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| October 20, 2012
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Beirut Terrorist Blast Kills Top Lebanese Security Officer

General Wissam al-Hassan, the intelligence chief of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, among dead in blast in Beirut.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

A top security official linked to the anti-Damascus camp in Lebanon was among those killed in a powerful car bomb in Beirut on Friday, officials told AFP.

General Wissam al-Hassan – AFP/File

The rush-hour bombing in the predominantly Christian district of Ashrafieh killed at least two other people and wounded 96, Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil told reporters at the scene.

A government official said the intelligence chief of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, General Wissam al-Hassan, was among the dead in one of the highest-profile killings since the 2005 murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri. Continue Reading »

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| October 18, 2012
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Revolutionary Guard commander: Iran will Destroy Israel, if Attacked

Acting commander Gen. Hossein Salami claims Israel’s ‘defense mechanism is not planned for big & long wars’ 

Asserts that Israel’s ‘threats are only psychological.’

By Reuters

Israel will “definitely” face fierce retaliation if it attacks Iranian nuclear sites, the acting commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Thursday.

The remarks by Gen. Hossein Salami appear to be part of Iranian efforts to portray any strike against it as the trigger for a regional conflict that could draw in Iranian proxies, such as Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, on Israel’s borders.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard troops - AP

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard troops march, during a military parade, in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Sept.

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| October 3, 2012
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Hezbollah admit 3 members of 9 killed in militia’s munitions explosion

Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group reported explosions that hit arms stockpile in building under construction ‘led to martyrdom of 3 fighters’ & that 4 Syrian workers were wounded

By Elior Levy, AFP

 

A series of blasts killed at least nine people and wounded seven in the Hezbollah-controlled Beqaa Valley of eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, a security official told AFP.

Archives – Photo: AFP

The Shiite terror group announced that three of its members were killed and a few others were injured in the blasts, which hit an arms stockpile in a building under construction in an uninhabited area between the villages of Nabishit and Khodr. Continue Reading »

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| October 2, 2012
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Hizbullah vows to ‘Conquer the Galilee’

Hizbullah video highlights their latest campaign, from “liberating the Galilee” to  taking control of tourist centers, refineries, & even Haifa port.

By David Lev

 

 

A new Hizbullah video highlights the terrorist organization’s latest campaign – “liberating the Galilee.” On the agenda is Hizbullah’s conquering of key sites and cities like tourist centers, refineries, and the Haifa port.

Hizbullah supporters

Hizbullah supporters
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The video was posted on a Hizbullah site Monday, the same day that Israeli Arab politicians led a protest commemorating the deaths of 12 Arabs in 2000, as they rioted and attempted to spread the intifada to northern Israel. Continue Reading »

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| September 28, 2012
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Hizbullah Fighters Dying in Syria, Sources Say Funerals are Secret

Hizbullah has recently increased their size and type of its assistance to al-Assad’s gov’t

By David Lev

 

Hizbullah has increased the size and scope of its assistance to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as he fights to retain his position as leader of Syria in the face of a wide-ranging rebellion. According to a report in Thursday’s Washington Post, Hizbullah has sent special advisers to Syria in order to assist Assad in beating back rebel forces.

Official sources in the Lebanese government said that the assistance Hizbullah is providing Assad was increased after a major attack on Assad’s forces on July 18. Continue Reading »

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| September 14, 2012
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Lebanon Maronite Christians feel besieged ahead of Pope Benedict’s visit

Pope Leo X in 1510 called Lebanon’s Christians a “rose” among “infidels, schismatics & heretics”; Excitement over the Pope’s visit have replaced fear among Christians for now.

By REUTERS

 

BEIRUT – In 1510, Pope Leo X thanked Divine Providence for having preserved the Maronite Christians through the hardest of times, “planted among infidels, schismatics and heretics as in a field of error.”

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he gives Urbi et Orbi - Photo: REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he gives Urbi et Orbi – Photo: REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

He described them as a “rose among thorns, an impregnable rock in the sea, unshaken by the waves and fury of the thundering tempest.”

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| September 10, 2012
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Now Hezbollah is funding its world-wide terror with fake medicine

After Lebanese authorities performed drug busts on Captagon labs, they arrested top terror leader. Shiite group began manufacturing & distributing  its counterfeit medical drugs in Middle East.

By Roi Kais

 

A new study reveals that Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah has discovered a new and original way of funding its terror activity – counterfeit medicine.

Dr. Boaz Ganor Photo: Gadi Dagon

Dr. Boaz Ganor
Photo: Gadi Dagon

According to the study, over the past year Hezbollah terrorists have increased the manufacturing of fake Captagon, a drug used for treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Although banned in most countries in the 1980s, illegally produced and smuggled Captagon – sometimes containing amphetamine instead of fenethylline – is a common drug of abuse in the Middle East. Continue Reading »

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| August 25, 2012
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Reported: ‘Lebanese home front virtually defenseless’ in next war

Lebanese paper express concern over possible regional conflict; say their home front in grossly exposed, told to  look to Allah for shelter

By Roi Kais

 

The residents of southern Lebanon are worried. Should the brewing winds of war between Iran and Israel escalate to an actual conflict, they are likely to be caught in the middle – literally.

Israel is investing in its home front readiness, but the residents of southern Lebanon have but a mere fraction of the civilian defenses available to Israelis.

Lebanon‘s Al-Akhbar newspaper, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, published a feature about the Lebanese home front’s readiness for a possible regional conflict. Continue Reading »

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| August 21, 2012
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$150M Hezbollah-linked funds Seized by U.S.

US authorities say banking institution ‘plays key role in facilitating money laundering for Hezbollah’ so, funds wired by Beirut-based Lebanese Canadian Bank were ‘frozen’.

By AFP

 

US authorities on Monday announced the seizure of $150 million allegedly linked to a scheme by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to launder proceeds from drug trafficking and other crimes.

Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Photo: Reuters

Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Photo: Reuters

The money came from a US bank account used by the Beirut-based Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) to conduct US currency transactions, US Attorney Preet Bharara and US Drug Enforcement Administration chief Michele Leonhart said.

Washington considers the Shiite militant group a terrorist organization. Continue Reading »

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| August 16, 2012
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Arab Gulf States warns its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately

Sectarian violence spreading from Syria as the kidnapping of more than 20 in Hezbollah-controlled Shi’ite areas of Lebanon

By REUTERS

 

BEIRUT – Lebanese Shi’ite gunmen kidnapped more than 20 people on Wednesday in retaliation for the capture of one of their kinsmen in Syria, prompting Sunni Gulf states to warn their citizens to leave Lebanon immediately.

A Turk, a Saudi and several Syrians were among those abducted in an area of Lebanon controlled by Hezbollah Shi’ite militants, raising the risk that the sectarian violence driving the conflict in Syria will spread to its neighbor, which fought its own civil war on sectarian lines for 15 years.

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| August 13, 2012
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Lebanese protest against anal exams on suspected homosexuals

Arab world’s Lesbian & Gay group says tests on men suspected of homosexuality is ‘shameful, illegal and irrelevant scientifically’

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Dozens of people demonstrated outside the law courts in the Lebanese capital on Saturday to protest the use of anal “tests” on men suspected of homosexuality, which is a criminal offence in the Arab country.

Rally in Beirut – Photo: AFP

The rally followed a July 28 police raid on a gay venue in a working class district of Beirut when 36 men were taken into custody and forced to undergo the examinations, reportedly to determine their sexual orientation.

Lebanon-based HELEM, considered the Arab world’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group, called for the rally under the slogan: “Stand up against the tests of shame, vaginal or anal.” Continue Reading »

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| August 13, 2012
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Israel may have to destroy parts of Lebanon to stop rockets from killing Israelis

Past Mossad chief discussed the possibility of rockets raining down from Lebanon & Gaza following Israeli attack on Iran, says rockets “can cover all of Israel, & that is the main problem.”

 

Israel may need to destroy parts of Lebanon and Gaza if Hezbollah and Hamas rain missiles upon the country in response to an Israeli attack on Iran, former Mossad head Danny Yatom said Monday.

Rockets fired from gaza - Photo: Nikola Solic/Reuters

Rockets fired from gaza – Photo: Nikola Solic/Reuters

Yatom, in an interview on Israel Radio, warned against presenting an apocalyptic picture of how Iran will respond if Israel takes military action against its nuclear program.

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| August 8, 2012
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Apparently, Hassan Nasrallah Gets a Taste of his own Medicine

Hezbollah’s support of the Assad regime is no longer a secret. One can assume that these senior Hezbollah people were not innocent pilgrims, but rather on a mission to Iran, to coordinate operations of the Assad regime & its allies, Hezbollah & the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

By Avi Melamed

 
While the world continues to witness the ongoing tragedy in Syria, there is another “mini-drama” simultaneously taking place in that country which is no less significant.

Hassan Nasrallah tells Israel to keep its hands off Lebanon’s oil & gas.

On May 22nd reports began to flow in from different sources that Lebanese Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran had been kidnapped inside Syria. Continue Reading »

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| August 2, 2012
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Is Nasrallah Being Recalled to Iran?

Report in A Siasa, a Kuwaiti newspaper: Iran has ordered Hizbullah head to leave Lebanon if Assad falls.

By Gil Ronen

 

Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has instructed the head of Iranian proxy Hizbullah to leave Lebanon and move to Iran if Syria’s Bashar Assad falls from power, a Kuwaiti newspaper reports.

The paper, A Siasa, explains that the Iranian leadership has been weighing two possible courses of action, in case Iran’s protégé and partner Assad is toppled.

The first option includes supplying Hizbullah with state-of-the-art heavy weapons and enlarging the number of Iranian soldiers in Lebanon. Continue Reading »

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| August 2, 2012
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Lebanese Security Arrest 36 Men in Gay Beirut Cinema

Security authorities reportedly perform rectal probes on detainees; unknown number released after exam to detect sperm.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

BERLIN – Lebanese security authorities swooped in on a gay cinema in Beirut on Saturday and shut down the movie house, arresting 36 male attendees and performing anal probes on them.

Hezbollah posters on a Beirut street.

Hezbollah posters on a Beirut street. – Photo: Bloomberg

According to a report on the Gay Star News website on Monday, “an unknown number” of the 36 had been released after an unnamed doctor administered the anal exam – a procedure meant to detect sperm.

The website NOW Lebanon reported on Tuesday that the theater, Plaza Cinema, was not the first such venue that authorities had closed down.

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