Egypt Accuses Hezbollah of Plotting Attacks and Arms Smuggling to Gaza

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nytimes.com - 4/15/2009

Egypt Accuses Hezbollah of Plotting Attacks and Arms Smuggling to Gaza

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CAIRO Egypt released new details on Monday of what it said was a Hezbollah plot to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip , to attack Israeli tourist sites in the Sinai Peninsula and to fire on ships in the Suez Canal. Officials said the police were hunting for 10 Lebanese suspects believed to be ...

latimes.com - 4/13/2009

Lebanon's Hezbollah savors increasing legitimacy - Los Angeles Times

— latimes.com — "All political, social and jihad work is tied to the decisions of this leadership," he said. "The... same leadership that directs the parliamentary and government work also leads jihad actions in the struggle against Israel." To the alarm of Israel and ... (more) Lebanon's Hezbollah savors increasing legitimacy - Los ...

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michaeltotten.com - 4/13/2009

Hezbollah's Mushroom Cloud

— michaeltotten.com — Christopher Hitchens recently went to a rally in the suburbs south of Beirut and found Hezbollah ratcheting... up its belligerence. A huge poster of a nuclear mushroom cloud surmounts the scene, "he wrote in the May issue of Vanity ... (more) Hezbollah's Mushroom Cloud

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city-journal.org - 4/9/2009

Lebanon on Tenterhooks

— city-journal.org — With June elections looming, hope coexists with fear. (more) Lebanon on Tenterhooks

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NY Times: Hezbollah Not Terrorist, Just a 'Military, Political and Social Organization'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... I feel safer already: There was an interesting omission from New York Times reporter Michael Slackman's story from Cairo on Tuesday, "Egypt ...

When Is A Terrorist Group Not A Terrorist Group?
Rhymes With Right — When the New York Times does an article on it! Egypt released new details on Monday of what it said was a Hezbollah plot to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip, to attack Israeli tourist sites in the Sinai Peninsula and to fire on ships in the Suez Canal. Officials said the police were hunting for 10 Lebanese suspects believed to be hiding in the mountainous terrain of central Sinai. The case gained wide attention after Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, acknowledged on Friday that he had sent an agent to Egypt to organize assistance for the Palestinians in their fight with ...

Setting The Stage In Cairo
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... . His administration has told China not to sweat human rights. Democracy in Afghanistan is not a cause for which America will fight, and [President of Egypt] Hosni Mubarak--ally of Israel and increasing bulwark against Iran--will apparently be spared too many inconvenient questions about his police state. To be sure, this is at least a defensible global posture for a militarily and economically weakened United States that confronts massive problems around the world. The interesting question is whether Obama can be honest about these tradeoffs in his speech on ...