Via Daily Alert, from Iran Must Pay $2.6 Billion for ’83 Attack on Marines in Lebanon: U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth Friday ordered Iran to pay more than $2.6 billion to nearly 1,000 family members and a handful of survivors of a 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 soldiers. Hizbullah carried out the suicide bombing on Oct. 23, 1983, but in a ruling in 2003, Lamberth found that Iran was “legally responsible” for supporting Hizbullah with financial and logistical support to carry out the attack. See also U.S. Defense Secretary: Hizbullah Has Killed Hundreds
Read More +Why is it when Muslims thugs buy tracts of land from Christians, it’s legal, but when Jews buy land from Arabs, it’s called “occupation”? From Hizbullah Buys Frontier Land to Attack Israel: Hizbullah is buying up large tracts of land owned by Christians and other non-Shias in southern Lebanon as the militant group rebuilds its defenses in preparation for a new war with Israel. The forested wadis, or valleys, north of the Litani River make ideal terrain for Hizbullah’s brand of guerrilla warfare and, just 10 miles from the border, are within rocket range of Israeli cities. “Christians and Druze
Read More +Simple bias, ignored by the media. Why? Because Arabs committed the crime, not Jews. From The Calgary Sun: A Western ally in the Middle East, armed with U.S. weapons, attacked Muslim guerrillas in a Palestinian refugee camp last week, killing seven. Is that big news? The answer, this time, is “no”. No Western newspaper has run a banner headline about a “massacre,” no emergency meetings of the United Nations have been convened, and Canada’s deep thinkers on human rights, Michael Ignatieff and Louise Arbour, have not declared the military action to be a war crime. That’s because the Western ally
Read More +Syria Occupies Lebanon. Again
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From Syria Occupies Lebanon. Again: As of this minute, Syria occupies at least 177 square miles of Lebanese soil. That you are now reading about it for the first time is as much a scandal as the occupation itself. The news comes by way of a fact-finding survey of the Lebanese-Syrian border just produced by the International Lebanese Committee for UN Security Council Resolution 1559, an American NGO that has consultative status with the UN. In meticulous detail – supplemented by photographs and satellite images – the authors describe precisely where and how Lebanon has been infiltrated. Though the land
Read More +More Muslim hubris, arrogance, and supremacy. From Hizbullah: We Can Strike at Every Part of Israel: Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah told Al-Jazeera Sunday that his organization is able to strike at every part of Israel, and had the same capability during the Second Lebanon War last summer. From IDF Says Hizbullah Hiding Rockets from UN Forces: Since its reinforced deployment last August, UNIFIL has carried out extensive searches in more than 90% of southern Lebanon’s open areas, where UN patrols have found and destroyed Hizbullah arms, including Katyusha launchers, Katyusha rockets and explosives. As an alternative, Hizbullah is trying to
Read More +From UN Hariri Murder Investigators Say They’ve Identified Suspects: UN investigators probing the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri have identified a number of people who may have been involved or known about it, Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz reported on Thursday. New information about a van used to blow up Hariri and 22 others in Beirut in February 2005, about mobile phones used to track him, and about Hariri’s political activities had helped to pinpoint suspects, he said. The report said the Mitsubishi van in which a suicide bomber is believed to have set off some 1,800 kg.
Read More +Received by email:——————DEBKAfile reports Syria calls on citizens to leave Lebanon ahead of a military ‘eruption’ expected next week Damascus is also moving home Syrian students at Lebanese universities due to ‘unstable conditions.’ Our Washington sources connect the cancellation of defense secretary Robert M. Gates four-tour national Latin American tour this week, among other things, to the deteriorating security situation in the Middle East and Gulf. Sunday, DEBKAfile disclosed that Iran, Syria Hizballah feared stoking major conflagration in Lebanon to forestall Security Council reprimand on July 16. Saudi and Lebanese intelligence report sighting hectic preparations by Iran, Syria and the
Read More +Qualifiable predictions via MEMRI: In the past few days, Arab and Iranian media reports have pointed to the possibility that Lebanon’s current political crisis may become a violent conflict after July 15, 2007. It should be noted that certain international events concerning Lebanon and Syria are expected in mid-July, specifically: 1. The U.N. Security Council session scheduled for July 16, 2007, which is to discuss a report by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the progress in the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701. This discussion will be devoted in part to the report submitted by a delegation sent by
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