TagsTagsMajor clashes in Iran between protesters and government forces: Iranian police have fired tear gas at opposition supporters participating in a rally in the centre of the capital, Tehran, called in solidarity with the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. A BBC producer, who was affected by the gas, said there ...
Egypt, Tunisia, Protests, Demonstrations, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Iran
Signs of anti-government unrest are appearing throughout the Middle East, in places like Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. This is an amazing moment in history.
Egypt, Tunisia, Protests, Demonstrations, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan
Here's an Associated Press video report on today's clash between Lebanese and Israeli soldiers that resulted in four dead: [Video] UPDATE at 8/3/10 1:55:10 pm: UNIFIL says IDF activity did not warrant Lebanese fire: UNIFIL forces who toured the site of Tuesday's deadly exchanges of fire on the northern border said the IDF's ...
If this report turns out to be accurate, it will be a very dangerous escalation in the Mideast conflict: Hezbollah probably has Scud missiles: US senator. WASHINGTON — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has most likely acquired Scud missiles and improved its rocket-firing technology to the point of real danger ...
Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Scud Missiles, Hezbollah, Hisballah, Hesbollah
Israel has been quietly developing an anti-missile system that really works, at least on the small scale — when you have hostile groups living right next door with no compunctions about using missiles to kill people indiscriminately: Israel says tests on Iron Dome missile shield have been a success. Israel ...
Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Palestinians, Hamas, Terrorism, Missile Defense
The IDF has uploaded a video presentation showing the huge shipment of weaponry from Iran, intended for Hezbollah, that was intercepted this week by an Israel Navy commando force aboard the civilian ship Francop. [Video]
Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Smuggling, Weapons Smuggling, Hezbollah, Terrorism
Just posted at the IDF’s YouTube page: On October 12, 2009, there was an explosion at a Hezbollah weapons storehouse in Tayr Filsay, in southern Lebanon. This aerial footage, taken shortly after the explosion, shows Hezbollah operatives closing down the area around the warehouse, driving in two trucks and removing ...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Weapons, Smuggling, Terrorism, Israel, Video
Here’s some unexpected praise that made my morning, in a Jerusalem Post article on an Israeli proposal to give some bloggers journalist credentials. The Government Press Office (GPO) is considering granting leading bloggers press credentials equal to those of journalists and reporters. Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to the prime minister, ...
Here’s your chance to get your name in Michael J. Totten’s new book.
In another excellent column, Michael J. Totten interviews the vice president of Lebanon’s Kataeb (Phalangist) Party: Where the Middle East Fights Its Wars. I visited Lebanon after wrapping up my last trip to Iraq, and was pleasantly surprised all over again by how much nicer Beirut is than Baghdad despite ...
It’s just Jimmy Carter again, doing what he does — monitoring elections and hugging extremist leaders. US President Barack Obama’s speech reaching out to Muslims had strong points, Lebanon’s most influential Shi’ite cleric told former president Jimmy Carter, but people were waiting for real results. Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah ...
Pro-western parties have won an important victory against Hezbollah in Lebanon: Lebanon’s pro-Western majority declares victory. BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s pro-Western coalition declared victory early Monday, as local television stations reported the faction had successfully fended off a serious challenge by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah and its allies to ...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Fuad Saniora, Democracy, Hizballah, Elections
Spiegel Online has an article with detailed information on the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri — imagine my surprise to learn that New Evidence Points to Hezbollah in Hariri Murder. SPIEGEL has learned from sources close to the tribunal and verified by examining internal ...
Hillary Clinton has assured Lebanese President Michael Suleiman that the US will never sell out Lebanon. BEIRUT (AP) — Ahead of an election that could oust the U.S.-backed Beirut government, America’s top diplomat said Sunday that Washington supports “voices of moderation” and never will make a deal [with] Syria that ...
Lebanon, Syria, Bashar Assad, Baathism, Hezbollah, Hillary Clinton, Michael Suleiman
You mean there are people who actually believe that chinless Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has suddenly become a “peacemaker?” Bashar Assad the peacemaker? Think again. In the last two or three years, a number of old arguments regarding Syria have again become fashionable. One of them is that peace with ...
Christopher Hitchens finally files a report on his run-in with fascist thugs in Beirut, as part of a longer essay on The Swastika and the Cedar. As Arab thoroughfares go, Hamra Street in the center of Beirut is probably the most chic of them all. International in flavor, cosmopolitan in ...
Iran has thoughtfully sent a shipment of food to the Nahr al-Bared “refugee camp” in Lebanon (a refugee camp that has existed for decades), a stronghold of militant Islam. But the Palestinians in the camp are refusing to eat the food. Why? Because the Lebanese Army used sniffer dogs to search ...
Here’s Michael Totten’s account of Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut. Christopher was encircled by four or five of them. They were geared up to smash him, and I reached for his hand to pull him away. One of the toughs clawed at my arm and left me with ...
Christopher Hitchens, Lebanon, Syria, SSNP, Michael J. Totten
More evidence was announced Friday that Syria is running a clandestine nuclear program: Syria samples reveal more uranium. The UN nuclear agency says it has found additional particles of uranium in samples taken from the site of an alleged nuclear facility in Syria. Syria denied the site was a nuclear reactor ...
Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, IAEA
Lurch says: “We want Syria to help with the disarmament of Hezbollah.” BEIRUT (AFP) – Senator John Kerry said on Wednesday that the new US administration will press Syria to help disarm Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as it forges ahead with a fresh diplomatic approach in the region. “We want Syria ...
Christopher Hitchens is visiting Lebanon, and apparently was attacked and beaten by pro-Syrian neo-Nazis after he wrote some ... unflattering graffiti on an SSNP poster: Hot Air: Report: Hitchens beaten by Syrian thugs in Beirut? Some Hot Air commenters are applauding the SSNP thugs. UPDATE at 2/18/09 2:55:38 pm: Looks like Michael Totten ...
It might be the first peer-reviewed study that begins with the words, “OK, now things are getting weird.” Reviewing Fauxtography: A blog-driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity. Abstract During the Israel–Hezbollah War of 2006, bloggers caught Reuters publishing doctored images from Lebanon. Known by bloggers as ...
Fauxtography, Reuters, Academia, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Media Bias
The Hezbollah propaganda channel Al-Manar has finally been banned in Germany. BERLIN – Germany’s Interior Ministry has banned Hezbollah’s television station on grounds that it violates the country’s constitution, a spokesman said Friday. Interior Ministry spokesman Markus Beyer said Al-Manar television programming was forbidden under Article 9 of Germany’s constitution, which ...
Lebanon, Al-Manar, Propaganda, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Terrorism, Germany
From The Corner, a letter from a reader points out another series of ludicrous statements from Joe Biden, just making up a bunch of total nonsense about Lebanon and the Hezbollah terror group. Joe Biden threw out a lot of bunk on foreign policy tonight, too bad Gov Palin didn’t ...
Omar Bakri’s British followers, including Anjam Chaudhary, participated in a jihad conference in London on September 14, broadcast on Lebanon’s LBC TV, featuring a telephone visit by Bakri himself. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Following are excerpts from an LBC TV report on Muslims in London commemorating 9/11 which aired on ...
9/11, Britian, Islam, Militant Islam, Al Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri, Lebanon, Al Qaeda