Word: hizballah
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...error occurred while processing this directive] region. "You can be sure that the E.U. is with you," he had said the previous day in Beirut. But last week, Europe - particularly France - took a closer look at the situation and effectively gulped in horror. A defiant Hizballah said it had no intention of handing over its arms. The rules of engagement under which the international force would act remain "fuzzy," French Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie insisted, to worried nods of agreement from other European capitals. Until those rules get clarified, European countries are torn between a commitment...
...have sufficiently precise missions or means," Alliot-Marie told French radio, recalling the deaths of 71 French soldiers in the ill-conceived mission to Bosnia in the early 1990s. In October 1983, 58 French peacekeepers died in a suicide bombing in Beirut widely attributed to a precursor of Hizballah. "The sense of déjà vu is overpowering," says François Heisbourg, a security expert who was a chief adviser to the Defense Minister at the time. "I hope the government doesn't put our troops in harm's way without a clear commitment that Hizballah is disarmed...
...Your unprecedented holy war and steadfastness are beyond the limits of my description. It's a divine victory. It is a victory for Islam." AYATULLAH ALI KHAMENEI, Iran's Supreme Leader, lauding Hizballah after a cease-fire was declared between the Lebanese militants and Israel...
...thousand dollars is more than enough for most displaced Lebanese families in Lebanon to rent an apartment for a year. During that year, Hizballah will rebuild all their homes, according to Hussein Kheireddine, the manager of Jihad of Construction, Hizballah's engineering wing, which in effect has become the largest contracting firm in Lebanon overnight. The Jihad of Construction plans to hire some of the country's biggest construction companies for projects that need to be done quickly, like removing debris from the streets before the autumn rains begin. But it will hire smaller companies from the most affected communities...
...With the banners everywhere proclaiming their military victory against Israel ("Divine Victory," they read), Hizballah's reconstruction teams seem just as determined to win the peace. Certainly any other country, such as the United States, will be hard-pressed to match Hizballah in the coming battle to win the hearts and minds of Lebanese, or at least of Shi'a Muslim Lebanese. "Hassan Nasrallah has said he will help us, so he does what he says," said a woman as she left the Haret Hreik High School, where she had come to register her claim. "Hassan Nasrallah carries the whole...