Word: hizballah
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Lebanon's political crisis appears to be heading for a showdown with a call by the Hizballah-led opposition for a general strike Tuesday, intended to paralyze the country and hasten the fall of the Western-backed government...
...much more effective with his pipelines than was the Politburo with its tanks and missiles. Much of Africa is stuck in poverty, war and disease while Latin America is again succumbing to the false promises of populist demagoguery. Last summer's bloody melee in Lebanon, fought against a Hizballah trained and equipped by Tehran, may have been the first Israeli-Iranian war. The Taliban, supposedly crushed in 2001, is doing very nicely in Afghanistan. The war against terror resembles a game of whack-a-mole: beat down one head, and see three more creatures pop out of the other holes...
LIEUT. GENERAL DAN HALUTZ, Israel's military commander, in a resignation letter announced Jan. 17, explaining why he stepped down after the army's failure to defeat Hizballah in Lebanon last summer...
...Even on the slopes, however, it's hard to escape current events. The political crisis between the Lebanese government and the Hizballah-led opposition that has turned the capital into a semi-permanent protest zone has also scared off foreign tourists, a crucial part of the economy. Bookings are down by as much as 60 percent from last year at Skileb, an online ski package operator that deals mostly with foreigners. Although skiing represents only about 10% of Lebanon's tourism market, Lebanon's economy is under such duress after the past summer's war with Israel that the country...
...Halutz may have left, but the political battle has just started. Meanwhile, from Lebanon, Hizballah's televison network gleefully reported Halutz's resignation as proof of the militia's victory against Israel...