OK. Let's see what the 'orses marf says:

Lebanese Army Official Website

Hezbollah, benefiting from Iranian and Syrian unlimited support, made Lebanon become the only battle ground between the Arab states and Israel. Hezbullah, appearing first as a military movement in 1983 following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, became the military arm of Iran and Syria in its struggle against Israel in South Lebanon. Iran did not limit its policy of using Hezbollah as a proxy for their struggle against Israel, but, moreover, as a counterweight force against the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. Such strategy resulted in the mounting of two attacks against the U.S. marines in Beirut and at the airport as well as the taking hostage of U.S. and foreign citizens.
Hezbollah, based on its Islamic ideology (emanating from the Irani Islamic Revolution teachings) and the financial and military backing of Iran, enhanced by the dispatching of one thousand members of the Irani Revolutionary Guards, became the main politico-military force among the Shi’a community in Lebanon and the main arm of what became known later as the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon.

These are just two paragraphs. Go read it Wonko. The two paragraphs here are paragraphs seven and eight of the article.


http://www.lebarmy.gov.lb/articl...p?ln=en& id=6915
William | 27.07.06 - 1:58 pm | #

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ art...2277717,00.html

Ironic.
redwald | 27.07.06 - 4:24 pm | #