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...around her neck on a recent day of handing out aid in makeshifts camps for the displaced. "But I will never stop helping whoever is in need, even if it is going to cost my life, because I know I'm doing the right thing." While she is Shi'ite, as is most of Karada, she describes herself as secular, not sectarian, and as an Iraqi first and foremost...
...death of Mughniyah may have marked a turning point in the long conflict between Hizballah and Israel. After years of ambivalence over Mughniyah's connection with the Shi'ite party, Hizballah leaders have embraced him as one of its greatest resistance leaders, responsible for turning the group's military wing into the heavily armed crack fighting force it is today. In the West, Mughniyah was better known for his alleged association with the large-scale suicide bomb attacks and kidnappings of foreigners in 1980s Beirut. More recently, Mughniyah reportedly assisted militant groups in the Palestinian territories and in Iraq, ensuring...
...Hizballah believes that Mughniyah's assassination is part of an Israeli plan to decapitate the leadership of militant anti-Israel groups as a precursor for launching a new war against the Shi'ite organization. "Mughniyah was killed in the context of an open and comprehensive war through which Israel is preparing for another war," Nasrallah said at a ceremony Friday marking the beginning of the annual "week of the resistance," in which dead Hizballah leaders are honored...
...another conflict striking the region is not welcomed, even among some Hizballah supporters. "God bless Nasrallah and the resistance. They have fought and sacrificed for Lebanon. But we are tired of wars and just want to raise our children in peace," said Hassan, a shopkeeper in a mainly Shi'ite border village. Indeed, a Western diplomat in Beirut predicted that Israel will turn south Lebanon "into a parking lot" in the next war, hoping to drive a wedge between Lebanese Shi'ites and Hizballah...
...every time Israel has used a heavy hand in Lebanon in the past, it resulted in increased support for Hizballah. Even as Hizballah girds for another confrontation with Israel, however, its leaders will have to factor in the limits of endurance among its war-weary Shi'ite supporters...