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...circle high above, tiny silver specks against the blue sky, before taking turns to swoop and fire missiles into the South Lebanon village of Froun, two miles from here. The huge blasts and column of dirt and smoke that rise from Froun are watched intently by Haj Rabieh and Abu Mohammed, two veteran Hizballah fighters, who live among the bombed-out ruins of this village just south of the Litani river. An Israeli reconnaissance drone whines directly overhead and both Hizballah men know that the bombs pounding Froun could soon be directed against them if they are spotted...
...Clutching their walkie-talkies, the unarmed plainclothes fighters duck back into the narrow winding alleyways, keeping to the shadows. "We have a love for martyrdom, but we also have a love for life and we don't want to die," says Abu Mohammed, a wiry, bearded elementary school teacher in normal life who first picked up a rifle for Hizballah in 1985. He and his comrade Haj Rabieh, a baseball cap-wearing schoolteacher who has fought Israel since 1982, are part of Hizballah's military network in south Lebanon and they recently spoke to TIME and a few other Western...
...call someone and say let's meet at Bourj Anouni, no one outside the village will know what I mean," explains Haj Rabieh. "The Israelis won't know what we mean." Abu Mohammed gives another example, "If I say 'the olives are like vinegar and dough,' what does this mean...
...establish a caliphate from Spain to Iraq, in all the lands where Islam has ever ruled. The Salafists are Sunni, and Hizballah is Shi'ite, which means their hatred for each other is apt to rival their hatred for the U.S. Al-Qaeda's late leader in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, used to say Shi'ites were worse than Americans and launched a brutal war on them in Iraq...
MUBARAK: Both need to reassess their gains and losses. There are many lessons to learn from the current crises. I hope this gets through to their leaders for the sake of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples. Hamas, all other Palestinian factions and [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as] Abu Mazen have to set aside their differences and speak in one voice. They have to prove that there exists a Palestinian partner able to negotiate a peace settlement with Israel. As to Hizballah, they are part and parcel of the Lebanese people's fabric. However, nobody should be allowed...