Beirut, Lebanon.

Where, in 1983, two truck bombs killed 299 American and French soldiers.

The trucks were courtesy of Islamic Jihad, which is now part of Hizballah.

Beirut is the site of the war conference that is being hurriedly finalized as the new US sanctions against Iran, spun off the milder UN sanctions, prove to be much deeper and more effective than expected. Particularly damaging is the announcement by Lloyds of London, the worlds primary insurer of ships, that they will no longer insure ships taking gasoline to Iran.

The conference takes place as the Israeli general responsible for the area in northern Israel shows photographic proof to the world that 20,000 Hizballah armed men have set up more than 160 military camps between the Litani River in Lebanon, and the Israeli border… all within the 18-mile deep buffer zone created by UN Resolution 1701 at the end of the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war. Many more Hizballah strongholds have blossomed throughout Lebanon, with fearsome numbers of high-tech, long-range weapons of war.

Israeli Defense Forces have moved tanks and armored divisions to the border, only a few hundred yards away from where Hizballah has dug in. The Israeli air force flies reconnaissance missions over Lebanon almost daily.

The commander of the 5,000 or so UN forces (more…)