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Hezbollah in Mexico From Public Intelligence, via Jawa: In July of this year, Mexican authorities arrested Jameel Nasr in Tijuana, Baja California. Nasr was alleged to be tasked with establishing the Hezbollah network in Mexico and throughout South...
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Israel Furious After UK Ambassador Eulogizes Hezbollah’s Spiritual Mentor as a “Great, Passionate” Man He’s so passionate he decided to blow up 241 US Marines… (JPost)- The tweet in praise of Hizbullah spiritual mentor Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah...
- Happy 4th Of July, Everyone!
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah — Terrorist & Spiritual Mentor to Hezbollah — Dead...
- Hassan, We Hardly Knew Ye : Uae Deports Hundreds Of Shi'ites In Crackdown On Hizbullah
Lebanese officials said more than 300 Lebanese nationals were deported by the United Arab Emirates in mid-2009. The Lebanese said the expulsion was part of a crackdown on the Iranian-aligned community in Dubai and Sharjah, where up to 100,000...
- Cnn = Infamy Of Moral Equivalence
OCTAVIA NASR, CNN SENIOR EDITOR FOR ARAB AFFAIRS: Well, I think for one, terrorism for one person is a freedom fight for another. And you know, the Arab world always talks about this, as they say the so-called terrorism, because they believe that - in...
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CNN Editor Fired for Praising Hezbollah Cleric
Mediaite reports that CNN has fired senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr. As Daniel Halper pointed out the other day, Nasr wrote on Twitter on July 4 that she was "sad" to hear of the death of Hezbollah's Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah--a man for whom she has "respect." Fadlallah had justified suicide bombings, is believed to be responsible for the Marine barracks bombing, and had said that "Zionism has inflated the number of victims in this Holocaust beyond imagination."
In a followup blog post last night, Nasr wrote that it "was an error of judgment for me to write such a simplistic comment and I'm sorry because it conveyed that I supported Fadlallah's life's work. That's not the case at all."
She explained that she knew about all the wicked aspects of Fadlallah's life--saying she even "lost family members" in the barracks bombing--and was simply referring to the fact that she respected Fadlallah for his opposition to "honor" killings and beating women. But saying you respect Fadlallah for opposing murdering and beating (Muslim) women is almost like saying you respect Osama bin Laden for building day care centers.
CNN doesn't think Nasr's apology makes up for what she said. "We believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward," Nasr's CNN superior Parisa Khosravi said in a statement.
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Hezbollah in Mexico From Public Intelligence, via Jawa: In July of this year, Mexican authorities arrested Jameel Nasr in Tijuana, Baja California. Nasr was alleged to be tasked with establishing the Hezbollah network in Mexico and throughout South...
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Israel Furious After UK Ambassador Eulogizes Hezbollah’s Spiritual Mentor as a “Great, Passionate” Man He’s so passionate he decided to blow up 241 US Marines… (JPost)- The tweet in praise of Hizbullah spiritual mentor Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah...
- Happy 4th Of July, Everyone!
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah — Terrorist & Spiritual Mentor to Hezbollah — Dead...
- Hassan, We Hardly Knew Ye : Uae Deports Hundreds Of Shi'ites In Crackdown On Hizbullah
Lebanese officials said more than 300 Lebanese nationals were deported by the United Arab Emirates in mid-2009. The Lebanese said the expulsion was part of a crackdown on the Iranian-aligned community in Dubai and Sharjah, where up to 100,000...
- Cnn = Infamy Of Moral Equivalence
OCTAVIA NASR, CNN SENIOR EDITOR FOR ARAB AFFAIRS: Well, I think for one, terrorism for one person is a freedom fight for another. And you know, the Arab world always talks about this, as they say the so-called terrorism, because they believe that - in...