[Dean's World] Michael J. Totten: "It's Like a Phish Concert for Terrorists"

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Posted by Michael J. Totten:
"It's Like a Phish Concert for Terrorists"
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1168023579.shtml


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   BEIRUT - While Hezbollah occupied the Beirut city center in an attempt
   to bring down the government, I teamed up with my American friend Noah
   Pollak, who works as assistant editor at [1]Azure Magazine in
   Jerusalem, and took a trip to Hezbollah's stronghold in South Lebanon.
   We wanted to survey the devastation from the July War and see if we
   could find civilians who had been used as human shields by the Party
   of God.

   Before we went to the south, however, Noah wanted to meet Hezbollah
   members downtown. He had never been to Lebanon before, and I was happy
   to show him around and introduce him to the "party" [2]that fired
   missiles in our direction when we covered the July War together from
   the Israeli side of the border.

   He arrived in Beirut at 2:00 a.m. His taxi driver took him alongside
   the edge of Hezbollah's downtown encampment. Even in the middle of the
   night demonstrators were out the streets screaming slogans.

   "What are they saying?" Noah said to the driver.

   The driver rolled down his window and told the demonstrators an
   American was in the car and wanted to know what they were saying. One
   of the men in the street came up to the taxi.

   "We will cut Seniora," he said, referring to Lebanon's elected prime
   minister. "We will cut him!"

   Noah laughed to himself and knew he had come to Lebanon at the right
   time.

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References

   1. http://www.azure.org.il/
   2. http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001235.html
   3. http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001235.html