HEZBOLLAH TAKES WESTERN BEIRUT-- Rockets Hit Hariri's Home
HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS TAKE WESTERN BEIRUT!
Jeha's Nail is mapping the fight.
AMAZING Eyewitness video of the Beirut street fighting was posted on YouTube:
(Via Blacksmiths of Lebanon)
Ya Libnan has several more clips of the fighting.
** Blacksmiths of Lebanon is also running updates of the Hezbollah takeover of Beirut.
** The filthy Iranian regime blamed the Jews for the violence in Beirut!
** Back to Iraq has a lengthy post on the situation in Beirut.
In typical Hezbollah fashion, fighters roamed the streets among civilians...
A Shiite opposition gunman fires a rocket propelled grenade during clashes with pro-government supporters in a street in Beirut. Hezbollah fighters seized control of rival pro-government strongholds in Beirut on Friday as gunbattles rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day, propelling the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war. (AFP)
Hezbollah rockets hit the home of majority leader Saad Hariri on Friday.
ABC News Australia reported:
A rocket has hit the outer wall of the house of Lebanon's majority leader Saad Hariri, as fighting continues for a third day in the country's capital Beirut.Hezbollah also forced the closure of pro-government media and took control of a pro-government TV station. Hariri's Future TV is off the air after being threatened by the Hizbullah militia. Hezbollah also set fire to the al-Mustaqbal newspaper building.
A source close to the Sunni politician says no one was injured by the attack on the leader's west Beirut residence.
The attack comes as several Sunni neighbourhoods in west Beirut, considered strongholds of Lebanon's ruling coalition, have fallen under the control of rival Hezbollah-led militants.
Hezbollah posted signs of Syrian dictator Assad in their captured neighborhoods.
A Hezbollah gunman poses as he flashes a victory sign after putting up posters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and taking over of an office of the Future group loyal to Saad al-Hariri Majority leader, in the Rass al-Naba'a area in Beirut May 9, 2008. (REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir)
Beirut Spring has more photos of dictator Assad posted in the ruins.
Hezbollah took control of rival pro-government strongholds in Beirut on Friday.
The AFP reported:
Hezbollah fighters seized control of rival pro-government strongholds in Beirut on Friday as gunbattles rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day, propelling the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war.
Gunfire and the thump of exploding rocket-propelled grenades echoed across mainly Muslim west Beirut, where the fighting was concentrated between Sunni militants loyal to the Western-backed government and Shiite opposition gunmen.
At least 11 people been killed and dozens more wounded in the street battles that erupted Thursday after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said a government crackdown on his Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim group was a declaration of war.
A Shi'ite opposition gunman with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher takes position in a street in Beirut May 8, 2008. (Fadi Ghalioum/Reuters)
AK at Beirut to the Beltway reported this on the Hezbollah takeover:
So Hizbullah takes over the capital, then what? The rest of the country? Hizbullah has spent much of the last year farming militias in other areas. Are "East Beirut" and Mount Lebanon next? Anybody who knows the history of the Lebanese civil war knows how impossible it is to win in those places.Right Wing Nuthouse has more on the illegal Hezbollah communications network.
So what are their long-term options here? So far, it looks like a stupid show of power. No wonder Jumblatt in his interview today didn't express the need to even fight Nasrallah.
Nasrallah's "resistance" is dead. He walked into the civil war trap. What's left is a bunch of heavily armed people in makeshift tents, taking it out on defenseless civilians. You cannot force the rest of the population to join your eternal fight, or vote for you and your allies in the next election.
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!
posted by Gateway Pundit at 5/09/2008 03:53:00 AM
9 Comments:
It's up to the people of Lebanon now.
If they let Hezbollah succeed, they will have years to regret.
Unite and fight for your right to self-determination instead of being at the mercy of a terrorist group taking it's commands from foreign entities.
It's never been up to us... The moment some idiot in the US talked about engagement with Syria, the die was cast.
It is most certainly up to us and other nations if Lebanon calls on our support to kick Hezbolla out.
And kicking a tyrant like Assad out of Lebanon was the right thing to do.
Unless of course your Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, or Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama who is supported by Hamas, another Iranian proxy terrorist org.
There was a reason Jefferson called upon France in our fight of Independence.
There is a very good reason for Lebanon to send ambassadors to America and Europe to call on support.
Enought of thugs oppressing, intimidating and murdering innocents for Iran and Syria.
But the Lebanese have to rise up and ask for help to once and for all put the thugs leaders out of their country.
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lets see now,
Hamas takes Gaza,
Hezbollah takes Beruit,
Palestine & Lebanon in worse
shape than Iraq, go figure..
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Not a surprise that "Palestine & Lebanon in worse
shape than Iraq, go figure.." Just look at who supports them, democrat losers and traitors.
Democrats have nothing to do with the murderous thugs known as Hezbollah. They don't give a damn about American politics. They don't give a damn about freedom. They are evil SOBs who just cause negative dissent and destruction.
Plain and simple.
Jeha said...
It's never been up to us... The moment some idiot in the US talked about engagement with Syria, the die was cast.
6:56 AM
Blame it on the United States?
How original.
Much better then taking responsibility for your own thugs.
You never reigned them in and now they are reigning you in.
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oh dip!!
posted this in the wrong thread above.. oh well, here ya go..
HT : Michael J. Totten
Hezbollah's Endgame? [5/08/08]
excerpt:
[By Lee Smith
Elie Fawaz, a friend and colleague with the Lebanese Renaissance Foundation in Beirut, provides on-the-ground analysis on the developing situation in Lebanon:
"Beirut witnessed another round of sectarian violence yesterday following decisions of the Lebanese government to sanction and remove Hezbollah's illegal private telecommunication lines, and to replace the head of the international airport security for his direct responsibility in allowing Hezbollah to install private spying cams on one of its runaways.]
[Tony Badran, also blogging here in Michael Totten's absence, weighs in as well:
"What this has done is lay bare all the charades of the last two years that Hezbollah's is a "national" opposition, etc. What we saw yesterday is that Christians didn't budge (Aounists that is), in any region. And so, what you have here is Hezbollah vs. the rest, and Hezbollah vs. the state. Politically this is very bad for them, and obviously for Aoun. In that sense it was a shrewd political move by March 14, because it hit them on a point that they can't get sympathizers for outside their thugs (i.e., they have no allies, and they're fighting the state!). Second, it puts them in a corner: they either force the government to capitulate, or they lose themselves. Nasrallah is against the wall."]
Brief Dispatches from the New Lebanon War [5/08/08]
[by Michael J. Totten
Is there actually a new war in Lebanon? Maybe. That's what it looks like if you read the brief dispatches on my friend Charles Malik's blog. He is in Beirut now and hearing gunfire and rockets in his neighborhood. That used to be my neighborhood. Anyway, more war in Lebanon is inevitable as long as Hezbollah exists.
Another friend told me in an email today that Lebanon is actually in worse shape than it appears in the media. This is new. It is usually the other way around.]
The Military Situation in Beirut [5/08/08]
excerpt:
[By Tony Badran ...
The tactics are reminiscent of the 1970s-80s war, with two essential differences: 1- the trigger is not the Palestinian guerrilla threat to the state, but Hezbollah's threat to Lebanon, and 2- the beginning fault line is to the west of the 1975 flash point.
The current areas of clashes are roughly along a crescent from Hamra and the vicinity of the Serail in the north down to Tariq el-Jdideh in the south, and the vicinity of Qoreitem (Hariri's residence) and Ain el-Tineh (Berri's residence) in the west to Ras el-Nabe' in the east.]
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anyone else having a hard time with blogger today, cause i sure am, gah!!
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