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| Hezbollah, Hamas are not Al Qaeda: Italian FM | |
| 2006-08-29 | |
ROMEThe Italian foreign minister said that groups such as Lebanese guerrillas Hezbollah and Palestinian militants Hamas are not purely terrorist organizations and that efforts to bring them into the political fold should be encouraged. Hamas and Hezbollah are not Al Qaeda, Italian Foreign Minister Massimo DAlema said in an interview with Corriere della Sera published Tuesday. Besides their well-known responsibilities for terrorist actions, they have a political side, they are engaged in assistance. IRA and ETA have become political movements from (being) terror groups, DAlema said, referring to groups that have carried out terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland and in Spain.
DAlema made the remarks as Italy was sending troops to Lebanon as part of a reinforcement of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the southern part of the Middle East country. The Italian government approved sending 2,500 troops on Monday evening, the largest national contingent so far. A thousand Marines and engineer corps specialists were leaving later Tuesday as a vanguard of the contingent. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Tuesday that in my eyes, an organization that supports terror cannot be part of a political systemthese organizations use democracy to spread their antidemocratic ideas. If Hezbollah were really to take the decision to lay down its weapons and stopped representing this extremist Iranian ideology, the destruction of Israel, then they could be part of the political system in Lebanon, Livni said, speaking on Germanys ZDF television. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #18 HHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMM, the choice is between IN-YOUR-FACE, "We Hate You and Don't Care Who Knows It" and closed-fisted angry "Power Salutes" during the Olympics; vs THEY-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED, PC Truth = Lie and vice versa, and kidnap/rape/death squads in the middle of the night. Guns + pit bulls have no purpose why, again??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-08-29 23:54 |
| #17 In other news: David Berkowitz is not John Wayne Gacy, and even more remarkably, Charles Manson is not Richard Ramirez. And I repeat that they all need killin' just the same. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-29 15:32 |
| #16 In other news: David Berkowitz is not John Wayne Gacy, and even more remarkably, Charles Manson is not Richard Ramirez. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-08-29 15:31 |
| #15 Bah! The answer to that equation was supposed to be "infinity". Or at least that's what the preview showed! Drat! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-29 15:06 |
| #14 How many soup kitchens does it take to wash away the blood of your victims? Answer = |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-29 15:05 |
| #13 We must encourage this metamorphosis in the Middle East, DAlema said. Instead, organizations that are purely dedicated to terror must be fought and defeated, Attention al-Qaeda- Any effort you make to promote yourself through social services will now exempt you from being fought and defeated as a purely terrorist organization. Pass this on to others who may find it useful. How many soup kitchens does it take to wash away the blood of your victims? We'll find out. Maybe the day-care centers Patty Murray knows about will count. Let's call Rome and see. If only the Red Brigades had thought to hand out old clothes to unwed mothers, they too would have been "engaged in assistance" and they'd be a whole lot better off today. That whole Aldo Moro thing might have just blown over. |
| Posted by: Baba Tutu 2006-08-29 14:45 |
| #12 Hezbollah, Hamas are not Al Qaeda But they all need killin' just the same. D'Alema seems hell bent on playing the moral relativism game. Being stationed as aide de camp in Beirut for a few months might help him to purchase a clue. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-29 14:42 |
| #11 He's just doing the IO thing hoping the lions dont eat his troops. A coward on the world stage. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-08-29 13:13 |
| #10 Euros |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-08-29 13:05 |
| #9 We should declare this individual persona non grata and prohibit his entry into the US for any reason. Maybe he will get a clue but since he is a lefty EUropean I doubt it. Have fun being a FM and not being able to travel to the UN. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-08-29 11:52 |
| #8 Stalin and Hitler are not Mao. Rankers two and three still didn't match the body count of number one. However, they all were butchers and the toll in human misery and life taken make them no less horrible. |
| Posted by: Sholuting Chose2386 2006-08-29 11:09 |
| #7 hit the FM on the side of his head with a CLUE BAT. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-08-29 11:02 |
| #6 yes the terrorists are a diverse lot there are Sunni supremicist muslim terrorists there are Shia supremicist muslim terrorists there are Palestinian muslim terrorists there are Caliphatist muslim terrorists there are kill-the-Buddhist muslim terrorists there are kill-the-HIndu muslim terrorists yes, quite a diverse lot they seem to have something in common though |
| Posted by: mhw 2006-08-29 10:41 |
| #5 If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck... |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-08-29 10:16 |
| #4 They are different. A lion is different than a tiger, after all. Europe=bone headed stupidy and dhmitude |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-08-29 10:10 |
| #3 Al Qaedist: "Durka, durka jihad!" Hezbollock: "Durka, durka jihad!" Hamasnik: "Durka, durka jihad!" [sarc] Indeed, they are as different as night and day. [/sarc] |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-08-29 10:02 |
| #2 Emperor Gnaeus, the entire Coliseum and citizens of Rome have spoken, open the lion cages. Let us drink wine and continue our debauchery. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-08-29 09:57 |
| #1 "Al Qaeda linked groups have bombed trains in Europe and are therefore terrorists. Hezbollah and Hamas mostly just kill Jews and sometimes Americans and are therefore not terrorists." -- Europe |
| Posted by: Odysseus 2006-08-29 09:20 |