January 26, 2003
LET'S GET IT ON:
Hezbollah warns America will face Israel's fate if it attacks Iraq (The Associated Press, 1/26/03)The United States will face resistance from Iraqis similar to what Palestinians are waging against Israel if Washington invades Iraq, the leader of the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah said Saturday.If Americans move against Iraq, "they will put themselves in a confrontation of the sort" the Israelis are facing, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said without elaborating.
Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim movement backed by Iran and Syria, has no love for President Saddam Hussein, whose government has crushed the Shiite opposition in Iraq. But the Lebanese guerrilla group, which fought Israel in southern Lebanon for 18 years until the Israelis withdrew more than two years ago, has strong animosity toward Israel and the United States, which consider it a terrorist organization.
Hopefully Hezbollah is stupid enough to do something to provoke us, because Southern Lebanon needs to be cleaned out too. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 26, 2003 4:18 PM
A pacifist trying to convert me directed me to
Gary Hart's pusillanimous speech last week
(available via Salon, but you have to endure
a capitalist, in fact, German, propaganda
pitch) in which he said that Bush's
antiterror strategy misunderstands the real
threat, which Hart says is more like the
Assassins.
I guess Hart never heard the part about why
the Assassins are not around any more.
If I remember correctly the Mongols wiped them out.
Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at January 27, 2003 2:05 AMDid the Assassins run Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran at some point?
Posted by: oj at January 27, 2003 7:22 AM