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February 28, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/27/AR2011022702871.html

Hizbullah Is Watching the Arab Uprisings

(Washington Post) David Ignatius - The Lebanese government is dominated by an organization that the U.S. and Israel designate as "terrorist." What's more, Hizbullah's ascendancy has given its patrons in Tehran what amounts to a beachhead on the Mediterranean. I met last week with Ammar al-Mousawi, the top Hizbullah "diplomat," and the discussion illustrated the thinking of the toughest player in the world's toughest political league. Hizbullah seems assured that the practical effect of any indictments in the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri will be blunted and that the matter will be left unresolved in characteristic Lebanese fashion. Hizbullah doesn't oppose a continuation of military cooperation between Lebanon and the U.S. Indeed, Hizbullah mischievously says that perhaps the Lebanese army should have more U.S. weapons.

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