UN Observers cannot be reached for a comment.

wonder if they can get some CAS from down south?

Yes! Now Israel must STOMP hizbollah.

Quagmire!

I pray that I get the chance to see Hezbollah running like dogs with their tails between their legs. Although, I doubt the MSM would show that...

Hezbollah has demanded that the government of Lebanon withdraw to an area south of the Litani River.

Quick!

Call the UN!

What?

No Joos?

Oh, forget it then.

Where is Nasrallah? Legitimate target area where ever he even if inside a mosque.

Well this story can't be true - we've got all those French led UNIFIL forces there!
/

Where's the UN condemnation?

They're still looking into it.

The Iranian Empire is experiencing growing pains.

"Pro-government gunmen"? Is the press so PC they won't even differentiate between terrorist insurgents and a government's own soldiers?

Send in O-Bomber and his man the Rev. to save the day.

Again, notice the relative silence of the MSM compared to if Israel was takin it to hizbALLAH

the rop never takes a rest from death and destruction.
europe open your eyes.

Here we go again.

Is it too much to hope that between the Lebanese army and Israel, this time, Hezbollah and company can be suppressed?

re: #13 Lizard by the Bay

"Pro-government gunmen"? Is the press so PC they won't even differentiate between terrorist insurgents and a government's own soldiers?

"Pro-government gunpersons"?

re: #18 Peacekeeper

"Pro-government gunpersons"?

"Pro-goverment people of firearms"

re: #13 Lizard by the Bay

Yes.

Back to work.

Fighters from Hezbollah and the allied Amal group exchanged assault rifle fire and rocket-propelled grenades with pro-government gunmen in several areas of the capital in the worst domestic fighting since the 1975-90 civil war.

What they meant to say is that terrorists and their supporters exchanged fire with the government's military and civilians caught in the crossfire.

Hizbullah is trying to wrap themselves up in the flag, but they're not above completely stomping all over the flag, the government, and anyone who stands in their way of completely dominating Hizbullahland.

I have no doubt that UNIFIL will be ineffectual in making Hizbullah lay down its arms.

I also suspect that this is timed to coincide with the ongoing operations in Iraq, where Iranian puppet Mookie Sadr is getting packing by Iraqi and US forces from Basra and Iranian minions are about to feel the heat in Sadr City in Baghdad. The Iranians need to get the upper hand, and stirring things up in Lebanon courtesy of their proxy army Hizbullah favors them.

A Hezbollah communications network would mean a ton of trouble and most likely the takeover of Lebanon. Looks like another cycle in this endless war.

My friend's dad restarted a boat (pleasure craft) repairing facility near the northernmost part of Beirut. He had been gone from Lebanon since the early 80's.

He left Lebanon again last year, to return to Virginia. He said he was homesick for Lebanon, but this wasn't the Lebanon he was homesick for anymore.

re: #15 Ben Hur

? This story is just off the wires. How could todays msm have these headlines?

So, are the Leftists and Euroweenies, pausing for a second and asking themselves, "The Lebanese don't like hizbALLAH? Have we been theorizing and speaking over the heads of yet another countries' citizens?"

re: #24 threecoloursblue

? This story is just off the wires. How could todays msm have these headlines?

Are you kidding me?

re: #19 vxbush

"Bitter, clingy pro-government people of firearms"

/fixed that for ya!

What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me I don't give a damn!
The next stop is Iran!
/sarc

Think the Lebanese government is going to refer to the RoP?

You know, I find myself caring less and less when the Middle East sets itself on fire and dances around. As long as they keep it at home, it's just a chance to watch a performance of barbarians.

*sits back with popcorn*

re: #7 Peacekeeper

Hezbollah has demanded that the government of Lebanon withdraw to an area south of the Litani River.

Tell me that I'm miissing something. The party of Allah is demanding that the government withdraw to a place of Hezbollahs choosing.
Have I got that? this is nuckin futs.

Maybe they're just celebrating...at each other.

re: #24 threecoloursblue

? This story is just off the wires. How could todays msm have these headlines?

And note, of course, that "the wires" don't count as mainstream.

re: #25 Ben Hur

So, are the Leftists and Euroweenies, pausing for a second and asking themselves, "The Lebanese don't like hizbALLAH? Have we been theorizing and speaking over the heads of yet another countries' citizens?"

They've never worried about it before, so my guess is no, they're not.

UN Peacekeepers doing their job

re: #26 Ben Hur

No.

re: #32 Cognito

And note, of course, that "the wires" don't count as mainstream.

Do yo ualso think that this story "just broke?"

re: #17 Dianna

Hezbollah and company can be suppressed

I'm into toleration - how about compressed?

Fierce clashes raged in Beirut on Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its communications network

This is an edit from yesterday's template, when they said "US backed" instead of "supported", making it equal in strength with the Iranian backing, and had it in the first paragraph, with "Iranian backed" in the second.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Supporters of Lebanon's U.S.-backed government fought gun battles in Beirut on Wednesday with gunmen loyal to the Hezbollah-led opposition, escalating the country's worst internal crisis since the 1975-90 civil war.

Supporters of Iranian-backed Hezbollah blocked main roads in the Lebanese capital with blazing tires, old cars and heaps of earth, paralyzing the city and cutting routes to its sea and air ports.

I called them on it. Hey Reuters, you DO read lgf.

re: #25 Ben Hur

So, are the Leftists and Euroweenies, pausing for a second and asking themselves, "The Lebanese don't like hizbALLAH? Have we been theorizing and speaking over the heads of yet another countries' citizens?"

More likely they're lamenting the fact they can't get along with each other long enough to attack Israel.

re: #36 Ben Hur

if it ain't baroque don't fix it. I always say.

This has been out there for at least 24 hours.

May hizbullah get their ass handed to them, inshallah.

the U.S.-supported Lebanese government

Rueters calls the Lebanese government "US supported" to make it tough for Lefties to decide which side to sympathize with.

re: #13 Lizard by the Bay

"Pro-government gunmen"? Is the press so PC they won't even differentiate between terrorist insurgents and a government's own soldiers?

I don't think the press is to be blamed, in this instance. From what I understand, the Future Group is doing the fighting now. Not soldiers.

re: #37 Cap'n DOC,

I'm not into toleration - how about exterminated?

re: #39 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

If Hizbollah and the Lebanese government are fighting, if Fatah and Hamas are fighting, it's Israel and the US's fault.

You know how it goes.

No word from the UN on the situation in Lebanon, despite the 2d day in a row of terrorist clashes with the sovereign government of Lebanon.

http://www.un.org/news/dh/pdf/english/2008/0705200 8.pdf - nada
http://www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites.shtml - nil
http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp - zilch

And what about UNIFIL?

Their last presser was in early April. - http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unifil/unifi lpress.htm

Their area of operation? Hizbullahland.

re: #45 Iron Fist

,

I'm not into toleration - how about exterminated?

that would be a nice change....

re: #32 Cognito

Yeh...and it's Reuters. Not a blogger in sight!

re: #46 Kalak

If (anything is happening), it's Israel and the US's fault.

You know how it goes.

My edit, you're mileage may very.

re: #36 Ben Hur

Do yo ualso think that this story "just broke?"

And do you really think this story hasn't been covered since it did break?

How many examples of coverage would you like me to cite?

re: #15 Ben Hur

I'm just waiting till the MSM finds some convoluted way to tie these Terrorist acts by Hiz'b'allah to Israel's 60th.

When the Phakestinians lived in Lebanon they tried a coup.
When the Phakestinaisn lived in Jordan they tried a coup.
When the Islamists were in Iran they accomplished a coup.
When the Islamists are in Lebanaon they tried a coup.
When the Islamists are in Israel they attempt a coup.
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...
...

re: #43 Ringo the Gringo

Ringo is right. But I'll bet my boopie that the left will suport Hezbollah.
They never miss a chance to pile on the U.S.

Too bad there are Christians there

otherwise let them go at each other

Excuse me but are you two now going to ignore my answer because you were both wrong?

re: #29 Kalak

Think the Lebanese government is going to refer to the RoP?

You know, I find myself caring less and less when the Middle East sets itself on fire and dances around. As long as they keep it at home, it's just a chance to watch a performance of barbarians.

*sits back with popcorn*

really, most of us could also care less save for one redeeming country...Israel...they are our ally; our friend. Sometimes that not a good thing...to be our ally...but most of us put up with the rest of the vermin there for Israel....that's why it matters.

I do not bthink that we can afford to wait any longer for the election of Barry Obama.
He should dispatch himself immediately to Lebanon. I am sure that he would quell the disturbance & get these men to feel tingly legs ala Chris Matthews

re: #51 Cognito

And do you really think this story hasn't been covered since it did break?

How many examples of coverage would you like me to cite?

I was question the veracity of the coverage.

If that's the correct term to use for my initial post which was to compare how the MSM would be treating this if it was Israel attacking Hizballah.

'What in the Hayell is all this shootin' fer? Somebody step on a Ko-ran?"

re: #52 WrathofG-d

I'm just waiting till the MSM finds some convoluted way to tie these Terrorist acts by Hiz'b'allah to Israel's 60th.

When the Phakestinians lived in Lebanon they tried a coup.
When the Phakestinaisn lived in Jordan they tried a coup.
When the Islamists were in Iran they accomplished a coup.
When the Islamists are in Lebanaon they tried a coup.
When the Islamists are in Israel they attempt a coup.
...
...
...
...

I think I see a pattern here...

Why doesn't Israel just send in a team to take out Nasrallah?

With any luck the hizbollah will get their ass handed to them again. Of course the MSM will spin it as a major victory again. Just like last time. Israel needs a better pr department if you ask me. Someone who is willing to kick some butt

re: #57 opnion

Oy VEY !

re: #57 opnion

Go right away Barry, take Pelosi & Carter as well

re: #53 Filala

How does the left mentally figure in the fact that they hate guns, but Hezbollah, Hamas and the rest of their loved ones love guns soooooo much that they'll fire AKs at wars, at parties, at weddings, at the sky, at each other, at random buildings, like a particularly lethal noisemaker?

And of course, when those rounds come back down in a parabola and kill a kid, they've magically transformed into Israeli bullets in midair.

re: #54 Ojoe

Too bad there are Christians there

otherwise let them go at each other

someone needs to teach them an old concept.....

LEAVE!

re: #60 Izzy Dunne

I think I see a pattern here...

Me, too! They all had guns! We need global, UN-mandated gun control, stat!

re: #51 Cognito

And do you really think this story hasn't been covered since it did break?

How many examples of coverage would you like me to cite?

And I was responding the Three COlors Blue's claim that this story "just came off the wires."

That's all.

It's been happening for TWO DAYS.

In less the 24 hours after Israel was attacked by hizbALLAH, the MSM was all over ISrael.

Calling Jimmy Carter...Calling Jimmy Carter...Please report to Southern Lebanon to save us all from destruction.

Actually Carter probably thinks this is a good thing...you know...freedom fighters against an occupying force...oh, wait, that's Iraq...this government is as legitimate as the day is long...

Hey Jimmy, how about some Habitat for Humanity in downtown Hiz-shizzle?

re: #67 Occasional Reader

Me, too! They all had guns! We need global, UN-mandated gun control, stat!

They need to raise the tax on a pack of bullets...

re: #66 paxnhymn

Well they would be safer elsewhere

It is all a tragedy even so

re: #65 Kalak

The lefties have a mental disorder.

re: #43 Ringo the Gringo

Rueters calls the Lebanese government "US supported" to make it tough easy for Lefties to decide which side to sympathize with.

Yup.

re: #65 Kalak

It's that eeeeeeeeeeeevil kabalah magic that makes those random bullets into muslim-seeking missiles, that never fail to find their mark.

re: #56 paxnhymn

Oh, I know. I mean when they're not bothering Israel, just having little wars of attrition between factions and blowing up their own towns.

I really could care less anymore. They just seem to want to take a dump where they live, and then blame other people for the smell.

re: #17 Dianna

Here we go again.

Is it too much to hope that between the Lebanese army and Israel, this time, Hezbollah and company can be suppressed?

You're assuming quite a bit that Israel will get into this fight. Hizbullah might attempt still more attacks against Israel, to goad Israel into acting, but I don't see Israel fighting alongside the Lebanese government at this time. Especially with the Olmert government. They'd much rather give away territory at a negotiating table and call it peace even as the terrorists plot to use that very land as a launching pad for war against Israel.

I thought I was clear in my first post.

Maybe it wasn't

re: #65 Kalak

How does the left mentally figure

Somethings wrong with this phrase. Hmmmm...what could it be?

re: #64 Ojoe

Go right away Barry, take Pelosi & Carter as well

Now thats a swat team of hard core negotiators.

re: #52 WrathofG-d

I'm just waiting till the MSM finds some convoluted way to tie these Terrorist acts by Hiz'b'allah to Israel's 60th.

When the Phakestinians lived in Lebanon they tried a coup.
When the Phakestinaisn lived in Jordan they tried a coup.
When the Islamists were in Iran they accomplished a coup.
When the Islamists are in Lebanaon they tried a coup.
When the Islamists are in Israel they attempt a coup.
...
...
...
...

Don't forget Tunisia.

just waiting to hear how its the jews fault.

UNIFIL's supply line runs through Beirut, this should be interesting.

re: #79 opnion

Now thats a swat team of hard core negotiators.

Amateurs. Send Michelle Obama and sit back and watch the fun...

re: #66 paxnhymn

someone needs to teach them an old concept.....

LEAVE!

Many of them have left- and what good has it done but teach the islamists that their tactics work?

re: #79 opnion

Their great diplomatic coup will win them the election

/ sarc

I'm going to develop a hotel in Dearborn.

It is so true that where muslims go they foul the nest. When they put the PLO in Lebabnon, the place wen tot pot. Can they place nice with anyone? - (Already know the answer to that..)

I like the US Supported crap.
Elected government of a country = US supported.
Terrorist Group = Iranian Backed

re: #67 Occasional Reader

Me, too! They all had guns! We need global, UN-mandated gun control, stat!

How true, Chicago is gun free. Hey, its the law, so no gun violence.

re: #55 Ben Hur

It's all over the newspapers, the BBC , Sky News, France24 etc etc. You're only wakening up.
I've got a 14 para piece in front of me in the Irish Times. I wasn't ignoring you.

re: #75 Kalak

Oh, I know. I mean when they're not bothering Israel, just having little wars of attrition between factions and blowing up their own towns.

I really could care less anymore. They just seem to want to take a dump where they live, and then blame other people for the smell.

you are more right than you know..ever been to an Arab nation? With the sporadic exception of a resort area, most are like giant cat boxes.

re: #68 Ben Hur

You should do yourself a favor and not respond to 3coloursBlue in regards to Israel, Middle East issues.

In my experience it has been futile and frustrating.

Good news. Hopefully the government troops carry the day.

Who knows, if they get enough of an upper hand, they may just decide to end this little Hezbollah problem once and for all. Of course, we probably won't get that lucky.

re: #78 BrianA

They have no mental?

re: #83 brainwizard73

Amateurs. Send Michelle Obama and sit back and watch the fun...

They would have her in a burqua, fetching flaffels.

re: #86 Ben Hur

I'm going to develop a hotel in Dearborn.

Settler!

...Hezbollah said the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its communications network.

That would be the Orwellian nightmare communications network, otherwise known as the Hezb'allah local intelligence-gathering network, right?

re: #92 Yashmak

Good news. Hopefully the government troops carry the day.

Who knows, if they get enough of an upper hand, they may just decide to end this little Hezbollah problem once and for all. Of course, we probably won't get that lucky.

No- sadly, syria and iran would likely sent in reinforcements/replacements.

re: #94 opnion

fetching flaffels. waffels.

re: #84 Sharmuta

Many of them have left- and what good has it done but teach the islamists that their tactics work?

there's a point of no return...that's Lebanon. When the Christian majority tilted it was over for them. The only thing the remaining Christians are regarded as are targets of opportunity.

re: #98 Ojoe

fetching flaffels. waffels.

Heh.

Lebanese government to Hizballah: "Can't I just have my falafel?"

re: #61 MandyManners

Why doesn't Israel just send in a team to take out Nasrallah?

Because they know Nasrallah is a puppet of Iran. Why waste resources on puppets? Go for the puppet master.

"We remain gravely concerned about the potential for further escalation of the situation," U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen

Translation - "UN Springs into Action"

re: #97 Sharmuta

No- sadly, syria and iran would likely sent in reinforcements/replacements.

And then if Israel gets involved, THEY will be the intruding imperialists.

re: #95 Cognito

Settler!

Now that's funny!LOL!

re: #94 opnion

They would have her in a burqua, fetching flaffels.

When asked how the peace negotiations were going, Michelle Obama replied, "hey, can't I just eat my flaffel?"

re: #100 Occasional Reader

Obama should say "can't I just eat my falafel?"

re: #101 Kenneth

Because they know Nasrallah is a puppet of Iran. Why waste resources on puppets? Go for the

re: #100 Occasional Reader

Heh.

Lebanese government to Hizballah: "Can't I just have my falafel?"

The International House of Pancakes is sending in a peacekeeping force.

re: #108 Peacekeeper

The International House of Pancakes is sending in a peacekeeping force.

Ah, the fearsome Blue Spatulas.

BEN HUR!

Who loves ya kid?

re: #109 Occasional Reader

Ah, the fearsome Blue Spatulas.

ROFLMAO!

I hope green Helmet Guy ^TM is keeping low, as well as Screaming Fatima.

re: #108 Peacekeeper

The International House of Pancakes is sending in a peacekeeping force.

I suspect it would do a better job than the UN does.

re: #105 brainwizard73

When asked how the peace negotiations were going, Michelle Obama replied, "hey, can't I just eat my flaffel?"

Imagine her pulling her typical Whine over there. You know , she feels bad about her SAT scores, she was not comfortable with the White Libs in college, she was not wealthy as a kid, blah, blah, blah.
How would that go?

re: #109 Occasional Reader

Ah, the fearsome Blue Spatulas.

Spank you blind man.