FOLLOWING ALL OF GOG'S BUDDIES IS NOT EASY

July 18, 2006
Most Americans in Lebanon Are Hezbollah Supporters; U.S. Taxes Shouldn't Fund Their Return

By Debbie Schlussel

**** AS READ ON THE AIR TODAY BY RUSH LIMBAUGH--THANKS, RUSH! **** ALSO, SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES ****

One thing is lost in all the press coverage of the whining Americans who went to Lebanon of their own accord and now want us to pick up the tab to get them out.

THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS IN LEBANON ARE HEZBOLLAH SUPPORTERS.

Most of them are Shi'ite Muslims, many of whom hold dual U.S. and Lebanese citizenship. Many are anchor babies born here to Muslims in the U.S. illegally. Some are illegal aliens who became citizens through rubber-stamping Citizenship and Immigration Services (and its INS predecessor) coupled with political pressure by spineless politicians.

Of the 25,000 American citizens and green-card holders in Lebanon, at least 7,000 are from Dearborn, Michigan, the heart of Islamic America, and especially Shia Islam America. These 7,000 are mostly Shi'ite Muslims who openly and strongly support Hezbollah. Ditto for many of the rest of the 25,000 that are there.
Most Americans in Lebanon Support this "Man"


(Sheikha Hassan Nasrallah Girlie-Man Artwork by David Lunde)

Many of the 7,000 plus Detroiters in Lebanon are active in Dearborn's Bint Jbeil cultural center (the Lebanese American Heritage Club also features mostly Hezbollah fans). Bint Jbeil is a Hezbollah-dominated city in the South of Lebanon, a frequent destination of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, who is very at home there. Bint Jbeil is a frequent source of shellings on Northern Israel.

Bint Jbeil natives now living in our country so strongly support Hezbollah that they got Republican Congressman Joe Knollenberg (and his then top staffer, Paul Welday) and then-U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham to give Hezbollah forces in Southern Lebanon about $86 million of our tax money, no strings.

Given this information, and the fact--as I've detailed numerous times on this site--that several Shi'ite Muslim Lebanese U.S. citizens from Dearborn have been indicted and/or convicted of laundering money to Hezbollah, is it a good idea to rush to bring 25,000 such persons back to the U.S. at a time when Hezbollah is at war against the strongest U.S. ally? Does the fact, that Hezbollah numerous times--and especially now--has announced veiled and not-so-veiled intentions to attack Americans on U.S. soil, necessitate urgently bringing these terror-sympathizing Americans back to U.S. soil? Many are individuals whose activity should have mandated prosecution and jail-time. But they are free because of a spineless U.S. Attorney (and, incredibly, Bush Federal Court of Appeals nominee), Stephen Murphy III a/k/a "Abu Porno," and equally weak federal law enforcement chiefs of Michigan FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who pander to them.

These are people who hold U.S. citizenship but support a group that murdered over 300 U.S. Marines and civilians, some through torture; a group that is part of the Al-Qaeda network; a group that trains insurgent terrorists against our troops in Iraq, giving them IEDs to blow our soldiers up; a group that worked with Qaeda to bomb the Khobar Towers. Americans who support this group are not American. They merely possess the proper paperwork.

And they are very dangerous. One of them, Lola Elzein--a student at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and an officer of the Hezbollah-supporting Arab American PAC--threatened my life and that of my family members because I've written about the group's Detroit-area extremist Hezbollah sympathizers. Hezbollah's violence has already arrived in America, and we don't need to pay to transport 25,000 of its sympathizers back to our shores from their chosen vacation destination.

While the government has announced it will charge these individuals for the expensive transport out of Lebanon via Cyprus back to the U.S., the feds say they will accept IOUs for that transport. Think we'll get the money back? Just ask the Katrina aid administrators.

**** UPDATE, 11:08 p.m.: Even more outrageous, our government has now relented and will not charge these people for exorbitant, tax-paid transport back to the U.S. $3,000 per person on the U.S. taxpayer dime. This is ABSURD! And unprecedented (in other airlifts/evacuations, Americans must pay). Who told them to visit Lebanon? Not us (State Dept. warned against travel to Lebanon). Just Sheikh Nasrallah. Let him and his Iranian/Syrian patrons pay. ****

Do you want your tax dollars to subsidize Hezbollah supporters' return to America? Are these the kind of U.S. citizens we badly need back in our country at this time?

Should Hezbollah supporters be transported on a ship named for one of the most heroic events in U.S. history, the U.S.S Iwo Jima? Should U.S. tax dollars fund the charter of commercial ships to transport the rest of these terror-sympathizers?

The instant answer from all freedom-loving Americans to these questions should be a loud "NO."

These people went to Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon of their own accord. And they were safe there because they support the terrorist group. Now, their fortune has changed. Tough.

It is not the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers to rescue terrorist-supporters who voluntarily went to a dangerous area . . . just because their whines are loud and annoying.

We are picking up the tab for this unfortunate rescue. U.S. funds used to rescue terrorist-sympathizers--YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK.

So, is America too slow to get these undesirable U.S. citizens out of Lebanon? On the contrary, not slow enough.

**** UPDATE: Brave, gracious, and beautiful Lebanese woman, Brigitte Gabriel, agrees with my assessment and gives a fantastic one of her own (also posted at IsraPundit). A MUST READ! Visit Brigitte Gabriel's site, too. ****

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Heinz Kerry-Funded Web Site Praises Hezbollah
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/6/15/140140.shtml


A Web site partially funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry offers a report
glorifying Hezbollah (Hizbullah) suicide bombers as "deified in
paradise and venerated on earth for fighting Israel" - and praises
the terrorist group's support network for women widowed by their
husband's "martyrdom" attacks.

Women's eNews.org still features the September 2003 report, written
by Sarah Smiles, who's identified as a "WeNews correspondent."

Smiles interviewed a number of Lebanese women who were widowed after
their husbands decided to join in the cause of killing Israelis and
Americans.

At the end of her screed, the Web site notes:

"Women's eNews is supported by our readers; reprints and licensing
fees; and the Fund for the City of New York, the Teresa and H. John
Heinz III fund of the Heinz Family Foundations, the John S. and James
L. Knight Foundation, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, the
Rockefeller Family Fund, The Helena Rubinstein Foundation, the Sister
Fund, the Starry Night Fund."

First noted yesterday by OpinionJournal.com, the Heinz Kerry-funded
report reads like a recruiting brochure for suicide bombers. Here are
some highlights:

"Hizbullah has built up an impenetrable support network for the
women. Through the Hizbullah martyrs' wives association some 2500
families in Lebanon receive a monthly salary, free health care and
schooling for their children - to the tune of $1,200 each a month.

"'We do everything in our power to make them feel they are not
missing anything,' says Mohsan Shaheen, a spokesperson for the
association. 'Anything a martyr's wife wants, we will give it to her,
basically, because her husband sacrificed himself. The only thing we
can't provide for her is to bring him back.'

"On top of sending their children to the best schools and
universities abroad if they choose, the association runs vocational
training classes and seminars for the woman and offers a dating
service to help them remarry if they wish. ..."

Comments from Hezbollah suicide widows:

"A staunch, pious woman veiled completely in black, Naji shows little
regret about her ultimately fateful marriage.

"'When I married him, I knew he followed the party. I knew I had a
martyr at home,' she says. Leaning closer, she confesses her
ambitions for her sons, the youngest of whom was a nursling when
Aboud died.

"'When my sons tell me: "I hope to become a martyr one day," I say:
"I hope so too. I hope God chooses you as a martyr.'"

"'Although a mother doesn't need to tell the son of a martyr to do
it,' she says, 'she may guide him towards it, but really, it's
innate. He automatically has a feeling that he must follow his
father.' ...

"Pregnant when her husband Ahmed Fadlallah was killed in a Hizbullah
operation in 1999, Zoorgoof has struggled to come to terms with the
loss.

"'I tell my daughter: "your father is a hero." I take her to his
grave. But this feeling of loneliness and despair ...' she says, her
voice growing distant.

"Since Fadlallah's death, Zoorgoof has relied heavily on the
Hizbullah martyrs' wives association, which is helping her buy a
house and pays for her to go to university, where she is studying
Arabic literature.

"'Hizbullah is like a family. It takes care of us, provides for us,'
she says."