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2006-08-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Nasrallah's Blunder: Lebanese Turn on Hezbollah Chief

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Posted by Frank G 2006-08-29 11:48|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It makes sense in a twisted sort of way. If you take money, then you were just a hired thug...if you don't do it for money, you did it for allan.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2006-08-29 12:21|| 2006-08-29 12:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like a war without only losers.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-29 12:39|| 2006-08-29 12:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Some Lebanese Shiites are scandalized that they are treated by Iranian mullahs as mercenaries, and see Nasrallah's cash handouts as diyah (blood money) for their dead. And a dead man whose family receives a diyah cannot claim the status of "martyr" and enjoy its prerogatives in paradise.

What about all the Palestinian suicide bombers whose families took money from Saddam? Is that just one of the differences between Sunnie and Shiite? Isn't that like saying it's Blitzer who has the red nose and not Rudolph?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2006-08-29 12:40|| 2006-08-29 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Hizbi leadership fight! Popcorn.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-29 12:55|| 2006-08-29 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm the greatest!

Posted by Ehud Olmert 2006-08-29 12:56|| 2006-08-29 12:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Nasrallan is just whoring for the media. If he really thought it was a mistake he'd keep his stupid mouth shut about it.

I mean, what was he gonna say to the Lebanese? Yes, you got screwed in this war, but we don't give a shit? Yeah, that'd play well.

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-08-29 13:18|| 2006-08-29 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 the pro-Hezbollah euphoria (much of it created by Western media and beamed back to Lebanon through satellite TV) is evaporating. Reality is beginning to reassert its rights.

Fascinating.

The Lebanese from all sides of the political spectrum are united in their determination not to allow any armed group to continue acting as a state within the state.

This I find difficult to believe will hold longer than a few minutes, given the Lebanese delight in byzantine manouvering for advantage.

distributing vast sums of Iranian money through his network - by the end of last week, an estimated $12 million in crisp U.S. banknotes.

Was the ink still wet? If Mr. Levey, that charming chap at the Treasury who made so many announcements today, were to mention in passing that we won't honour any bills coming out of the Lebanon unless they've been tested to prove they're not forged, the results could be highly amusing.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-29 13:27|| 2006-08-29 13:27|| Front Page Top

#8 This is very good news. The truth begins to emerge. And the pain of the destruction begins to sink in to the local dimwitted populace. When their level of pain gets high enough, the good imams will be ignored, or better yet, tarred & feathered, for killing their brainwashed sons and producing rubble in what used to be livable villages. Hooray !

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-29 15:44|| 2006-08-29 15:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Nasrallah has tried to rally his base by distributing vast sums of Iranian money through his network - by the end of last week, an estimated $12 million in crisp U.S. banknotes.

Anyone else see some slight irony in this? America is the "Great Satan", but its currency still remains the only readily accepted tender in these Islamic shitholes. "Yer so evil, but we love your bloodstained money." What rectal cavities. Maybe we need to prohibit all paper banknote transfers to Arab countries.

Some Lebanese Shiites are scandalized that they are treated by Iranian mullahs as mercenaries, and see Nasrallah's cash handouts as diyah (blood money) for their dead. And a dead man whose family receives a diyah cannot claim the status of "martyr" and enjoy its prerogatives in paradise.

Take the money, all of your "martyrs" are going straight to hell anyway.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-29 16:44|| 2006-08-29 16:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Not a problem, Zenster. These guys print their own.

Posted by RWV 2006-08-29 18:06|| 2006-08-29 18:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Heh..Heh "All your martyrs are belong to us"

Posted by Warthog 2006-08-29 18:26|| 2006-08-29 18:26|| Front Page Top

#12 its currency still remains the only readily accepted tender

Oil contracts are denominated in US dollars still, although Iran is pushing to switch that to the Euro.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-29 19:03|| 2006-08-29 19:03|| Front Page Top

#13 "All your martyrs are belong to us"

Bwahahahahahaha! Good one, Warthog.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-29 21:35|| 2006-08-29 21:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Unfortunately, to eliminate the hizbies require that one be even more ruthless than they are. The Lebanese know that anyone who stands against them prominately will die, unless the hizbies realize that would mean the others would mercilessly hunt them down and kill every one, a true war of extermination (and I mean hizbies, not all shia).

Posted by Brett 2006-08-29 22:13|| 2006-08-29 22:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Unfortunately, to eliminate the hizbies require that one be even more ruthless than they are.

I refer you to .com's scenario of abandoning all that "Order of the Garter" horseradish.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-29 23:58|| 2006-08-29 23:58|| Front Page Top

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