LinksCNN: Interview With Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/16/sun.11.html As the world races for a possible countdown to war in Iraq, the battle cry from another troubled spot is "Death to America." Not surprisingly, it is coming from Hezbollah in Lebanon, a group one U.S. expert warns may be the A-team of terrorists, a group within striking distance of Israel. Details | Report |
Hezbollah's Apocalypse Now http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/21/AR2006072101363.html Power failures are creating problems across much of the city, cellphones are unpredictable, and the regular bombing makes my neighbors cautious about going out, leaving most people here alone with the question that has plagued them for almost two weeks: What on earth was Hezbollah up to when it abducted two Israeli soldiers and provoked a punishing response that is creating orphans and bringing down buildings all around us? Details | Report |
The Jerusalem Post: Arab world fed up with Hizbullah http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150886029284&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull With the exception of the Palestinians, the Arab world appears to be united in blaming Iran and Syria for the fighting in Lebanon. Until last week, Arab political analysts and government officials were reluctant to criticize Hizbullah in public. But now that Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and his top aides are in hiding, an anti-Hizbullah coalition is emerging not only in Lebanon, but in several other Arab countries as well. Details | Report |
Middle East report Online: Hizballah: A Primer http://www.merip.org/mero/mero073106.html Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi‘i movement whose militia is fighting the Israeli army in south Lebanon, has been cast misleadingly in much media coverage of the ongoing war. Details | Report |
IRIN: LEBANON: The many hands and faces of Hezbollah http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=26242 “The hand that fights, the hand that builds” is the Hezbollah slogan that sums up the essence of Lebanon’s “party of God”: one hand to protect the party’s mainly Shi’ite following – with arms, if necessary; the other to improve its living conditions. Details | Report |
The New York Sun: An Islamic Republic Is Hezbollah's Aim http://www.nysun.com/foreign/islamic-republic-is-hezbollahs-aim/37184/ "An Open Letter: The Hezbollah Program," the terrorist organization's manifesto, was published by the Lebanese daily Al-Safir on February 16, 1985. It emphasized "the necessity for the destruction of Israel," as well as Hezbollah's other main objective, an Islamic regime in Lebanon with laws based on Shariah and with non-Muslims called upon to "embrace Islam." Details | Report |
The New York Times± French Court Orders a Ban on Hezbollah-Run TV Channel http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/international/europe/14france.html France's highest administrative court, the Council of State, moved decisively on Monday to ban the television channel Al Manar, ruling that the Beirut-based outlet had repeatedly violated the country's hate laws and ignored its own pledge to avoid making anti-Semitic statements. Details | Report |
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