:
Sa Jul 29 -
Lebanon:
SMUGGLED PHOTOS -
I'm a sucker for smuggled photos... the burning question, of course, is: what don't they want us to see??? Well, here they are from the land of Oz:
The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend...
"Hezbollah came in to launch their rockets, then within minutes the area was blasted by Israeli jets," he said.
"Until the Hezbollah fighters arrived, it had not been touched by the Israelis. Then it was totally devastated."
+ Remember, from previous entries here, how the HizB's have threatened reporters and taken copies of their passports and identity papers.
:: NewsDotComAus ::
...
Saturday, July 29
Friday, July 28
:
Fr Jul 28 -
WHAT THEY SAID . . .
*The Party of God has a copy of every journalist's passport, and they've already hassled a number of us and threatened one.*
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The following is a summary of a talk I recently gave at a State Department conference on Blogging and Democracy.
...the internet and blogging in particular is destined to play an important role in the social and political transformations currently taking place in the region.
:: Ammar (Syrian) ::
==================
Some of the people on the scene of the Karradah attacks began to launch insults at Saddam Hussein... [they] were yelling and asking if this was the "honest Iraqi resistance" Saddam was talking about... I used to think these streets were beautiful... I used to walk by and marvel at all the electronics stores... I wonder if we will ever see our streets and neighborhoods in Baghdad as beautiful again...
...
Fr Jul 28 -
WHAT THEY SAID . . .
*The Party of God has a copy of every journalist's passport, and they've already hassled a number of us and threatened one.*
==================
The following is a summary of a talk I recently gave at a State Department conference on Blogging and Democracy.
...the internet and blogging in particular is destined to play an important role in the social and political transformations currently taking place in the region.
:: Ammar (Syrian) ::
==================
Some of the people on the scene of the Karradah attacks began to launch insults at Saddam Hussein... [they] were yelling and asking if this was the "honest Iraqi resistance" Saddam was talking about... I used to think these streets were beautiful... I used to walk by and marvel at all the electronics stores... I wonder if we will ever see our streets and neighborhoods in Baghdad as beautiful again...
...
:
Fr Jul 28 -
SCRIBES: New Thriller -
If al Qaeda were going to do another mega-job, what would it be?
Frederick Forsyth thinks he has the answer. His new book The Afghan will be released on Aug 22 in the U.S.
The novel describes how a British agent seeks to infiltrate the higher echelons of al Qaeda in a bid to thwart a major attack.
:: Mike Collett-White ::
-- Reuters via Yahoo --
...
Fr Jul 28 -
SCRIBES: New Thriller -
If al Qaeda were going to do another mega-job, what would it be?
Frederick Forsyth thinks he has the answer. His new book The Afghan will be released on Aug 22 in the U.S.
The novel describes how a British agent seeks to infiltrate the higher echelons of al Qaeda in a bid to thwart a major attack.
:: Mike Collett-White ::
-- Reuters via Yahoo --
...
Thursday, July 27
:
Th Jul 27 -
TROG DR Z:
Debuts New Tape -
Dr Ayman al-Zawahri, Asst Cmdr of the syncretic Islamo-Fascist Death Cult called Al Qaeda, and hobbyist troglodyte, delivered another videotape address early this morning. zzzzzzz... So, what's new with him?
He said his cult is embarked on a jihad to control all the territory between Spain and Iraq and will not stop until it prevails. [Hey, that's a lotta taxes!]
He wants to establish his new Reich/Empire/Caliphate because... well, it looks like he has nothing else to do. Not much to do in his cave these days, I guess.
I don't know about you, but I'm kinda tired of this guy droning on and on, wagging his finger in my face. Do we really need to pay attention to him? When I heard he had a new tape coming out, I said to myself, groan, I think I'll wait for the synopsis...
Let's turn to the experts...
CT PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS: Among other things, Andrew Cochran notes that Dr Z has a voodoo photo of NYC's WTC Twin Towers "Pillars of Satan" on fire, strategically situated on the wall behind him. Hmmm, I thought sorcery was banned by Islam.
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::Translation + Controversy::
========================
INTERPRETATION OF TAPE: Evan Kohlmann explores the issue of whether the syncretic Sunni-style Al Qaeda cult will merge with the syncretic Shiite-style Hizbolllah cult in the course of establishing Dr Z's new empire.
...
Th Jul 27 -
TROG DR Z:
Debuts New Tape -
Dr Ayman al-Zawahri, Asst Cmdr of the syncretic Islamo-Fascist Death Cult called Al Qaeda, and hobbyist troglodyte, delivered another videotape address early this morning. zzzzzzz... So, what's new with him?
He said his cult is embarked on a jihad to control all the territory between Spain and Iraq and will not stop until it prevails. [Hey, that's a lotta taxes!]
He wants to establish his new Reich/Empire/Caliphate because... well, it looks like he has nothing else to do. Not much to do in his cave these days, I guess.
I don't know about you, but I'm kinda tired of this guy droning on and on, wagging his finger in my face. Do we really need to pay attention to him? When I heard he had a new tape coming out, I said to myself, groan, I think I'll wait for the synopsis...
Let's turn to the experts...
CT PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS: Among other things, Andrew Cochran notes that Dr Z has a voodoo photo of NYC's WTC Twin Towers "Pillars of Satan" on fire, strategically situated on the wall behind him. Hmmm, I thought sorcery was banned by Islam.
========================
::Translation + Controversy::
========================
INTERPRETATION OF TAPE: Evan Kohlmann explores the issue of whether the syncretic Sunni-style Al Qaeda cult will merge with the syncretic Shiite-style Hizbolllah cult in the course of establishing Dr Z's new empire.
...
:
Th Jul 27 -
TERROR CULT'S HQ -
In a story for AFP, Rory Mulholland looks into Bint Jbeil's mysterious website.
*It claims to have had more than five million visitors since early June. AFP emailed the site with queries about who runs and finances it and whether it has any links to Hezbollah, but received no reply.*
In a similar vein, AFP sent a reporter out there who formed the impression that Hezbollah is invisible, but there's an ominous subtext reminiscent of the oldtime
Sicilian Mafia.
Even more mysterious, the other night on ABC TV, their reporter interviewed the Mayor of Bint JBeil who, it turns out, is an American citizen from Dearborn, Michigan!
But how does this happen? Are his passport and other papers counterfeit or forgeries or authentic? And did he apply for U.S. citizenship under false pretenses? Was there any fraud involved?
At this point, it seems like every time a reporter goes searching for answers, there are no answers; and only more questions arise as the result of his search.
...
Th Jul 27 -
TERROR CULT'S HQ -
In a story for AFP, Rory Mulholland looks into Bint Jbeil's mysterious website.
*It claims to have had more than five million visitors since early June. AFP emailed the site with queries about who runs and finances it and whether it has any links to Hezbollah, but received no reply.*
In a similar vein, AFP sent a reporter out there who formed the impression that Hezbollah is invisible, but there's an ominous subtext reminiscent of the oldtime
Sicilian Mafia.
Even more mysterious, the other night on ABC TV, their reporter interviewed the Mayor of Bint JBeil who, it turns out, is an American citizen from Dearborn, Michigan!
But how does this happen? Are his passport and other papers counterfeit or forgeries or authentic? And did he apply for U.S. citizenship under false pretenses? Was there any fraud involved?
At this point, it seems like every time a reporter goes searching for answers, there are no answers; and only more questions arise as the result of his search.
...
Wednesday, July 26
:
We Jul 26 -
WHY DO THEY HATE HIM?
"I'm being attacked," an increasingly breathless reporter told British TV
viewers tonight.
SkyNews reporter Stuart Ramsay was violently assaulted by "angry gangs" in Tyre while transmitting his report back to the TV station over his telephone when an Israeli airstrike levelled two residential blocks in a densely developed area of that city.
"This is a strong Hizbollah area, no doubt about that," he disclosed to his audience in the U.K. as he fled.
+ Maybe they were BBC fans.
:: SkyNews ::
...
We Jul 26 -
WHY DO THEY HATE HIM?
"I'm being attacked," an increasingly breathless reporter told British TV
viewers tonight.
SkyNews reporter Stuart Ramsay was violently assaulted by "angry gangs" in Tyre while transmitting his report back to the TV station over his telephone when an Israeli airstrike levelled two residential blocks in a densely developed area of that city.
"This is a strong Hizbollah area, no doubt about that," he disclosed to his audience in the U.K. as he fled.
+ Maybe they were BBC fans.
:: SkyNews ::
...
:
We Jul 26 -
THE D.C. PAPERS -
From Betsy Pisik in Beirut:
*Indeed, across the Hezbollah-dominated Shi'ite regions of southern Lebanon, whole villages have been flattened, almost 400 people killed and hundreds of thousands more displaced.
But just north of Beirut, business remains strong in the lush resorts of the nearby Shouf Mountains. Nightclubs in the Christian suburb of Jounieh still rock to '80s disco and '90s Eurobeat, and Lebanese who weathered the country's horrific 15-year civil war still sip arrack and eat hummus late into the night.
Beirut, once the jewel of the Middle East, is wobbling back to its feet even as the Israeli army and air force pulverize its southern region.*
:: WashTimes ::
...
We Jul 26 -
THE D.C. PAPERS -
From Betsy Pisik in Beirut:
*Indeed, across the Hezbollah-dominated Shi'ite regions of southern Lebanon, whole villages have been flattened, almost 400 people killed and hundreds of thousands more displaced.
But just north of Beirut, business remains strong in the lush resorts of the nearby Shouf Mountains. Nightclubs in the Christian suburb of Jounieh still rock to '80s disco and '90s Eurobeat, and Lebanese who weathered the country's horrific 15-year civil war still sip arrack and eat hummus late into the night.
Beirut, once the jewel of the Middle East, is wobbling back to its feet even as the Israeli army and air force pulverize its southern region.*
:: WashTimes ::
...
:
We Jul 26 -
Media: AILES
FLOGGING NEW SHOW -
Glenn Garvin at the Miami Herald has an interview with Roger Ailes who is the dramaturge behind the Fox News Network. Ailes' main attribute seems to be: keeping his shows peppy.
So, what's Ailes flogging today?
*Ailes announced he will syndicate a morning news show throughout the broadcast television world starting in January.
The show features Fox News hosts Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy, originally developed for the 35 broadcast stations owned and operated by Fox, it will also be sold to other stations, Ailes said.*
+ I had cable TV service at the last place I resided which included CNN and Fox for several months. I found it interesting, but do not currently subscribe. I strongly prefer the Internet. I wasn't a fan of those two hosts. But if you're into peppy, knock yourself out.
:: MHerald ::
* * * * *
And nice feature story
by Mike Spector about
JP Borda and his website
Milblogging :: At WSJ ::
+ Both via memeorandum.
...
We Jul 26 -
Media: AILES
FLOGGING NEW SHOW -
Glenn Garvin at the Miami Herald has an interview with Roger Ailes who is the dramaturge behind the Fox News Network. Ailes' main attribute seems to be: keeping his shows peppy.
So, what's Ailes flogging today?
*Ailes announced he will syndicate a morning news show throughout the broadcast television world starting in January.
The show features Fox News hosts Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy, originally developed for the 35 broadcast stations owned and operated by Fox, it will also be sold to other stations, Ailes said.*
+ I had cable TV service at the last place I resided which included CNN and Fox for several months. I found it interesting, but do not currently subscribe. I strongly prefer the Internet. I wasn't a fan of those two hosts. But if you're into peppy, knock yourself out.
:: MHerald ::
* * * * *
And nice feature story
by Mike Spector about
JP Borda and his website
Milblogging :: At WSJ ::
+ Both via memeorandum.
...
:
We Jul 26 -
Lebanon Conflict:
NEWS NOTES Updates -
Gen Hirsh revealed that Israeli troops operating in Bint Jbail had discovered war rooms with eavesdropping and surveillance equipment made by Iran, being used by Hizbullah against Israel. They also found large cache of weapons and communications devices. ::JPost::
==================
Commander Fuad Dirani, a senior Hizbullah official, said that the organization has set a new target for itself: the city of Netanya, as reported by the Iranian news agency Fars in Lebanon. ::YNet::
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A Jordanian military plane carrying U.N. humanitarian aid and a field hospital landed at Beirut airport... U.N. trucks loaded with much needed food and medical supplies made their way to the southern port city of Tyre... and Israel dropped leaflets on Sidon listing the names of nine Hizbullah fighters it claimed were killed in the battles. ::NHRnet::
...
We Jul 26 -
Lebanon Conflict:
NEWS NOTES Updates -
Gen Hirsh revealed that Israeli troops operating in Bint Jbail had discovered war rooms with eavesdropping and surveillance equipment made by Iran, being used by Hizbullah against Israel. They also found large cache of weapons and communications devices. ::JPost::
==================
Commander Fuad Dirani, a senior Hizbullah official, said that the organization has set a new target for itself: the city of Netanya, as reported by the Iranian news agency Fars in Lebanon. ::YNet::
==================
A Jordanian military plane carrying U.N. humanitarian aid and a field hospital landed at Beirut airport... U.N. trucks loaded with much needed food and medical supplies made their way to the southern port city of Tyre... and Israel dropped leaflets on Sidon listing the names of nine Hizbullah fighters it claimed were killed in the battles. ::NHRnet::
...
Tuesday, July 25
:
Tu Jul 25 -
ON THE SPOT -
UK Daily Mail reporter, Richard Pendlebury reports from the village of Tibnin near Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon.
And his colleague, Paul Harris, writes from northern Israel, where he visits the home of Doha Abbas, the teenager who was killed by a Hizbollah Katyusha rocket.
===================
*Ali al-Hamdani, who is half Shia and half Sunni and works for The Times in Baghdad, describes life in the western district of Jihad where sectarian warfare rages.*
+ A harrowing report.
...
Tu Jul 25 -
ON THE SPOT -
UK Daily Mail reporter, Richard Pendlebury reports from the village of Tibnin near Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon.
And his colleague, Paul Harris, writes from northern Israel, where he visits the home of Doha Abbas, the teenager who was killed by a Hizbollah Katyusha rocket.
===================
*Ali al-Hamdani, who is half Shia and half Sunni and works for The Times in Baghdad, describes life in the western district of Jihad where sectarian warfare rages.*
+ A harrowing report.
...
:
Tu Jul 25 -
POINTS-OF-VIEW -
"Nobody wants to hear the Israeli drivel. But that is professionalism and its obligations. This is the 'curse' of democracy, of one opinion and of the other opinion that you can't avoid."
This is an outstanding article by Zvi Bar'el at Haaretz about how the various Middle Eastern TV channels and other media are handling the Lebanon situation, including Israeli interviews.
'Shut up, you barefaced liar'
Recommended!
...
Tu Jul 25 -
POINTS-OF-VIEW -
"Nobody wants to hear the Israeli drivel. But that is professionalism and its obligations. This is the 'curse' of democracy, of one opinion and of the other opinion that you can't avoid."
This is an outstanding article by Zvi Bar'el at Haaretz about how the various Middle Eastern TV channels and other media are handling the Lebanon situation, including Israeli interviews.
'Shut up, you barefaced liar'
Recommended!
...
:
Tu Jul 25 -
WHAT, ARE THEY PALS? -
There's some vituperative fall-out from Howie Kurtz's TV program last Sunday, the transcript of which was highlighted here yesterday. The focus is on CNN's Nic Robertson. The caption I used for this link was extracted from the comment thread about a related issue.
:: HIZB 'HAD CONTROL' ::
-- Rick Noyes, Newsbusters --
...
Tu Jul 25 -
WHAT, ARE THEY PALS? -
There's some vituperative fall-out from Howie Kurtz's TV program last Sunday, the transcript of which was highlighted here yesterday. The focus is on CNN's Nic Robertson. The caption I used for this link was extracted from the comment thread about a related issue.
:: HIZB 'HAD CONTROL' ::
-- Rick Noyes, Newsbusters --
...
:
Tu Jul 25 -
CONTROL OF BINT JBEIL -
As morning opens here on the US East Coast, the IDF reports that it is in control of the "terror capital" in southern Lebanon, but still encountering some pockets of resistance from guerrillas hiding in the Kasbah marketplace and shooting from inside mosques, hospitals, and schools.
---------------------------
A reported 16 rockets hit Haifa; the IAF believes it subsequently destroyed the Katyusha rocket launchers which fired them.
...
Tu Jul 25 -
CONTROL OF BINT JBEIL -
As morning opens here on the US East Coast, the IDF reports that it is in control of the "terror capital" in southern Lebanon, but still encountering some pockets of resistance from guerrillas hiding in the Kasbah marketplace and shooting from inside mosques, hospitals, and schools.
---------------------------
A reported 16 rockets hit Haifa; the IAF believes it subsequently destroyed the Katyusha rocket launchers which fired them.
...
Monday, July 24
:
Mo Jul 24 -
Lebanon:
ARABS CONFLICTED -
LEBANESE ARABS IN ISRAEL - *About 6,000 South Lebanese, mostly SLA fighters and their families, went to Israel after the withdrawal. Of those, some left for other countries such as Germany and Australia, and some returned to Lebanon.
Those who remain in Israel, about 700 families, are following the current conflict unfolding between Israel and Hizbullah with fear and anticipation.*
:: The Media Line ::
==================
ARABS AS TARGETS - Haifa is renowned for the harmonious relations between its Jewish and Arab citizens. Here Arabs... work and live together with Jews as equals, a unique model of Arab-Jewish coexistence in a land riven by religious discord.
But such a social blending has meant that, in the latest conflict, the city's Arabs have found themselves as much in the line of fire of Hezbollah missiles as their Jewish neighbours.
:: BBC ::
==================
DISPUTED COMMISSION - Lebanese Druse MP Walid Jumblatt on Nasrullah: "He is mistaken when he says that he is relying on the cabinet statement, because no one commissioned him to fight in order to restore the Shebaa Farms and the prisoners."
:: Across the Bay Blog ::
...
Mo Jul 24 -
Lebanon:
ARABS CONFLICTED -
LEBANESE ARABS IN ISRAEL - *About 6,000 South Lebanese, mostly SLA fighters and their families, went to Israel after the withdrawal. Of those, some left for other countries such as Germany and Australia, and some returned to Lebanon.
Those who remain in Israel, about 700 families, are following the current conflict unfolding between Israel and Hizbullah with fear and anticipation.*
:: The Media Line ::
==================
ARABS AS TARGETS - Haifa is renowned for the harmonious relations between its Jewish and Arab citizens. Here Arabs... work and live together with Jews as equals, a unique model of Arab-Jewish coexistence in a land riven by religious discord.
But such a social blending has meant that, in the latest conflict, the city's Arabs have found themselves as much in the line of fire of Hezbollah missiles as their Jewish neighbours.
:: BBC ::
==================
DISPUTED COMMISSION - Lebanese Druse MP Walid Jumblatt on Nasrullah: "He is mistaken when he says that he is relying on the cabinet statement, because no one commissioned him to fight in order to restore the Shebaa Farms and the prisoners."
:: Across the Bay Blog ::
...
:
Mo Jul 24 -
"THEY WILL LEAVE" -
Hossein Safiadeen, the Hizbullah rep in Iran, said defiantly on Monday: "We will expand attacks."
"The people who came to Israel, moved there to live, not to die. If we continue to attack, they will leave."
"You will see a new Middle East in the way of Hizbullah and Islam, not in the way of Rice and Israel," Safiadeen said.
:: Naharnet.lb ::
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Mo Jul 24 -
"THEY WILL LEAVE" -
Hossein Safiadeen, the Hizbullah rep in Iran, said defiantly on Monday: "We will expand attacks."
"The people who came to Israel, moved there to live, not to die. If we continue to attack, they will leave."
"You will see a new Middle East in the way of Hizbullah and Islam, not in the way of Rice and Israel," Safiadeen said.
:: Naharnet.lb ::
...
:
Mo Jul 24 -
FROM THE D.C. PAPERS -
Sharon Behn tells us that: *A senior member of Muqtada al-Sadr's Iraqi Shi'ite militia, the Mahdi Army, says the group is forming a squadron of up to 1,500 elite fighters to go to Lebanon.
"This is a must-do," agrees Iraqi Sunni cleric Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Duleimi.
+ Is he planning to make the trip himself or just send OPK's? That's short for Other People's Kids. Inquiring minds want to know...
====================
*In 1971, in the lobby of the Cairo Sheraton, Palestinian terrorists shot Wasfi al-Tal, the prime minister of Jordan at point-blank range. As he fell to the floor dying, one of his killers began drinking the blood gushing from his wounds. Doesn't that strike you as a little, um, overwrought?*
Do Hizbollah and Hamas provide Street Theater Entertainment for "opportunistic Arabs and indulgent Europeans?"
According to Mark Steyn: they're at that stage in the creature feature where the monster has mutated into something bigger and crazier.
====================
*A War Between Neighbors, Seen From Their Back Yard: The 13-day battle between Israel and both Hamas and Hezbollah may be the most up-close-and-personal ever transmitted by television ... It is Vietnam on satellite steroids.*
Howie Kurtz explores whether access facilitated by the new technologies leads to distortions in journalism. ::WaPo/RR::
====================
Jefferson Morley at World Opinion Roundup asks: *Are Americans being given a very different view of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict than their counterparts in Europe and elsewhere?
Yes, according to commentators in Muslim and European media.* ::WaPo/RR::
...
Mo Jul 24 -
FROM THE D.C. PAPERS -
Sharon Behn tells us that: *A senior member of Muqtada al-Sadr's Iraqi Shi'ite militia, the Mahdi Army, says the group is forming a squadron of up to 1,500 elite fighters to go to Lebanon.
"This is a must-do," agrees Iraqi Sunni cleric Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Duleimi.
+ Is he planning to make the trip himself or just send OPK's? That's short for Other People's Kids. Inquiring minds want to know...
====================
*In 1971, in the lobby of the Cairo Sheraton, Palestinian terrorists shot Wasfi al-Tal, the prime minister of Jordan at point-blank range. As he fell to the floor dying, one of his killers began drinking the blood gushing from his wounds. Doesn't that strike you as a little, um, overwrought?*
Do Hizbollah and Hamas provide Street Theater Entertainment for "opportunistic Arabs and indulgent Europeans?"
According to Mark Steyn: they're at that stage in the creature feature where the monster has mutated into something bigger and crazier.
====================
*A War Between Neighbors, Seen From Their Back Yard: The 13-day battle between Israel and both Hamas and Hezbollah may be the most up-close-and-personal ever transmitted by television ... It is Vietnam on satellite steroids.*
Howie Kurtz explores whether access facilitated by the new technologies leads to distortions in journalism. ::WaPo/RR::
====================
Jefferson Morley at World Opinion Roundup asks: *Are Americans being given a very different view of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict than their counterparts in Europe and elsewhere?
Yes, according to commentators in Muslim and European media.* ::WaPo/RR::
...
:
Mo Jul 24 -
Lebanon:
BINT JBEIL AREA -
"Heavy exchanges of fire... are taking place with Israeli troops advancing from Maroun al-Ras towards the Bint Jbeil area," a Hizbollah source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
[Bint Jbeil is considered by some to be the unofficial "capital" of Hizbollah-Land in southern Lebanon.]
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said Monday that several hundred Hizbollah militants were holed up in the town, in addition to some 500 civilians who had not left despite advance warnings by the Israeli army to evacuate the area...
Israeli troops fighting in the Bint Jbeil area have destroyed nine of Hizbollah's long-range rocket launching pads. Israel Army Radio said one of the launchers was loaded with a rocket ready to be fired at the Israeli port city of Haifa, which has suffered the deadliest missile attacks since the beginning of the military conflict...
In an interview with the Lebanese As Safir daily, Nasrallah warned that the Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon would not stop his movement from firing rockets at Israel.
:: DPA via BangPost ::
...
Mo Jul 24 -
Lebanon:
BINT JBEIL AREA -
"Heavy exchanges of fire... are taking place with Israeli troops advancing from Maroun al-Ras towards the Bint Jbeil area," a Hizbollah source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
[Bint Jbeil is considered by some to be the unofficial "capital" of Hizbollah-Land in southern Lebanon.]
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said Monday that several hundred Hizbollah militants were holed up in the town, in addition to some 500 civilians who had not left despite advance warnings by the Israeli army to evacuate the area...
Israeli troops fighting in the Bint Jbeil area have destroyed nine of Hizbollah's long-range rocket launching pads. Israel Army Radio said one of the launchers was loaded with a rocket ready to be fired at the Israeli port city of Haifa, which has suffered the deadliest missile attacks since the beginning of the military conflict...
In an interview with the Lebanese As Safir daily, Nasrallah warned that the Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon would not stop his movement from firing rockets at Israel.
:: DPA via BangPost ::
...
:
Mo Jul 24 -
THE LEBANON CONFLICT:
Reporting and Blogging it -
From yesterday's CNN
RELIABLE SOURCES -
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: The media and the Mideast. As the death toll rises in Israel and Lebanon, are journalists being fair to both sides? How do they verify Hezbollah's claims that civilians are being indiscriminately killed? With missiles raining from the sky, what about the risks to western reporters? And is Israel's military censorship having an impact on the coverage?
Cultural divide. Why the fighting looks so different to Arab and Israeli journalists.
Plus, blogging the war.
..................................
INCLUDES: Salameh Nematt, Washington bureau chief of Al Hayat, the international Arab newspaper; and in Rome, Christopher Dickey, Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor for "Newsweek" magazine. His "Shadowland" column about counterterrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears weekly online at "Newsweek".
PLUS: Lisa Goldman who blogs at On the Face discussing Israeli and Lebanese blogging the war.
:: TRANSCRIPT ::
...
Mo Jul 24 -
THE LEBANON CONFLICT:
Reporting and Blogging it -
From yesterday's CNN
RELIABLE SOURCES -
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: The media and the Mideast. As the death toll rises in Israel and Lebanon, are journalists being fair to both sides? How do they verify Hezbollah's claims that civilians are being indiscriminately killed? With missiles raining from the sky, what about the risks to western reporters? And is Israel's military censorship having an impact on the coverage?
Cultural divide. Why the fighting looks so different to Arab and Israeli journalists.
Plus, blogging the war.
..................................
INCLUDES: Salameh Nematt, Washington bureau chief of Al Hayat, the international Arab newspaper; and in Rome, Christopher Dickey, Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor for "Newsweek" magazine. His "Shadowland" column about counterterrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears weekly online at "Newsweek".
PLUS: Lisa Goldman who blogs at On the Face discussing Israeli and Lebanese blogging the war.
:: TRANSCRIPT ::
...
Sunday, July 23
:
Su Jul 23 -
INDIA BLOG
BLOCKAGE updated -
Is Princess Kimberly a "clear and present danger" to the government or civil order of India? Some folks seem to think so...
An article at REDIFF, a major Indian portal, gives a list of some Blogs being blocked, but the selection is baffling the geeks over there.
:: REDIFF ::
...
Su Jul 23 -
INDIA BLOG
BLOCKAGE updated -
Is Princess Kimberly a "clear and present danger" to the government or civil order of India? Some folks seem to think so...
An article at REDIFF, a major Indian portal, gives a list of some Blogs being blocked, but the selection is baffling the geeks over there.
:: REDIFF ::
...
:
Su Jul 23 -
THEIR COMMISSION -
BILLBOARD: *In Teheran, the government has sanctioned billboards showing Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah and a message that it is the duty of Muslims to "wipe out" Israel.* ::July 23/AP::
===================
STATE WITHIN A STATE: *In its power base in southern Lebanon, particularly south Beirut and the Bekaa valley, it is possible for a visitor to spend a whole week without stepping outside a Hezbollah business unit: the hotel he checks into, the restaurant he eats in, the taxi that takes him around, the guide who shows him the sights and the shop where he buys souvenirs all belong to the party.
Hezbollah is a state within the Lebanese state. It controls some 25% of the national territory. Almost 400,000 of Lebanon’s estimated 4m inhabitants live under its control. It collects its own taxes with a 20% levy, known as “khoms”, on all incomes. It runs its own schools, where a syllabus produced in Iran is taught at all levels. It also runs clinics, hospitals, social welfare networks and centres for orphans and widows.
The party controls the elected municipal councils and appoints local officials, who in theory should be selected by the central government in Beirut.* ::UKTimes::
===================
+ By the way, Prof Fouad Ajami has an essay on the Lebanese situation at Opinion Journal this weekend.
...
Su Jul 23 -
THEIR COMMISSION -
BILLBOARD: *In Teheran, the government has sanctioned billboards showing Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah and a message that it is the duty of Muslims to "wipe out" Israel.* ::July 23/AP::
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STATE WITHIN A STATE: *In its power base in southern Lebanon, particularly south Beirut and the Bekaa valley, it is possible for a visitor to spend a whole week without stepping outside a Hezbollah business unit: the hotel he checks into, the restaurant he eats in, the taxi that takes him around, the guide who shows him the sights and the shop where he buys souvenirs all belong to the party.
Hezbollah is a state within the Lebanese state. It controls some 25% of the national territory. Almost 400,000 of Lebanon’s estimated 4m inhabitants live under its control. It collects its own taxes with a 20% levy, known as “khoms”, on all incomes. It runs its own schools, where a syllabus produced in Iran is taught at all levels. It also runs clinics, hospitals, social welfare networks and centres for orphans and widows.
The party controls the elected municipal councils and appoints local officials, who in theory should be selected by the central government in Beirut.* ::UKTimes::
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+ By the way, Prof Fouad Ajami has an essay on the Lebanese situation at Opinion Journal this weekend.
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Su Jul 23 -
Lebanon:
THE GO-BETWEEN -
Currently being reported
at The Khaleej Times Online:
*Hezbollah has agreed to the Lebanese government dealing through a third party with Israel on a prisoner swap involving the two Israeli soldiers captured at the start of the conflict, Lebanon’s parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri said on Sunday.
"The Lebanese government will lead the exchange through the intermediary of a third party. This has been accepted by Hezbollah," Berri, who is close to the Lebanese militia, told journalists.
It was not immediately known who the third party would be.* ::July 23/AFP::
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+ One possibility mentioned
elsewhere at that publication:
"The Qataris are mediating between Israel and Hezbollah to end the current crisis in Lebanon," one senior political source told Reuters. ::July 23/Reuters::
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Su Jul 23 -
Lebanon:
THE GO-BETWEEN -
Currently being reported
at The Khaleej Times Online:
*Hezbollah has agreed to the Lebanese government dealing through a third party with Israel on a prisoner swap involving the two Israeli soldiers captured at the start of the conflict, Lebanon’s parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri said on Sunday.
"The Lebanese government will lead the exchange through the intermediary of a third party. This has been accepted by Hezbollah," Berri, who is close to the Lebanese militia, told journalists.
It was not immediately known who the third party would be.* ::July 23/AFP::
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+ One possibility mentioned
elsewhere at that publication:
"The Qataris are mediating between Israel and Hezbollah to end the current crisis in Lebanon," one senior political source told Reuters. ::July 23/Reuters::
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