Israeli Spies Linked to Murder of Hezbollah Chief

Nov. 9, 2008 Two brothers seized in Lebanon are accused of a role in the death of a Hezbollah chief Two brothers held in Lebanon as Israeli spies are linked to a team responsible for the assassination of a notorious terrorist leader, Lebanese security sources have claimed. Ali Jarrah, 50, a Lebanese citizen, and his brother Youssef, from Marj in the Bekaa valley, were arrested last week by the Lebanese army, which charged them with espionage. A third suspect has also been held, sources close to the investigation said. All three face the death penalty.. » read more

Bulldozer “Terrorism� Depends on Who’s On and Who’s Under

Sept.Oct. 2008 IN A SPAN of less than three weeks, two Palestinians used bulldozers in rampages against cars and people in Jerusalem. In the first incident, Hussam Duwiyat killed two men and a woman, and injured many, after he rammed a bulldozer into a packed commuter bus on Jaffe Street on July 2. According to reports, Duwiyat was a resident of Arab East Jerusalem and worked at a building site near the scene.. » read more

Report: UN to demand Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion

Posted 9/7/08 Lebanese media say Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to instruct Israel to take responsibility for environmental damages caused by 2006 war, including oil spill following bombing of Beirut power plant UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will demand that Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion in compensation over damages caused during the Jewish state's 2006 war against Hizbullah, Lebanese media reported Saturday. According to the report, the sum, based on World Bank appraisals, is aimed at covering the environmental and material damages caused by the Second Lebanon War, to neighboring countries as well. The fundamental part of the compensation demanded is for the damage caused to the Lebanese coast due to an oil spill following an Israeli bombing of a southern Beirut power plant, which the Lebanese said had caused "an ecological disaster." According to the report, Ban plans to submit a report to the United Nations General Assembly at the end of the month, stating that damage Israel caused to the oil reservoir polluted Lebanon's coast, and that the pollution spread to neighboring countries, especially Syria. Ban further notes that the UN rehabilitation plan managed to clean some of the oil spill in several areas in northern Lebanon seashores.. » read more

'Theatrical Return for the Living and the Dead'

July 17, 2008 Yesterday was the last day of the 2006 Lebanon war, the final chapter of Israel's folly and Hizbollah's hubris, a grisly day of corpse-swapping and refrigerated body parts and coffin after bleak wooden coffin on trucks crossing the Israeli border, which left old Ali Ahmed al-Sfeir and his wife, Wahde, stooped and broken with grief. Ali had a grizzled grey beard and stood propped on a stick while Wahde held a grey-tinged photograph of a young man – her son Ahmed, born in 1970. "He was a martyr, but I do not know which lorry he will be on," she said. In the slightly torn picture, he looked whey-faced, unsmiling, already dead. That could not be said for Samir Kuntar – 28 years in an Israeli jail for the 1979 murder of an Israeli, his young daughter and a policeman.. » read more

LEBANON: A Devastated Town Recovers, In A Way

SIDDIQINE, Lebanon, Mar 26 (IPS) - Ali Mohanna lives in a two-room cinderblock structure with his wife and brain-damaged son. By the side is a small, freshly ploughed tobacco field and the plot of rubble he once called home. Mohanna's house was bombed by Israel during the 34-day conflict in 2006, as were houses of most residents of Siddiqine -- an impoverished village of 6,000, about 10km inland from the coastal town Tyre. Siddiqine resembled a flattened moonscape in the bitterly cold and damp winter that followed, with more than 700 homes out of a total 1050 hit, and half that number completely destroyed. Mohanna lost two tobacco harvests from the bombardment and unexploded cluster munitions, and is now 10,000 dollars in debt to his bank.. » read more

RIGHT NOW...Fighting in BEIRUT

May 8, 2008 UPDATE 4 19:53 GMT - Accourding to Al-Manar TV, belonging to Hezbullah (the opposition), the opposition and Hezbullah  has REJECTED Saad Al-Hariri's 4 plan proposal. This rejection is a setp back for a near solution to this crisis.   Casualties are reported of five dead and twelve injured in todays fighting. ----------- UPDATE 3  17:44 GMT – As tension is mounting high in Beirut, Future Party Leader, Saad Al-Hariri, loyalist leader, made a moderate political speech addressing the situation. In his speech addressed to Hezbollah Leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said that Beirut is under siege, and you (Mr.. » read more

US Spy Satellite ‘Downed’ By Israel, Say Russian Experts

Russian Space Forces (VKS) experts are reporting in the Kremlin today that the sudden, and catastrophic, loss of one of the United States most sophisticated spy satellites was due to a newly (January 22nd) launched Israeli spy satellite that upon reaching the same polar orbit of its American counterpart ‘ejected’ thousands of ball bearings which ‘shredded’ the KH-13, believed to be the US military’s most advanced reconnaissance satellite. These reports state that Israel had become ‘alarmed’ over this American spy satellite since its launching in December, 2006, (which the United States then reported had failed to reach its assigned orbit) due to its orbit which brought it over their secretive Negev Nuclear Research Center located at Dimona. The United States has confirmed the loss of their spy satellite, and as we can read as reported by the Associated Press News Service: "The U.S. military is developing contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could hit North America.. » read more

Barak OK's Plan To Gradually Reduce Power Supply to Gaza

Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved on Thursday a list of civilian sanctions against the Gaza Strip as a means to combat the ongoing Kassam rocket barrages that have been fired at southern Israel since the disengagement from Gaza in August 2005. The decision was made during a special meeting of security officials in which he discussed the matter with senior military personnel, and it marks the first time Israel has scaled back vital supplies to Gaza since the cabinet defined Gaza as a "hostile entity" last month. According to a report on Channel 2, Israel will begin to gradually reduce the volume of electricy and amount of gasoline that is currently supplied to Gaza. The report further stated that the move was not meant to "punish" the Palestinians, but was simply a method of implementing the cabinet decision from last month. However, Channel 10 reported that Israel planned to cut electricity for an estimated 15 minutes after every Palestinian rocket is fired into Israel, leading to speculation of a direct connection between sanctions and the Kassam rocket fire.. » read more

Israle Admits Phosphorous Bombs Used in Lebanon

The Israeli government has admitted for the first time that it used controversial phosphorous bombs during its 34-day war campaign in Lebanon. Cabinet Minister Jacob Edery confirmed that the army had used the bombs to attack "military targets" during its war with Hizbollah in July and August. Previously, Israel had said the bombs had only been used to mark out targets. During the conflict, doctors in Lebanon reported treating civilians who appeared to have been hit by the shells, which leave their victims with severe chemical wounds that can be fatal. The reports led the Lebanese President, Emile Lahoud, to accuse Israel of breaching the Geneva Convention, which bans the use of white phosphorous both as an incendiary weapon against civilians and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas.. » read more

Lebanon is Rising to Invincibility

Lebanon is planning a beautiful new project for achieving permanent peace, prosperity and invincibility—to radiate this influence to the whole Middle East region—through the establishment of an Invincibility School where the students practise Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme as part of their curriculum. To implement this much needed project, suitable land is being acquired for a girls' school to be built according to the principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda—Maharishi Vedic Architecture. During the past months, many sites have been searched and evaluated for their suitability in terms of the principles of Vedic Architecture—location, environment, cost, etc. After a long and thorough search, ideal land has been located in a quiet and pleasant area away from noise and pollution, and surrounded by beautiful green areas. The land is also not very far from Beirut.. » read more

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