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Just wonderful! www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/05/08/bpr.perry.beirut.gunfire.cnn

Its now open war.

Originally posted by xpowderx

Just wonderful! www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/05/08/bpr.perry.beirut.gunfire.cnn

Its now open war.

now that's interesting!

I'm sure Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader, will find a way to blame Israel for it. 

Haven't they always been at war? This isn't really breaking news.

Maybe we should send a couple hundred thousand American troops and $75 billion a year to establish a free and working democracy in Lebanon?

We could fight against those Iranian sponsored Hezbollah terrorists that hate Democracy.....

Originally posted by olddaddy

Maybe we should send a couple hundred thousand American troops and $75 billion a year to establish a free and working democracy in Lebanon?

We could fight against those Iranian sponsored Hezbollah terrorists that hate Democracy.....

 

Nah. We don't want to step in unwelcome. I say let them tear out each others throats. But, anyways, I bet somehow we will get blamed for the start of the conflict.

lol...Hezbollah will destroy the Lebanese army quite easily! Maybe destroy isn't the right word...actually what they'll prolly do is absorb the Lebanese army into their organization, after assassinating all the mossad operatives and puppet politicians that is.

Here is what started the fight.

May 7, 2008, 10:50 PM (GMT+02:00)

During the day, Hizballah blocked the roads leading to the airport and vowed to keep it under siege until the Siniora government goes back on the decision announced Tuesday, May 6, to shut down the private telecommunications network Iran installed for the group and reinstate the pro-Hizballah airport director Gen. Wafiq Shuqeir. To pile up anti-government pressure, Hizballah called labor unions out on strike.

General Shuqeir was removed after Druze Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt accused Hizballah of installing spy cameras at the airport to monitor the movements of Lebanese and foreign leaders. Jumblatt said incoming flights were bringing the Shiite militia supplies of weapons from Iran.

On August 9, 2007,             first revealed that Iranian military engineers were installing a secret underground telecommunications system to support Hizballah’s missile unit. The network runs through south Beirut, the Beqaa Valley’s Yohmor region near the Syrian border – where Hizballah and the Palestinian Popular Front-GC keep their training facilities – and connect the southern towns of Tyre on the Mediterranean with Abassieh, seat of Hizballah’s southern headquarters.

For the ten months during which this military telecommunications network was being installed, the Beirut government did not dare touch it.

Prime minister Fouad Siniora finally decided enough was enough when satellite images provided by Western agencies showed work on connecting Hizballah’s network with the communications and eavesdropping systems set up by the Syrian army along the Lebanese border.

 military sources report that the two networks and their linkage are part of military preparations by Iran, Syria and Hizballah for a possible new flareu-up of hostilities with Israel.

my father in law always said regarding iraq: why would you want to shake the hornets nest?

why not now? i reply.

i hope this shit gets real serious because you cant have peace without victory. better now than later...especially with nuclear options later.