Talk:History of Hezbollah

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[edit] Post-Lebanese election

I've read the references and I don't understand how the count of Hezbollah ministers is derived. Which ministers are the two, maybe three, referred to? JiHymas@himivest.com 01:01, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Also: Is this really a good title? Hezbollah has participated in other elections; additionally, wouldn't it be better to have a new main heading "Political Activities" with this information under a sub-heading for this particular government/parliament/administration? JiHymas@himivest.com 01:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moved from Hezbollah

Just retaining the operational history here so we can piece out what is not duped here... Mceder 01:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Operational history

See also: [[:1982-2000 South Lebanon conflict|1982-2000 South Lebanon conflict]]

Hezbollah is believed by the United States and some other countries’ intelligence agencies to have kidnapped and tortured to death U.S. Marine Colonel William R. Higgins and the CIA station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley,[1] and to have kidnapped around 30 other Westerners between 1982 and 1992, including U.S. journalist Terry Anderson, British journalist John McCarthy, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy Terry Waite and Irish citizen Brian Keenan.[2] Hezbollah was accused by the US government of being responsible for the April 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that killed 63; of being behind the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, a suicide truck bombing that killed 241 U.S. marines in their barracks in Beirut in October 1983; of bombing the replacement U.S. Embassy in East Beirut on September 20, 1984, killing 20 Lebanese and two U.S. soldiers; and of carrying out the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome by two alleged members of Hezbollah demanding the release of Shiites in Israeli jails.[3]


  • On February 16, 1992 Hezbollah's secretary-general Abbas al-Musawi, his wife, son, and four others were killed by a missile fired from an Israeli helicopter.
  • On May 24 , 2000 after the collapse of the SLA and the rapid advance of Hezbollah forces, Israel withdraws its troops from southern Lebanon, more than six weeks before its stated deadline of 7 July.
  • On October 7, 2000, Hezbollah abducted three IDF soldiers from the Mt. Dov sector: Adi Avitan, Omer Soued and Binyamin Avraham .[9]
  • On March 12, 2002, in a Hezbollah shooting attack on the Shelomi-Metzuba route in northern Israel, six Israelis civilians were killed.[10]
  • On August 10, 2003, a 16 year old Israeli boy was killed by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft shell fired by Hezbollah, and four others were wounded. [11]
  • On April 7, 2005, Two Israeli Arabs from the village Ghajar near the Israel-Lebanon border were abducted by Hezbollah operatives. They were later released. [12]

[edit] References

  1. ^ H. CON. RES. 190, 1st session, 101st congress (1989-08-04). Expressing the sense of the Congress over the reported murder of Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins and Hezbollah-sponsored terrorism.. The library of Congress. Retrieved on 2006-08-08.
  2. ^ Telegraph, 2004/2/21
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ United States Department of State, April 2005.
  5. ^ Rex A. Hudson, The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism, 1999.
  6. ^ Hezbollah again denies involvement in deadly Buenos Aires bombing BEIRUT, March 19 (AFP)
  7. ^ Hezbollah website, citing BBC 2005-11-11 Hizbullah denies Argentina bomb Accessed July 26, 2006
  8. ^ "On this day", BBC News, 1994-07-26. Retrieved on 2006-07-26. (English) 
  9. ^ "Israelis Held by the Hizbullah", Israel MFA, Jan 2004. Retrieved on 2006-08-7. (English) 
  10. ^ "Hizballah Terrorist Incidents Since May 2000", Jewish Virtual Library, August 4, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-08-7. (English) 
  11. ^ "Hizballah Terrorist Incidents Since May 2000", Jewish Virtual Library, August 4, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-08-7. (English) 
  12. ^ "Hizballah Terrorist Incidents Since May 2000", Jewish Virtual Library, August 4, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-08-7. (English) 


[edit] origins

  • I fleshed out this section a bit with motivations and influences to explicitly add the Iranian revolution (inspiring) and secular frictions in addition to the Israeli occupation with a cite.
  • I think the bit at the end about whether or not the org has given up aim to transform Leb. into Islamist state is not strictly about "origins" and should be taken out for clarity and readability. I left it in in case it is someone's favorite section, and think it should be in the article, just not in this particular part of the article. Anyone mind if I move it?

Elizmr 00:49, 22 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Civil war period

  • I fleshed out the role of Syria in encouraging Hezbollah not to disarm at the end of the war. As the section stood, it was just said that they did not disarm without any explanation or discussion.
  • I removed the weasel word "some say" from the bit about the Taif agreement being violated by the failure to disarm. see Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words
  • Is there a reason why the failure to disarm was NOT a violation of the Taif agreement? If so, we should certainly flesh out this section with an explanation and a cite. I will look around, but encourage more knowledgeable others to do so too.
  • The "before 1990" and "suicide bombings" sections are somewhat repetitive and could be combined. Does anyone mind if I do this? Please advise. Elizmr 00:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Numbers for 2005 do not match main article

The dubious statement doesn't match Lebanese general election, 2005 -- Kendrick7 07:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hezbollah after the Israeli Withdrawal: line removed

I removed this sentence:

'Despite no official declaration, the stated policy of the Lebanese Government has supported Hezbollah as the army of South Lebanon.[1]

Firstly, the sentence is internally contradictory - was there or wasn't there an official statement by the Lebanese government to this effect? Secondly, the NPR story - transcript here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=5554992 - contains nothing which could in any way be construed as affirming that this is the stated policy of the Lebanese government.--Lopakhin 12:04, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I have again removed the sentence and replaced it with something less definite and more logically consistent. Here is Wikipedia's guidance on citing unsourced assertions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Tagging_unsourced_material

  1. If it is doubtful and harmful, you should remove it from the article; you may want to move it to the talk page and ask for a source, unless you regard it is as very harmful or absurd, in which case it should not be posted to a talk page either. Use your common sense. Do not be inappropriately cautious about removing unsourced material; it is better for Wikipedia to say nothing on an issue than to present false or misleading material.

--Lopakhin 11:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC)