"HEZBOLLAH, THE Iranian-backed Lebanese Shia militant group, is arming, training and financing a Palestinian Sunni militia inside Lebanon's most violent refugee camp, tasked with controlling the rise of al-Qaeda fighters, many of them veterans of the sectarian war in Iraq.
In an interview with the Sunday Herald inside Ain al-Hilweh camp near the southern port city of Sidon, Sheikh Abu Ayoub, a commander of Ansar Allah (Followers of God), said his Palestinian group was leading a security force to expel foreign jihadis and prevent a repeat of the devastating summer conflict between Sunni extremists and the Lebanese army in the northern Nahr al-Bared refugee camp.
'Lebanon is now the new front for al-Qaeda,' said Ayoub. 'Al-Qaeda sees Lebanon as weak because of the split in decision-making, and weak security. Over the past year there were many foreigners in the camp. They spoke about wanting to get back into Iraq. There were Saudis among them and they were closely monitored before being expelled. They all moved to Nahr al-Bared.'
Read the whole article. Hezbollah are anything but saints. Quite a few things comes to mind after reading the article:
- Under Bush's logic, we need to invade Lebanon now.
- We are not getting the proper information so that we can judge our government's actions and the politician's talk.
- The whole Islamic terrorist-Iraq-Iran-Shia-Sunni thing is a mess that our leaders do not seem to understand very well and certainly are not explaining to us in a sensible manner.
- That whenever a mess is ungodly complicated, then subtleness and nuance are very good methods rather than jumping with both feet. Jumping in does work if you are, say, Alexander the Great (see Gordian Knot). On the other hand, I think Alexander was probably a psychopath.
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