Wednesday, April 28, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
'Hizbullah more armed than most gov'ts' - 'US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday night warned of Hizbullah's alarming military capabilities, and appeared to give an official Washington confirmation that Syria had indeed provided the guerrilla group with Scud missiles. "Syria and Iran are providing Hizbullah with rockets and missiles of ever-increasing capabilities," he said. "Hizbullah has far more rockets and missiles than most governments in the world." Gates' comments came after a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Pentagon, during which Iran and the rearming of Hizbullah were major topics...'