Jittery Hezbollah fires opening salvo in the battle for Lebanon

The assassination of Lebanon's internal intelligence chief in Beirut reflects Hezbollah's growing concern over its patron, Assad, and increasing demands within Lebanon to disarm the Shi'ite organization.

By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff | 01:03 21.10.12 |

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- By harco
- 02 Nov 2012
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disarm
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hezbollah must be ended for lebanon to live freely
- By commonsense
- 21 Oct 2012
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the sooner the better
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I prefer...
- By Steven Grumman
- 21 Oct 2012
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...having Hezbollah in the South of Lebanon as a buffer against Israel. After all, Israel has invaded us several times in the past and only Hezbollah has been able to kick them out!
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  @ steven ..Thats a nice spin....why dont you mention WHY Israel retaliated and attacked Lebanon?
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  Kick them out? Laughable and simply inaccurate
  - By Shirely
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  You know very well that Hezbollah had been moved by the Israelis north of the Latani and you know very well that Hezbollah's ugly asss was saved by the U.N. As to Hezbollah being a buffer, as the last point implies, no they are not. They are the cause of the last invasion. And every single invasion of Lebanon was an act of self defence because there were very significant threats fomenting violence or pepetrating violence against Israel. Israel have never has any intention of taking Lebanese land. On the contrary, prior to Lebanon ecoming a servant state of psycotic Iran and Hezbollah, Israel wanted nothing more than peace and tranquility. At this point, because of those two entitites and their control of the former Lebanon, I'm afraid that peace and tranquility is a pipe dream.
  
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  Right. Israel must be destroyed in the same way as it destroyed beautiful Lenbanon
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This article is worthless. There isn't a single ounce of hard evidence that Hezbollah is involved in the Syrian fighting
- By Farmer Zach
- 21 Oct 2012
- 01:46AM
I have been carefully following articles in many prestigious US and British newspapers regarding this subject. There have been many allegations, but many journalists admit that they are not based on hard evidence. As for the assassination, I find it hard to believe that Hezbollah would hand such a weapon to its enemies at this critical juncture. I find it much easier to believe that Israel is behind it.
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"Most people in Beirut believe that both Damascus and the Shi'ite organization were involved in the assassination"? You have made that up.
- By Rammer
- 21 Oct 2012
- 01:34AM
I would like some concrete evidence for every single allegation that this article makes about Hezbollah's active involvement in Syria's fighting. Lebanon is a small and tightly knit country. It is hardly likely that "many dozens" of them would die without being noticed.
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Jittery Hezbollah fires opening salvo in the battle for Lebanon

The assassination of Lebanon's internal intelligence chief in Beirut reflects Hezbollah's growing concern over its patron, Assad, and increasing demands within Lebanon to disarm the Shi'ite organization.

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