Important Event In New Zealand To Limit Cluster Bombs Usage

The use of deadly cluster bombs by the Israelis in south Lebanon will be at the heart of discussions in New Zealand today aimed at limiting the use of cluster bomb munitions.
Cluster bombs have an uncanny ability to target children (40% of victims are children). Cluster bombs are not “controversial“, they are wrong, plain and [...]

U.S. Intelligence Chief: Hezbollah Or Syria Could Be Behind Mughniyeh’s Killing

The American intelligence chief ads a bit of authority to “conspiracy theories” already making rounds:
More speculation?

The U.S. intelligence chief said Sunday that internal Hezbollah groups or Syria may be to blame for the killing of a Hezbollah commander that has led the FBI to put domestic terror squads on alert in the United States.
Director of [...]

On True Partnership

Nassrallah’s unilateral call for an open war with Israel ridicules the opposition’s cause célèbre of “true partnership.”
I want war and I don’t care what you think! (Yahoo!)
A little more than a year ago, pro-Syrian ministers abruptly quit the government. After that, hundreds of thousands of their supporters marched against the government of Mr. Seniora. They [...]

The Most Hideous Of Them All?

I always knew Mughniyeh was preceded by his reputation, but this?

“The 1980s were the heyday of the celebrity terrorist. There was Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born Marxist who led the team that took 42 Opec ministers hostage during a conference in Vienna in 1975 [..] And there was Abu Nidal, the radical Palestinian terrorist, who thought [...]

Closeup

Perhaps I was wrong about yesterday’s turnout. Look closely at the image below. The closeup is just a small part of the big picture.
(Sources: Annahar , Yahoo! )

Bad Weather, A Stolen Thunder And Some Crowd Spinning.

Today’s turnout was compromised by many factors, opening the door for malicious spin and legitimate questions.

Here’s a mischievous question for the average Hariri or March 14 diehard: If you were a mother who just learned that an international terrorist has been bombed in next door Syria, and that his funeral was taking place at the [...]

Israeli Media Ecstatic Over Mughniyah’s Killing

While the Lebanese are just beginning to grapple with the scale of Mughniya’s assassination, Israeli websites don’t seem to get enough of it.
Just on Haaretz’s main page, there are 5 colorfully-titled articles under one big headline “Hezbollah terror chief killed in Damascus blast, PMO denies Israeli role in Imad Mughniyah’s death” (picture shows Mr. Mughniya’s [...]

Analysis: Imad Mughniyah snuffed

The Killing of Hezbollah’s Imad Mugniyah is a significant event that can be read in many ways.

In the past 10 years, Hezbollah worked hard to conceal the aspect of their party represented by its co-founder, Imad Mughniya. In a large rebranding effort, Hezbollah convinced the Lebanese people and their political allies that their party is [...]