and at Jules Crittenden.
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hughhewitt.townhall.com
From AP:
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
09 May 2008 05:18 pm
Some opinion from around the web. Yglesias : Over the past year or so I've heard various voices try to propagate revisionist accounts of Israel's short-lived effort to crush Hezbollah in Lebanon where people tried to argue that the mission was only an apparent failure, but actually succeeded in some sense. I think we can see from events like this that that's total nonsense -- Hezbollah is very much not crushed. Jeffrey Goldberg : Hezbollah has been doing a bang-up job this week undermining Lebanon's future on behalf of its sponsors, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Syrian intelligence.
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littlegreenfootballs.com
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:10:27 am PDT
Things are heating up in Lebanon after the government began a crackdown on Hizballah's illegal telecommunications network: Hezbollah says Beirut government declares war .
BEIRUT, May 8 (Reuters) - The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Thursday the U.S.-supported Beirut government had declared war by targeting its communications network.
Hezbollah launched a new street campaign on Wednesday, piling pressure on the government after it declared the network illegal and removed the head of airport security , a figure close to the group, from his post.
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bloodandtreasure.typepad.com
Abu M wants to know if this is the day the next Lebanese war started.
It's interesting that the current round of violence started with Sinoara's government trying to take down the Hezbollah military/intelligence communications system.
I don't think the Lebanese state has the capacity to take on Hezbollah. What it may be able to do is tie Hezbollah down while Israel attacks again, presumably through Syria to avoid UNIFIL. According to reports I've seen, most of the fighting on the opposition side seems to be coming from Amal, acting as a screen for the Hezbies.
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newsbusters.org
Media who hate Bush bummed they can't attend wedding ( Anchoress )
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dailypundit.com
May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Gun battles raged across western and southern Beirut, leaving 10 people dead, as fighters from the Shiite group Hezbollah pressed their party's challenge to Lebanon's pro-Western government.
Masked bands of Shiite gunmen were shown by television networks as they roamed neighborhoods dominated by Sunni Muslims, who largely back Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's administration.
Isn't it strange that just as rumors surface again about a "September Surprise" attack on Iran, Hizb'Allah re-opens a front in the world war Islamofascism is waging against the west?
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reachm.com
Christopher Allbritton provides the latest on a Hezbollah-fuelled conflict in Beirut , suggesting it may be a coup. Juan Cole weighs in saying it's 2 steps closer to a civil war . But the link he provides to veteran correspondent Liz Sly includes the big picture:
The last time Lebanese fought street battles on this scale was during the 1975-90 civil war, when Muslims and Christians fought in a variety of combinations. But never did Lebanese Sunnis and Shiites directly clash, making this a dangerous new development, both for Lebanon and for a region rife with Sunni-Shiite fault lines.
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townhall.com
From AP:
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freerepublic.com
Telegraph ^ | 5-9-08
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thedissidentfrogman.com
As expected by anybody sane enough not to trust the UN for fixing anything over there, Iran's armed wing in Lebanon, the Hizballah, is staging a coup. God, I sure wish Israel had used a tiny bit more of that "disproportionate force", back in Summer 2006.
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richardsilverstein.com
In taking over much of Beirut (including Sunni neighborhoods formerly controlled by pro-government forces), Hezbollah has engineered what I call a "coup on the ground." It hasn't touched the levers of power or elected government. But by controlling much of the territory of the capital city it has taken physical control of almost everything else.
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jihadwatch.org
More on Iran's attempt to create a client state in Lebanon to go along with its Iraqi Shi'ite client state and its friends in Syria. "Lebanese minister: Hizbullah believes way to Tel Aviv passes through Beirut," by Roee Nahmias for Israel National News (thanks to Sr. Soph):
"Iran is responsible for what is happening in Lebanon. The subject now is the Iranian attack on Lebanon. They want us to surrender totally without any compensation," Lebanese Sports Minister Ahmed Fatfat said Friday during an interview with the Al-Arabiya television network Friday amid reports that Hizbullah gunmen seized control of large parts of Beirut.
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discerningtexan.blogspot.com
It is getting ugly in Lebanon . Again. :
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errantmind.wordpress.com
Someone explain to me the point of having an Army that does nothing, as the Lebanese army seems to do so well ? The Lebanese army warned its unity was in jeopardy if the crisis that nation is in is not averted.
What unity is that? The unified we're too scared to fight sort of unity? Or is it the we only fight Israelis sort of unity?
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baithak.blogspot.com
If you want to fight us, you'll have to fight us. This was Sayed Hassan Nasrallah's message to the Lebanese government yesterday and his words were followed within seconds by two massive gun battles in the streets of Beirut. He had spoken in that careful, thought-through, distressing way in which he always threatens the Hizbollah's enemies. He even swapped the names of the Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, with that of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt - calling Jumblatt the real prime minister and Siniora his deputy - and blamed both for trying to set up a CIA-Mossad base at Beirut airport.
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bloodthirstyliberal.com
It took one punch, if even that, for the elected government of Lebanon to crumple to the canvas :
Western Beirut fell under the control of opposition Hezbollah militias Friday in what amounted to an army-negotiated surrender of pro-government positions, Lebanese Internal Security Forces and Western military observers said.
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Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, part of the pro-government coalition, said the government is "now at the end of a gun barrel" and they expect the "conditions for surrender will be offered sooner or later," Sadler reported.
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thewaterglass.net
Hezbollah shows its terrorist mettle :
Western Beirut fell under the control of opposition Hezbollah militias Friday in what amounted to an army-negotiated surrender of pro-government positions, Lebanese Internal Security Forces and Western military observers said… Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, part of the pro-government coalition, said the government was "now at the end of a gun barrel" and they expect the "conditions for surrender will be offered sooner or later," Sadler reported. "I think … it's a coup," Jumblatt told CNN in a phone interview.
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vista.powerblogs.com
Post Source: CNN News
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swordscrossed.org
Hurray for the weekend! (at least for us wage jockeys!)
First Daughter (or was she second?) Jenna Bush is getting married at a private ceremony at her father's Crawford, TX ranch. Congratulations to Jenna!
Hezbollah rebels have taken over western Beirut and driven out the legitimate government. Fears are that this is a prelude to all out civil war in Lebanon.
On this day:
Former AG and US Senator John Ashcroft was born in Chicago, Illinois (1942).
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swordscrossed2.org
Hurray for the weekend! (at least for us wage jockeys!)
First Daughter (or was she second?) Jenna Bush is getting married at a private ceremony at her father's Crawford, TX ranch. Congratulations to Jenna!
Hezbollah rebels have taken over western Beirut and driven out the legitimate government. Fears are that this is a prelude to all out civil war in Lebanon.
On this day:
Former AG and US Senator John Ashcroft was born in Chicago, Illinois (1942).
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ibloga.blogspot.com
Update from this source : - The highway to Tripoli (Tarablous) has been closed. (not sure by which side)
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palestinianpundit.blogspot.com
Gun battles as Hizbollah claims Lebanon is at war
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atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
UPDATE: Of course, th e Associated (with terrorist) are cheerleading the terrorists .
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columbusdispatch.com
Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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news.beiruter.com
- Violence grips Lebanese city as peace talks loom (Short but fairly concise, more diplomatic coverage than stats)
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sixkidsandafulltimejob.blogspot.com
Today, Shimon Peres described the HIzbullah coup in Lebanon as internal Lebanese business . I wish. That is another Iran on our doorstep now, in addition to the sabre rattler in Damascus and the nuclear lunatic in Teheran. Peres is wrong. It is our problem but the bigger problem is our CEO/Prime Minister cannot possibly deal with this now as he is completely distracted. For this reason, Olmert needs to resign. We need a full time Prime Minister at the helm to deal with Iran, Lebanon, Syria and the terrorists in Gaza.
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economist.com
A daily round-up of economic news: America's trade deficit fell more than expected in March. The weak dollar continued to boost exports, but the biggest force behind the fall was a drop in imports as the domestic economy weakened. Imports from China were at their lowest level in two years. Oil imports are likely to prevent the deficit from improving much more in future months. Oil shot above $126 per barrel, for yet another new record. Analysts and journalists indicated that a fall in the dollar or political developments in Venezuela could have sparked the increase.
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dustmybroom.com
Via the Lebanon Daily Star : Hezbollah gunmen seized control of west Beirut on Friday after a third day of battles with pro-government foes in the Lebanese capital pushed the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war. The fighting had eased by early afternoon as the army and police moved across areas now in the hands of opposition forces who fired celebratory gunshots wildly into the air after routing militants loyal to the Western-backed government. "There are no clashes anymore because no one is standing in the way of the opposition forces," a security official said on condition of anonymity.
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brothersjuddblog.com
Hezbollah fighters overrun West Beirut and media HQ (Times Online
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theseminal.com
My knowledge of Lebanon is extremely limited. But the events unfolding there right now have regional and international significance.
The BBC reports that Hezbollah has taken over West Beirut .
Gunmen from the Shia militant group Hezbollah have seized most of western Beirut, driving out supporters of the Western-backed government. The gunmen, who also back Hezbollah's Shia opposition allies, have forced the closure of pro-government media. The opposition said it would maintain roadblocks around Beirut until there was a solution to the political crisis.
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tabsir.net
Smoke billows from burning tires as a Lebanese boy flashes the victory sign at a blocked road leading to the international airport in Beirut (AFP)
The Middle East is in turmoil again. Today West Beirut was "taken over" by Hezbollah. In historical terms the violence in the region has never stopped. Where shall we start? Even in myth Cain killed Abel in the biblical beginning. Hammurabi, the great law giver, was a despot who fought against his foes between and beyond the Tigris and Euphrates, as they fought against him.
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crossfirewar.com
Night Watch: rfn=WEST BEIRUT - "We entered Karakol Druse. There is no Jumblatt and no Hariri here. We entered the neighborhood. They threw away their weapons and ran." Those are quotes from Hezbollah fighters on the weak opposition they encountered from pro-government militias as they and the Shia militia Amal have taken over all of West Beirut which was the center of the Sunni Muslim community one of the government's main bases of support.
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kishkushim.blogspot.com
The reports from Beirut look eerily similar not only to scenes from the annals of Lebanese civil war but also to what we saw in Gaza before Hamas's takeover. Again, it looks like well-equipped but unmotivated US-backed militias are surrendering to their disciplined anti-American counterparts. At least this is the impression that one would get from the coverage in Ha'aretz and the Western media. The following description is rather typical:
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dispatch.com
Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
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