.How the Outcome in Sadr City Led to Today’s Clashes in Beirut
"The Siniora cabinet and the March 14 political coalition that props it up have been doing and saying many provocative things from Hezbollah’s vantage point over the last two years from, yet Hezbollah chose to be provoked yesterday and today; why is that?
Ostensibly, Hezbollah is responding to the Lebanese government’s decision to sack the security chief of Beirut’s international airport, and to dismantle Hezbollah’s secure landline-based communications network that had been expanded recently.
What could have spurred-on this over-reaction on Hezbollah’s part, which has been manifested so far with flexing its muscles in the Sunni area of Beirut, seemingly showing-up the government as weak and vulnerable?
I believe Iran needed to show the United States and its Arab allies that it can humiliate them by overrunning the government they back in Beirut and that they’d be unable to do anything about it, and I believe that Iran needed to make this point now because the Mahdi Army in Iraq has collapsed."
Talisman Gate
I knew something was up the day the Ayatollah came out and declared victory. I knew they had to have lost something somewhere.
Ostensibly, Hezbollah is responding to the Lebanese government’s decision to sack the security chief of Beirut’s international airport, and to dismantle Hezbollah’s secure landline-based communications network that had been expanded recently.
What could have spurred-on this over-reaction on Hezbollah’s part, which has been manifested so far with flexing its muscles in the Sunni area of Beirut, seemingly showing-up the government as weak and vulnerable?
I believe Iran needed to show the United States and its Arab allies that it can humiliate them by overrunning the government they back in Beirut and that they’d be unable to do anything about it, and I believe that Iran needed to make this point now because the Mahdi Army in Iraq has collapsed."
Talisman Gate
I knew something was up the day the Ayatollah came out and declared victory. I knew they had to have lost something somewhere.
posted by madtom at 11:01 PM
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Hi Mad Tom,
You should link to some of
Layla Anwar's posts on Lebanon - when she's not writing 27 straight diatribes on FU America, she really has a good political head on her shoulders.
Ladybird has material on Lebanon too - the difference between the two seems to be, Ladybird likes Hezb'allah and Layla absolutely despises them.
Totten also has stuff on Lebanon too, and that really is his strong point. Iraq, Kurdistan, and Kosovo, Jesus, the guy is way out of his league. He got reamed on Kosovo over at Jihad Watch - the woman called him a poseur: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020930.php
And Debbie Schlussel just lays in to Bush about Lebanon: What is George Bush Doing in Lebanon? ZILCH to Stop Hezbollahstan
Hey it's good your back and you seem to have come back with all the gusto in the world, and I appreciate your tips and hope you continue to post them.
I unfortunately have been having some technical difficulties. My time at a computer is at a premium. I'm only managing a few minutes a day.
Mister ghost,
I have been meaning to ask you, did you decide to interview Eye Raki after the kid out'ed him as the grandson of the big tollah, or did you find out by some other means? I have to assume that knowing who he really was must have been an incentive to interact, would you have done so if you had not know? And the big question, would you have out'ed the guy if you'd known?
Hi Mad Tom,
I try to In T View the bloggers in the Hot Spots of Iraq, so with Muqti returning to Najaf, and Hayder so knowledgeable about the situation there, I thought that he would make a good In T View. Then I researched the al-Khoei family and got all the background information.
One subject I didn't cover was the various Institutions his Grandfather founded. I read that some Islamic foundations have budgets larger than Third World countries, so I assume it to be in the billions of dollars. I was going to ask him about accountability and transparency of
his grandfather foundations, and the problem of Islamic charities acting as fronts for terrorist organizations.
Any ways, when Hayder's father was killed by Muqti's boys in Najaf, he had 750,000 dollars with him, which just disappeared.
I think Eye Raki outed himself with his full name at his blog.
I haven't outed a blogger yet, though I've known the names of
quite a few of them for awhile.
"I was going to ask him about accountability"
What in the world stopped you? I know ice cream is important world wide,but.
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