Middle East Features
Nasrallah revenge call sparks fear of future in Lebanon
Feb 15, 2008, 23:48 GMT
Beirut - The threat by Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of open war against Israel this week prompted fear inside Lebanon of a future of yet more instability.
In a speech on Thursday at the funeral of the Hezbollah military commander Imad Muganiyeh, Nasrallah promised that the Islamist group would avenge his killing, which the group blames on Israel.
'You (Israel) killed Haj Muganiyeh outside the natural battleground. ... If you want this kind of open war, and let the whole world hear, let it be an open war,' Nasrallah said.
'The threat resonates fear that in the next period Lebanon and the Middle East region will witness a new war,' said political analyst Kamel Wazne.
Describing 'Lebanon's political arena' as 'angry, divided and chaotic,' Wazne doubted Hezbollah would pursue an all-out confrontation with Lebanon's powerful neighbour to the south.
The movement might resort to 'security revenge,' he said, predicting that the area will witness 'a war of assassinations.'
Israel has denied any links to the car bomb attack that killed Muganiyeh on Tuesday in the Syrian capital Damascus, but the threat prompted Israel to go on high alert.
All Israeli embassies and Jewish institutions around the world were advised to be on alert. Israeli troops were also told to watch for provocations along the border with Lebanon and in the Palestinian territories.
According to a retired Lebanese army general, who spoke on condition of anonymity, 'Hezbollah certainly has the capability to retaliate abroad.'
Intelligence reports have accused the long-sought Muganiyeh of being behind the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina, in which 29 people were killed, as well as the 1994 bombing of the Israelite Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires, in which 85 died.
Reports indicated at the time that these attacks were carried out to avenge the killing of former Hezbollah secretary general Abbas Musawi, who died in an Israeli helicopter raid in southern Lebanon on February 16, 1992.
'Clearly Nasrallah indicated that the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel is far from over,' the military general said. 'And while Katyusha rockets might no longer be used (by Hezbollah) to pound northern (Israel) from south Lebanon, the war might move behind the borders, and this can be dangerous for us here in Lebanon.'
The general added that Israel could use an attack on its interests to put pressure on Lebanon.
'Israel knows the political situation in Lebanon is tense between the opposition (led by Hezbollah) and (the Western-backed) anti- Syrian majority, so if any Israeli interest was hit outside, Israel will use this as an excuse to strike inside Lebanon and escalate the situation between Hezbollah and the majority who have accused Nasrallah of always taking the country to war,' he said.
During the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, the Lebanese parliamentary majority criticized Hezbollah for taking the country to war by abducting two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border attack.
Some reports indicated at the time that Muganiyeh was the mastermind of the kidnapping.
At the time, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt angrily said 'Nasrallah cannot decide alone to take a whole nation to war to serve the interests of his allies Iran and Syria.'
Meanwhile, there is no clear proof of who actually killed Muganiyeh.
According to unconfirmed reports from the Syrian capital, bodyguards of Khaled Meshaal, the Damascus-based leader of the Palestinian militant movement Hamas, are being questioned about Muganiyeh's assassination.
The same reports indicated that Meshaal had met with Muganiyeh at the Iranian embassy in Damascus just hours prior to the latter's death.
Observers in Lebanon however believe that no matter who actually was behind the assassination, Lebanon is the country that stands to suffer the most in terms of destabilization.
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mmmm....I can almost smell the bacon frying.
The Us,UK and Isreal have a reputation for killing people. Well deserved.
If assasinations is the way the occupiers want to go, lets see who blinks first - this summer is going to be hot hot hot.
The west is blind by its obsessions and paranoia, isn't it? Be just, and criticise those who are oppressing others, and killing others beyond their own countries!!!
Not really! They will stop only when they are made to stop! They have their reason behind it. Someone else has to pay for the amenities that west enjoys. In the feudal times, the white slaves did, then were black slaves and now they think they can make Muslim slaves with the help of their bastard children ruling the Muslim nations!
'Can the west stop COLONISATION?'
Who would want to colonize a cesspool full of savages? You are a islamist in the 'west' why don't you go home...
I am what I am, but not an obsessed person! I see things with open eyes. We condemn colonialism, as did every oppressed person throughout the history!WE CONDEMNED FEUDALISM, SO DO WE CRUSADES AND COLONIALISM.
'You bought...'
Yeah, it's probably welfare or charity that you are receiving courtesy of the 'west' that you constantly denigrate... Go back to the middle east where you aren't allowed on the internet.
'I am what I am,'
A terrorist defending idiot scumbag.
'but not an obsessed person!'
Of course you are, obsessed with your voodoo, witchcraft and the prepetual victim complex.
'We condemn colonialism,'
Then you should condemn Iran for trying to colonize Lebanon with terrorists and thugs.
hezbollah is bringing nothing but misery to Lebanon. they have are the lackies of the Iranian regime and the Syrian regime(their paymasters).
They will plant the land with weapons harvesting the blood they are so insane on reaping. Lebanon was progressing nicely after the civilwar till
the hezbollah under the quise of religion decided to salt the land with words of hate. Pity the ordinary Lebanese, unable to deal with these terrorist. Another war is looming.....so sad but true, irregardless of the UN and its chamberland antics of paper waving.
Juha, you are a wise one, if not a prophet.
Ahh I smell mohammdians possing as decent people, so how about some facts pedo worshippers.
1. Mohammidians use the weakest amoung them (women, children and retards) to die for their sick monkey cult of death.
2. They love to come to the west cause they their own crappy so called cultures are piss poor and pathetic. We dont go their cause we can clearly see how disgusting and primative are their societies.
3. They love to kill innocents cause they are sub humans.
4. Their leaders are the worst type of cowardly scum that cannot fight for themselves but just spu hate speech cause they are incapable of a real conflict unless their opponents are bound and gagged (see Leb).
5. They cannot even build a temple without stealing someone elses, Haig Sofia and Temple mount. Sticking a tit on top of someone elses work does not make it yours.
Did I miss something?
So who was the father of man born to a woman without marriage. A common practice in the wild inhuman west????
How can they improve? By becoming human, adopting human values and not monkey values! An impossibility for the white man!
'How can they improve? By becoming human, adopting human values and not monkey values! An impossibility for the white man!'
So why do you chose to live among 'the white man'? Could it be that you recognize the societies that have been built on islam as cruel, backward, savage, completely barbaric? 'Honor killings' female genital mutilation, stoning human beings to death, chopping off heads, hands, tongues and feet... Publicly lynching children... You are just a coward who is afraid to live under sharia and a hypocrite for saying that OTHER PEOPLE should.
Here, Why don't you return to this coward:
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What makes me laugh is the stupid answers of the jawas on this forum, they can't even respond with anything but regurgitated crap that they have read here from decent white folk...they are truly funny chimps. I mean take this jawa post...
'How can they improve? By becoming human, adopting human values and not monkey values! An impossibility for the white man!'
This one is pure me, ferox forgets that white men don't look like chimps as jawas do...hahaha. Sorry dude, seen your peeps in their native habitat, please keep the burkers your bitches really need them, I would prefer it if the male chimps of your species wore them too.
See you this summer in Leb, we got lots of new toys to share with you.
Lol, white people do look like monkeys(ugly ones)to people of colour and orientals you silly chimp, go wash your moms car, theres a good kid.
Isn't this truth though
Yeah here evry other woman bears a bastard childFeb 17th, 2008 - 13:11:11
How can they improve? By becoming human, adopting human values and not monkey values! An impossibility for the white man!
Ok sand monkeys let me spell it out for ya. Mu-slimes are brown, chimps are brown (draw). Mu-slimes have brown eyes as do chimps (draw). Mu-slimes have wide flat noses, chimps too but their cute (-1 mu-slimes)). mu-slimes are uneducated, as are most chimps but not all (+1 for chimps). Chimps seldom encourage their own children to commit suicide for a pedophile arab peasent, mu-slimes do (+1 chimps). Chimps do not gather in the local market and hang underage rape victims from a crane, mu-slimes do (+1 chimps). Chimps are not known to burn down their own cities cause a real human drew a picture of the pedo-prohet (mo-slimes -1). Chimps are entertaining in life, mu-slimes are only interesting in death (we'll call that a draw).
Final score.
mu-slimes-2,
Chimps+3,
Gotta love math.
As I said, go wash your moms car - lol!!+1 @@$$ -1
'As I said, go wash your moms car - lol!!+1 @@$$ -1'
Glad to see that you amuse yourself, now go back to where you came from so you can live under the thumb of the pigs that brainwashed you.
You area coward, defending these islamist thugs from the freedom of the west. Go back where they wont let you stupid rage-monkeys use the internet.
The Muslim Hitler offers the world more of his insanity. Someone should kidnap him and put a permanent tattoo of the Muhammad cartoon on his forehead and chest.
Hehe what a pathetic response from the mohammadians...'imbecile Goose monkey', just looked at a fantastic new machine grenade launcher that can be programed to explode at any point, gonna ship a few to Isreal ASAP....you jawas are so far behind you could not today face the German military of WW2 but still you chirp like little birds and think your tough. I love watching you get slaughtered like lambs, please keep up your monkey rage, it makes me pee myself with glee as I watch you pick up the pieces (fesces).
Goose I don't even need to throw insults at you, you do it to yourself. You're a fat retard with nothing but evil in your veins, keep writing if only for all of our entertainment. You silly Goose Monkey, heh.
Sorry dude, weight about 180. Pretty girls all around and just brought a house on a hill, great view BTW. As for you, probably cleaning dishies in some piss ant restaurant for daddy haha, most likely in London or Liverpool. Never really fitting in, never comfortable around the other kids cause they look at you with those big blues and you and they know your inferior...true chimp? You know what always disgusts me about you? Its your hands, chimp on the outside but white on the in. Whats it like to live in that world chimp?
goose man slow down take a good look at your nice view and and take a few deep breaths maybe even have a nice cold beer and just let people who arn't borderline phsycopaths discuss the issue.
A monkey to be different than a white dude. They look the same, behave the same and communicate at the same level of creation, has anyone else? NOT REALLY!!
The monkey culture where mother sleeps with her own sons, fathers sleep with their own daughters, nobody has sanctity for another human being, have they? I HAVE NEVER SEEN AS YET!!!
They cannot talk civil, has anyone seen a monkey talk civil? BUT NEITHER DO THE WHITE FOLKS EVER!!!
'BUT NEITHER DO THE WHITE FOLKS EVER!!!'
Then why do you chose to live in the west? Go back where everyone is civil as they crush the skulls of rape victims with rocks and lynch girls for 'crimes against chastity'.
I will personally take you to the airport and put you in a kennel to be shipped.
These last few posts by the jawas prove once again that they use the mentality of serial killers, its called transferance. Its where they use their own weaknesses and transfer them to their victims. Incest, inter family homicide mostly of females, homosexuality, public executions are all common practises in jawa infestations. In recent years jawas made a practise of dousing their wives/daughters with kerosene from heaters, and still you say your civilized. Rape victims as young as 13 hanged from cranes while the crowds cheered in Iran, still you say your decent. Sad little chimps.
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get rid of the hiding cowardFeb 16th, 2008 - 02:03:52
I can't wait until they kill that pig Nasrallah.
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