Diplomats: EU Poised to Put Hizbullah's Military Wing on Terror List
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The European Union stands poised to put the military wing of Hizbullah on its list of terrorist organizations after a formal request to blacklist the group was filed by a member state Monday, diplomats said.
The request from Britain formally launches a process to blacklist the group, a move that has long been requested by Israel and which will be discussed in early June, several EU diplomats told Agence France Presse.
"We hope to have an agreement by the end of June," one of the diplomats said, adding that EU experts would meet in a special committee to discuss the request early June.
Both Israel and the United States have pressured the 27-member bloc to follow their example and designate Hizbullah as a terrorist group but the issue remained sensitive and divisive, with Britain openly in favor while France and Italy were believed reluctant.
Informed French sources told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published Sunday that France, which has been the most influential opponent of the move, has lately seen a change in stance and could approve the measure given that Hizbullah members are fighting alongside Syrian regime troops against the rebels.
They told al-Hayat that the French leadership favors putting some Hizbullah leaders on the terror list and not the entire military wing of the party.
During a visit in March, Israeli President Shimon Peres urged the EU to brand Hizbullah as terrorists, arguing that the movement's intervention in Syria against rebels opposed to President Bashar Assad was enabling the group to spread its reach.
"If you do not take measures against Hizbullah, then they may think that they are permitted" to do what they like, he said after a meeting with European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso.
21 May 2013, 14:05
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The EU should put itself on the terrorist list ... They are now doing business with terrorists stealing Syrian oil. The money isn't going to the FSA but to Qaeda operatives in the East.
21 May 2013, 15:05
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That Qaeda is getting rich off Syrian oil?
Look North to Syria St. in Tripoli to get your reward ...
21 May 2013, 17:42
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Hizbushaitan are the new hassasin!
should you not know what this means, please look it up on Wikipedia.
they are the modern form of that old shia group, whose role was to get stunned and perform murders and assassinations.
21 May 2013, 17:54
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Lebanon is suffering now what Israel began to suffer a few years ago. Being noticed for doing what it always does. Both states practice forms of racism. It's against the law to be non-Jewish in Israel or Shia in Lebanon. The daily turn of the worm in Syria is bringing pressure on Lebanon to explain why Hezbullah is, on the one hand, the only functioning state apparatus in Lebanon, but, on the other, is treated by the Lebanese government and its foreign puppet-masters as a "satan". Who is the "enemy" of Lebanon? Can its own people be its enemy? The enemy of Lebanon, as it is for Israel, is reality. So the people have nothing to worry about. Reality always wins.
21 May 2013, 19:02
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Shiites are uneducated because when they left Najaf and arrived in lebanon they invested themselves in agriculture, not in education. The only way for them to overcome this obstacle because of their own mistakes is by educating themselves, not by blaming others for their perception of that community which is a reflection of reality.
21 May 2013, 14:22
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Bleaze Bleaze dandoun come back to me!...... Oh wait, just woke up...I was dreaming...... Wow what a headline - now I can open a bottle of "I don't care" ...
Hey FT what's up, ur my favourite M8 person cos I can pick on ur comments sometimes then just say random stuff other times
21 May 2013, 16:59
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There is nothing in any of the comments on Naharnet that stops you blaming the Jews for everything. You are absolutely a disgusting person, and that is using the term person very loosely. You should be ashamed of yourself.
21 May 2013, 18:57
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He's sick Philippo, he cannot think for himself. He just repeats what he heard from other retarded and uneducated people.
21 May 2013, 14:31
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It's about time and they put the whole Hizbala on a terrorist group list and all their Lebanese cronies like aoun and berri...
21 May 2013, 14:57
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Ouch! This should definitely hurt... well... umm... duh... tourism? How pathetic and bankrupt these Westerners have become.
21 May 2013, 15:43
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lol when did they ever like the military wing of Hizbullah anyways...lmao
21 May 2013, 15:51
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Hizbairy committed political suicide this time ....they should have listened (for once) to their lebanese countrymen instead of taking orders from the black turbaned terrorist in tehran.
21 May 2013, 16:18
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Israel's behavior does not excuse Hezbollah's stance and behavior.
If I accuse you of something, your defence cannot be that others are doing the same thing !
All Hezbollah soldiers who were killed in Syria deserved what happened to them. Anyone playing with fire should get burned ! They have no business there and nothing can justify their involvement in this war !
Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation and the first victims are the lebanese people!
21 May 2013, 17:03
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According to its own statements, Hizballah does not have the right to exist nowadays.
They claim that they were established to get Israel off every single centimeter of Lebanese territory. The UN established that this was the
case already a few years ago.
Now the Hizballah is looking for other targets to get their dirty hands into. Firstly Syria, and then unfortunately, my dear Lebanese friends, it will be your turn, as your army seems to not care what goes on the
the Hizballah-occupied Lebanese territory.
21 May 2013, 17:29
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the EU must bend over and thank Hizbullah for killing all those ÉU' mercenaries
fighting in Syria!! No ione in europe wants them back!
21 May 2013, 17:38
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What a bunch of bs. Good luck trying to differentiate between the military wing and the so called "good" wing. Just like the IRS.
21 May 2013, 18:55
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They revoked your green card? Only a fool would leave America of Lebanon.
21 May 2013, 23:33
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what are you talking about ? The president is black, and has been black for 5 years, as far as he knows ...
22 May 2013, 04:53
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bigjohn, I believe the way the white man treated people of color and how people of color might treat the white man in 2043 is much much kinder than the way the Arab masses are treating each other. As the world moves forward we are heading back to the stone age.
