MIchael Totten is pessimistic about developments in Lebanon.
The Lebanese government says Syria and Iran aim to overthrow the elected government in Beirut and reconquer the country. Whether they are actually trying to do this right now or not is unknown. There should be no doubt, though, that if they don’t have a plan to execute now it’s because they want to do it later instead.
Meanwhile, a group that calls itself “Al Qaeda in Lebanon” appeared from Lord-only-knows-where and directly threatened to destroy the March 14 government. “Al Qaeda in Lebanon” may or may not exist as a wing of bin Laden’s Al Qaeda. If they do, they’re serious. If they don’t, they’re a Syrian proxy. Either way, it doesn’t look good. This is not a prank phone call.
These threats to Beirut’s elected government are concurrent with Hezbollah’s and Amal’s resignation from the Lebanese cabinet. Hezbollah and Amal quit for two reasons. The first is that the March 14 bloc refused to give Nasrallah and friends who lost last year’s election more power in a “national unity” government. The second is because it was time for the cabinet to move ahead on the Hariri tribunal. Hezbollah will not tolerate the prosecution of their patron in Damascus.
Once again, the country is bracing itself for sectarian war in the streets. Charles Malik says Christians may sit this one out for the first time in Lebanon’s history. Whatever fighting there may or may not be will likely involve Sunni and Shia.
If this isn’t gruesome enough, Syria and Iran have reportedly replenished all Hezbollah’s destroyed arsenal stocks. Hezbollah, according to the Times of London, now has more rockets than they had before the most recent Israeli invasion. If this is, in fact, true, UNIFIL ought to just go home right now. These foreign soldiers are useless except as human shields.
Emphasis mine.
Consider the hysterical coverage of the taxpayer funded exodus of “Canadians” from Lebanon earlier this year, and you might think developments in the region would be receiving higher scrutiny in Canadian media. Well, you’d think wrong. A search of CBC pulled up nothing, while CTV has only a mention of the threat from the group claiming to be Al Qaeda.
UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) no longer patrols at night.
One junior officer told Der Spiegel he was glad that his battalion had only left its camp once. “It’s absurd,” he said. “We landed here and set up our tent city, but since then we’ve only left the camp to drive around and to make sure that we’re seen.”
The report cites a long tradition of UNIFIL inaction, which it says allowed time for a Finnish contingent to construct a giant sauna and an Indian contingent to decorate its base with traditional Indian artwork.
The UNIFIL troops and the 14,000 Lebanese soldiers stationed in the region add up to a total of around 20,000 troops in the 18-by 31-mile region of southern Lebanon. Another 6,000 troops are still expected to arrive.
The United Nations itself has admitted that Syria was still successfully smuggling arms to the Hizbullah, which neither UNIFIL nor the Lebanese army plan to stop.
More;
UNIFIL is a disaster in waiting. IT’s been a joke for the past twenty eight years and this one is going to be the same. No clear mandate, no willingness to tame down Hezbollah as seen in the recent episode where Spanish troops stood down at the view of Hezbollah fighters.
Not much left to do but wait for the train wreck.
Well the guns barely fell silent last summer, and already Nasrallah was hailing the action as a great victory.
Lets see, all the bombing levelled Lebanese cities, killed more Lebanese than Israelis; but it was a ‘great victory’ for Hezbollah.
What metrics exactly are these people using besides overt propaganda?
The next dust up should be interesting; I wonder if UNIFIL will just stand by as all the shelling, rockets and bullets just whiz by?
How much of an ass whipping short of outright annihilation will Nasrallah need to ‘get the message’ that Israel is not going to disappear.
Oh yeah, I forgot the non-existance of Israel is an ideological tenet of the Shia faith for Nasrallah.
Whatch GLENN BECK tomorrow night. “Headline News”
It’s on channel 502 if you have Starchoice. We are at war whether we like it or not. If we don’t fight them on their streets we will have to fight them on ours.
I wonder how many “Canadian” Lebanese will be lining up this time for a free ride out of Dodge…
I think that a person,knowing full well the danger they went back too,should be forced to pay a stupidity tax (in the form of a stipend) to offset the cost of bailing out these Canadians of convenience …
Everyone in Lebanon cowers before Hezbollah, including Unifil. Hamas sits quietly by also.
Unifil dared not even inform of Hez movements or re-arming, if you recall.
Hez is a powerful agency of Iran, even though they deny it with ghusto. Just as is Muqtada al Sadr and his blackshirt army in Basra and Sadr City in Iraq.
w.w.petroleumworld.com/Ed110706.htm
*Big Oil* says moving all the troops back to Bhagdad is just a trap. [as Bay fo Pigs]
While;
Iran-watch.com
suggests the Bush team is thinking *can*t beat them, join them *
Can*t get my head around that, yet Al Maliki is leader now and he is friends with Ahmadinejad and Muqtada both.
With those friends Maliki can certainly calm things in Iraq so troops can leave safely, but will * Madmud * be able to resist the urge to wipe out a few thousand of the 140,000 men leaving?
This complexity is enough to give anyone a migrain and I personally think all this is far more ominous than most of us realize.
Netanyahu, remember him? says Iran is preparing for a nuclear holocaust. No ex leader of Israel would say something that alarming and risk ridicule, would he?
NewsMax.com
= TG
To be fair, the Finns always build a sauna, whether they have a lot of time or not. If OUR priority of work is “build defenses, establish OP’s, maintain equipment, conduct presence patrols”, the Finn’s priority of work would be “build defenses, build sauna, use sauna, patrol eventually”.
“MIchael Totten is pessimistic about developments in Lebanon. ”
I would be too if I believed every steaming turd Israeli intelligence was trying to sell. On the bright side, the IDF likes to leak nonsense to stooges like Totten to “soften the ground” for their next immoral action, so the predictive qualities of his posts do make them useful.
Only 32% of Canadians supported Israel last time, and that was before they killed one of our boys. Canadians – and the rest of the world – won’t support Israeli war crimes.
“UN Supervised Rearming Of Hezbollah Complete”
Should read “IDF Supervised Propaganda Dissemination Begins”
so this is the kind of “peacekeeping” mission the moonbats would prefer we participate in….hmmm…let’s think back…way back…same crap, different decade….my brothers and i did over 50 yrs service…cyprus. golan, somalia etc….no-one ever talked about the corpses outside the wire in cyprus, positions being over-run by syrians, standing by and watching somali children being executed….CAN ANYONE SAY RWANDA???…oh ya, moonbat peacekeeping good, chretien/martin/harper peace-making bad…damn useful idiots…GO ARMY
As I sit here at my computer trying to digest the crap that came from Bob’s idiotic head I am finding it difficult to come up with just the right words to respond to him. Probably the worst thing I could say to Bob is that you are a dyed-in-the-wool anti-semite and you should crawl back into your hole. Ok, that’s what I’l tell Bob. Bob, you are a dyed-in-the-wool anti-semite and you should crawl back into your hole. Not only that you should take your Hilter doll with you.
Some guy who automatically just lost an argument on the internet said “Not only that you should take your Hilter doll with you.”
Godwin! Ha!
Hey Bob, imagine what would happen if those immoral war criminals you hate so much were allowed to acquire nukes, they could threaten to drive their enemies into the sea … wait a minute?
Only 32% of Canadians supported Israel last time.
poor Bagdad boob.thinks if you say somethng enough times that makes it true.
Alex: Having once been married to a Finn, it seems to me that you should insert “Drink Vodka”, before, after, and during each activity. 😉
The fascist-nazi jackboots of Hezbollah:
Supported/aided/abetted by Canadian Liberal wannabe-Leader-Prime Minister of Canada, Iggy “Anti-Israel” Ignatieff, and his leadership campaign co-chairman, Liberal MP,
Denis “We-Are-All-Hezbollah-Now” Coderre …-
Hizballah’s Offensive in Lebanon
Walid Phares says Hizballah is gearing up for an attempt to seize control of Lebanon: Hezbollah’s offensive in Lebanon has begun.
1. As predicted since July 12, (and posted on the Counterterrorism Blog), the aim of Hezbollah’s summer war with Israel, was to provoke a “strike-back” at the Lebanese Government and reshape the balance of power in Lebanon to the advantage of the Teheran-Damascus axis. Nasrallah and his allies across the sectarian divide aimed at shifting the issue of disarming Hezbollah and militias (according to UNSCR 1559) to crumbling the government, which is supposed to implement this disarming process. …-
More and links at LGF.
Alex: Having once been married to a Finn, it seems to me that you should insert “Drink Vodka”, before, after, and during each activity. 😉
Here is the culprit http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unifil/PS3oct.pdf
The same restrictive ROE’s used in Bosnia, Rwanda, Cyprus, the Golan Heights.
Don’t blame the boots on the ground folks, their hands are tied by blowhard Diplomats, and weak kneed politicians at home. I feel for those troops, been there (Bosnia 1994) done that (performing the vital position of scorekeeper in a war zone).
The UN is just enshrining its position as a useless debating society
I can hardly wait for your usual objective analysis after the “train wreck.” Don’t forget that steel balls delivered by Hizbollah rockets target Israeli civilians and are a crime against humanity. Cluster bombs delivered by the IDF target nothing and offend against nothing because they will not be mentioned on SDA.
It looks like UNIFIL’s payroll is going to get trimmed soon. If war breaks out those UNIFIL guys will be dropping like flies.
I think this will be one of the last missions of UNIFIL. After the poor showing of the Israeli army the last time out there will be a no holds bared aggression on their behalf the next time around. If UNIFIL is in the way I don’t envy their position. I think they [UNIFIL] and the leftern world in general will find out what it’s like getting in the way of someone [Israel] fighting for their life.
bob where is this poll that says only 32%
over 100 of our boys have been killed by muslims via peace keeping but, many moonbats are ok with that, and say we should be nice give oil for food money to the UN, etc.
Just goes to show: give Islamofascists an inch they will take all the miles, not just one.
Lebanon thought appeasement and accommodation of Hezbollah would ease their ills. In the short term one might say it did, but in the long term it’s going to mean the end of “free and democratic” Lebanon.
As for UNFIL, correct-thinking people predicted this would happen as soon as the UN got its grimy fingers on the situation post Hez-Isr war of yester month. From Day 1 the “peacekeepers” were hands off on all shipments coming in from Syria and Iran, so it’s no surprise that Hezbollah is now re-armed to the teeth.
I say Lebanon has chosen its destiny through a series of incredibly stupifying decisions, not the smallest of which was letting Hezbollah set up shop in their country.
We need to learn from this.
I think this will be one of the last missions of UNIFIL. After the poor showing of the Israeli army the last time out there will be a no holds bared aggression on their behalf the next time around. If UNIFIL is in the way I don’t envy their position. I think they [UNIFIL] and the leftern world in general will find out what it’s like getting in the way of someone [Israel] fighting for their life.
Just goes to show: give Islamofascists an inch they will take all the miles, not just one.
Lebanon thought appeasement and accommodation of Hezbollah would ease their ills. In the short term one might say it did, but in the long term it’s going to mean the end of “free and democratic” Lebanon.
As for UNFIL, correct-thinking people predicted this would happen as soon as the UN got its grimy fingers on the situation post Hez-Isr war of yester month. From Day 1 the “peacekeepers” were hands off on all shipments coming in from Syria and Iran, so it’s no surprise that Hezbollah is now re-armed to the teeth.
I say Lebanon has chosen its destiny through a series of incredibly stupifying decisions, not the smallest of which was letting Hezbollah set up shop in their country.
We need to learn from this.
Sorry for that double post
“Suspected Islamic militant apologizes for beheading three Christian schoolgirls.”
– Citypulse news headline.
What’s wrong with this headline? Oh, I know, even though the savage has admitted to the crime, we can’t say that he’s guilty. Afterall, he’s a Muslim and therefore born to behead Christian schoolgirls. Not his fault.
Just like the Saudi who butchered his wife while visiting Ottawa. His defence was, well, I’m Muslim and it’s allowed in our culture and by our law. He’s born this way. Not his fault.
But, I guess, Bob and the league of Islamic appeasers and water carriers all agree with the savages – it’s the Joooos. The Joooooooos, damn it.
Wonder if white guys can bring back the old medieval practice of hanging, drawing and quartering. Hell, why not? We could claim that we’ve been repressing this latent desire for too many centuries now. It’s part of the Anglo Saxon DNA, afterall.
It’s not our fault.
Irwin Daisy said:
“Wonder if white guys can bring back the old medieval practice of hanging, drawing and quartering.”
Shades of the film “Braveheart”.
I have always thought the practice of keel hauling to be a most ‘civilizing influence’ (sarcasm on :0 ) especially as barnacles manage to shred ones skin in salt laden sea water.
KEEL-HAULING, a punishment inflicted for various offences in the Dutch navy. It is performed by plunging the delinquent repeatedly under the ship’s bottom on one side, and hoisting him up on the other, after having passed under the keel. The blocks, or pullies, by which he is suspended, are fastened to the opposite extremities of the main-yard, and a weight of lead or iron is hung upon his legs to sink him to a competent depth. By this apparatus he is drawn close up to the yard-arm, and thence let fall suddenly into the sea, where, passing under the ship’s bottom, he is hoisted up on the opposite side of the vessel. As this extraordinary sentence is executed with a serenity of temper peculiar to the Dutch, the culprit is allowed sufficient intervals to recover the sense of pain, of which indeed he is frequently deprived during the operation. In truth, a temporary insensibility to his sufferings ought by no means to be construed into a disrespect of his judges, when we consider that this punishment is supposed to have peculiar propriety in the depth of winter, whilst the flakes of ice are floating on the stream; and that it is continued till the culprit is almost suffocated for want of air, benumbed with the cold of the water, or stunned with the blows his head receives by striking the ship’s bottom.
© Derived from Thomas Cadell’s new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 165, 2004
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Irwin Daisy said:
“Wonder if white guys can bring back the old medieval practice of hanging, drawing and quartering.”
Shades of the film “Braveheart”.
I have always thought the practice of keel hauling to be a most ‘civilizing influence’ (sarcasm on :0 ) especially as barnacles manage to shred ones skin in salt laden sea water.
KEEL-HAULING, a punishment inflicted for various offences in the Dutch navy. It is performed by plunging the delinquent repeatedly under the ship’s bottom on one side, and hoisting him up on the other, after having passed under the keel. The blocks, or pullies, by which he is suspended, are fastened to the opposite extremities of the main-yard, and a weight of lead or iron is hung upon his legs to sink him to a competent depth. By this apparatus he is drawn close up to the yard-arm, and thence let fall suddenly into the sea, where, passing under the ship’s bottom, he is hoisted up on the opposite side of the vessel. As this extraordinary sentence is executed with a serenity of temper peculiar to the Dutch, the culprit is allowed sufficient intervals to recover the sense of pain, of which indeed he is frequently deprived during the operation. In truth, a temporary insensibility to his sufferings ought by no means to be construed into a disrespect of his judges, when we consider that this punishment is supposed to have peculiar propriety in the depth of winter, whilst the flakes of ice are floating on the stream; and that it is continued till the culprit is almost suffocated for want of air, benumbed with the cold of the water, or stunned with the blows his head receives by striking the ship’s bottom.
© Derived from Thomas Cadell’s new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 165, 2004
Published by South Seas, using the Web Academic Resource Publisher
To cite this page use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ss-refs-falc-0757
Gee Bob, why does it not surprise me that you totally fail to understand Godwin’s law?
Attention all Infidels. Tune into Glen Beck on HNN 508 {Bellvue) at 7:00 – 9:00 PM. and 12:00 AM – EST. He has a documentary that was produced for his show. It will show the infidels what and why we are facing the Islamofascists and their road to peace. Glen Beck had to increase security around himself and his family because of what he reveals in this documentary which has taken 8 months to put together. You will not see this on regular MSN.
I believe that Israel should give the UN forces a 5 hour warning to get the hell out of the way…then commence bombing the south of Lebanon to dust.
If anyone sticks their head out of a bunker for the next 3 months……pow …red mist.
Emir of Qatar:
West is Prejudiced Against Terrorists
The emir of Qatar says there’s really nothing wrong with a genocidal terrorist gang dedicated to wiping out a neighboring state, and he can’t understand why the West is so negative about it: Qatar’s emir criticises Western attitudes to Hamas.
STRASBOURG (AFP) – Qatar’s emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, has criticised Western countries for their attitude toward the embattled Palestinian government led by the militant group Hamas.
“The Palestinian government, formed by Hamas in accordance with the free will of the Palestinian people, should have the opportunity to work for the people who elected it,” he told the European Parliament Wednesday.
But “instead of rewarding the Palestinian people for practising democracy, something rarely witnessed in our region [and certainly not in Qatar. —ed.], they have been punished for it,” with an international embargo, he said. …-
LGF
Jypsy Ontario,
Delighted to see that you and so many others are tuning in to Glenn Beck and the world as it is in Reality.
The fresh air is a real contrast to the * Mundane Spin Media *. = TG
Israel would be smart to get some ABM’s in. Mushroom soup’s the next course after Iran’s Hizbollah sets the table in Lebanon. The main course will follow.
But the new, improved UNIFIL is really a NATO plot (according to Robert Fisk)!
news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1984418.ece
Hezbollah are quivering in their boots.
Mark
Ottawa
If the dwarf from Iran drops an Atomic bomb on Tel Aviv. Than all bets are off. You can bet Isreal knows this as the West pretends it does not hear the madman, or think he’s a comic.
This should have been delt with this spring. The leftists have done a good job for the enemmy of civilization. Trying to play both sides to mop up.I bet it will be a real surprise when the headsmen sword meets there neck. No one likes traitors.
Isreal conducted an incompetent war against Hezbollah. They then lost the peace as decisively as it could be lost. Let us hope that they don’t flinch from killing a lot of French soldiers.
It would be interesting if that actually brought about a confrontation of the US and French militaries.
It seems that the erratic behaviour of the comment posting tool is affecting efforts to post…multiple posts and some missing…
Anyway I wanted to say that the Israelis should give the UN forces a heads up warning to get the hell out…maybe about 4 hours …and then bomb the southern half of Lebanon into dust!
If they’re too slow or disorganized to get out of the way tough!
Good. Lets finish this one way or the other.
I don’t think Bob is an anti-semite, just stupid. Who would side with a group of people who want to kill you?
Actually Bob, you are a straightforward liar. Us Canadians are so much better than you would think:
“Almost two in three Canadians believe Israel’s military action in Lebanon is justified, a new poll has revealed.
The survey, conducted online by Ipsos Reid for CanWest News Service and Global National, found 64% of Canadians believed Israel’s action is either somewhat or completely justified.”
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=201868ff-2685-4321-b222-a9307230d14e&k=88384
He could be one of those people. = TG
He could be one of those people. = TG
Sorry Bob. Didn*t mean to pick on you twice.= TG