Larnaca/Beirut - Several suspected spies were shot dead in the southern Lebanese port of Tyre, witness said on Thursday.

Passengers on board an evacuation ship told medical doctor Boris Buck from the German city of Munich that they had seen members of the Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah group or their sympathisers killing 18 Lebanese people during the night.

The victims were suspected of helping the Israeli air force pick out targets...

This is yet another indication that Hezbollah's plan all along was a classic coup d'etat, very similar, as Pierre Akel recently wrote, to the fascisti's takeover in Italy. The myth that Hezbollah's weapons were not aimed at the interior was always a laughable fig leaf, and it was already unmasked even before the current crisis. As Martin Kramer put it, "[t]he Nasrallah personality cult has been a way to keep the faithful in line. Not so long ago, Hezbollah thugs took to the streets after a Lebanese television station broadcast a satire of Nasrallah. The mob burned tires and cars. The episode showed that Nasrallah's moral standing had slipped, and that the movement had been reduced to intimidation to keep up the facade."

But this is the clearest example, the most tragic and disturbing example, of what Hezbollah had in mind, and how it saw itself, the Lebanese government, and the Lebanese people. When stupid Hezbollah groupies in the West regurgitate the party's "romantic" line that it is akin to the French resistance, this is what they are justifying: extrajudicial martial law by a non-state actor, in the full presence of a state and its institutions!...