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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah foiled US-planned coup. Really.
2008-05-12
Hezbollah has foiled a US-planned coup to seize control of Lebanon during tensions sparked by controversial gov't decisions, a report says.
"The Americans launched a pre-emptive strike against opposition nationalist forces, starting with the (Hezbollah) resistance, and attempted a Washington-planned coup but were taken aback by the opposition, which restored order in Lebanon," Syrian daily Al-Baath reported on Sunday.
"The Americans launched a pre-emptive strike against opposition nationalist forces, starting with the (Hezbollah) resistance, and attempted a Washington-planned coup but were taken aback by the opposition, which restored order in Lebanon," Syrian daily Al-Baath reported on Sunday.
"Damn, Hilliard! I am taken aback!"
"Me, too, sir!"
"We must decamp!"
The Lebanese opposition aimed to "remove foreign interference and stop the plots to transform Lebanon... into an Israeli protectorate and new focal point of US links in the region," the paper added.

Tensions mounted among the feuding Lebanese parties and their supporters after the pro-US ruling coalition decided to ban Hezbollah telecommunications network and sack Beirut Airport Security Chief on Tuesday.

At least 39 people were killed in the clashes which eased after the Lebanese army rescinded the government's controversial measures on Saturday. "The recent events in Lebanon showed that the coup (attempt) carried out by the Americans and their men in Lebanon backfired," the daily concluded.

Lebanon saw four days of fierce clashes between supporters of feuding political camps as Western and some of the regional media outlets including al-Arabia tried to portray them as sectarian violence. They tried to describe the clashes as a fight between Sunni and Shia communities. The reports came as a number of Sunni clerics in interviews with NBN and al-Manar TV stations denied the claims, saying many Sunni Muslims in Lebanon support Hezbollah especially for its heroic efforts to defend Lebanon against Israel.

Political analysts said that Tel Aviv and its staunch ally Washington have long been trying to destabilize Lebanon in a bid to avenge Israel's humiliating defeat against Lebanon's resistance movement (Hezbollah) in 2006.
"Ehud!"
"Yes, George W!"
"We must avenge your humiliating defeat by Hezbollah in 2006!"
"But George W., it is now 2008!"
"No, Ehud! That was when they humiliatingly defeated you! This year is when we will avenge you!"
"Ah! Good! I like Dire Avenge!"
"That's Dire Revenge™, Ehud!"
Posted by:Fred

#6  no, you just kkill terrorists anymore . do you know what kind of apper work that leads too
Posted by: sinse   2008-05-12 21:22  

#5  IRNA > LA TIMES - US HAS BUILT ARMED MILITIA IN LEBANON, to counter or oppose the Hizzies Hezzies Huzzies, etc. under the guise of SAAID HARIN'S FUTURE MOVEMENT organization. US REPORTEDLY SPENT US$60.0MILYUUHN TO CREATE THIS ANTI-HIZB/IRAN GROUP COMPOSED OF FORMER LEBANESE ARMY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS. ARTICLE - Unfortunately for the US, most of the member-fighters of this FUTURE MOVEMENT MILITIA CRUMBLED AND FLED WHEN MIL ENGAGED BY HIZB???

ALso from IRNA > SYRIAN MINISTER: IRAN IS THE ISLAMIC-ARABIC [strong]CASTLE OF MUSLIM WORLD.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-05-12 19:37  

#4  So more subtlty is required.

No, LH, subtle action is what has gotten us into this mess in the first place. What's needed is the constant fire of GMLRS into Hezbollah strongpoints, filled with white phosphorus, napalm, and high explosives, with a few nukes tossed in over Qom, Tehran, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr. That's the only message islamists understand - the power of the fist. We've foolishly refrained from showing that fist, and we're paying for it. Destroy a half-dozen cities, and the rest of the population will string the imams up themselves.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-05-12 16:40  

#3  the 60 year US allies are the Maronites, who are simply too few on the ground to run things. The demography has changed due to differential birth rates and emigration. now a Sunni-Druze-maronite coalition is needed to offset the Shia, and the Maronites arent even united (much less the other Christians).

So more subtlty is required.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2008-05-12 10:22  

#2  Bush defered to Condi and whatever reason, she wants them alive at all costs.

Condi has been a major disappointment.
Posted by: Spumble Prince of the Brontosaurs8229   2008-05-12 08:13  

#1  In 2006, the IAF/IDF waged a scorched earth offensive, where there were no UN partisans to prevent just war. Most of south Beirut and the city of Bint Jubeil was destroyed, and remains rubble. Hizbollah's Iranian backers restored their weaponry, arm for arm, while abandoning early efforts to rebuild. So why the rearmament? An Israeli contact of mine says that they thought that Iran would concede futility, and pull out. Unfortunately, what was not forseen - in face of US interventions in 1958 and 1982 - was US indifference to pro-Western peoples. Hence, the Ayaytollahs rearmed Hizbollah to the teeth, with the intent that they would occupy the untouched sections of north Beirut and northwards. Bush defered to Condi and whatever reason, she wants them alive at all costs. In the early 'eighties, the Reagan government was launching sea to land missile and shells at Hizbi positions; it appears that 60 year US allies are being written off. When American University (Beirut) goes, American credibility will go with it. Can we not just kill terrorists?
Posted by: McZoid   2008-05-12 04:56  

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