US Plans for Anti-Hezbollah Force
In what I thought was a mundane article from UPI titled U.S. ‘to give Lebanon light attack planes’ it actually had some interesting, yet disturbing news towards the end:
…the U.S. security consultancy Stratfor says the Pentagon wants to establish [a special group] as an elite [Lebanese] army unit. Its main function will be countering Hezbollah. [...]
Breaking News – 09:43am GMT
Israeli commandos seize ship containing arms destined for Hezbollah. Ship was off the coast of Cyprus and had originated from Iran.
Lebanese Army refused to comment stating that the incident occurred outside Lebanon’s borders and outside its national waters. The contents of the ship are being unloaded at the Israeli port of Ashdod.
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Update: November 5, 2009
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HA: Fear the Christians; Sunnis Are a Push-Over
I usually steer clear of politics on this blog only because there are others who do a great job at tackling it than I do. But I came across this article in the UAE’s The National which I found quite interesting. The journalist is speaking to an unnamed “commander of a Hezbollah security team in [...]
Indian-Lebanese Co-op
When we are not fighting each other, we are helping each other out:
Israel has accused the Indian troops part of the UN peacekeepers along its border with Lebanon of doing nothing to prevent the infiltration of Hezbollah supporters into its territory, but on the contrary cooperated with them, a media report said.
This follows on similar [...]
When Corporate Spending Turns Political
An interesting article out of Canada:
Corporate sponsors are paying for hundreds of supporters of the pro-Western Future Movement in Calgary and in other Canadian cities to vote on June 7, CBC News has learned.
The way the Future Movement coordinator in Canada puts it, it seems these companies can write the expense off as CSR:
“This is [...]
