I love the Lebanese

[jaguar]

all of whom were either bussed in or threatened with their lives

Interesting assumption. Extra points for myopia. Hizbollah enjoys a lot of support, it runs schools, hospitals and media and holds seats in parliament. It's very popular in the Shia community, which is about 40% of Lebanon.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by jaguar

Interesting assumption. Extra points for myopia. Hizbollah enjoys a lot of support, it runs schools, hospitals and media and holds seats in parliament. It's very popular in the Shia community, which is about 40% of Lebanon.

I also heard (one statement) on a BBC report that the pro-Syrian protestors were paid, and implied that the anti-Syrian protestors were not. Draw your own conclusions about which movitation is more noble.

[mrnoodle]

Originally Posted by jaguar

Hizbollah enjoys a lot of support, it runs schools, hospitals and media and holds seats in parliament. It's very popular in the Shia community, which is about 40% of Lebanon.

It also ran a series of kidnappings of Westerners in Lebanon, including several Americans, in the 1980s; the suicide truck bombings that killed more than 200 U.S. Marines at their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983; the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847, which featured the famous footage of the plane’s pilot leaning out of the cockpit with a gun to his head; and two major 1990s attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina—the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy (killing 29) and the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center (killing 95).


Hassan Nasrallah, their terrorist in chief, said "Death to America is not a slogan. Death to America is a policy, a strategy and a vision."

You'll just have to pardon me if my view of this organization tends toward the negative.