BBC: "UK restores links with Hezbollah"


	BBC: "UK restores links with Hezbollah"
ratcatcher2
3-8-2009 3:35 PM
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hizbollah, uk, government, lebanon, usa, peace
ratcatcher2 says:
Hamas next? Oh sorry, they were democratically elect and won by a landslide.
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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gOj4FMDsYo5zW8Yj3Nfi3E_UID8QD96OODK03">Hezbollah officials said Friday they would welcome talks with Britain but that they had rejected what they said were British demands for the contacts to take place secretly.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; 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					UK restores links with Hezbollah
				</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7927025.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/68393925-CC07-4621-B4F2-736B8619158F" alt="Supporters of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah at a rally in Lebanon (28/12/2008)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7927025.stm"><P>It comes about 10 months after Hezbollah signed a unity accord in Lebanon and joined the government.
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