Defiant Hezbollah returns to Israel border with flags and bikes

[oberliner]

TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) - Six months after the end of the war with Israel, Hezbollah guerrillas have defiantly returned to Lebanon's border with the Jewish state, riding around on motorbikes waving the Shiite Muslim party's flag and pictures of their leader Hassan Nasrallah.

"During the war, enemy chiefs said they would not allow Hezbollah to raise its banners along the border," Hezbollah spokesman Haidar Daqmaq said Tuesday.

"We have returned to put up our banners and even bigger posters of martyrs. We have added the martyrs who fell in the July-August war," he told AFP.

A beefed-up UN peacekeeping force is patrolling the volatile border area along with Lebanese soldiers under the terms of a UN-brokerd ceasefire that ended the 34-day war and was meant to keep Hezbollah away from the frontier.

But in the last few days, apparently unarmed black-clad and bearded guerrillas have been riding motorbikes along the border area that had been under Hezbollah control for years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070206/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictlebanon_070206151633

[BayCityProgressive]

1. wow

so that is another war that turned out great for the military-industrial complex and shitty for everyone else!