Today a video was released showing a Hezbollah (or Amal Shiite) opposition militant in a Lebanese police uniform standing guard in Beirut:
Hezbollah or Amal soldier (in a police uniform) talking to a translator. The soldier did not want to show his face. He would only be filmed from behind.
In other developments in Lebanon...
The Lebanese Army announced today that they would take action against any armed individual or group beginning 6 am May 13th.
From Beirut to the Beltway has a roundup of the action today in Lebanon.
Blacksmiths of Lebanon says- Hizballah returns Lebanon to the age of atrocities.
President Bush had this to say about the violence in Lebanon: "condemn Hizballah's recent efforts, and those of their foreign sponsors in Tehran and Damascus, to use violence and intimidation to bend the government and people of Lebanon to their will."
The persecuted world will surely miss this president when he is gone.
A Hezbollah militant tucks his weapons away until next time...
A Hezbollah gunmen puts his rifle into his car in Beirut May 10, 2008. Hezbollah on Saturday began withdrawing gunmen from Beirut and handed control of the streets to the Lebanese army, after days of gunbattles with supporters of the U.S.-backed government. (Jamal Saidi/Reuters)
Previously:
A Gift From Tehran-- ARMED HEZBOLLAH THUGS Roam Beirut
CLASHES IN BEIRUT-- Hezbollah Declares Lebanese Army an Enemy!
HEZBOLLAH FIRES ROCKET-PROPELLED GRENADES-- 7 Dead in Beirut!
HEZBOLLAH TAKES WESTERN BEIRUT-- Rockets Hit Hariri's Home
As Expected... Iran Blames Israel For Hezbollah Rampage
Hezbollah Is Committing War Crimes in Beirut
AL QAEDA DECLARES WAR ON HEZBOLLAH
Child Caught in Hezbollah Beirut Ambush (Video)
VIOLENCE RAGES IN LEBANON- 29 Dead-- 6 Murdered at Sunni Funeral
Hezbollah Moves War Outside Beirut-- 44 Dead ...Tripoli Fights Back
Hezbollah is not an army, so its members aren't soldiers.
ReplyDeleteThey're terrorists.
Calling them soldiers gives them a legitimacy they don't deserve.
Words have meaning.
Thanks Tom- I agree.
ReplyDeleteFixed.
With over half of the Army Hezballah sympathetic - if not Hezballah members themselves - and quite obviously the same with the Police, it doesn't take very much imagination about which individuals or groups will be targeted to disarm. Not good.
ReplyDeleteBut yea, we'll really miss Bush despite all the reversals and now almost complete repudiation of 'Bush Doctrine.' Heck…even those on the Right who have come to despise him will probably miss the gaffes like the one buried in his statement today,
'The international community will not allow the Iranian and Syrian regimes, via their proxies, to return Lebanon to foreign domination and control.
…did GW discover some new ‘international community?’ Man, that’s one where you just have to go ‘huh?’ WTf?