Reporting from Beirut -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden today showed pre-election support for the Lebanese government, which prompted a piqued response from the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah, highlighting the critical nature of the upcoming parliamentary vote.
Biden, speaking to reporters after arriving in Lebanon amid tight security, warned that U.S. aid to Lebanon could be reconsidered in case of a win by Hezbollah, which Washington considers a terrorist organization.Saturday, May 23, 2009
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The architects of our foreign policy never, ever seem to learn from the past. Biden should have stayed home and kept his mouth shut.
ReplyDeleteYep, but its not just Biden. Hillary has been singing pretty much to the same tune.
ReplyDeleteI know and it is all very, very foolish and will produce the opposite of what they want.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting posts, moyhabin! So glad tgia asked you!
I really appreciate the American's effort of influencing the election.Hizboullah couldn't get a better election campaign.
ReplyDeleteThank you VZA!
ReplyDeleteMore fun and games. (Hat tip to Moon...)
ReplyDeleteIn a bombshell report published Saturday, the German weekly Der Spiegel says the investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is moving toward the conclusion that the Shiite militia Hezbollah was behind the attack. Based entirely on an unnamed source or sources, the Spiegel report said Lebanese investigators monitoring cellphone usage in the vicinity of the car-bomb explosion that killed Hariri lucked into a breakthrough discovery. According to the report, the cellphones were used exclusively for phone calls among the alleged assassins except for one instance when one of the suspects used a phone to call his girlfriend. From that single call, investigators figured out the name of the operative. (...) Hariri was enormously popular among all Lebanese groups, and if it's true that the United Nations tribunal has concluded that Hezbollah was behind the assassination, it would have a huge effect on the country, where a critical election is being held on June 7. But the story raises some unanswered questions. In addition to citing only an anonymous source or sources, it alludes to "documents" to bolster its claims,but they are neither described nor shown in the report.
Exactly! I mean how much sillier can they be?
ReplyDelete"Strangely" enough, this comes out precisely when Hezbollah may make some serious electoral inroads.
ReplyDeleteAn anonymous source tells me that Iran supplied the TNT.
ReplyDeleteYou know Moy
ReplyDeleteIn Lebanon in my early days, there were lots of protests , all kind ,some were about social justice,about teacher's pay,even about the quality of shoe laces .We used to love them because we got to chant "Down down Israel,Down down Imperialist USA". Most of us kids never knew what was Imperialism.
I miss those chants.
Funny :)
ReplyDeleteTHEY NEVER LEARN!!!
ReplyDeleteOr maybe they want Hizbullah to win!! If so this is the best way to go about it!
ReplyDeleteTGIA, I am not necessarily anti Hezbollah. If PM Maliki and President Talabani like them, maybe they aren't that bad.
ReplyDeleteThe UN is refusing to comment on this. Who killed Harriri?
ReplyDeleteVZA, I am pleasantly surprised by Moy's choice of article posts.
ReplyDelete<span style="color: #404040; ">If PM Maliki and President Talabani like them, maybe they aren't that bad.</span>
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Who gives a shit about those jerks what they like or dislike ?
Your grandmother anand
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What is this this supposed to mean? He's posting great stuff for quite a while now but maybe you were not watching. Why else would I invite him to contribute?
ReplyDeleteWhy are you surprised? He's been posting great stuff for quite a while now but maybe you were not watching. Why else would I invite him to contribute?
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