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Syria Syria Criticizes U.S. Warship Deployment Off Lebanon as "Muscle Flexing" -- Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Saturday that a U.S. Navy deployment off the coast of Lebanon threatens security in the region and warned the United States it cannot impose its own solution to the long-running political crisis in Lebanon. Link 3/1/2008
German Trains Cologne Suitcase Bombers Get Long Sentences -- A court in Beirut has sentenced one of the two Lebanese men who planted suitcase bombs on German trains last year to 12 years in jail. The other one was sentenced in absentia to life in prison. The crudely-made bombs didn't go off but prosecutors argued they could have killed many people. Link 12/18/2007
Islamofascism Blacks, Slavery, Islam -- On September 18, Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV labeled U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a "black snake." Link 9/23/2007
Al-Aqsa TV Black Snake Moan -- On September 18, Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV labeled U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a "black snake." The phrase is circled in the above image. Link 9/19/2007
James Abourezk Former U.S. Sen. James Abourezk on Hizbullah TV -- The Arabs Involved in 9/11 Were Cooperating with the Zionists; People in America Don't Really Look at it That Deeply - They Accept What the Government and the Press Are Saying. Link 9/7/2007
James Abourezk Video: Former US Senator on Hizballah TV -- A few days ago, former Democratic Senator James Abourezk (who represented South Dakota from 1973 until 1979, and founded the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee) visited Lebanon and appeared on the terrorist group Hizballah’s Al-Manar TV (banned in the US), telling a fully-veiled interviewer that Arabs involved in the 9/11 attacks “cooperated with the Zionists,” the Israel lobby controls US Congress, Hamas and Hizballah are “resistance fighters,” and Americans are all racists. Link 9/7/2007
Hezbollah Hizbullah Has Big Surprises in Store -- Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said his organization was not interested in another bout of fighting with Israel, but, that if such a conflict were to break out, the Israelis would be faced with "larger surprises" than in last year's war. http://Link 8/15/2007
Fatah al-Islam White House Labels Lebanese Islamist Group "Terrorist Organization" -- The Bush administration has blacklisted as a "foreign terrorist organization" a Lebanese Islamist group blamed for major fighting at a refugee camp. http://Link 8/11/2007
Hezbollah Hizballah Child Abuse -- Young Lebanese Hezbollah supporters carry models of Katyusha and RPG rockets launchers, in front of a portrait of Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, and Shiite Muslim spiritual leader Imam Moussa Sadr who disappeared on a trip to Libya in 1978, right, during a rally in Saksakkiyeh village, southern Lebanon, Sunday July 22, 2007. http://Link 7/22/2007
Islamofascism Bomb Hits U.N. Peacekeepers in Lebanon -- A roadside bomb planted in Lebanon's coastal south exploded Monday near a U.N. post as a peacekeeping vehicle drove past, the second attack targeting the force in less than a month. No one was hurt. http://Link 7/16/2007
Fatah al-Islam Death Toll Climbs as Army Closes In on Islamists in Lebanon -- Lebanese troops closed in on positions of die-hard Islamists holed up in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday after two days of heavy fighting in which 11 soldiers were killed. The troops traded machinegun fire with militiamen of Fatah al-Islam in Nahr al-Bared camp, which came under heavy army bombardment early Saturday. http://Link 7/14/2007
Fatah al-Islam The Rise of Fatah al-Islam --The sudden outbreak of fighting between the Lebanese Army and Fatah al-Islam in late May has touched off a flurry of conspiracy theories about the meteoric rise of this shadowy terrorist group. Supporters of Lebanon's ruling March 14 coalition typically allege that the militant fundamentalist organization is an "imitation al-Qaeda" secretly controlled by the secular Baathist regime of neighboring Syria,[1] while those on the other side of the political divide allege that Fatah al-Islam is a creation of Lebanon's ruling coalition. http://Link 7/10/2007
Islamofascism Possible Eruption of Violent Crisis in Lebanon After July 15 -- In the past few days, Arab and Iranian media reports have pointed to the possibility that Lebanon's current political crisis may become a violent conflict after July 15, 2007. http://Link 7/6/2007
Al-Qaeda Detainee May Be Terror Group Chief -- A former Sydney taxi driver detained in Lebanon on suspicion of having links to terrorists has been identified as a possible leader of the al-Qa'ida-linked outfit, Fatah al-Islam. http://Link 6/28/2007
Jihad Immigration & Jihad -- How should the war effect U. S. immigration policies? Robert Spencer looks at Lebanon’s choice to stop granting visas-on-entry to Arabs to prevent jihadis from entering, as it points the way toward a sane US immigration policy. http://Link 6/13/2007
Al-Qaeda Militants Throw Rivals Off High-Rise Gaza Buildings -- Rival Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza on Sunday, killing two militants by throwing them out of high-rise buildings. http://Link 6/12/2007
Hezbollah Hizballah Digs In and Rearms Under the Watchful Eye of the U. N. -- The Iranian-backed militia has built a network of underground military bunkers under the feet of United Nations peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon, rebuilt its fighting capability and Israeli intelligence now estimates that it has stockpiled 20,000 rockets. http://Link 6/10/2007
Al-Qaeda Defiant Islamists in New Threat -- Islamist militants locked in a standoff with the Lebanese army threatened to widen attacks as tanks and helicopter gunships pounded their strongholds inside an impoverished refugee camp. http://Link 6/9/2007
Hezbollah IDF Intelligence Research Chief Confirms Hizballah Is Rebuilding Strongholds South of Litani and Preparing for a Summer War -- http://Link 6/4/2007
Al-Qaeda As Crises Build, Lebanese Fearful of a Failed State -- A few miles from Mona Abboud's bookstore in Tripoli, passengers in cars ducked below the dashboard as volleys of gunfire resounded like a jackhammer Monday. Earlier in the day, more clashes erupted at a Palestinian refugee camp three hours from here. By nightfall, a bomb had gone off in a Christian suburb of the capital, Beirut, the fourth in less than a month. http://Link 6/4/2007
Al-Qaeda Clashes erupt at Lebanon camp -- "This is a terrorist gang," Prime Minister Siniora said in an interview with Al-Arabiya television. "They have to surrender themselves and their arms." http://Link 6/3/2007
Al-Qaeda Lebanon Army Tightens Grip Around Al-Qaeda -- Battles raged around a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday as Lebanese troops tightened the noose around al Qaeda-inspired militants holed up there. Security sources said elite forces dislodged Fatah al-Islam militants from some front positions and destroyed several sniper nests on the northern edge of Nahr al-Bared while artillery batteries pounded the camp. http://Link 6/1/2007
Al-Qaeda Lebanese Army Masses Around Refugee Camp -- Under the cover of artillery barrages, dozens of Lebanese army tanks and armored carriers moved toward a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon Friday in pursuit of Islamic militants holed up inside. http://Link 6/1/2007
Al-Qaeda New Fighting Breaks Out At Lebanon Refugee Camp -- The army clashed with al Qaeda-linked Islamic fighters in a Palestinian refugee camp Tuesday, breaking a weeklong truce. Lebanon's government said it's determined to defeat the militants but remains willing to give mediation a chance. http://Link 5/30/2007
Al-Qaeda Fatah Al Islam: A New breed of Al Qaida -- Some observers say that the 200-300 fighters holed up inside Nahr Al Bared Palestinian refugee camp, and seemingly preparing for a protracted battle with Lebanon's Army, are adherents of Osama Bin Laden, part of a new generation of extremists tied to Al Qaida. http://Link 5/29/2007
Al-Qaeda MI Chief: Dozens, Maybe Hundreds, of al-Qaeda Operative Arrived In Lebanon -- Military Intelligence Chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that dozens, if not hundreds, of al-Qaeda operative arrived in Lebanon lately. http://Link 5/29/2007
Islamofascism Jihadists Moving Into Lebanon From Syria --Heavily armed foreign jihadists have been entering Lebanon from Syria from around the time Western authorities noticed a drop in the infiltration of foreign fighters from Syria to Iraq, Lebanese officials say. http://Link 5/29/2007
Al-Qaeda Al Qaeda in Lebanon? -- Is there something sinister in the timing of the sudden surge of violence that erupted between the Lebanese army and an al Qaeda-affiliated group called Fatah Islam around the northern city of Tripoli? What is Fatah Islam? Who supports, arms and funds its members? And why did they suddenly manifest themselves so violently at this time? http://Link 5/26/2007
Al-Qaeda Al Qaeda vows "seas of blood" over Lebanon Palestinians -- A group calling itself al Qaeda's wing in the Levant vowed to carry out bombings in Lebanon and attacks on Christians unless Beirut pulled its army away from Palestinian refugee camps. http://Link 5/26/2007
Syria Fighting in Lebanon - Walid Phares with the Latest Analysis -- The Grand Syro-Iranian spring offensive has begun in Lebanon. The design is to drag the Lebanese Army into side - but costly - fights with group A, while group B is preparing itself for the next stage, possibly a summer offensive. http://Link 5/25/2007
Al-Qaeda Lebanon issues ultimatum to militants -- Lebanon's defense minister issued an ultimatum Wednesday to Islamic militants barricaded in this Palestinian refugee camp to surrender or face a military onslaught. http://Link 5/23/2007
Hezbollah Hezbollah and the political ecology of postwar Lebanon http://Link 5/22/2007
Al-Qaeda Lebanese army clashes with Islamist militants; 70 die http://Link 5/21/2007
Al-Qaeda Chaos In The Streets http://Link 5/21/2007
Fatah al-Islam A new face of Al Qaeda emerges in Lebanon http://Link 3/15/2007

                                    


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