Hizbullah and Colombian drug-traffickers

Colombia terminated a net dedicated to drug-trafficking and to money laundering in an international operation in which 111 people were detained, including three accused of sending money to Hizbullah, according to the General Prosecutor’s Office.

via Nihil Obstat: Hezbollah es finança amb diners de la droga de Colòmbia

No… you don’t say!!

Iran appoints successor to Mughniyeh

According to the report in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Hizbullahs new chief military commander is Muhammad Riza Zahdi, aka Hassan Mahdawi, who in the late 1980s served in the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.

According to the report, Zahdi will be in charge of coordinating weapons smuggling to Hizbullah from Syria as well as the construction of military positions in southern Lebanon. The paper said that the appointment was part of an Iranian plan to restructure Hizbullah in the wake of the Second Lebanon War.

via Israel Matzav: Iran appoints successor to Mughniyeh

Wow… Couldn’t this be considered as intervention in a foreign independent state?? How about UNIFIL in Lebanon doing something useful or just ending its mission there? Because they are doing effectively nothing….

Related posts:

• Israeli Rocket Attacks to be Legalised.
• Hezbullah accuses Israel over airspace violations.
• Iranian leader Ali Khamenei: Hizbullah will not be disarmed.
• An Iranian shipment for Hizbullah explodes.
• Breeding Evil: Hizbullah children.
• UN soldiers salute Hizbullah terrorists.
• Kantar in Lebanon.
• Israel-Hizbullah: the foolish swap.

Hezbollah using Lebanon’s period of calm to rearm

Iran is halfway to a nuclear bomb, and Hezbollah, Hamas and Syria are using the status-quo to significantly rearm, the head of the Israeli military intelligence research division said, according to media reports.

Hezbollah using Lebanon’s period of calm to rearm: report | Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from Beirut.

This is surprising (no, not the least…)… As these other news aren’t either:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are among several Arab leaders considered enemies of Al-Qaeda, according to a new video released by the terror network.

Their names are included on a list of enemies in the video released by Al-Qaeda’s production arm, al-Sahab, on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The old war between Sunni and Shiite Muslims continues…

Spanish FM: Hizbullah Weapons are Internal Lebanese Issue | EuropeNews

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé stated during his visit to Southern Lebanon, where he met with UNIFIL senior officers, that Hizbullah’s weapons was a strictly domestic issue, to which the Lebanese must find solutions independently, and that Hizbullah was part of Lebanese politics and government.

Spanish FM: Hizbullah Weapons are Internal Lebanese Issue | EuropeNews.

I’m not commenting because it does not need any comment, does it?

Once again there is an “escalation” of violence in Gaza

And Israelis are not the culprits:

The escalation proves once again that the word “fracture” is not strong enough to describe the Palestinian political situation. In a dual-world Palestine divided between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, there are different problems, different priorities, different governments and a deep divergence on the latest crisis.

Despite Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority efforts to keep business as usual, officials and observers fear the Gaza clashes could quickly spread to the West Bank and expose the ruling party’s internal divisions.

In Gaza, however, some analysts believe the Hamas military operation is being inflated by the foreign media and the instability is not as bad as it seems.

It was bad enough for more than 180 Palestinians — presumably Fatah members — who escaped the Strip and fled to Israel, following a special request from Fatah president Mahmoud Abbas to allow them to enter Israeli territory.

They had good reason to want to flee. Anyone taken prisoner by Hamas can expect harsh hospitality and a severe violation of human rights — and it’s not much better in the West Bank for Hamas activists. Last week, two human rights groups found that both groups have tortured prisoners, and that three prisoners have died in detention in Gaza and one in the West Bank.

Pajamas Media » Gaza’s Bloody Weekend.

But nothing of this makes the headlines….

Technorati Tags: Abuses+of+Human+Rights, Fatah, Gaza+Strip, Hamas, Hizbullah, Human+Rights+Abuses, israel, Mahmoud+Abbas, Palestinian+Authority

Israel Rocket Attacks To Be Legalised

Paramilitary group Hizbollah is about to receive approval from the Lebanese Government which will enshrine in law the firing of rockets into Israel.

If, as expected, a draft law is passed, then the Israelis might blame any future attacks on the Lebanese Government and not just Hizbollah.

Since the 2006 Hizbollah/Israel war ended, it is thought Hizbollah has been re-armed by Syria and Iran and now has up to 30,000, rockets some of which may be able to reach as far as Tel Aviv.

Under UN Resolution 1701, which ended the conflict, Hizbollah was supposed to disarm.

It never happened, and after a recent violent crisis in Lebanon Hizbollah now holds 11 of the 30 Cabinet positions.

It is using this position of strength to push a law through parliament legitimising its right to bear arms.

A draft of the law supports the “right of Lebanon’s people, the Army and the Resistance to liberate all its territories”.

Israel Rocket Attacks To Be Legalised – Yahoo! News UK.

If this happens, Lebanob will be a real terrorist state.

Related:

1. Hezbullah accuses Israel over airspace violations.
2. Iranian leader Ali Khamenei: Hizbullah will not be disarmed.
3. An Iranian shipment for Hizbullah explodes.
4. Breeding Evil: Hizbullah children.
5. UN soldiers salute Hizbullah terrorists.
6. Kantar in Lebanon.
7. Israel-Hizbullah: the foolish swap.

Technorati Tags: Hizbullah, Islamism, Israel, Lebanon, terrorism

Not Ready for my Burqua: The Growing Threat of Narco-Terror

With a great deal of attention focused of late on Hizbullah’s extensive arms buildup, little heed has been paid to yet another dangerous development taking place across the northern border: the resurgence of the drug trade in Lebanon.

Without much fanfare, the Shi’ite terrorist group has been presiding over an increase in the cultivation and production of illicit crops such as opium and hashish in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

And though the extent of the drug trafficking is still well below the levels reached during the heyday of the 1980s, it is nonetheless on the upswing once again.

That alone should have policymakers both in Israel and the West concerned, if only because the lucrative narcotics trade plays such an important role in financing Hizbullah’s network of terror and mayhem.

Not Ready for my Burqua: The Growing Threat of Narco-Terror.

Wherever there is a terror network, drug traffic appears: looks at Afghanistan… Yes, there are places where the incidency of drugs is not so important (Iraq) but that’s because the money coming from drugs is somwhere else (Afghanistan, Central Asia, Morocco…).

Technorati Tags: Bekaa+Valley, drug+trafficking, Hizbullah, Israel, Jihadism, Lebanon, terrorism

Hezbollah accuses Israel over airspace violations

“The Israeli enemy’s increase in violations of Lebanese airspace, water and land, especially in the past few days, is considered an unacceptable provocative escalation,” said a statement from the Islamic Resistance, Hezbollah’s military wing.

“It requires condemnation and serious action by the Lebanese authorities and the United Nations,” the Shiite militant group said, complaining of hundreds of breaches within a week.

“There has been a sharp increase in Israeli breaches of Lebanese airspace, water and land this month,” a Lebanese army official told AFP.

Hezbollah accuses Israel over airspace violations – Yahoo! News.

I would see normal that Lebanese Government complaint if these “alleged violations” had taken place. But Hizbullah????

Well, don’t get surprised:

Since Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora bowed to Hizbullah’s demands in Doha last month and agreed to grant the Iranian-controlled, Syrian-supported terror group control over his government, Lebanon has become an official agent of a terror group. That is, Lebanon, as a state, has become a sponsor of terror. But no one seems to notice or to care.

(…) All of Lebanon’s supposedly moderate leaders were at the Hizbullah-controlled Beirut airport to accord Kuntar a hero’s welcome. President Michel Suleiman embraced Kuntar – who crushed four-year-old Einat Haran’s skull – and his fellow terrorists as “our freed heroes.” Sa’ad Hariri, the head of the March 14th movement, referred to Kuntar’s release as “an historic day of joy.” Saniora hailed the corpses-for-murderers swap explaining, “The success of Hizbullah in the negotiations led by a third party is a national success for the party and for the struggle of the Lebanese because it secured national goals which Israel always refused to respect.” And Druse leader Walid Jumblatt hailed Kuntar’s release as “a national holiday.”

(…) ALL OF this is depressingly familiar. In many ways, the Saniora government is to Hizbullah in Lebanon what the Fatah terror group is to Hamas in the Palestinian Authority. As is the case in Lebanon, the US trains, finances and arms Fatah. It supports Fatah politically against Israel, claiming that Fatah has earned its support through its moderation relative to Hamas. But as events have shown repeatedly, Fatah is a terrorist organization and is only too happy to collude with Hamas in attacking Israel and to form governments with Hamas so long as Hamas doesn’t embarrass it too much.

Well, this is true and terrible…

Technorati Tags: Hizbullah, Israel, Lebanon, Siniora, Suleiman, Kantar, terrorism, Islamism, Jihadism

Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei: Hizbullah Will Not Be Disarmed

Khamenei: “The Zionists would like Lebanon to be meat between their teeth, so they could do to it whatever they want, whenever they want.

“Today, the strong arm of the Lebanese resistance and the Lebanese Hizbullah has prevented this nightmare of the Zionists from coming true. This is why the American president says Hizbullah must be disarmed. Yes, of course this is what you want. Of course this is what the Zionists want. But this will not happen.

“The Lebanese people value Hizbullah and the resistance, because they know it is this strong arm that has prevented the Zionists from doing whatever they want, whenever they want, to Lebanon.”

Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei; Hizbullah Will Not Be Disarmed « Morning Coffee.

Anyone still doubting of the Iranian support towards Hizbullah?

Technorati Tags: Hizbullah, terrorism, Israel, Lebanon, Ali+Khamenei, terrorism, Jihadism, violence

An Iranian shipment for Hizbullah explodes

The explosion took place in the Tehran suburb of Khavarshahar as the military convoy left a munitions’ warehouse controlled by the Revolutionary Guards. According to reports received by Western officials, the convoy was taking a consignment of military equipment to Hizbollah, the Shia Muslim militia Iran supports in southern Lebanon, when the explosion occurred.

Senior Revolutionary Guard commanders immediately imposed a news black-out following the explosion, even though it could be heard throughout the capital Tehran, and no details of the incident have so far appeared in the Iranian media.

But Western officials yesterday said they had received reports that the explosion took place in Tehran on July 19, and that the Revolutionary Guards had launched an investigation into the causes of the blast.

Right Truth: It’s dangerous shipping arms to Hezbollah.

Technorati Tags: Hizbullah, Iran, terrorism, explosion, Revolutionary+Guards, Iranian+Revolutionary+Guards

American Thinker: Breeding Evil: Hezb’allah’s Children

In an UN-brokered and decidedly unbalanced trade, Israel turned over the remains of 199 terrorists, the living Kantar and four others in exchange for the mutilated bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. Captured by Hezb’allah inside Israel in 2006, the young Israelis did not long survive capture by Hezb’allah, certainly not long enough to be exchanged. Kantar, however, was healthy, even portly as he received a red carpet welcome, with speeches and songs of victory. A large photo of a weeping Israeli woman was featured on the stage; there are no innocents in the ideology of Hezb’allah. All Jews must die, even four-year-old little girls. Katyusha rockets are gleefully aimed at Israeli schools, hospitals and apartment buildings.

Kantar was embraced and applauded; afterwards he gave a stiff-armed Nazi salute. It is the common salute of Hezb’allah. Mein Kampf is a best seller in the Muslim world.

We have all seen the pictures of children dressed as suicide bombers, the toddlers holding Kalashnikovs, the grade school students happily reciting poems glorifying genocide. The masked gunmen strutting for the cameras are teenagers, the fighters who launch rockets are in their early twenties. Whole generations have come of age without education, indoctrinated in an ideology of Islamic fanaticism and blind hatred, kept destitute and embittered, the most efficient way to breed terrorists. With the help of Syria and Iran, funding from Islamic nations and charities, and aid from the ever-gullible West, the perpetual “refugees” never build schools and hospitals, but arsenals that become ever more sophisticated.

American Thinker: Breeding Evil: Hezb’allah’s Children.

Yeah, but that doesn’t worry a bit: they are far away…

Technorati Tags: Hizbullah, terrorism, Lebanon, Israel, Nazi+salute, Kantar, Syria, Iran,

Un soldiers salute Hizbullah terrorists

like if they were another soldiers… And I thought UN troops were there to combat Hizbullah…

From AP (h/t LGF):U.N. soldiers salute as a tractor-trailer loaded with coffins of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters and bearing the picture of slain Hezbollah top leader Imad Mughniyeh, right, arrives in the southern city of Tyre, Lebanon, Thursday, July 17, 2008.

H/T Elder of Ziyon and Hodja.

Shameful. But I guess this salute was ordered to them… It’s curious their flag (and so their country) cannot be seen…

By the way, UNIFIL has defended the soldiers, who are thought to be from Italy though their identities have  not been made public.

Technorati Tags: UN, UNIFIL, UN+soldiers+salute+Hizbullah+coffins, Lebanon, Hizbullah

Britain bans Hizbullah military wing

Las Vegas Sun:

British lawmakers voted Tuesday to include the military wing of Lebanese-based group Hezbollah to Britain’s list of banned terrorist organizations, charging it supported terror activities in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.

The action by the House of Commons would make it a crime to join or support the military wing of the radical group, which fought a bloody month-long conflict with Israel two years ago.

Britain’s minister in charge of fighting terrorism Tony McNulty charged that the movement was linked to insurgent groups in Iraq that had attacked coalition soldiers.

“I can say unequivocally that Hezbollah’s military wing is providing active support to Shia militant groups in Iraq,” he said.

Lebanese blogger From Beirut to the Beltway is not happy about what is going on. Just read him to know the other side of the story: those people who are Lebanese and are not very happy with Hizbullah and Siniora’s treatment of Kantar.

Technorati Tags: UK, Great+Britain, Hizbullah, Hizbullah+military+wing

Kantar in Lebanon

Wow what a peaceful guy via Steynianism:

Kantar, proving what he really is.

Well, once again this proves how foolish the swap was… People who are dead are not going to resurrect by the swap but this people can kill more (yes, I know, Jewish have to bury their dead because if not they do not resurrect on the Last Day)… and they have vowed it…

Technorati Tags: Samir+Kantar, Jihad, Hizbullah, Lebanon, Islamism, terrorism, Israel

Israel-Hizbullah: the foolish swap

In fact, “foolish” is the less aggressive expression for this decision of the Jewish Government. Yes, I understand that Jewish people want their dead to be buried of a certain way, but is that reason enough for the change?:

(…) The sorrow that swept across Israel with the images of the coffins contrasted sharply with the hero’s welcome that awaited convicted killer Samir Kantar upon his return to a homeland he left 29 years ago to set out on his deadly mission.

In this Thursday July 7, 2005 file photo, Samir Kantar, a Lebanese militant serving multiple life terms for a 1979 attack on an Israeli town in which four Israelis were killed, is seen in his cell at Hadarim prison near the town of Tel-Mond, north of Tel Aviv.

(AP Photo/Reuven Kastro, File )

In the Gaza Strip, controlled by the violently anti-Israel Hamas group, the spectacle of the coffins drew people into the street in celebration, and sweets were passed around. (sweetly peaceful, hein?).

(…) n the dead of night on April 22, 1979, Kantar and three other gunmen made their way in a rubber dinghy from Lebanon to the sleepy Israeli coastal town of Nahariya, five miles south of the border.

There, in a hail of gunfire and exploding grenades, they killed a policeman who stumbled upon them, then burst into the apartment of Danny Haran, herding him and his 4-year-old daughter out of the house at gunpoint to the beach below, where they were killed.

The attack is seared in Israel’s collective consciousness because witnesses recounted that Kantar shot Danny Haran in front of his child, then killed her by smashing her skull against a rock with his rifle butt.

Haran’s wife, Smadar, who had fled into a crawl space in the family apartment with her 2-year-old daughter, accidentally smothered the child with her hand while trying to stifle her cries.

In this undated family photo made available by Israel’s Maariv newspaper,Tuesday, July 15, 2008, Israeli Danny Haran, killed by Lebanese militant Samir Kantar on April 22, 1979, is seen with his daughters Eynat,4, left, and Yael, 2, at the times of their deaths, in the coastal town of Nahariya, northern Israel.

(AP Photo/Maariv,HO)

Kantar, who acted on behalf of a militant Palestinian faction, denies killing the older child and has never expressed remorse over the incident. He was 16 years old at the time.

Israelis think this man is the embodiement of evil. I do too.

These undated photos made available by the families show captured Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev, 26, left, and Ehud Goldwasser, 31, right. Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas handed over two black coffins Wednesday containing the bodies of Regev and Goldwasser and Israel set free the perpetrator of one of the grisliest attacks in its history, part of a dramatic prisoner swap that promised to boost the radical Islamic militia and close a painful chapter from Israel’s 2006 war in Lebanon.

(AP Photo, Files)

This swap is entirely disgusting: changing the corpses of two soldiers to give away such monster alive, along with 4 others, similar guys with no remorse of their crimes. The only positive thing I see is that the poor Israeli soldiers are going to rest in peace with their families finally.

Hezbollah senior officials Sayyed Ibrahim al-Amin (L), Sheikh Nabil Kawooq (C) and Hassan Fadlallah laugh during celebrations after receiving the remains of Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters at the Naqoura border point with Israel July 16, 2008.

REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON)

And Nasrallah has reappeared to “celebrate” this victory:

Hasan Nasrala (dcha.) saluda junto a Samir Kantar (izq.) en el estadio de Rayeh, en Beirut. (Foto: AFP)

Technorati Tags: Hassan+Nasrallah, Samir+Kantar, Beirut, Lebanon, Hizbullah, Israel, terrorism, Ehud+Goldwasser, Eldad+Regev

Hizbullah ties in Venezuela

That’s right: Bolivarian revolution tights itself with Islamist revolution, while at the same time they are going after the Jews and the Catholic Church. Truly interesting.

Technorati Tags: anti-semitism, Venezuela, Catholicphobia, religious+persecution, Bolivarian+revolution, Catholic+Church, Hugo+Chávez, Christianophobia, Hizbullah, Islamism, Islamist+revolution