| May 21, 2008 | -
Lebanese factions met in Qatar and gave Hezbollah veto power in Lebanon's new national unity cabinet. It was, said a U.S. State Department representative, “really a welcome development.”
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BBC News
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| May 9, 2008 | - The U.S.-backed government of Lebanon tried to dismantle Hezbollah's extensive telecommunications network there, and Hezbollah temporarily seized half of Beirut. “The hand that touches the weapons of the resistance,” said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, “will be cut off.”
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BBC
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Haaretz
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NYT
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Haaretz
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The Washington Post
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Bloomberg
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| May 5, 2008 | - U.S. military reports on the interrogation of four captured Shia militia members concluded that Hezbollah was training small groups of Iraqi insurgents in Iran. John Bolton, ex-ambassador to the United Nations, said that attacking Iran was “really the most prudent thing to do”; the Iraqi government said that it would conduct its own inquiry. “We do not want to start a conflict with Iran,” said Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. “We need our own government documentation of this interference, not from the Americans, not from the media.”
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The New York Times
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Reuters
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The Christian Science Monitor
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Fox via Thinkprogress
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| February 10, 2008 | -
Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah was killed by a car bomb in Syria.
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Washington Post
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Los Angeles Times
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Washington Post
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New York Times
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| December 1, 2006 | - A “bizarrely festive” atmosphere was noted on the streets of Beirut, where one million Hezbollah supporters rallied for the ouster of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora.
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New York Times
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| September 22, 2006 | -
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah attended a rally in Beirut to commemorate the “divine and historic victory” in the war with Israel,.
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New York times
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| September 14, 2006 | -
Amnesty International accused Hezbollah of war crimes.
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The New York Times
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| August 21, 2006 | -
Israeli troops detained a Hamas legislator in the West Bank and engaged Hezbollah guerillas in a shootout near Boudai, Lebanon.
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The Wall Street Journal
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| August 19, 2006 | - In South Africa, Shlomo Goldwasser, father of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hezbollah on July 12, urged the world to defeat his son's captors. “If Israel won't finish the job, you will find them here,” he said. “They will kidnap your sons.”
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Independent Online, South Africa
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| August 19, 2006 | -
Syrian President Bashar Assad called those who doubted Hezbollah “half men,” and an Arab newspaper called Assad a rose that failed to bloom.
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Jerusalem Post
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| August 15, 2006 | -
Hezbollah declared victory in its 34-day war with Israel. “I guess,” said President George W. Bush, “I would have done the same thing if I were them.” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged that Israel would “do better” in what Defense Minister Amir Peretz referred to as “the next round.” An official said killing Hezbollah leader Sheikh Nasrallah was a top priority.
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The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
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| August 14, 2006 | -
Hezbollah accepted a U.N. ceasefire resolution, and agreed to allow Lebanese and U.N. troops to serve as peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
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CNN.com
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| August 10, 2006 | -
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it was willing to work with Hezbollah to aid suffering Lebanese animals.
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CNSNews.com
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| August 4, 2006 | - In Baghdad, 100,000 Shiites attended a “million-man” march in support of Hezbollah.
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The Australian
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| August 3, 2006 | -
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah boasted that his forces were inflicting “maximum casualties” and warned Israel that if it “bombed our capital Beirut, we will bomb the capital of your usurping entity”; he also called on his fellow Arab leaders to “be men for just one day.”
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NY Times
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CNN
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| July 30, 2006 | - In Cairo, Muslims took to the street carrying posters of Hassan Nasrallah, chanting "O Sunni! O Shiite! Let's fight the Jews.”
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NY Times
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| July 30, 2006 | -
Hezbollah guerillas fired several hundred rockets into towns in northern Israel, hitting a laundry detergent factory and a cemetery, and injuring at least 31 people.
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CGGL
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| July 27, 2006 | - Nine Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush, and Israeli officials claimed to have killed some 200 Hezbollah “operatives” since the outset of hostilities.
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AP
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AP via Dispatch Online
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BBC
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| July 27, 2006 | - Radical Sunni groups usually hostile to Shiites urged support for Hezbollah.
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Ynetnews
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| July 22, 2006 | -
Lebanese were receiving late-night phone calls from the Israeli government. “I just wished I could talk back to the voice,” said one woman, “but it was a recorded message.” Hezbollah responded by sending mobile-phone text messages to dozens of Israelis.
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SFGate.com
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Haaretz
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Reuters via thestaronline
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| July 18, 2006 | - Ehud Olmert, prime minister of Israel, said Hezbollah's war on Israel was a ruse to divert attention from Iran's
nuclear weapons program. Kayhan, an Iranian news daily, replied that it only “wish[ed] Israel's lies were true.”
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BBC
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| July 17, 2006 | - “What they need to do,” said President George W. Bush as he buttered a piece of bread at the G-8 summit, “is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over.”
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UPI
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The Washington Post
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| July 13, 2006 | - War erupted between Hezbollah and Israel after the Lebanese militia launched Operation Truthful Promise against Israel by crossing the border and capturing two Israeli soldiers. The operation was staged in response to Operation Summer Rains, in which Israel occupied Gaza and destroyed a large portion of the civilian infrastructure. Israel countered Operation Truthful Promise by staging Operation Just Reward against Lebanon, bombing roads, bridges, power stations, fuel depots, ports, and airports, and killing numerous civilians. Hezbollah bombed Haifa, surprising Israel with the range of its rockets and killing at least eight civilians. “You wanted an open war,” said Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in a recorded message, “and we are heading for an open war. . . . The surprises that I have promised you will start now.”
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The Daily Star
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Times Online
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Newsday
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Times of India
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Zaman Online
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AP via Yahoo!
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| April 5, 2004 | - A Shiite militia known as the Mahdi Army rose up across Iraq in response to a call by Moktada al-Sadr, a militant cleric, to "terrorize your enemy." Last week Sadr announced that he is "the beating arm for Hezbollah and Hamas here in Iraq."
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New York Times
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| April 9, 2002 | -
Suicide attacks continued, and Hezbollah resumed firing rockets into northern Israel from Lebanon for the first time since 2000.
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| December 4, 2001 | - American officials declared that they were “on a roll” and that the next targets in the crusade against terrorism were Saddam Hussein, Hamas, and the Hezbollah network in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.
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