Israeli spying devices that were planted during the 2006 war with Hezbollah have been discovered in southern Lebanon, the UN has said. UN peacekeepers discovered the buried devices when they were blown up by remote control by Israel on Sunday.

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""Even the Israeli enemy never dared to do to Beirut what Hizbullah has done," Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Sunday.

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Political opinion by a Lebanese blogger

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"Explosions and gunfire rang out across the Lebanese capital Wednesday as Hizbullah backers trying to enforce a strike against the US-backed government clashed with government supporters and blocked roads.

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Bloomberg reports: In an austere office in south Beirut, members of Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim party and militia, plot a campaign.

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Hezbollah has formed a 50.000-strong militia to "fight an internal dispute" if the ongoing political crisis in Lebanon was not settled, the Kuwaiti newspaper as-Siyassah reported.

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Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora called on Israel Friday to adopt the Saudi peace initiative that calls for normalized ties between Israel and the Arab world in return for a full Israeli retreat from lands captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.

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From the article: Lebanese opposition protesters led by Hezbollah are digging in for the winter and vowing not to leave the centre of Beirut until the Western-backed government falls. -- My take: My wife just got from Lebanon yesterday after a week-long visit in the south to he …

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Let''s hope. Nabih Berri is someone to watch. This is the first time that Berri has issued public calls for peace talks with Israel.

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When Israel answered the Hezbollah raid that captured two soldiers with air strikes on Lebanon's airport, runways, gas stations, lighthouses, bridges, buses, apartment houses and power plants, we who questioned the wisdom and morality of what Israel was doing were denounced as a …

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A military solution to Israel's savage war on Lebanon and the Lebanese people is both morally unacceptable and totally unrealistic. We in Lebanon call upon the international community and citizens everywhere to support my country's sovereignty and end this folly now.

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