Nothing. Nothing.
Betcha won't see these stories in your crap rag:
Lebanon
"Nasrallah: Hezbollah doesn't want another war with Israel" by Yoav Stern/Haaretz August 15, 2007
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that his organization is not interested in another war in the region, and expressed hope that such a scenario would be avoided.
Nasrallah, addressing a rally that marked the end of the Second Lebanon War, said Hezbollah was nonetheless continuing to prepare for the possibility of a war:
"[Hezbollah will not] rest on its laurels. If you the Zionists are thinking of attacking Lebanon ... I promise great surprises that could alter the fate of the war and the region, God willing. I said that in order to prevent a war, Israel must understand that any war on Lebanon will have a very high price."
Nasrallah said he is interested in achieving a balance of power with Israel. The Hezbollah chief also claimed that Israel and the U.S. made false accusations about Hezbollah and tried to divide the Lebanese people to justify last summer's war.
Nasrallah said the United States and Israel tried to split the Lebanese along sectarian lines and to describe the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah as a terrorist group in order to weaken it during the 34-day war.
Nasrallah told a mass rally in Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold that was heavily bombed by Israeli forces during last year's war and organized by the Shiite Muslim group to mark the first anniversary of the war's end, which Hezbollah says it won and calls a divine victory.
Nasrallah did not personally attend the rally. His speech was relayed to the crowd on giant screens set up in a stadium and on top of buildings in the southern suburbs.
"They [America and Israel] wanted to tear us apart. They wanted to use war to isolate us one country after the other, one people after the other, one sect after the other and one party after the other. When we are divided, they will win and we will be defeated. They told [the Lebanese] that Hezbollah is an Iranian and Syrian tool.
The most serious accusation was the sectarian issue. They told the Christians that the fighting was with a Muslim group and that it has nothing to do with you. They told Sunni Muslims that the fighting was with a Shiite group and was targeting the Shiite project [in the region]."
Tens of thousands of people attended the rally, carrying pictures of Nasrallah and placards that read "August 14 - the day of victory over the Zionist regime."
A man carrying Hezbollah's yellow flag said: "For us he [Nasrallah] is the hero and with his wisdom and military tactics he made this victory."
Meanwhile, in the shit USrael is stirring up:
"Islamist sniper kills soldier at Lebanon camp" by Reuters August 13, 2007
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - A sniper shot dead a Lebanese soldier on Monday during fighting between army units and al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp, security sources said.
Lebanese troops are closing in on the remaining pockets held by Fatah al-Islam fighters inside the Nahr al-Bared camp in north Lebanon. At least 278 people have been killed in 12 weeks of fighting there, which has also displaced some 40,000 refugees and devastated most homes and other buildings.
The combatants traded fire in the narrow alleys of the camp. Troops fired artillery and tank shells at fortified bunkers used by the militants, who hit back with grenades and rockets. Four Katyusha rockets hit a civilian area outside the camp but no one was hurt, the security sources said.
The army had increased the pressure on the militants last week by dropping bombs onto their positions from helicopters."
Somalia
"Assailants believed to be members of armed groups opposed to Somalia's transitional government and its Ethiopian allies have killed four police officers in the capital, Mogadishu, in continued fighting described by human rights organisations as mostly affecting civilians.
The attackers struck a police car with an explosive device, killing the officers. The "aggressors" used "hit and run" tactics to disrupt the government's efforts to maintain law and order in the city... the blast, which was in a busy street, could have killed or wounded several civilians.
[This from a WAR CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT and OCCUPIER!]
International news agencies reported that 30 civilians had been killed in different incidents over 24 hours - including a bomb attack on a public minibus in Mogadishu - and that 60 people were wounded.
Violence in Mogadishu has driven hundreds of thousands of civilians from the city this year, forcing them to live in squalid camps in the outskirts of the capital, where they have limited access to food and water, and lack shelter, medical and sanitation facilities.
Inside her new home, a makeshift shelter in the Arbis camp outside the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Buno Ali, 17, held the youngest of her three children, a three-week-old baby girl:
"I gave birth to her in this shack. I cannot afford to buy milk for her and feed the other children. At night they cannot sleep because of extreme cold and rain. We are all awake the whole night when it rains. I have nothing to give them and I do not know where their father fled to."
Ali's family is one of hundreds who have sought refuge in the camps outside the city to escape the recent fighting in Mogadishu.
Arbis, 23km west of the capital, was already overflowing with thousands of other displaced families when Ali arrived. Many of them cannot afford to build the most basic shelters.
[Awww, whadda does the Zionist-controlled press care?
Black people invisible to them until they want to STIR UP RACIAL TENSIONS!
Then the Zionist press will run SCADS of articles -- like on Amnesty!]
Fardosa Abdullahi, 30, a mother of four who sold vegetables near the SOS Children's Home in north Mogadishu.
"I fled from SOS on Friday [August 3]. I was among so many families who ran away following heavy fighting and shelling around SOS and the livestock market. We are more secure here but lack food and shelter."
Despite heightened security, insurgents have continued daily attacks in the capital. On 9 August, armed opponents of the transitional government attacked five police stations overnight before being warded off.
A senior police officer, who asked not to be named, said the raid could have been prompted by an ongoing crackdown on suspected anti-government elements, in which dozens of suspected insurgents have been arrested over the past two weeks.
But according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Ethiopian, Somali and insurgent forces are all responsible for violations of the laws of war in Mogadishu and causing massive suffering for the civilian population.
In the report, 'Shell-Shocked: Civilians Under Siege in Mogadishu', released on 13 August, HRW said fighting in March and April resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians and the displacement of 400,000 people.
In Arbis, IDPs say they have experienced serious water shortages and had only one toilet for over 200 people to share - a similar situation in many camps.
Jawahir Ahmed Elmi, a local philanthropist who left Mogadishu in March during the worst fighting, said she has been helping camp arrivals adapt to their new homes:
"I normally give them everything I can from utensils, to food and bedding but I can no longer offer new arrivals anything. I have helped some 1,170 people to settle here. What they really need is shelter, water, food and education for their children.
Water is the most essential commodity a human being needs. I urge aid agencies to come to our rescue before children and the elderly start dying of thirst. This is the rainy season and most of the refugees don't have plastic sheets to cover their shacks. Life is becoming unbearable for these people. The world should urgently do something."
[And the world will again do NOTHING!
Hell, WE BROUGHT THIS UPON SOMALIA because we DIDN'T LIKE an Islamist government!]
Bibliography: "Policemen Killed As Bloodshed in Mogadishu Continues" by the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks 14 August 2007 and "Conditions Worsen in Camps as Thousands More Flee Mogadishu" by the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks 13 August 2007
