Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

December 20, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Columnist/2013/Dec-19/241601-hezbollah-is-caught-in-an-al-qaeda-vise.ashx#axzz2nrP8joE3

Hizbullah Is Caught in an Al-Qaeda Vise

(Daily Star-Lebanon) Michael Young - In the car bomb in the Bekaa Valley, near the village of Sbouba, a large quantity of explosives was used and the blast occurred near a Hizbullah base, which must have been under observation for some time. This indicated a level of professionalism similar to the one evident in the bombings at the Iranian Embassy in October. Such operations are taking place in a wider context of al-Qaeda's reaffirming itself regionally, especially in a swathe of territory stretching from Iraq to Syria and now extending increasingly to Lebanon. Hizbullah now finds itself transformed into cannon fodder in a battle against al-Qaeda, when its initial goal was merely to defend Assad rule.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: