HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ---------------------------Yes, he recently co-sponsored with the arch Cuba-hater Jesse Helms some legislation to tighten the sanctions against Cuba.
Israel is usually the only country to vote with the US in the UN for continuation of the sanctions against Cuba.
peacefully yours,
Nancy Hey
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HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ---------------------------In a message dated 1/24/2002 12:49:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It should be noted that Lieberman who wants to use the military to force so called
"American values" on the Muslim world is also (naturally) an outspoken Zionist
and supporter of Israel as well staunchly anti -Cuban.This is an example of the values that he wants to spread.
(10:50) Sabra and Shatilla warlord killed in Beirut bombing
By The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Former Lebanese Christian warlord Elie Hobeika was killed in a bomb explosion at his house a short time ago, witnesses said.Hobeika, 45, led the right-wing Phalangist Lebanese Forces militia forces who scythed through the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Muslim west Beirut, slaughtering hundreds of men, women and children, in 1982.
Several months before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Hobeika was assigned liasion officer with the IDF. Following the war, he turned his back on Israel and joined the pro-Syrian camp in Lebanon, Israel Radio reported.
A car bomb exploded today outside his house in Beirut's eastern Hazmieh neighborhood. Lebanese security officials said Hobeika had just entered his Humvee, a military style armored truck, with three body guards inside when the explosion occurred at 9:40 a.m.
The explosion killed Hobeika and at least three of his bodyguards, police officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
It was not immediately clear whether the bomb was planted in Hobeika's Humvee, which was left a charred ruin. The Voice of Lebanon, radio station of the Christian Phalange faction, said the bomb was in a limousine parked nearby.
Ambulances, fire engines, civil defense and police vehicles rushed to the scene of the explosion just off the Beirut-Damascus highway five kilometers east of Beirut.
Several buildings were heavily damaged and a huge fire broke out, said the officials, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.
Four charred bodies, including that of Hobeika, were taken to a morgue while five injured people were rushed to hospital for treatment, the officials said.
Voice of Lebanon and Lebanon's Future TV said the number of dead was five, including a man standing on the balcony of his nearby apartment when the explosion occurred.
Hobeika will be remembered for the Sabra and Shatilla massacre in September 1982.
The Christian militiamen went into the refugee camps after their leader, President-elect Bashir Gemayel, was assassinated in a bombing at Phalange headquarters initially blamed on the Palestinians.
It turned out that Gemayel was eliminated by the Syrians, who opposed his alliance with the Israelis.
Lebanese sources said Hobeika met with a Belgian parliamentary delegation this week in Beirut and agreed to testify against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a war crimes trial that may be held later this year in a Brussels court.
A group of Palestinian survivors of the Sabra and Shatilla massacres have filed suit in Belgium against Sharon, who was minister of defense during the invasion of Lebanon.
The complaint filed in June with a Belgian judge demanded that Sharon be indicted for crimes against humanity in accordance with Belgian law that allows for such trials of foreigners in another country. The complaint did not mention Hobeika's role.
Hobeika has said he had "irrefutable proof" of his innocence in the killings.
A Belgian appeals court is expected to rule on March 6 on whether Sharon should stand trial.
To read more about the possible upcoming trial, click here.
Hobeika served in several cabinets as, variously, minister of electriticity, refugee resettlement, and handicapped people.
Hobeika's death echoed the turmoil of Lebanon's war years. During the 1975-90 conflict, numerous car bombs by rival militias targeted politicians, militia leaders and civilians as a way to settle scores. Two presidents and a prime minister were assassinated by explosions.
In 1992, police said that there were 3,641 car bombings during the 1975-90 civil war. They killed 4,386 people and wounded 6,784.
Today's bombing was the first major car bombing in Beirut since a 1994 explosion at a church that killed 11 worshippers and the first political assassination of a leader since 1995, when a Muslim cleric was shot on a Beirut street.
In other Lebanese news, IAF warplanes struck at suspected Hizbullah targets in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon yesterday, after the Muslim terrorist group broke a three-month period of cross-border quiet with a barrage of mortar and anti-tank missile fire on IDF outposts in the Mount Dov region of the Golan. click here.
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