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264: IRAN’S INITIAL INCURSION INTO LEBANON VIA HEZBALLAH AND AMAL: SECURE BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND BEIRUT AS THE SPEAR-HEAD FOR TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY THEN……meanwhile the UN, the UNSC, the IC, and the Arab league of Notions look on with one eye and look the other way with the other eye
10 May, 2008

IRAN’S INITIAL INCURSION INTO LEBANON VIA HEZBALLAH AND AMAL: SECURE BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND BEIRUT AS THE SPEAR-HEAD FOR TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY THEN……meanwhile the UN, the UNSC, the IC, and the Arab league of Notions look on with one eye and look the other way with the other eye

Below is the gist of the report, gleaned from various local and foreign newspapers and websites, with my comments inserted, included, or added.

The Daily Star / AFP / Yahoo News Alerts / IRIN-News / Plus-News / Naharnet

BEIRUT: Heavy deployment of Hizbullah gunmen in Beirut, particularly in Hamra, Karakol Druze, Raouche, Mulla, Talet el-Khayat, Zaidaniyeh, Ras el-Nabaa, Basta Zoqaq Blat and Nweiri, according to media reports; the crackle of gunfire and sporadic bursts of rocket-propelled grenades echo in Beirut; reports that Al Mustaqbal newspaper building has been burnt down.

In scenes reminiscent of the 1975-1990 Civil War, Beirut's streets were virtually deserted as loud explosions and gunfire rocked the capital, with television footage showing gunmen in the Corniche al-Mazraa and Ras al-Nabeh districts firing at each other shortly after Nasrallah's news conference. Plumes of smoke could be seen rising from one building in Corniche al-Mazraa. Many cars and shops were set ablaze and scores of terrified civilians fled areas where the clashes were heaviest. The capital's streets were empty as residents, fearing the possibility of a full-blown sectarian conflict, stayed indoors.

To give you an example of the sort of coarse and callous asininity that is going on, a boy was shot by a sniper shortly before a rocket-propelled grenade hit their home, killing him and his mother.

What I don’t understand is how could Armed Terrorist Militias like Hezballah and Amal set up their own Communications Network, and then install video-cameras to monitor runways and other places at Beirut International Airport, including roads leading to and from the airport, if it were not for the fact that they’ve got weapons and they know that Lebanon and the Lebanese, and all the world, know it?

Hassan Nesrallah, appearing as always behind a large screen, described the fixed-line network that connects the group's officials, commanders and positions as a vital part of the military structure of the group, which fought Israel during that latter's 34-day war against Lebanon in 2006; but why in Beirut and at Beirut International Airport, tens of miles away from the border with Israel? Something smells!

He also stressed that Hezballah is ready to use its weapons to defend itself should the government cartel attempt to impinge upon the rights of the resistance. I knew it and I told you! Hezballah and Amal have used their weapons indirectly against Lebanon and the Lebanese and have now turned their weapons directly against Lebanon and the Lebanese! Directly, because they knew what they were doing and where they would lead! They knew fully well that the Communications Network and monitoring cameras would be noticed, and when discovered, the government would attempt to do something about it (obvious) and they were prepared for it.

Is this what Mahmoud Ahmedinejad meant when he said that his government was paving the way for the return of the Mahdi and that Iran would be the focal point of the management of the world, thanks to God. And, also, that a great and important even was about to take place in this part of the world and……?

BEIRUT: Hezballah and Amal militias forced the shutdown of all media operations belonging to Saad Hariri: 2 Future TV Channels, a satellite News Channel, a radio station, and a newspaper.

The guns of the 1975-1990 Civil War had gone silent only three years earlier and the new high-tech television offered a wide scope of family programmes, variety shows as well as news. In 1994 Future Television launched a trial satellite broadcasting - Future International - that also proved very popular with Arab audiences.

Meanwhile, Arab foreign ministers have finally decided to hold emergency talks at a meeting on Sunday on the Lebanon crisis amid fears over Iran's influence on the Shiite Hezballah movement which seized control of west Beirut on Friday. The move follows three days of street battles which have stoked fears that protracted political feuds could descend into another full-blown civil war in the deeply divided nation. Arab League chief Amr Moussa cut short a trip to the United States and returned to Cairo on Friday to prepare for the meeting. At last! Let us hope these talks aren’t too late, and that they would lead to some action by the Arab League of Notions.

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