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2008-10-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Report: Hezbollah chief poisoned; Iranian doctors saved his life

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Posted by tipper 2008-10-22 11:33|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The site claimed that the sources believed it was highly likely that the poisoning was an Israeli assassination attempt.

Looks like they're closer then you think, Naz...

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-22 11:39|| 2008-10-22 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 The hard part was getting him to eat those kugels, but once that was done...

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-22 11:49|| 2008-10-22 11:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey Hassan, try these blowfish falafels.

Posted by ed 2008-10-22 11:55|| 2008-10-22 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The report may explain rumors 10 days ago that Nasrallah has appointed his heir in case he is assassinated. Safi al-Din, the chairman of the terrorist organization's executive council and Nasrallah's cousin, will take over the leadership of Hizbullah if "the Zionists succeed in assassinating Hassan Nasrallah," the newspaper reported.

Hizbullah officials have investigated everyone who has visited Nasrallah since the reported attack and also are questioning Hizbullah officials. Israel was immediately blamed for the attack, but it also may have been carried out Hizbullah dissidents.

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-22 12:04|| 2008-10-22 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Doesn't pass the smell test. Any halfway decent assassin could get his hands on poison that would do the job no matter what the doctors did. Sounds more like he took ill, and is using his own frailty as a PR weapon against Israel. That's actually a quite common play in the Muslim bag o tricks.

Posted by Iblis 2008-10-22 12:13|| 2008-10-22 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 So, hassan would have had diarrhea, and he would blame the jooooos? Damn those liquid poop jooooos!

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-22 12:18|| 2008-10-22 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 If the Mossad were involved, Nasrallah would be sleeping with the fishes.

Posted by Woozle Unusosing8053 2008-10-22 13:16|| 2008-10-22 13:16|| Front Page Top

#8 My guess... He ate some food imported from China.

Posted by 3dc 2008-10-22 13:25|| 2008-10-22 13:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Twice is coincidence. We get another datapoint, and I'm calling it a Shia mafia war. And I still say Muughniyah was an own-side hit.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-10-22 16:45|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-22 16:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Those wonderful, wonderful uberIslamic IRANIANS. Friends of Obama. Friends of the oppressed. Friends of any who will submit. What would we do without them . . . ?

Posted by ex-lib 2008-10-22 18:20|| 2008-10-22 18:20|| Front Page Top

#11 "Iranians DO serve a mean caviar."

Posted by Michelle Obama 2008-10-22 18:43|| 2008-10-22 18:43|| Front Page Top

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