I was going through blogs and found this interesting post on The American Israeli Patriot blog, based on an article from the Telegraph:

Hizbollah is buying up large tracts of land owned by Christians and other non-Shias in southern Lebanon as the militant group rebuilds its defences in preparation for a new war with Israel, The Sunday Telegraph has been told.

Hizbollah is buying land beyond the reach of the UN

The land grab is thought to be driven by the Iranian-backed guerrillas’ efforts to rearm themselves and fortify the strategically important ravines north of the Litani River, just north of the front line in last year’s 34-day conflict with its Jewish neighbour.

Here, Hizbollah has been free to press forward without harassment from the 13,000 United Nations peacekeepers and 20,000 Lebanese army troops who were deployed south of the Litani as part of the ceasefire agreement that ended the conflict.

Just south of the Litani, the UN is conducting hundreds of patrols each day in a bid to keep Hizbollah weapons out of the area, but the peacekeepers’ mandate ends at the river.

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  • 1. fad14 | August 12th, 2007 at 12:57 pm

    NOOOO they are buying land to give it to the christians again and the maronites form Al Tayyar al Watani Al Murr.
    Not for war no, they are peaceloving people, they graduated people like Ghandi and Mother Theresa form their schools.

  • 2. fadi | August 12th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    N10452

    Just want to ask about an issue, on Nahkoum Saad yesterday with Walid Abdo the was a professor that said Lebanon is sitting on a wealth of oil from the batroun to the syrian border, have you got any information on that.

  • 3. Johnny.B | August 12th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    fad14,

    no man i heard enno they want to open a chanin of restaurants there :P

  • 4. Johnny.B | August 12th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    *chain

  • 5. FILOV | August 12th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    الرئيس وليد جنبلاط في عشاء منظمة الشباب التقدمي

    السلاح الذي يحمي أنظمة الحقد والاستبداد ليس بمقدس ولن يكون بمقدس أياً كانت مآثره في مواجهة العدوان الاسرائيلي

    خائن في صفوفنا الذي يفكر على طريقته من فريق 14 آذار الذي بالمساومة أو التسوية اصلاً سيحكم بالإعدام المعنوي والسياسي

    فلنستمد قوة من الذين سبقونا على طريق الشهادة فلنكمل المشوار ولنعبرالجسر إلى لبنان الجديد و ربما إلى شرق جديد

  • 6. Rodge | August 12th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    Fadi,

    You’ve asked a very good question, and yes Lebanon have Oil on his territory, mainly in the sea next to Tripoli and the North. There have been many attempts to explore it since the 50’s and 60’s, but when you have a neighbour like Syria, there is nothing you can do in this regard. The Syrian regimes, not only Assad Regime, have tried all the time to prevent us from exploring our Oil, sometimes with the use of force and making some troubles on the borders and in the sea, and other times by putting pressures on our previous wqeak Governments.
    This is a fact, and whatever some people will try here to deny this, while defending the Syrian, it will always be a datc. Syria, through the decades, had one mission toward Lebanon, is to undermine this country, of course with the help of Israel.
    I will try to bring some details about this matter.

    As for the posting here, it’s obvious now that we have another fact, “IMARAT HIZBOLLAH - WILAYAT FAKIH part 2″, and what hurts more, is that our brothers in Tayyar and their allies are covering this action.

  • 7. paul | August 12th, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    they need place for more graves.

  • 8. N10452 | August 12th, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    Fadi,
    this is a very interesting and a bit contraversial issue that u mentioned ..

    I ve read a report years ago about oil found in the Bekaa if am not mistake but then it was denied and some tried to silence people asking questions saying anyways it costs more than we ll profit from it to extract it in the first place.

    However, a friend of mine mentioned to me today ironically that a study was done by some Lebanese showing that we have oil in the North on the coast … and that the professor who did that “died” ironically few days after he presented it ..

    So i am not quite sure, but i think there might be oil but Syrians dont wanna show it in order to keep American interest away from here ..

    I will post about it once i have valid documents which are apparently very hard to get since this topic is a “red line” ..

  • 9. Ali 1559 | August 12th, 2007 at 9:38 pm

    N

    Your # 8 is mysterious ! Honestly, I’v heard something like that from b4 but dindt take it serioulsy !

    Be carefull what you write mate !

  • 10. mikel | August 12th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

    I agree with N
    I asked a lot people about this before and they all said that the amount of oil is so little that it will cost more to extract it than to sell it.

    Oh,
    and has anyone noticed how ali cautioned N not to wright about the subject?
    Maybe he too doesn’t want the US to get involved here.

  • 11. FoX | August 12th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    I doubt that these news are wrong.

    Tehmish al Masee7eh, byitwa2af lamma al massi7eh ma bibee3 ardo lal muslim (ma3 i7teerameh la ilon bas al ta3ayush kamen lezem yra3i al khoosoosiyet), wlaw al muslim adamlo 3ard mughreh. For example, a land(worth $100,000) owned by a christian is being offered to be bought for $400,000 by a muslim HA.

    The bishops, instead of complaining should take the initiative and buy the land(they have the money)to preserve and protect the Christian presence in Southern villages that are losing their christian citizens day after day. The geographical borders/ landscape of Qawza7, Alma, Deir Mimas and Ain-ebel is getting smaller. If Hizballah owned a land in a christian village and fired missiles on israel, u know what will be the consequences. We already knew the consequences when HA in his Holy War fired rockets and hid in Christian villages.



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