Word: militiaization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just the anti-Syrian Cedar Revolution demonstrations, but also ones organized by Hizballah, which viewed the effort to push Syria out of Lebanon as a rearguard attack against the anti-Israeli resistance. It seemed to me that leaving Hizballah, Lebanon's largest political party and its only armed militia, out of calculations for the future was unwise. "Do you ever have any contact with Hizballah these days?" I asked the official. Not only is it illegal for U.S. government officials to have dealings with terrorist organizations, she said, but the photographs of her predecessors killed by Hizballah that hang from...
...since then, the Party of God has not just survived U.S. attempts to isolate it; Hizballah has thrived. In 2006, it turned back an Israeli invasion. Last spring, its militia defeated forces loyal to the U.S.-backed government in a street battle that lasted mere hours. Now a Hizballah-led political coalition is poised to do well in parliamentary elections on June 7. And even if Hizballah doesn't triumph, it is in de facto control of the Lebanese state, able to arm and train its military wing with impunity, and to project the power of its sponsors - Syria...
Iran_hotspot Oh there is shooting outside my dorms pray that no one else dies there have been enough deaths the militia need to be stopped...
...NextRevolution @oklahomared friend shot in upper thigh by basij militia on motorbike 2 dead tehran.. thank you death to the dictator #iranelection...
...dansinker RT @persiankiwi: streets very dangerous now. groups of militia on motorbikes searching for protesters. #Iranelection...