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		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Rastafari_Movement&amp;diff=955140</id>
		<title>Talk:Rastafari Movement</title>
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		<updated>2012-01-19T03:32:43Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Lansing: Created page with &amp;quot;{{Wikiproject Religion}}&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{Wikiproject Religion}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=The_Twilight_Saga&amp;diff=955136</id>
		<title>The Twilight Saga</title>
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&lt;div&gt;The '''Twilight Saga''' is a series of books and films about a young lady who falls in love with a [[vampire]] from the 19th century. The series has seen mixed reactions from critics and the public, and over 100 million copies have been sold worldwide of both the books and the films. The author of the series, [[Stephenie Meyer]], attended [[Brigham Young University]] and is a member of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. The series has been criticised by some [[liberals]], possibly because it contains pro-marriage and pro-life elements. It has also been criticised by some conservatives due to its positive depictions of vampires.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://spesunica.wordpress.com/is-twilight-anti-christian-yes/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Politics==&lt;br /&gt;
Impressively, the series seems to make certain elements of conservatism &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot; to young school girls whereas other series targeting the demographic encourage immorality. Despite not referencing Christianity, the series seems to support traditional marriage and Chrisitian morals; for example, Edward, being from the 19th century when immorality seen as normal in modern times was considered taboo, refused to engage in sexual intercourse with Bella prior to marriage, and Bella was pro-life even when having the baby put herself at great risk (this in particular upsets [[liberal]]s). However, the series features vampires and werewolves, which are part of non-Christian mythology, and it does not depict any of the characters as Christians.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Movies]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Juvenile Fiction]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Al_Sharpton&amp;diff=955063</id>
		<title>Al Sharpton</title>
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		<updated>2012-01-19T00:57:13Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;'''Al Sharpton''' (born 1954) is a Christian [[minister]] and highly controversial black [[Democrat]]ic politician based in [[New York City]] with a penchant for baiting conservatives and embarrassing liberals. Searching for opportunities to inflame racial tensions, he became a national celebrity in the 1980s. Indeed, he has even been called a 'racial arsonist', who has led to the deaths of innocent people.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He currently hosts his own show on [[MSNBC]]. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Career==&lt;br /&gt;
Sharpton was licensed as a minister at the age of 9 as a [[Pentecostal]] and again as an adult as a [[Baptist]].  He has no formal religious training.  As Sharpon's notoriety has increased he has spread out, running for President as a [[Democrat]] in 2004.  Part of the joke of the late night talk show circuit was that Sharpton wanted his very first job to be [[President of the United States]]. Today he is a radio talk show host, guest TV speaker and [[liberal]] activist focused almost exclusively on racial issues.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Tawana Brawley hoax==&lt;br /&gt;
In 1987, Sharpton spreads incendiary hate claiming Ms. Brawley, then a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. Sharpton got the defendants to refuse to cooperate with the police that could have led to quick indictments and justice and instead called for grand jury investigations.  The Tawana Brawley case was later determined to be a fraud, 7 months into a grand jury investigation and after a waste of taxpayer money and bitter racial strife.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Gavin Cato riots==&lt;br /&gt;
In 1991, a Hasidic [[Jewish]] driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child. Anti-semetic riots emerged with Sharpton leading demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, &amp;quot;No justice, no peace.&amp;quot; An angry mob surrounds rabbi student Yankel Rosenbaum yelling &amp;quot;Kill the Jews!&amp;quot;. Rosenbaum was stabbed to death.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Freddy's Fashion Mart==&lt;br /&gt;
In 1995, in a dispute regarding a Jewish landlord raising the price of rent, Sharpton once again incites racial hatred. &amp;quot;We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.&amp;quot; Picketers are protesting the store spitting on customers.  On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby011703.asp The Sharpton hypocrisy] Jewish World Review, January 17, 2003&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Sharpton boycott.jpg|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{Clear}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The events where somebody died after protesting, Sharpton claims he wasn't present. Though he was present to incite the crowds, shout for justice and flame the fan of hate. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568281,00.html?test=latestnews Sharpton Threatens to Sue Limbaugh Over His WSJ Column, FoxNews, October 17, 2009&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
He ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004. Sharpton has owed the IRS back taxes for many years.  Counting penalties it is currently 1.5 million dollars.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354846,00.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Debates against Christopher Hitchens==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Al Sharpton has defended the greatness of [[God]] against [[atheist]] writer [[Christopher Hitchens]], who authored a book titled God Is Not Great and claimed religion ruins everything good.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.thegrio.com/video/when-christopher-hitchens-debated-al-sharpton.php&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Quotes==&lt;br /&gt;
On the fiscal policies of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W Bush]]:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;George Bush giving tax cuts is like Jim Jones giving Kool-Aid. It tastes good but it'll kill you.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2004/01/27/2004-01-27_the_tao_of_rev__al_adds_spic.html Shin, Paul. &amp;quot;THE TAO OF REV. AL Adds spice to Dems' bland stew&amp;quot;; ''New York Daily News'', January 27, 2004]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On unequal results:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
When you see the racial disparities in the country that still exist. I`m talking about 2005 in terms of health care, in terms of economics, in terms of median income level, in terms of how we get bank loans or the criminal justice system. To not talk about it doesn`t mean we`re going to close the gap.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/19/sbt.01.html CNN Transcript December 19, 2005]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On 2004 Democratic candidate [[Howard Dean]]:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/23/cf.00.html CNN Transcript January 23, 2004]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In regards to universal health care legislation:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;America Overwhelmingly Voted For Socialism When They Elected Obama&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.newsmax.com/Manage/Videos/VideoGallery/Sharpton---America--Overwhelmingly-Voted-For-Socia.aspx Sharpton: America 'Overwhelmingly Voted For Socialism When They Elected Obama, NewsMax, March 22, 2010]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;References/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.aim.org/wls/author/al-sharpton/ What Liberals Say - Al Sharpton], [[Accuracy In Media]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharpton,Al}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Activists]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[category:Christians]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Religion and Politics]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Reagan Era]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Obama Presidency]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Democratic Party]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{liberalism}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Assemblies_of_God&amp;diff=955062</id>
		<title>Assemblies of God</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Assemblies_of_God&amp;diff=955062"/>
		<updated>2012-01-19T00:48:51Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;The '''Assemblies of God''' is a large Christian denomination founded after the [[Azusa Street Revival]] in the early 20th century. The core beliefs of the denomination are [[Evangelical]]. [[Pentecostalism]] is inherent in the church's theology, with special emphasis placed on the [[Baptism in the Holy Spirit]].  In 2005, the church reported 12,500 churches with 1.6 million full members and 33,600 clergy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The General Council of the Assemblies of God Church was anxious to establish a college after World War II. Because church headquarters were in  [[Springfield, Missouri]], Evangel College (now [[Evangel University]]) was built there, using the site of an old Army hospital. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Notable current and former members==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Gordon Fee]], theologian and ordained minister&lt;br /&gt;
*[[John Ashcroft]], politician&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Sarah Palin]], politician, attended until 2002&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Elvis Presley]], singer (possibly lapsed&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adherents.com/people/pp/Elvis_Presley.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Jimmy Swaggart]], televangelist (formerly ordained, but later [[defrock]]ed by the Assemblies of God)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==see also==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Holiness Movement]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Pentecostalism]]&lt;br /&gt;
==Further reading==&lt;br /&gt;
* Blumhofer, Edith L. ''Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture.'' (1993). 281 pp.  A  major scholarly study.&lt;br /&gt;
* Crowe, Terrence Robert. ''Pentecostal Unity: Recurring Frustration and Enduring Hopes.'' (1993). 282 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* McGee, Gary B. '''This Gospel . . . Shall Be Preached': A History and Theology of Assemblies of God Foreign Missions since 1959.'' Springfield, Mo.: Gospel, 1990. 358 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* Poloma, Margaret M. ''The Assemblies of God at the Crossroads: Charisma and Institutional Dilemmas.'' (1989). 309 pp. scholarly study&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====notes====   &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Christian Denominations]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Fundamentalism]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Revivals]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Assemblies_of_God&amp;diff=955061</id>
		<title>Assemblies of God</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Assemblies_of_God&amp;diff=955061"/>
		<updated>2012-01-19T00:48:20Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;The '''Assemblies of God''' is a large Christian denomination founded after the [[Azusa Street Revival]] in the early 20th century. The core beliefs of the denomination are [[Evangelical]]. [[Pentecostalism]] is inherent in the church's theology, with special emphasis placed on the [[Baptism in the Holy Spirit]].  In 2005, the church reported 12,500 churches with 1.6 million full members and 33,600 clergy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The General Council of the Assemblies of God Church was anxious to establish a college after World War II. Because church headquarters were in  [[Springfield, Missouri]], Evangel College (now [[Evangel University]]) was built there, using the site of an old Army hospital. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Notable current and former members==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Gordon Fee]], theologian and ordained minister&lt;br /&gt;
*[[John Ashcroft]], politician&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Sarah Palin]], politician, attended until 2002&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Elvis Presley]], singer (possibly lapsed&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adherents.com/people/pp/Elvis_Presley.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Jimmy Swaggart]], televangelist (formerly ordained, but later defrocked by the Assemblies of God)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==see also==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Holiness Movement]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Pentecostalism]]&lt;br /&gt;
==Further reading==&lt;br /&gt;
* Blumhofer, Edith L. ''Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture.'' (1993). 281 pp.  A  major scholarly study.&lt;br /&gt;
* Crowe, Terrence Robert. ''Pentecostal Unity: Recurring Frustration and Enduring Hopes.'' (1993). 282 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* McGee, Gary B. '''This Gospel . . . Shall Be Preached': A History and Theology of Assemblies of God Foreign Missions since 1959.'' Springfield, Mo.: Gospel, 1990. 358 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* Poloma, Margaret M. ''The Assemblies of God at the Crossroads: Charisma and Institutional Dilemmas.'' (1989). 309 pp. scholarly study&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====notes====   &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Christian Denominations]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Fundamentalism]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Revivals]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Assemblies_of_God&amp;diff=955060</id>
		<title>Assemblies of God</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Assemblies_of_God&amp;diff=955060"/>
		<updated>2012-01-19T00:43:43Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;The '''Assemblies of God''' is a large Christian denomination founded after the [[Azusa Street Revival]] in the early 20th century. The core beliefs of the denomination are [[Evangelical]]. [[Pentecostalism]] is inherent in the church's theology, with special emphasis placed on the [[Baptism in the Holy Spirit]].  In 2005, the church reported 12,500 churches with 1.6 million full members and 33,600 clergy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The General Council of the Assemblies of God Church was anxious to establish a college after World War II. Because church headquarters were in  [[Springfield, Missouri]], Evangel College (now [[Evangel University]]) was built there, using the site of an old Army hospital. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Notable current and former members==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Gordon Fee]], theologian and ordained minister&lt;br /&gt;
*[[John Ashcroft]], politician&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Sarah Palin]], politician, attended until 2002&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Elvis Presley]], singer (possibly lapsed&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adherents.com/people/pp/Elvis_Presley.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==see also==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Holiness Movement]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Pentecostalism]]&lt;br /&gt;
==Further reading==&lt;br /&gt;
* Blumhofer, Edith L. ''Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture.'' (1993). 281 pp.  A  major scholarly study.&lt;br /&gt;
* Crowe, Terrence Robert. ''Pentecostal Unity: Recurring Frustration and Enduring Hopes.'' (1993). 282 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* McGee, Gary B. '''This Gospel . . . Shall Be Preached': A History and Theology of Assemblies of God Foreign Missions since 1959.'' Springfield, Mo.: Gospel, 1990. 358 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* Poloma, Margaret M. ''The Assemblies of God at the Crossroads: Charisma and Institutional Dilemmas.'' (1989). 309 pp. scholarly study&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====notes====   &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Christian Denominations]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Fundamentalism]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Revivals]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Assemblies_of_God&amp;diff=955059</id>
		<title>Assemblies of God</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Assemblies_of_God&amp;diff=955059"/>
		<updated>2012-01-19T00:34:26Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;The '''Assemblies of God''' is a large Christian denomination founded after the [[Azusa Street Revival]] in the early 20th century. The core beliefs of the denomination are [[Evangelical]]. [[Pentecostalism]] is inherent in the church's theology, with special emphasis placed on the [[Baptism in the Holy Spirit]].  In 2005, the church reported 12,500 churches with 1.6 million full members and 33,600 clergy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The General Council of the Assemblies of God Church was anxious to establish a college after World War II. Because church headquarters were in  [[Springfield, Missouri]], Evangel College (now [[Evangel University]]) was built there, using the site of an old Army hospital. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Notable members==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Gordon Fee]], theologian&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==see also==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Holiness Movement]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Pentecostalism]]&lt;br /&gt;
==Further reading==&lt;br /&gt;
* Blumhofer, Edith L. ''Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture.'' (1993). 281 pp.  A  major scholarly study.&lt;br /&gt;
* Crowe, Terrence Robert. ''Pentecostal Unity: Recurring Frustration and Enduring Hopes.'' (1993). 282 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* McGee, Gary B. '''This Gospel . . . Shall Be Preached': A History and Theology of Assemblies of God Foreign Missions since 1959.'' Springfield, Mo.: Gospel, 1990. 358 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* Poloma, Margaret M. ''The Assemblies of God at the Crossroads: Charisma and Institutional Dilemmas.'' (1989). 309 pp. scholarly study&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====notes====   &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Christian Denominations]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Fundamentalism]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Revivals]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Gordon_Fee&amp;diff=955058</id>
		<title>Gordon Fee</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Gordon_Fee&amp;diff=955058"/>
		<updated>2012-01-19T00:33:32Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;'''Gordon D. Fee''' is an American [[theologian]]. Growing up in a [[Pentecostal]] tradition, he obtained his Ph.D at [[University of Southern California]] and taught at several institutions of higher learning in the United States and later at [[Regent College]] in Vancouver, [[Canada]]. Fee is a renowned scholar on [[New Testament]] interpretation. He is also an ordained minister in the [[Assemblies of God]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Women in Church==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fee supports increasing the role of women in ecclesiastical functions.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cbeinternational.org/?q=content/effortless-egalitarianism-interview-gordon-fee&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{reflist}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Gordon_Fee&amp;diff=955057</id>
		<title>Gordon Fee</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Gordon_Fee&amp;diff=955057"/>
		<updated>2012-01-19T00:32:29Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Lansing: Created page with &amp;quot;'''Gordon D. Fee''' is an American theologian. Growing up in a Pentecostal tradition, he obtained his Ph.D at University of Southern California and taught at several ...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;'''Gordon D. Fee''' is an American [[theologian]]. Growing up in a [[Pentecostal]] tradition, he obtained his Ph.D at [[University of Southern California]] and taught at several institutions of higher learning in the United States and later at [[Regent College]] in Vancouver, [[Canada]]. Fee is a renowned scholar on [[New Testament]] interpretation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Women in Church==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fee supports increasing the role of women in ecclesiastical functions.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cbeinternational.org/?q=content/effortless-egalitarianism-interview-gordon-fee&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Jon Huntsman, Jr.</title>
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'''Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr.''' is an American [[business]]man, [[diplomat]] and [[politician]] who served as Governor of [[Utah]] . He is currently seeking the [[Republican]] nomination for president in 2012.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2071003,00.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The [[libertarian]] [[Cato Institute]] has praised his tax policies, but criticized his spending.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-624.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
He supports civil unions for [[homosexuals]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/51795519-90/civil-cowan-gay-governor.html.csp&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but claims to be [[pro-life]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/03/jon-huntsman-touts-pro-life-record-at-faith-and-freedom-coalition-conference/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He has stated his belief in both [[Darwinism]] and [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|man-made global warming]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/177429-huntsman-call-me-crazy-i-believe-in-evolution-global-warming&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Having almost no chance of winning the nomination,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Presidential Election 2012]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Huntsman may simply be an attempt to siphon support away from [[Mitt Romney]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, in the economic sphere, he is more conservative than the leading candidates such as Romney and [[Newt Gingrich]], as he fully supports [[Paul Ryan]]'s budget and would repeal [[ethanol]] subsidies, a failed liberal faux-environmentalist program.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Liberal]] [[Barack Obama]] appointed Huntsman as his ambassador to [[China]]. He was previously ambassador to Singapore for [[George H.W. Bush]]. He served as the governor of Utah from 2005-2009.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Personal life==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Huntsman believes in [[Mormonism]] and is currently married to Mary Huntsman. They have seven children (two of them adopted). He is a fan of [[heavy metal music]] and was once in a band during his youth. His father, [[Jon Huntsman, Sr.]] is an industrial magnate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[RINO]] (stance on [[civil unions]] and environmental policy)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Gary Locke]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Huntsman, Jr., Jon}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Republican Governors]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Utah Governors]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mormons]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:2012 Presidential Candidates]]&lt;br /&gt;
==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://jonhuntsmanjr.com/ Official website]&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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|spouse=Mary Kaye Huntsman&lt;br /&gt;
|religion=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints&lt;br /&gt;
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	|for=United States&lt;br /&gt;
	|to=China&lt;br /&gt;
	|president=[[Barack Hussein Obama]]&lt;br /&gt;
	|terms=August 11, 2009-April 30, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
	|preceded=Clark Randt&lt;br /&gt;
	|former=n&lt;br /&gt;
	|succeeded=&lt;br /&gt;
	}}&lt;br /&gt;
	{{Officeholder/governor&lt;br /&gt;
	|number=16th&lt;br /&gt;
	|state=Utah&lt;br /&gt;
	|terms=January 3, 2005 – August 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;
	|preceded=Olene Walker&lt;br /&gt;
	|former=y&lt;br /&gt;
	|succeeded=Gary Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
	}}&lt;br /&gt;
	{{Officeholder/ambassador&lt;br /&gt;
	|for=United States&lt;br /&gt;
	|to=Singapore&lt;br /&gt;
	|president=[[George H.W. Bush]]&lt;br /&gt;
	|terms=1992-1993&lt;br /&gt;
	|preceded=Robert Orr&lt;br /&gt;
	|former=y&lt;br /&gt;
	|succeeded=Ralph Boyce&lt;br /&gt;
	}}&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr.''' is an American [[business]]man, [[diplomat]] and [[politician]] who served as Governor of [[Utah]] . He is currently seeking the [[Republican]] nomination for president in 2012.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2071003,00.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The [[libertarian]] [[Cato Institute]] has praised his tax policies, but criticized his spending.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-624.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
He supports civil unions for [[homosexuals]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/51795519-90/civil-cowan-gay-governor.html.csp&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but claims to be [[pro-life]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/03/jon-huntsman-touts-pro-life-record-at-faith-and-freedom-coalition-conference/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He has stated his belief in both [[Darwinism]] and [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|man-made global warming]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/177429-huntsman-call-me-crazy-i-believe-in-evolution-global-warming&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Having almost no chance of winning the nomination,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Presidential Election 2012]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Huntsman may simply be an attempt to siphon support away from [[Mitt Romney]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, in the economic sphere, he is more conservative than the leading candidates such as Romney and [[Newt Gingrich]], as he fully supports [[Paul Ryan]]'s budget and would repeal [[ethanol]] subsidies, a failed liberal faux-environmentalist program.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Liberal]] [[Barack Obama]] appointed Huntsman as his ambassador to [[China]]. He was previously ambassador to Singapore for [[George H.W. Bush]]. He served as the governor of Utah from 2005-2009.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Personal life==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Huntsman believes in [[Mormonism]] and is currently married to Mary Huntsman. They have seven children (two of them adopted). He is a fan of [[metal music]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[RINO]] (stance on [[civil unions]] and environmental policy)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Gary Locke]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Huntsman, Jr., Jon}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Republican Governors]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Utah Governors]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mormons]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:2012 Presidential Candidates]]&lt;br /&gt;
==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://jonhuntsmanjr.com/ Official website]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Hu Shih</title>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Hu Shi''' (also known as '''Hu Shih''', 1891-1962) was a Chinese writer and philosopher. Heavily influenced by [[pragmatism|pragmatists]] in the [[United States]] exemplified by [[John Dewey]], his teacher, he advocated modern reforms in China and adoption of vernacular language, and was an ardent supporter of the [[May Fourth Movement]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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Between 1938 and 1942, Hu served as China's [[ambassador]] to the United States. After [[communist]] takeover of the country in 1949, he later moved to and became active in [[Taiwan]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;'''Hu Shi''' (1891-1962) was a Chinese writer and philosopher. Heavily influenced by [[pragmatism|pragmatists]] in the [[United States]] exemplified by [[John Dewey]], his teacher, he advocated modern reforms in China and adoption of vernacular language, and was an ardent supporter of the [[May Fourth Movement]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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Between 1938 and 1942, Hu served as China's [[ambassador]] to the United States. After [[communist]] takeover of the country in 1949, he later moved to and became active in [[Taiwan]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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In addition to his philosophical and political involvements, he was a famed scholar on the classic Chinese [[novel]] [[Dream of the Red Chamber]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Between 1938 and 1942, Hu served as China's [[ambassador]] to the United States. After [[communist]] takeover of the country in 1949, he later moved to and became active in [[Taiwan]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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In addition to his philosophical and political involvements, he was a famed scholar on the classic Chinese [[novel]] [[Dream of the Red Chamber]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Between 1938 and 1942, Hu served as China's [[ambassador]] to the United States. After [[communist]] takeover of the country in 1949, he later moved to and became active in [[Taiwan]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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In addition to his philosophical and political involvements, he was a famed scholar on the classic Chinese novel [[Dream of the Red Chamber]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Between 1938 and 1942, Hu served as China's [[ambassador]] to the United States. After [[communist]] takeover of the country in 1949, he later moved to and became active in [[Taiwan]].&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;'''Jane Addams''' (1860-1935) was a pioneer American settlement worker and founder of [[Hull House]] in Chicago, public philosopher (the first American woman in that role), author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. She was the most prominent woman of the [[Progressive Era]] and helped turn the nation to issues of  concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health and world peace. She emphasized that women have a special responsibility to clean up their communities and make them better places to live, arguing they needed the vote to be effective. Addams became a role model for middle class women who volunteered to uplift their communities. She was considered a leading &amp;quot;progressive&amp;quot; in the 1910a but she opposed the liberalism of the [[New Deal]] in the 1930s and showed that private volunteer work was more effective than government interventions.  Many of her programs and approaches resemble those of conservatives in the 21st century, as demonstrated by Elshtain (2002).&lt;br /&gt;
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==Early career==&lt;br /&gt;
Addams was born in the village of Cedarville, in northern Illinois, on Sept. 6, 1860. Her father, a Yankee, was a prominent Republican politician and supporter of [[Abraham Lincoln]]. She early on displayed ambition, a charismatic personality, and a strong sense of moral duty. At nearby Rockford Seminary, which she attended from 1877 to 1881, the conscientiousness tinged with rebellion that characterized her career began to emerge. [[Valedictorian]] and president of her class, she helped transform the small Congregational finishing school for women into a degree-conferring college. Addams was a voracious reader in history and philosophy, and tried to start an oratory program for the young women, but the men at other colleges would not recognize it.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Knight (1998)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Elshtain (2002) emphasizes her religiosity, showing that Addams was influenced by Bunyan's ''Pilgrim's Progress'' and tried to imitate Christ through a &amp;quot;service ethic&amp;quot;.  &lt;br /&gt;
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In 1881 Addam's father died, and after becoming sick and pain-wracked, she decided to undergo painful operations to correct the spinal curvature she had had since birth. She was strapped into a back harness which gave her no mobility for about a year. On her recovery in 1883 Adams traveled through Europe to find her purpose in life. In 1888, the idea of founding a settlement house for the underprivileged came to her. In England she visited [[Toynbee Hall]], London's famous [[settlement house]] in the slums of the city, and consulted the head resident, Canon Samuel A. Barnett on the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Hull House==&lt;br /&gt;
In September 1889, Addams and a friend, [[Ellen Gates Starr]], moved into an 1850s mansion built by banker Charles Hull, but located in a neighborhood that had become a crowded multi-ethnic slum on the near West Side of Chicago controlled by local political bosses.  At one point she ran for alderman against the local boss, Johnnie Powers, and lost. Hull House, as Addams named it, became America's best known settlement house. She used Hull House to generate system-directed change--to keep families safe, community and societal conditions must be improved.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Elshtain (2002). For some years previously Catholic nuns at Holy Family Parish had operated social welfare services in the same neighborhood. Hull House represented the first Protestant activity. See Ellen Skerrett, &amp;quot;The Irish Of Chicago's Hull-House Neighborhood.&amp;quot; ''Chicago History'' 2001 30(1): 22-63. Issn: 0272-8540&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Hullhous.jpg|thumb|left|400px| Hull House in 1898; the center part was Hull's original house and is now the [http://wall.aa.uic.edu:62730/artifact/HullHouse.asp Hull House Museum]; the rest has been torn down]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Starr and Addams developed three &amp;quot;ethical principles&amp;quot; for social settlements: &amp;quot;to teach by example, to practice cooperation, and to practice social democracy, that is, egalitarian, or democratic, social relations across class lines.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Knight (2005) p. 182&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Hull House therefore offered a comprehensive program of civic, cultural, recreational, and educational activities and attracted admiring visitors from all over the world, in including [[William Lyon MacKenzie King]], a graduate student from Harvard who later became prime minister of Canada. In the 1890s [[Julia Lathrop]], [[Florence Kelley]], and other residents of the house made it a world center of social reform activity.  Hull House used the latest methodology (pioneering in statistical mapping) to study overcrowding, truancy, typhoid fever, cocaine, children's reading, newsboys, infant mortality, and midwifery. Starting with efforts to improve the immediate neighborhood, the Hull House group became involved in city- and state-wide campaigns for better housing, improvements in public welfare, stricter child-labor laws, and protection of working women. Addams brought in prominent visitors from around the world, and had close links with leading Chicago intellectuals and philanthropists.  Some of the Hull House residents were socialists, but Addams was committed to capitalism and its reform. In 1912 she helped found the [[Progressive Party]] and supported the presidential campaign of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], even though his platform called for building more battleships.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Emphasis on children==&lt;br /&gt;
Hull House stressed the role of children in the Americanization process of new immigrants, and fostered the play movement and the research and service fields of leisure, youth, and human services.  Addams argued in ''The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets'' (1909) that play and recreation programs are needed because cities are destroying the spirit of youth. Addams feared that cities and factories were killing the spirit of youth; recreation and play were healthy mediums to channel the spirit of youth. Hull-House featured multiple programs in art and drama, kindergarten classes, boys' and girls' clubs, language classes, reading groups, college extension courses, along with public baths, a free-speech atmosphere, a gymnasium, a labor museum and playground. They were all designed to foster democratic cooperation and collective action and downplay individualism. She helped pass the first model tenement code and the first factory laws in Illinois.  &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Hull_House_WAGE_MAP_1.jpg|thumb|370px|left|Map of wages, block by block from ''Hull House Maps and Papers'' (1895).{{image|Homicide in Chicago 1870 - 1930 Collection}}]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Addams and her colleagues documented the geography of typhoid fever and reported that poor workers bore the brunt of illness. She identified the political corruption and business avarice that caused the city bureaucracy to ignore health, sanitation, and building codes. Linking environmental justice and municipal reform, she eventually defeated the bosses and fostered a more equitable distribution of city services and modernized inspection practices.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Platt (2000)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Addams spoke of the &amp;quot;undoubted powers of public recreation to bring together the classes of a community in the modern city unhappily so full of devices for keeping them apart.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Addams, 1909, p. 96&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Addams worked with the Chicago Board of Health and served as the first vice-president of the Playground Association of America.&lt;br /&gt;
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==World Peace==&lt;br /&gt;
Addams was a major synthesizing figure in the domestic and international peace movements, serving as both a figurehead and leading theoretician; she was influenced especially by Russian novelist [[Leo Tolstoy]] and by the pragmatism of philosophers [[John Dewey]] and [[George Herbert Mead]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; See Hamington (2007)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; She saw democracy, social justice and peace as mutually reinforcing; they all had to advance together to achieve any one.  Addams became an anti-war activist from 1899, as part of the anti-imperialist movement that followed the Spanish-American War.  Her book ''Newer Ideals of Peace'' (1907) reshaped the peace movement worldwide to include ideals of social justice.  She recruited social justice reformers like [[Alice Hamilton]], [[Lillian Wald]], [[Florence Kelley]], and [[Emily Balch]] to join her in the new international women's peace movement after 1914. Addams's work came to fruition after World War I, when major institutional bodies began to link peace with social justice and probe the underlying causes of war and conflict.  After 1915 Addams, who never married, centered her interests in the peace movement. She was a leader at the International Congress of Women at The Hague, Holland, in 1915 and presided at the first meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1919, which she served as president.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Alonzo (2003)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  She damned war as a cataclysm that undermined human kindness, solidarity, civic friendship, and caused families across the world to struggle.  In turn her views were denounced by patriotic groups during World War I (1917-18). In one major speech she suggested that armies gave liquor to soldiers just before attacking, which brought a wave of ridicule on her. Even after the war the WILPF's program of peace and disarmament was characterized by opponents as radical, Communist-influenced, unpatriotic, and unfeminine. Young veterans in the American Legion, supported by some members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the League of Women Voters, were ill prepared to confront the older, better-educated, more financially secure and nationally famous women of the WILPF. The Legion's efforts to portray the WILPF members as dangerously naive females resonated with working class audiences, but President [[Calvin Coolidge]] and the middle classes supported Addams and her WILPF efforts in the 1920s to prohibit [[poison gas]] and outlaw war.  After 1920, however, she was widely regarded as the greatest woman of the [[Progressive Era]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Allison. Sobek, &amp;quot;How Did the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Campaign against Chemical Warfare, 1915-1930?&amp;quot; ''Women And Social Movements In The United States, 1600-2000'' 2001 5(0).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In 1931 she shared the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] with Nicholas Murray Butler.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Sklar (2003)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Addams' ideals==&lt;br /&gt;
Addams and her colleagues originally intended Hull House as a transmission device to bring the values of the college-educated high culture to the masses, including the [[Efficiency Movement]]. However, over time the focus of Hull House changed from bringing art and culture to the neighborhood (as evidenced in the construction of the Butler Building) to responding to the needs of the community by providing childcare, educational opportunities, and large meeting spaces. Hull-House became more than simply a proving ground for the new generation of college-educated, professional women - it also became part of the community in which it was founded, and its development reveals a shared history.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Kathryn Kish Sklar, et al. eds. &amp;quot;How Did Changes In The Built Environment At Hull-House Reflect The Settlement's Interaction With Its Neighbors, 1889-1912?&amp;quot; ''Women And Social Movements In The United States, 1600-2000'' 2004 8(4).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Addams stressed that women--especially middle class women with leisure and energy, as well as rich philanthropists--  had a civic duty to become involved in municipal affairs as a matter of &amp;quot;civic housekeeping.&amp;quot;  Addams thereby enlarged the concept of civic duty as part of [[Republicanism, U.S.|republicanism]] to include roles for women beyond republican motherhood (which involved child rearing).&lt;br /&gt;
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Women's lives revolved around &amp;quot;responsibility, care, and obligation,&amp;quot; and this area represented the source of women's power.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Elshtain (2002) p. 157&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; This notion provided the foundation for the municipal or civil housekeeping role that Addams defined, and gave added weight to the woman suffrage movement that Addams supported.  Addams argued that women, as opposed to men, are trained in the delicate matters of human welfare and need to build upon their traditional roles of housekeeping to be civic housekeepers. Enlarged housekeeping duties involved reform efforts regarding poisonous sewage, impure milk (which often carried tuberculosis), smoke-laden air, and unsafe factory conditions. Addams led the &amp;quot;garbage wars&amp;quot;; in 1894 she became the first woman appointed as sanitary inspector of the Chicago 19th ward. With the help of the Hull-House Women's Club, within a year over 1000 health department violations were reported to city counsel and garbage collection reduced death and disease.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Eileen Maura McGurty, &amp;quot;Trashy Women: Gender and the Politics of Garbage in Chicago, 1890-1917.&amp;quot; ''Historical Geography'' 1998 26: 27-43. Issn: 1091-6458&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Addams had long discussions with philosopher [[John Dewey]] in which they redefined democracy in terms of pragmatism and civic activism, with an emphasis more on duty and less on rights.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Knight (2005)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The two leading perspectives that distinguished Addams and her coalition from the modernizers more concerned with [[Efficiency Movement|efficiency]] were the need to extend to social and economic life the democratic structures and practices that had been limited to the political sphere, as in Addams' programmatic support of trade unions; and second, their call for a new social ethic to supplant the individualist outlook as being no longer adequate in modern society.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Scherman (1999) &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Addams' construction of womanhood involved daughterhood, sexuality, wifehood, and motherhood. In both of her autobiographical volumes, ''Twenty Years at Hull-House'' (1910) and ''The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House'' (1930), Addams's gender constructions parallel the Progressive-Era ideology she championed.  In ''A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil'' (1912) she dissected the social pathology of sex slavery, prostitution and other sexual behaviors, among working class women in American industrial centers during 1890-1910. Addams's autobiographical persona manifests her ideology and supports her popularized public activist persona as the &amp;quot;Mother of Social Work,&amp;quot; in the sense that she represents herself as a celibate matron, who served the suffering immigrant masses through Hull-House, as if they were her own children. Although not a mother herself, Addams became the &amp;quot;mother to the nation,&amp;quot; identified with motherhood in the sense of protective care of her people.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Ostman (2004)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Legacy==&lt;br /&gt;
Addams died of cancer on May 21, 1935, in Chicago. Her 12 books include ''Democracy and Social Ethics'' (1902) and ''Newer Ideals of Peace'' (1907), as well as two influential autobiographies, ''Twenty Years at Hull House'' (1910), and ''The Second Twenty Years at Hull House'' (1930). She wrote over 500 essays, speeches, and other works; a letterpress edition of Addams' letters and publications is underway. Her achievements are commemorated by the [[Jane Addams College of Social Work]], a unit of the University of Illinois, Chicago.  Hull House is a museum, located on the university campus.   Her reputation declined after 1960 as critics portrayed her an unoriginal racist determined to civilize helpless immigrants. After 1990 the pendulum swung in her favor and numerous favorable biographies have appeared.  &lt;br /&gt;
==Further reading==&lt;br /&gt;
*  Brown, Victoria Bissell. ''The Education of Jane Addams: Politics and Culture in Modern America.''  (2003). 421 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812237471/ref=sip_pdp_dp_1/103-4827826-5463040 excerpt and online search from amazon.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* Davis, Allen F. ''American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams'' (1973), 339pp, solid scholarship but tends toward debunking&lt;br /&gt;
* Diliberto, Gioia. ''A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams.'' (1999). 318 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
*  Elshtain, Jean Bethke.  ''Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life'' (2002) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&amp;amp;d=100438832 online edition], highly  favorable interpretation by a leading conservative scholar&lt;br /&gt;
* Knight, Louise W.  ''Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy.'' (2005). 582 pp.; biography to 1899&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''  Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader'' (1960) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&amp;amp;d=453328 online edition] &lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. '' Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes'' (1910) [http://books.google.com/books?id=h9oJAAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA1&amp;amp;dq=inauthor:addams&amp;amp;as_brr=1 online at books.google.com] [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:615636  online at Harvard Library]&lt;br /&gt;
* Elshtain, Jean B. ed. ''The Jane Addams Reader'' (2002), 488pp&lt;br /&gt;
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*  Brown, Victoria Bissell. ''The Education of Jane Addams: Politics and Culture in Modern America.''  (2003). 421 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812237471/ref=sip_pdp_dp_1/103-4827826-5463040 excerpt and online search from amazon.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* Davis, Allen F. ''American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams'' (1973), 339pp, solid scholarship but tends toward debunking&lt;br /&gt;
* Diliberto, Gioia. ''A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams.'' (1999). 318 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
*  Elshtain, Jean Bethke.  ''Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life'' Basic Books: 2002 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&amp;amp;d=100438832 online edition], by a leading conservative scholar&lt;br /&gt;
* Knight, Louise W.  ''Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy.'' (2005). 582 pp.; biography to 1899&lt;br /&gt;
* Joslin, Katherine. ''Jane Addams: A Writer's Life.'' (2004). 306 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* Linn, James W. ''Jane Addams: A biography.'' (1935) 457 pp, by her admiring nephew&lt;br /&gt;
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===Specialized studies===&lt;br /&gt;
* Alonso, Harriet Hyman. &amp;quot;Nobel Peace Laureates, Jane Addams And Emily Greene Balch: Two Women Of The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.&amp;quot; ''Journal Of Women's History'' 1995 7(2): 6-26. Issn: 1042-7961 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]&lt;br /&gt;
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* Carson, Minal. ''Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930'' (1990)&lt;br /&gt;
* Chansky, Dorothy. &amp;quot;Re-visioning Reform,&amp;quot; ''American Quarterly''  vol 55 #3 (2003) 515-523 online at [[Project Muse]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Curti, Merle. &amp;quot;Jane Addams on Human Nature,&amp;quot; ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' Vol. 22, No. 2 (Apr., 1961), pp. 240-253 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-5037%28196104%2F06%2922%3A2%3C240%3AJAOHN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G  in JSTOR]&lt;br /&gt;
* Danielson, Caroline Page. &amp;quot;Citizen Acts: Citizenship and Political Agency in the Works of Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Emma Goldman.&amp;quot; PhD dissertation U. of Michigan 1996. 331 pp. DAI 1996 57(6): 2651-A. DA9635502 Fulltext: [[ProQuest Dissertations &amp;amp; Theses]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Dawley, Alan. ''Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution'' (2003)&lt;br /&gt;
*  Deegan, M. J. ''Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918.'' (1988)&lt;br /&gt;
* Donovan, Brian. ''White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-Vice Activism, 1887-1917.'' U of Illinois Press. 2006. 186 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* Fischer, Marilyn, et al eds. ''Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy'' (2009), 230pp; 11 specialized essays by scholars [http://www.amazon.com/Addams-Practice-Democracy-Marilyn-Fischer/dp/0252034066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1252727230&amp;amp;sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]&lt;br /&gt;
* Grimm, Robert Thornton, Jr. &amp;quot;Forerunners for a Domestic Revolution: Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the Ideology Of Childhood, 1900-1916.&amp;quot; ''Illinois Historical Journal'' 1997 90(1): 47-64. Issn: 0748-8149&lt;br /&gt;
* Hamington, Maurice. &amp;quot;Jane Addams,&amp;quot; ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (2007) [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/addams-jane/ online edition]&lt;br /&gt;
* Hamington, Maurice. ''Embodied Care Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Care-Maurice-Merleau-Ponty-Feminist/dp/0252029283 excerpt and online search at amazon.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* Hamington, Maurice. &amp;quot;Jane Addams and a Politics of Embodied Care,&amp;quot; ''The Journal of Speculative Philosophy'' v 15 #2 2001, pp. 105-121 online at [[Project Muse]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Hamington, Maurice. &amp;quot;Public Pragmatism: Jane Addams and Ida B. Wells on Lynching,&amp;quot; ''The Journal of Speculative Philosophy'' v. 19#2 (2005), pp. 167-174 online at [[Project Muse]]&lt;br /&gt;
*  Hansen, Jonathan M. &amp;quot;Fighting Words: The Transnational Patriotism of Eugene V. Debs, Jane Addams, and W. E. B. Du Bois.&amp;quot; PhD dissertation Boston U. 1997. 286 pp. DAI 1997 57(10): 4511-A. DA9710148 Fulltext: [[ProQuest Dissertations &amp;amp; Theses]]&lt;br /&gt;
*Henderson, Karla A. &amp;quot;Jane Addams: Leisure Services Pioneer&amp;quot;. ''Journal of Physical Education, Recreation &amp;amp; Dance'', v53 n2 p42-45 Feb 1982.&lt;br /&gt;
*  Jackson, Shannon. ''Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity'' (2000). 384 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* Joslin, Katherine. ''Jane Addams: A writer's Life'' (2009) [http://www.amazon.com/Jane-Addams-Writers-Katherine-Joslin/dp/0252076346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1252727324&amp;amp;sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]&lt;br /&gt;
* Krysiak, Barbara H. &amp;quot;Full-Service Community Schools: Jane Addams Meets John Dewey.&amp;quot;. ''School Business Affairs'', v67 n8 p4-8 Aug 2001. ISSN 0036-651X&lt;br /&gt;
* Louise W. Knight, &amp;quot;An Authoritative Voice: Jane Addams and the Oratorical Tradition.&amp;quot; ''Gender &amp;amp; History'' 1998 10(2): 217-251. Issn: 0953-5233 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Knight, Louise W. &amp;quot;Biography's Window on Social Change: Benevolence and Justice in Jane Addams's 'A Modern Lear.'&amp;quot; ''Journal Of Women's History'' 1997 9(1): 111-138. Issn: 1042-7961 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Lissak, R. S. ''Pluralism and Progressives: Hull-House and the New Immigrants.'' (1989)&lt;br /&gt;
* Matassarin, Kat. &amp;quot;Jane Addams of Hull-House: Creative Drama at the Turn of the Century&amp;quot;. ''Children's Theatre Review'', v32 n4 p13-15 Oct 1983.&lt;br /&gt;
*Morton, Keith. &amp;quot;Addams, Day, and Dewey: The Emergence of Community Service in American Culture&amp;quot;. ''Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning'', v4 p137-49 Fall 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
* Oakes, Jeannie. ''Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform.'' 2000.  Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-7879-4023-2&lt;br /&gt;
* Ostman, Heather Elaine. &amp;quot;Social Activist Visions: Constructions of Womanhood in the Autobiographies of Jane Addams and Emma Goldman.&amp;quot; PhD dissertation Fordham U. 2004. 240 pp. DAI 2004 65(3): 934-A. DA3125022 Fulltext: [[ProQuest Dissertations &amp;amp; Theses]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Packard, Sandra. &amp;quot;Jane Addams: Contributions and Solutions for Art Education&amp;quot;. ''Art Education'', 29, 1, 9-12, Jan 76.&lt;br /&gt;
* Phillips, J. O. C. &amp;quot;The Education of Jane Addams&amp;quot;. ''History of Education Quarterly'', 14, 1, 49-68, Spr 74.&lt;br /&gt;
* Philpott, Thomas. L. ''The Slum and the Ghetto: Immigrants, Blacks, and Reformers in Chicago, 1880-1930.'' (1991).  &lt;br /&gt;
* Platt, Harold. &amp;quot;Jane Addams and the Ward Boss Revisited: Class, Politics, and Public Health in Chicago, 1890-1930.&amp;quot; ''Environmental History'' 2000 5(2): 194-222. ISSN 1084-5453&lt;br /&gt;
* Sargent, David Kevin. &amp;quot;Jane Addams's Rhetorical Ethic.&amp;quot; PhD dissertation Northwestern U. 1996. 275 pp. DAI 1997 57(11): 4597-A. DA9714673 Fulltext: [[ProQuest Dissertations &amp;amp; Theses]] &lt;br /&gt;
* Scherman, Rosemarie Redlich. &amp;quot;Jane Addams and the Chicago Social Justice Movement, 1889-1912.&amp;quot; PhD dissertation City U. of New York 1999. 337 pp. DAI 1999 60(4): 1297-A. DA9924849 Fulltext: [[ProQuest Dissertations &amp;amp; Theses]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Schott, Linda. &amp;quot;Jane Addams and William James on Alternatives to War.&amp;quot; ''Journal Of The History Of Ideas'' 1993 54(2): 241-254. Issn: 0022-5037 Fulltext: [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-5037(199304)54%3A2%3C241%3AJAAWJO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K at Jstor]&lt;br /&gt;
* Sklar, Kathryn Kish. &amp;quot;Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers,&amp;quot; ''Signs,'' Vol. 10, No. 4, (Summer, 1985), pp. 658-677 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-9740(198522)10:4%3C658:HHIT1A%3E2.0.CO;2-O online at JSTOR]&lt;br /&gt;
* Sklar, Kathryn Kish. &amp;quot;'Some of us who deal with the Social Fabric': Jane Addams Blends Peace and Social Justice, 1907-1919.&amp;quot; ''Journal Of The Gilded Age And Progressive Era'' 2003 2(1): 80-96. ISSN 1537-7814 Fulltext: at [http://www.historycooperative.org History Cooperative]&lt;br /&gt;
*  Stebner, E. J. ''The Women of Hull-House: A Study in Spirituality, Vocation, and Friendship.'' (1997). &lt;br /&gt;
* Sullivan, M. &amp;quot;Social work's legacy of peace: echoes from the early 20th century.&amp;quot; ''Social Work'', Sep93; 38(5): 513-20. [http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;amp;db=c8h&amp;amp;AN=1994187242&amp;amp;site=ehost-live EBSCO]&lt;br /&gt;
* Toft, Jessica and Abrams, Laura S.  &amp;quot;Progressive Maternalists and the Citizenship Status of Low-Income Single Mothers.&amp;quot; ''Social Service Review'' 2004 78(3): 447-465. ISSN: 0037-7961 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]&lt;br /&gt;
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===Primary sources===&lt;br /&gt;
* Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree, Barbara Bair, and Maree De Angury. eds., ''The Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volume 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-1881.'' University of Illinois Press, 2002. [http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Papers-Jane-Addams-Preparing/dp/0252027299/ref=sr_1_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1188721487&amp;amp;sr=1-2 online excerpt and search from amazon.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. &amp;quot;A Belated Industry&amp;quot; ''The American Journal of Sociology'' Vol. 1, No. 5 (Mar., 1896), pp. 536-550 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28189603%291%3A5%3C536%3AABI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V in JSTOR]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''The subjective value of a social settlement'' (1892) [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:777422 online]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane, ed. ''Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions'' (1896; reprint 2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Hull-House-Maps-Papers-Presentation-Nationalities/dp/0252031342/ref=sid_dp_dp/103-4827826-5463040 excerpts and online   search from amazon.com] [http://books.google.com/books?id=nGEnAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;printsec=toc&amp;amp;dq=intitle:Hull-House+intitle:Maps+intitle:and+intitle:Papers&amp;amp;num=30&amp;amp;sig=HipIEEUmqWc5zkKu-Wh9qwsy7PY full text]&lt;br /&gt;
* Kelley, Florence. &amp;quot;Hull House&amp;quot; ''The New England magazine.'' Volume 24, Issue 5. (July 1898) pp. 550-566 [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=AFJ3026-0024&amp;amp;byte=11613062 online at [[MOA]]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. &amp;quot;.Ethical Survivals in Municipal Corruption,&amp;quot; ''International Journal of Ethics'' Vol. 8, No. 3 (Apr., 1898), pp. 273-291 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1526-422X%28189804%298%3A3%3C273%3AESIMC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y in JSTOR]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. &amp;quot;Trades Unions and Public Duty,&amp;quot; ''The American Journal of Sociology'' Vol. 4, No. 4 (Jan., 1899), pp. 448-462 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28189901%294%3A4%3C448%3ATUAPD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D in JSTOR]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. &amp;quot;The Subtle Problems of Charity,&amp;quot; ''The Atlantic monthly.'' Volume 83, Issue 496 (February 1899) pp. 163-179 [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0083&amp;amp;byte=297435804 online at [[MOA]]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''Democracy and Social Ethics'' (1902) [http://books.google.com/books?id=RygAAAAAYAAJ&amp;amp;printsec=toc&amp;amp;dq=inauthor:addams&amp;amp;as_brr=1&amp;amp;sig=GiQqOmlKw0Xsxf-ocPmj8E-cXkg   online at books.google.com] [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:000669764 online at Harvard Library]&lt;br /&gt;
**23 editions published between 1902 and 2006 in English and held by 1,570 libraries worldwide &lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''Child labor'' 1905 [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:796212 Harvard Library online]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. &amp;quot;Problems of Municipal Administration,&amp;quot; ''The American Journal of Sociology'' Vol. 10, No. 4 (Jan., 1905), pp. 425-444 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28190501%2910%3A4%3C425%3APOMA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U JSTOR]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. &amp;quot;Child Labor Legislation - A Requisite for Industrial Efficiency,&amp;quot; ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'' Vol. 25, Child Labor (May, 1905), pp. 128-136 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7162%28190505%2925%3C128%3ACLL-AR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6 in JSTOR]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''The operation of the Illinois child labor law,'' (1906) [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:460093 online at Harvard Library]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''Newer Ideals of Peace'' (1906) [http://books.google.com/books?id=EeUSAAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA3&amp;amp;dq=inauthor:addams&amp;amp;as_brr=1 online at books.google.com]&lt;br /&gt;
**13 editions published between 1906 and 2007 in English and held by 686 libraries worldwide &lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''National protection for children'' 1907 [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:460100 online at Harvard Library]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets'' (1909) [http://books.google.com/books?id=fMMrAAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;printsec=toc&amp;amp;dq=inauthor:addams&amp;amp;as_brr=1&amp;amp;sig=_DKYjqzuWB0wbKHcwwur0hHDvyA online at books.google.com], [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:761798 online at Harvard Library]&lt;br /&gt;
**16 editions published between 1909 and 1972 in English and held by 1,094 libraries worldwide &lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. '' Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes,'' 1910 [http://books.google.com/books?id=h9oJAAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA1&amp;amp;dq=inauthor:addams&amp;amp;as_brr=1 online at books.google.com] [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:615636  online at Harvard Library]&lt;br /&gt;
**72 editions published between 1910 and 2007 in English and held by 3,250 libraries worldwide &lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''A new conscience and an ancient evil'' (1912) [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:436848 online at Harvard Library]&lt;br /&gt;
**14 editions published between 1912 and 2003 in English and held by 912 libraries worldwide &lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane; Balch, Emily Greene; and Hamilton, Alice. ''Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and Its Results.'' (1915) reprint ed by Harriet Hyman Alonso, (2003). 91 pp. [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:777415 online at Harvard Library]&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''The Long Road of Woman's Memory'' (1916) [http://books.google.com/books?id=7bQqAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA1&amp;amp;dq=inauthor:addams&amp;amp;as_brr=1 online at books.google.com] [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:520210 online at Harvard Library], also reprint U. of Illinois Press, 2002. 84 pp. &lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''Peace and Bread in Time of War'' 1922 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&amp;amp;d=101410685 online edition], [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:761799 online at Harvard Library]&lt;br /&gt;
**12 editions published between 1922 and 2002 in English and held by 835 libraries worldwide &lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''My Friend, Julia Lathrop.'' (1935; reprint U. of Illinois Press, 2004) 166 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* Addams, Jane. ''  Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader'' (1960) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&amp;amp;d=453328 online edition] &lt;br /&gt;
* Elshtain, Jean B. ed. ''The Jane Addams Reader'' (2002), 488pp&lt;br /&gt;
*  Lasch, Christopher, ed. ''The Social Thought of Jane Addams. '' (1965).&lt;br /&gt;
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==Additional Bibliography==&lt;br /&gt;
*Brubaker, Jana. &amp;quot;Jane Addams: A Multidisciplinary Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources.&amp;quot; ''Behavioral &amp;amp; Social Sciences Librarian''; 2004, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p1-9, 9p.  Scholarly essays written since 1960.&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n79-104234 Major books and pamphlets by Addams and their holdings in research libraries]&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Helen Keller</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Lansing: personal friendship does not equal political support&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;'''Helen Keller''' (1880 - 1968) is famous as a blind and deaf person who was able to overcome her handicaps through the devoted work of [[Anne Sullivan]], her teacher and eventual life-long friend.  Her blindness and deafness were caused by an illness early in her childhood.  The story of her relationship with Sullivan was recorded in the ''The Miracle Worker'' both as a play and later as a motion picture.&lt;br /&gt;
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At first attending schools for the deaf and blind, Keller went on to graduate from college with high honors.  As Keller learned to live with her handicaps and excel, she went on to speak at events supporting social causes including &amp;quot;rights&amp;quot; for the handicapped and women's &amp;quot;rights&amp;quot;.  Politically she was on the far left and supported [[socialism]].&lt;br /&gt;
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She was a founding member of the [[ACLU]]; and was close personal friends with [[Margaret Sanger]], the founder of [[Planned Parenthood]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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What liberal revisionist history doesn't teach is the extreme and often frightening radical Keller actually became in life, then again, liberal professors [[Professor Values|agree with her sentiment]]. With words that could have come out of the mouth of [[Fidel Castro]] or [[Che Guevara]], she went on record as saying &amp;quot;I am not for peace at all hazards. I regret this war [[[[World War I]]]], but I have never regretted the blood of the thousands spilled during the [[French Revolution]]&amp;quot;. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1910s/16_01_16.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Hezbollah</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Lansing: syria&lt;/p&gt;
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'''Hezbollah''' (حزب الله, &amp;quot;Party of [[Allah]]&amp;quot;; sometimes spelled ''Hizbullah'', ''Hezbullah'', or ''Hezballah'') is a Shi'a [[Islam|Islamic]] [[terrorist]] organization based in [[Lebanon]] and supported by [[Syria]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;It has been declared a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia. See:&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm United States Department of State] 	 &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/eng/documents/advisories/docs/entstld.txt Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada]	 &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.psepc.gc.ca/prg/ns/le/cle-en.asp Listed entities pursuant to the Anti-Terrorism Act (2001, c. 41)]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2005/Summary+of+Terrorist+Activity+2004.htm Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5262484.stm BBC news]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.minbuza.nl/nl/actueel/brievenparlement,2003/12/beantwoording_toezegging_inzake_de_positie_van_hezbollah.html The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/agd/www/nationalsecurity.nsf/AllDocs/7986D1536C0FFD5FCA256FCD001BE859?OpenDocument Australian National Security]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Also known as: Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad Organization, Revolutionary Justice Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, Organization of Right Against Wrong, Ansar Allah, Followers of the Prophet Muhammed. &lt;br /&gt;
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The Radical Shia group is &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;dedicated to creation of Iranian-style Islamic republic in Lebanon and removal of all non-Islamic influences from the area. Strongly anti-West and anti-Israel.&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[[U.S. Department of State]], ''Background Information on Foreign Terrorist Organizations,'' Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, October 8, 1999 http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/rpt/fto/2801.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Founded in 1982, its primary goal is the elimination of the state of Israel. Its current Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, has publicly stated a clear genocidal goal: &amp;quot;''if Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.''&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''The Daily Star'' (Beirut) October 23, 2002, http://web.archive.org/web/20021024133755/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/23_10_02/art5.asp, http://tenc.net/a/graduation.htm, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/774649/posts&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;The Enemy Within,&amp;quot; Elena Lappin, the New York Times, May 23, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/the-enemy-within.html?pagewanted=all&amp;amp;src=pm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;HuffingtonPost, Alan Dershowitz: Hezbollah's Goal: &amp;quot;Going After [the Jews] Worldwide,&amp;quot; Aug 10, 2006 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/hezbollahs-goal-going-aft_b_26983.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''CAMERA: Hassan Nasrallah: In His Own Words,'' Jul 26, 2006 http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&amp;amp;x_issue=11&amp;amp;x_article=1158&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Joseph Telushkin, ''Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History,''  HarperCollins (2008), p. 376, &amp;quot;On one noted occasion, Nasrallah had even encouraged Jews throughout the world to move to Israel on the grounds that 'If [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.' &amp;quot; http://books.google.com/books?id=bIHtJzYCkqEC&amp;amp;pg=PA376&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Arthur Ledeen, ''Accomplice to evil: Iran and the war against the West,'' Macmillan (2009), p. 108 http://books.google.com/books?id=LOmDsgYzS7gC&amp;amp;pg=PA108&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Robert S. Wistrich, ''A lethal obsession: anti-semitism from antiquity to the global Jihad,'' Random House Digital, Inc. (2010) http://books.google.com/books?id=Lzs48d3tudsC&amp;amp;pg=PT989&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The organization's privately controlled TV broadcast station ''Al-Manar'' was banned in [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Spain]] and the [[US]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Hezbollah TV comes to Australia,&amp;quot; Barney Zwartz, The Age, August 1, 2009. http://www.theage.com.au/national/hezbollah-tv-comes-to-australia-20090731-e4ja.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; for inciting racial hatred and [[Holocaust denial]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=Iranian founded, Iranian/Syrian Backed: Arab Islamic Hezbollah Global Terrorists=&lt;br /&gt;
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Author explains that the &amp;quot;Impetus for the founding of the Lebanese Hezbollah came from the Hezbollah Party formed in Iran in 1978 by Hadi Ghaffary, a cleric with close ties to Ayatollah,&amp;quot; and that &amp;quot;Khomeini decided to export his Islamic revolution and to form a Hezbollah group among the Shi'ites of Lebanon.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Stephen E. Atkins, &amp;quot;Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups,&amp;quot; p. 130. (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) 404 pp. http://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C&amp;amp;pg=PA130&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Huzbollah is a radical Shi’a Muslim organization fighting against Israel and &amp;quot;western imperialism&amp;quot; in Lebanon, and has advocated since its beginning (1982) for an Islamic State, Tehran style&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=2082&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The group does not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel. Hezbollah refers to itself with multiple titles including the &amp;quot;Organization of the Oppressed on Earth&amp;quot; and the &amp;quot;Revolutionary Justice Organization.&amp;quot; Its main goal is the establishment of an Islamic government across the Arab world that will &amp;quot;liberate&amp;quot; Jerusalem and the entire area of the present-day State of Israel. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is financed and armed by Iran,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Iran Arming Hezbollah In Lebanon, Us Says&amp;quot;, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Apr 18, 1996 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sPFRAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=DnADAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4686,1073300&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; it acts as its proxy&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Written Testimony of Ambassador Roger F. Noriega...&lt;br /&gt;
Before a Hearing of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence&lt;br /&gt;
Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives, Thursday, July 7, 2011, http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20Noriega.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and enjoys full backing from Syria. Hezbollah was founded with the help of Iranian Revolutionary Guards.&lt;br /&gt;
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Syria backs Hizballah morally and has also supplied it with money and arms. In return, Hizballah protects Syria’s political and military interests in Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/israel/advocacy/glossary/hezbollah.asp&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/hizbollah.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The two major leaders of Hezbollah are Secretary General Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and the organization's spiritual chief, Sheikh Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, both named &amp;quot;specially designated global terrorists&amp;quot; by the U.S. government.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=emerson&amp;gt;http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It was founded and continued, and still is marked by violence, locally and worldwide, though, recently, it tries to portray itself as a mere &amp;quot;political&amp;quot; party.&lt;br /&gt;
It has been said that: &amp;quot;The very year Hezbollah was founded it became the most lethal terrorist organization in Lebanon&amp;quot; &amp;amp; &amp;quot;neither had ever managed to spill so much blood in a single incident.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=elieberman&amp;gt;''Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism'', Eli Berman, MIT Press, 2009, p. 50 [http://books.google.com/books?id=R7jvDS3OiAUC&amp;amp;pg=PA50]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Funding==&lt;br /&gt;
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''Dirty Money, Blood Money''&lt;br /&gt;
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===Criminal funding===&lt;br /&gt;
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The Lebanese Shiite Terrorist Organization has been highlighted as a profile in &amp;quot;Crime and Terrorism&amp;quot; - Hezbollah's Criminal activity is widely in Lebanon and worldwide &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, or what researches call: &amp;quot;various criminal enterprises to raise funds for Hezbollah.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Out-Lebanon-Hezbollah-Terrorists/dp/0345475682&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Among the illegal, criminal methods of the Islamic group is wide fraud, drug trafficking, credit card fraud &amp;amp; cigarette smuggling, it has been known that &amp;quot;Cigarette Smuggling Funds Terrorism.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/2/13/135754.shtml&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.goofigure.com/UserGoofigureDetail.asp?gooID=5094&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
In a 2009 report on &amp;quot;Hezbollah: narco-Islamism Middle East Strategy at Harvard&amp;quot; researchers have found that: 'more than any other Islamist group, Hezbollah has a long record of engaging in criminal activity to support its activities.'&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/03/hezbollah-narco-islamism/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/hezbollah_financing_through_cr.php&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Latin America====&lt;br /&gt;
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The 'Hezbollah's global finance network' includes &amp;quot;The Triple Frontier&amp;quot; (in South America) -   &amp;quot;Argentina, Brasil &amp;amp; Paraguay.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.meib.org/articles/0201_l2.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH03Aa01.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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There's an extensive report on &amp;quot;Hezbollah and the Drug Trade in South America&amp;quot; - Hezbollah is active in the drug trade in Colombia, a web of criminality that extends from Lebanon to Africa to South America.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/313.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Douglas Farah wrote in 2006 on &amp;quot;Hezbollah’s External Support Network in West Africa and Latin America&amp;quot; that Hezbollah, has the largest financial structure in Latin America and it is similar to that in of the organization’s Africa structure, that is to say, structured along family/clan lines. These clans have family members across the continent’s main free trade zones of Panama, (Venezuela's) Isla Margarita and the TBA (tri-border area), allowing for multiple opportunities to launder funds by over invoicing stocks, under invoicing merchandise and thtough the use of little-monitored electronic money transfer systems and bulk money smuggling. The first study of this overlapping clan structure spread across broad geographic areas was not undertaken until 2004.&lt;br /&gt;
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The TBA has for years drawn attention as a center for contraband smuggling, drug trafficking and large-scale money laundering, in part because all of the countries whose borders are involved profit from the illicit trade. It is also an easy place to hide and move money. Estimates of the amount of drug money alone laundered through the two main urban centers in the TBA, Foz do Iguacu and Ciudad del Este, range as high as $12 billion a year. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.118/pub_detail.asp&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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From a 2003 research on Hezbollah &amp;quot;Hezbollah: A Case Study of Global Reach&amp;quot;:&lt;br /&gt;
Hezbollah is also active in Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama and Ecuador.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/print.php?template=C07&amp;amp;CID=132&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Counter terrorism expert Steven Emerson wrote in 2007 in an article titled &amp;quot;Blood Money: Hezbollah's revenue stream flows through the Americas&amp;quot;:&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;A New Front. Hezbollah operatives have frequently sought out sympathetic members of the Lebanese Diaspora to assist them, several of whom have owned and operated Lebanese restaurants. Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, owner of Cafe La Libanesa in Tijuana, Mexico, was arrested in December 2002 for running a ring that allegedly smuggled at least 200 Lebanese compatriots into the United States , including an employee of Al- Manar, Hezbollah's television station. Although it was never confirmed, Boughader was suspected of having helped Kourani to slip over the border. Last May, a Mexican judge sentenced Boughader to 14 years in prison for organized crime and human smuggling.&lt;br /&gt;
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The case of Rady Zaiter, a.k.a. David Assi Alvarez, is an example of drug-running activities designed to benefit Hezbollah, using a restaurant as a front. In June 2005, Ecuadorian police broke up an international drug-trafficking ring led by the owners of El Turco restaurant: Zaiter and his partner, Maher Hamajo. The restaurant in Quito served as the logistical center for the ring's activities. Drug mules carried cocaine in double bottomed suitcases bound for other countries in South America, as well as Europe and the Middle East. According to investigating authorities, Hezbollah received at least 70 percent of the drug money. Additionally, officials confiscated more than $150,000 and 2,000 euros. Further arrests were made in Brazil, Syria and the Dutch Antilles, bringing the total apprehended to 19 people. El Turco, like the Detroit-area restaurant La Shish that was recently allegedly linked to Hezbollah, was a very popular restaurant, appreciated by the locals.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=emerson&amp;gt;http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2008, Colombia smashed a drug ring tied to Hezbollah, Colombian authorities said that they had broken up a drug and money-laundering ring in an international operation that included the capture of three suspects from the Middle East who  used profits from the drug trade to fund Hezbollah.&lt;br /&gt;
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More than 100 suspects were arrested in Colombia and overseas on charges that they trafficked drugs and laundered cash for Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel and outlawed paramilitaries, in a network that stretched from South America to Asia.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The criminal organization used routes through Venezuela, Panama, Guatemala, the Middle East and Europe, bringing in cash from the sale of these substances,&amp;quot; the statement said. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/world/americas/22colombia.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2008-10-22-voa37-66602227.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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From 'Inside Homeland Security' 2009: &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;Muslim businessmen operating companies in Panama &amp;quot;for many years&amp;quot; have laundered funds for Hezbollah, Hamas and the PLO.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.insidehomelandsecurity.com/articles/news/59/15/The-Rise-of-Islamist-Extremism-in-Latin-America&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====U.S.====&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[Washington Times]] had an editorial (2005) on 'Hezbollah in &lt;br /&gt;
America,' a 41-year-old businessman, was arrested at his Dearborn home on charges of smuggling funds to Hezbollah.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050519-092915-7312r.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
In 2009, a grand jury in Philadelphia indicted four men in connection with a plot to support Hezbollah through schemes like buying machine guns.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/us/25philly.html?_r=1&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Al-Mabarrat has a U.S.-based branch headquartered in Dearborn, Mich. Founded in 1991, the Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization-USA, Inc., has repeatedly changed its name over the past 15 years. Although Al-Mabarrat acknowledges on its Web site that it works in conjunction with the Al-Mabarrat Association in Lebanon (whose logo it shares), it omits the fact that Al-Mabarrat Lebanon is run by Sheikh Fadlallah. Despite Al- Mabarrat USA's direct link to a Fadlallah-controlled organization, the U.S. branch continues to operate unfettered.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hezbollah's use of Al-Mabarrat as a fund-raising front is a savvy strategic move, mirroring a tactic long exploited by terrorist groups operating on U.S. soil. By utilizing charities, terrorists can generate popular support by providing some legitimate services, attract contributions from donors both unwitting and aware, and attempt to obscure financial trails. But such operations extend far beyond the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=emerson&amp;gt;http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In October 2011, it was revealed that a suspect in an Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi ambassador to the US, is linked to Hezbollah.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Saudi ambassador assassination plot suspect linked to Hezbollah and Bahrain unrest&lt;br /&gt;
Al-Arabiya, 19 October 2011 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/19/172590.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Europe====&lt;br /&gt;
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There's a serious &amp;quot;Hezbollah's Terrorist Threat to the European Union&amp;quot; writes [[The Heritage]] (2007) &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.heritage.org/Research/Testimony/Hezbollahs-Terrorist-Threat-to-the-European-Union&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
From a report on &amp;quot;Hezbollah Around the World&amp;quot; - Arabs, Muslims in [[Germany]] have been key fund raising center for Hezbollah. through crimes of: drug trafficking, weapons and people smuggling, document and currency fraud. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/main_Terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_7&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; From a May 2010 report: 'Hezbollah funded by drug trade in Europe,' German police arrested Lebanese men who transferred millions of Euros to family connected to Hezbollah.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-hezbollah-funded-by-drug-trade-in-europe-1.261091&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100109-24465.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Hezbollah has established several front charities, mainly operating from Great Britain and Germany, to raise funds earmarked to support the group's members in Lebanon . For example, the British-based Lebanese Welfare Committee, HELP Charity Association for Relief and Abrar Islamic Foundation are among the charities suspected of channeling funds to Sheikh Nasrallah and Hezbollah.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=emerson&amp;gt;http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====U.S. Mexican border====&lt;br /&gt;
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Hezbollah is also accused of using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins use, that Hezbollah members have entered the U.S. border through drug cartel.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/print/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/hezbollah-using-drug-smuggling-routes/story.aspx?guid=%7BA14CB7E3-86EE-4ECE-A417-E31BF77E65FD%7D&amp;amp;dist=msr_2&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review wrote an article on ‎Apr 10, 2009, &amp;quot;The Hezbollah threat: It's here, now.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_620146.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Blood diamonds===&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[Associated Press]] reported on &amp;quot;Blood diamonds fund Hezbollah&amp;quot; (2004): that Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla movement is systematically siphoning profits from  West Africa's multimillion-dollar diamond trade, in part by threatening the Lebanese merchants who long have handled much of the region's diamond business, US diplomats in West [[Africa]] charge. &lt;br /&gt;
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The pervasive claim is wider --on organised and co-ercive Hezbollah profiteering from West Africa's diamond trade-- than most [[US]] officials have previously acknowledged. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;One thing that's incontrovertible is the financing of Hezbollah. It's not even an open secret; there is no secret,&amp;quot; Larry Andre, deputy chief of mission for the [[US Embassy]] in diamond-rich [[Sierra Leone]], told The [[Associated Press]]. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Blood-diamonds-fund-Hezbollah-20040629&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://archive.wn.com/2004/07/02/1400/diamond/sale.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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T. Schure wrote in &amp;quot;Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody&amp;quot; (May 14, 2010) that West Africa is a well known transit center for smuggled diamonds, especially for Lebanese traders, with many sales funding criminal and terrorist groups including Hezbollah.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/3543.cfm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Douglas Farah in the [[Washington Post]]: &amp;quot;Digging Up Congo's Dirty Gems; Officials Say Diamond Trade Funds Radical Islamic Groups&amp;quot;, that diamond dealers and intelligence sources said Hezbollah and other groups buy diamonds in. Congo -- sometimes through middlemen, sometimes directly.&lt;br /&gt;
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European and American intelligence sources have long known that Hezbollah has raised significant amounts of money in West Africa through the largely Shiite Muslim Lebanese communities in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Togo. There are an estimated 120,000 Lebanese in West Africa, mostly involved in import-export businesses.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hezbollah is active in all these countries and are deeply involved in many businesses across the region,&amp;quot; said one European official tracking the movement. &amp;quot;It is only a small part of the Lebanese community that is sympathetic, but many people contribute to them just to keep Hezbollah off their backs.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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For at least since the early 1980s, Hezbollah had also raised some cash through the sale of diamonds from Sierra Leone, intelligence sources said. Bah, they said, was long suspected of brokering diamond deals through buyers connected to Hezbollah, assisted by sympathetic Lebanese businessmen across the region.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;D. Farah, ''Digging Up Congo's Dirty Gems; Officials Say Diamond Trade Funds Radical Islamic Groups'', Washington Post, 30 December, 2001 [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&amp;amp;node=&amp;amp;contentId=A40026-2001Dec29&amp;amp;notFound=true ][http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/182/33794.html ] [http://www.kongo-kinshasa.de/dokumente/divers/wp12-01.pdf ]&lt;br /&gt;
qdt in:[http://books.google.com/books?id=luPNuThpx6QC&amp;amp;pg=PA86 ]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Character, racism, fascism==&lt;br /&gt;
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A writer in the [[Christian Science Monitor]] explains that &amp;quot;Hizbullah's real goal is racist: To free the Middle East holy lands of Jews... Hizbullah's goal is not the &amp;quot;liberation&amp;quot; of Palestine. Its members are not Palestinian. They are (Arab) Islamic extremists who want to &amp;quot;liberate&amp;quot; all Islamic land.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0727/p09s01-coop.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Its [[Al-Manar]] television is infamous for being [[racist]], several [[European]] countries, including [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]], as well as [[Australia]], have also taken measures to block Al-Manar.  In March 2005, the broadcasting regulators in the [[European Union]] agreed to ban satellite broadcasting of Al-Manar on the basis that the channel carried racist material and incitement.  As a result, several satellite service providers, most of them European, dropped Al-Manar, making it unavailable in North and South America, Asia and Australia.  Al-Manar, is, however, still available in Europe through Arab satellite companies and its Web site offers English, French and Spanish translations of its material.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/main_terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_8 &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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On its TV, [[Jews]] are termed &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pigs and monkeys&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;font size=1&amp;gt;(stemming from radical Islamic teaching of &amp;quot;apes &amp;amp; pigs&amp;quot; - branding Christians as pigs, Jews as apes [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5426633 ][http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/christopher_howse/blog/2007/02/07/whats_this_about_apes_and_pigs ][http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/02/pupils_aged_five_poisoned_at_i.php ][http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007060106,00.html ][http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/25/wsaudi25.xml ][http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/ ])&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; and the [[Holocaust]] is denied. Participants in a network-sponsored symposium urge that Israel &amp;quot;be completely wiped out&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;just like [[Hitler]] fought the Jews&amp;quot; the &amp;quot;great Islamic nation of Jihad&amp;quot; should &amp;quot;fight the Jews and burn them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/08/08/death_and_destruction_are_hezbollahs_goals/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It has been written in an article titled &amp;quot;Hezbollah's Nazi roots&amp;quot; that &amp;quot;Hezbollah's Nazi salute evokes memories of [[Hitler]]'s support for [[Arab]] agitators such as the Grand Mufti ([[al-Husayni]]) of Jerusalem and the leaders of a pro-[[Nazi]] coup.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=e3157f0d-21ad-41e9-b26e-a3c06a460e73&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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From the book, 'Planting hatred, sowing pain: the psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict':&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Palestinians are constantly exposed to cultural products that expouse classical anti-Semitic ideas. Fir example, a television series produced by Hezbollah, the south Lebanon Shiite militia group, titled Al-Shatat. This series is focused oin the old middle-ages myth of the blood libel (in which Jews --supposedly-- need the blood of Christian children for the Passover matzoth).&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Planting hatred, sowing pain: the psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict'', Moises F. Salinas, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, p. 24 [http://books.google.com/books?id=9Tt9d6gnUkoC&amp;amp;pg=PR24]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font size=1&amp;gt;Related, from an [[ADL]] speech: &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;In recent years, Jews were killed because they were Jews, something we have not witnessed since World War II, at the hands of jihadists.  There was the Buenos Aires bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish center; there was the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl in Pakistan; there was the kidnapping and murder of Ilan Halimi in Paris; and there was the attack on the Seattle Jewish Federation. Hamas and Hezbollah do not want to kill for land, but to eliminate Jews and a Jewish presence.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/threat_islamic_extremism.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Nasrallah &amp;amp; the Jews===&lt;br /&gt;
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Within a month of Nasrallah's taking over as leader, Hezbollah (with the help of Iranian intelligence) bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuring over 200. The next attack perpetrated by Hezbollah—again with Iranian help—was the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 86 and injuring over 200. &lt;br /&gt;
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The widening arena of Hezbollah's attacks stemmed from Nasrallah's perception that Jews anywhere are legitimate targets. In fact, Nasarallah has said: &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide. (Daily Star, Oct. 23, 2002)&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_ID=1&amp;amp;article_ID=38204&amp;amp;categ_id=2#axzz0pYls8Frn&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/the-enemy-within.html?sec=&amp;amp;spon=&amp;amp;pagewanted=2&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/main_terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_7&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/HIZBALLAH_SPEAKS_092006.PDF&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Shiite scholar Amal Saad-Ghorayeb analyzed the anti-Jewish roots of Hezbollah ideology in her book Hezbollah: Politics &amp;amp; Religion. In it, she quotes Hassan Nasrallah describing his antipathy toward Jews:&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli. (New Yorker, Oct. 14, 2002)&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Nuclear logics: contrasting paths in East Asia and the Middle East'' by Etel Solingen, Princeton University Press, 2007 [http://books.google.com/books?id=dZc3udnvlbIC&amp;amp;pg=PA335]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Nasrallah also incoroporates anti-Semitic rhetoric in speeches. For example, he has characterized Jews as the &amp;quot;grandsons of apes and pigs&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Allah's most cowardly and greedy creatures.&amp;quot; (MEMRI: Al- Manar, Feb. 3, 2006) &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&amp;amp;x_issue=11&amp;amp;x_article=1158&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In 1998, Ashura commemorations of Hessein's martyrdom coincided with Israel's fiftieth anniversary. Nasrallah used the occasion to lambaste Israelis as &amp;quot;the descendants of apes and pigs. &amp;quot;A few million vagabonds from all over the world, brought together...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Dreams and shadows: the future of the Middle East,'' Robin B. Wright, Penguin Group, 2008, ISBN 1594201110, 9781594201110, p. 180[http://books.google.com/books?id=nzXA7PZdO0AC&amp;amp;pg=PA180]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Out of step: life-story of a politician : politics and religion in a world at war'', Jack Brian Bloom, Jack Bloom, 2005, p. 104 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Kr2gAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;dq=hezbollah]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''The War Against the West: Crucial Conversations with the Most Informed Experts about Our Enemies, Our Defenses, Our Strategy and Our Leaders in the Long War Against Islamist Extremism'', Hugh Hewitt, Xulon Press, 2008, p. 200 [http://books.google.com/books?id=CFCHgaADriIC&amp;amp;pg=PA200]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Iran's arm: &amp;quot;Big Satan, Little Satan&amp;quot;==&lt;br /&gt;
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Israel and the United States as Portrayed in the Doctrine of Hezbollah: &lt;br /&gt;
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1) Hatred of Israel (&amp;quot;that vile microbe&amp;quot;) and the Jewish people, --As an arm of Iran it regards, &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/30/204228.shtml?s=lh&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GC25Ak04.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.ict.org.il/Articles/tabid/66/Articlsid/231/currentpage/10/Default.aspx&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272498,00.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123093176783149767.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/iran_hezbollah_e1b.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and it seeks to-- Eradicating the 'Little Satan.' &lt;br /&gt;
2) Hatred of the [[United States]] (&amp;quot;the big Satan&amp;quot;) &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Death cult, suicide missions, martyrdom philosophy, inventing 'mass casualty' bombing==&lt;br /&gt;
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The doctrine of Hezbollah: Suicide attacks (&amp;quot;the shortest road to Allah&amp;quot;) are of supreme value. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In May 2006, Nasrallah appeared on the network to explain that &amp;quot;our nation's willingness to sacrifice their blood, souls, children, fathers, and families&amp;quot; is an advantage over the Jews &amp;quot;who guard their lives.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/opinion/08iht-edlevin.2417146.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The modern, high-casualty suicide attack, which has changed our lives irreversibly, was invented by Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=elieberman&amp;gt;''Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism'', Eli Berman, MIT Press, 2009, p. 50 [http://books.google.com/books?id=R7jvDS3OiAUC&amp;amp;pg=PA50]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To attack the multinational forces, Hezbolah invented a terrible new weapon--the suicide truck bomb. The group loaded several hundred pounds of explosives into a truck. A member of the group--someone prepared to sacrifice his or her life--would drive the truck in front of an embassy or into a military base.&lt;br /&gt;
The driver then set off the explosives with a control switch in the truck's cab. The detonation would instantly destroy the driver, the truck, and any buildings or people standing within several hundred feet.&lt;br /&gt;
Sheikh Fadlallah and Hezbollah never took credit for these attacks. As a Shi'ite cleric, Fadlallah knew that Islam would get tarnished by terrorism and the killing of innocent civilians. Fadlallah also claimed to be running the Hezbollah as a political, not a military organization.&lt;br /&gt;
However, as Many Islamic nation have declared jihads against enemies. For this reason, an organization calling itself the &amp;quot;Islamic Jihad&amp;quot; publicly claimed responsibility for terrorists acts in Lebanon. For several years, the United States and other governments tried to find out who was running the Islamic Jihad. In fact, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad were one and the same.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''International Terrorists'', profiles Series, profiles (Minneapolis, Minn.),&lt;br /&gt;
by Thomas Streissguth, The Oliver Press, Inc., 1993, ISBN 1881508072, 9781881508076, pp. 130-131 [http://books.google.com/books?id=vdKnY1vRKZkC&amp;amp;pg=PA130]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Regional plans==&lt;br /&gt;
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Amongst its stated objectives is the establishment of a Shiite theocracy in [[Lebanon]].&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/rn/2002-03/03rn42.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Hezbollah's goal is the establishment of an Islamic state encompassing Lebanon and Israel.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/terrorism/symbols/hezbollah.asp&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Many in the [[Lebanese]] [[Christian]] diaspora, beyond the reach of Hezbollah intimidation, speak out forcefully against turning Lebanon into a [[Shia]] [[theocracy]] emulating Iran.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/08/08/death_and_destruction_are_hezbollahs_goals/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Global Plans==&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[Associated Press]] reported in May, 2010, that a [[Muslim]] cleric calls for 'Greater Iran' - [[Shi'ite]] '''Islamic union''' would stretch from [[Afghanistan]] to [[Israel]]. Ayatollah Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi said the creation of what he termed an &amp;quot;Islamic United States&amp;quot; is a central aim of the political party he leads - called Hizbullah, or Party of God. He added that he hoped to make his vision a reality if the party won the next presidential election. &amp;quot;The Islamic United States will be an introduction to the formation of the global village of the oppressed and that will be a prelude to the single global rule of the Mahdi,&amp;quot; the newspaper quoted him as saying. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ixeFBxfLzaSjs8Mb8cuFmtPOT6-wD9FN9ING1&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?ID=175619 &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Violence, Bloodshed==&lt;br /&gt;
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Their known spreading of violence &amp;amp; bloodshed includes: &lt;br /&gt;
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===Regional: Lebanon, Israel===&lt;br /&gt;
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====Kidnappings, torture====&lt;br /&gt;
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Hezbollah's founding quickly resulted in a spate of kidnappings, torture.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://article.nationalreview.com/300511/negotiate-with-iran/andrew-c-mccarthy&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Westerners, including French, German and Americans were target of Hezbollah's kidnapping.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Christopher C. Harmon, Andrew N. Pratt, Sebastian Gorka, ''Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism,'' McGraw Hill Professional, (2010), [http://books.google.com/books?id=fYp2NlDbrb0C&amp;amp;pg=PA46 p. 46]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman, ''Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil,'' Random House Digital, Inc. (2006), [http://books.google.com/books?id=KXa6qOt86OwC&amp;amp;pg=PA64 p. 64]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Does Human Rights Law Apply to Terrorists?&amp;quot; Middle East Quarterly by T Lapkin, 2004 http://www.meforum.org/651/does-human-rights-law-apply-to-terrorists&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Mark Perry, ''Talking to terrorists: why America must engage with its enemies,'' Basic Books (2010), [http://books.google.com/books?id=HDRG-EYhyZ0C&amp;amp;pg=PA140 p. 140]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/03/hezbollah-scout.php&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; including hijacking US personell.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Newsweek: Volume 109, 1987, [http://books.google.com/books?id=1eQmAQAAIAAJ&amp;amp;q=The+fanatics+in+Beirut+can+kidnap+them,+torture+them,+hang+them+publicly+and+dump+their+bodies+on+the+streets p. 117]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C&amp;amp;pg=PA130&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=vHrQGZ8lUgIC&amp;amp;pg=PA73&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=HNyv0N8cVE0C&amp;amp;pg=PA85&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/162295/re-hezbollah-america/andy-mccarthy&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=m_ktBrZfuUYC&amp;amp;pg=PA118&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article708342.ece&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf11.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; An estimated kidnapping of 30 Westerners in that period are attributed to Hezbollah.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;congress112&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http://books.google.com/books?id=W6gziQydtBwC&amp;amp;pg=RA2-PA112  Congressional Record - Page 112]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Lebanon: Hezbollah's Kidnapping Plan,&amp;quot; STRATFOR, Jan 22, 2008 http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/lebanon_hezbollahs_kidnapping_plan&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Hizballah (&amp;quot;Party of God&amp;quot;) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/hizbollah.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Michael T. Kindt, Jerrold M. Post, Barry R. Schneider, ''The world's most threatening terrorist networks and criminal gangs,'' Macmillan, (2009) [http://books.google.com/books?id=WMZdR8XPzQoC&amp;amp;pg=PA129 p. 129]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Among the notorious victims were: William Francis Buckley, Terry Anderson,  William Richard Higgins.&lt;br /&gt;
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In March, 1984, Hezbollah operatives kidnapped William Francis Buckley, the CIA's station chief in [[Lebanon]]. He was whisked to [[Damascus]] and on to [[Tehran]], where, after 15 months of torture, he succumbed to a heart attack. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad'' by Andrew C. McCarthy, Encounter Books, 2008, [http://books.google.com/books?&amp;amp;id=5dgoAQAAIAAJ&amp;amp;dq=buckley p. 97]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Feb. 17, 1988: The group kidnaps Col. William Higgins, a [[U.S.]] Marine serving with a [[United Nations]] truce monitoring group in Lebanon, and later murders him.&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[United States]] asserts that top Hezbollah military commander who was one of America's most wanted men, accused of involvement in a string of bombings, hijackings and kidnappings during the 1980s and 1990s, [[Imad Mughniyeh]], was also behind the torture and murder of [[William Buckley]], the CIA station chief in Beirut, in 1984; the kidnapping, torture and murder of Lieutenant Colonel William Richard Higgins of the Marines, who was on peacekeeping duty in Lebanon in 1988; and, through the Islamic Jihad Organization, the seizure of Western hostages in Beirut during the 1980s.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/world/africa/13iht-syria.4.10025106.html?pagewanted=all&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Lightning out of Lebanon: Hezbollah terrorists on American soil'', Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman, [http://books.google.com/books?cd=4&amp;amp;id=waboAAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;dq=torture p. 64]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jul/20/20060720-081459-2509r/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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From a legal claim against [[Iran]]:&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt; In the instant case the evidence once again discloses that Iran provided Hezbollah with funding, direction and training for its terrorist activities in Lebanon, including the kidnapping and torture of Terry Anderson hezbollah kidnapping torture and his imprisonment as a hostage for 2,454 days.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act: Congressional Hearing'', Bill McCollum, DIANE Publishing, 2002, p. 24 [http://books.google.com/books?id=XB4lFqK_2SgC&amp;amp;pg=PA24]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Dec. 31, 1986: Under the alias Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Hezbollah announces it had kidnapped and murdered three Lebanese [[Jews]]. The organization previously had taken responsibility for killing four other Jews since 1984.&lt;br /&gt;
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The 1985 Hezbollah torture-murder of Isaac Tarab, 63, and Chaim Halala Cohen, 39,  the 1986 Hezbollah's torturing to death of Ibrahim Benesti, aged 54, of Beirut, and his elderly relatives, Yehudah and Yosef, Benesti's family – like many [[Lebanese]] [[Jews]] – had been in [[Lebanon]] since 2,000 B.C. (before the birth of [[Mohammed]]), [described as a charitable and kindly candy store owner who gave free candy to children of all religions]. All these crimes were motivated for no other reason than for the victims simply being Jewish.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=11798&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; See: [[#Character, racism, fascism]].&lt;br /&gt;
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7 Apr 2005 - Two [[Israeli-Arabs]] from the village of Rajar near the Israel-Lebanon border were kidnapped by Hezbollah operatives and held in captivity for four days. The men, identified as Muki Ben-Jamal and Nuef Maharj Ben-Ali, said they were interrogated by their captors who wanted information on [[Israel]].&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=aijac-timeline&amp;gt;http://www.aijac.org.au/resources/hezb_00-06.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[Time]] had a detailed piece by William Dowell in May 23, 1988 titled: &amp;quot;Three Years in the Belly of Beirut&amp;quot;: &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&amp;quot;They weren't human or inhuman. They were nonhuman.&amp;quot; That was how French Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, quoting fellow hostage Michel Seurat, , described the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad terrorists who held him hostage for three years. The wrenching account of his kidnaping, captivity and release appeared last week in L'Evenement du Jeudi, the French newsmagazine Kauffmann worked for when he and French Researcher Seurat were abducted in May 1985.&lt;br /&gt;
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The two men became hostages by chance after missing a Beirut airport bus and deciding to take a taxi. When a Mercedes pulled alongside and ordered them to stop, they expected a robbery. Instead they were forced into the back of the gunmen's car. What followed was three years of intimidation and psychological torture.&lt;br /&gt;
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For more than a year, the hostages never saw daylight. Their only diversion was reading the handful of books provided by their jailers; Kauffmann read War and Peace more than 20 times. At one point, he and Seurat listened while their Shi'ite captors spent eight days torturing an Arab suspected of being a spy. When it was over, Kauffmann's jailer joked, &amp;quot;I damaged him a little. He had two broken ribs. We broke both his legs. Finally he talked, and we set him free.&amp;quot; Freedom, Kauffmann learned, was a euphemism for death.&lt;br /&gt;
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In one of the most bizarre episodes, Seurat was allowed a brief visit in August 1985 with his wife and daughters in Beirut, and then returned to the cell loaded down with sociology books. It was the last time he saw his family. A month later, he was deathly ill with hepatitis. A Lebanese Jewish doctor, Elie Hallat, who was also a hostage, pleaded in vain for Seurat's release. As his condition worsened, a Shi'ite commander volunteered a transfusion. &amp;quot;You are becoming a Shi'ite,&amp;quot; joked a captor after Seurat was given blood. In fact, the researcher was dying. By then French Hostages Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine had been added to the group. &amp;quot;So I am going to die,&amp;quot; Seurat told his friends.&lt;br /&gt;
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In March 1986, the Islamic Jihad announced that it had &amp;quot;executed&amp;quot; Seurat. It seems likely, however, that he succumbed, at 39, to his disease. But the jailers told the hostages he was alive and recovering in a hospital. Kauffmann later learned from a radio newscast that Hallat, doomed by his captors' rabid anti-Semitism, had been executed. Kauffmann, Carton and Fontaine were continually moved from apartment to apartment. At one point Kauffmann was wrapped in bandages like a mummy, sealed in a metal box and bolted under the chassis of a truck. When he banged on the side, he was told he would be shot. &amp;quot;Kill me,&amp;quot; he snapped back. &amp;quot;It doesn't make any difference.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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At another point Kauffmann and Fontaine were tied together and placed in a coffin. When they were let out for a moment, Fontaine peered under his blindfold and saw that they were near a cement factory. &amp;quot;They're going to kill us here, put our bodies in cement and dump us in the sea,&amp;quot; said Fontaine. Later Kauffmann and Fontaine were put in a new cell and chained like animals to a spike in the floor.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Time, Volume 131, Issues 18-26 By Henry Robinson Luce, Time Inc., 1988, p. iv [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967469,00.html]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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At a 2008 proisoner swap-deal, Israel was forced to make with Hezbollah, Bradley Burston wrote &amp;quot;The pleasure that Hezbollah takes in torture.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Few innocent people have been tortured like the loved ones of the people murdered by Samir Kuntar, the [[Palestine Liberation Front]] monster convicted of a crime so brutal that even the designation terrorist is too good for him. &lt;br /&gt;
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This week, the loved ones will know that Kuntar will be feted to a hero's welcome staged by Hezbollah, whose claims to being a religious organization, stain the word religious with a level of sadism that is astonishing, reaching new levels with every gloat by the torture master who calls himself a spiritual leader, [[Hassan Nasrallah]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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But that will be only one aspect of the glee with which Hezbollah will likely take explicit pride and claim exultant victory. &lt;br /&gt;
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Not satisfied with keeping the families of kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in the dark for two years as to their fate, a Lebanese report which appears to have been leaked by Hezbollah two days before the prisoner swap, stated that one of the soldiers had survived the kidnapping attack, but that the other was surely dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Then, to torture the families further, the report refrained from revealing which of the two had been killed, or whether the other was still alive. &lt;br /&gt;
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But for sheer gratuitous sadism, the case of [[Samir Kuntar]] has few rivals. Consider the survivors of Kuntar's acts of murder. &lt;br /&gt;
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Consider Smadar Haran, a survivor of the 1979 attack led by Kuntar. Kuntar burst into Haran's apartment building in the dead of night, seizing Smadar Haran's husband Danny and their daughter Einat, 4 years old. &lt;br /&gt;
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Desperate to save their two-year-old girl Yael, Smadar Haran huddled with her in a crawl space in the attic. &amp;quot;I will never forget the joy and the hatred in the voices [of Kuntar and his men] as they swaggered about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades,&amp;quot; she later recalled in the Washington Post. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I knew that if Yael cried out, the terrorists would toss a grenade into the crawl space and we would be killed,&amp;quot; she wrote in 2003. &amp;quot;So I kept my hand over her mouth, hoping she could breathe. As I lay there, I remembered my mother telling me how she had hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust. 'This is just like what happened to my mother,' I thought.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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Smadar Haran's personal torture had only begun. She would later learn that Kuntar had dragged her husband Danny and older daughter to the beach nearby, where he shot Danny execution style, making sure that her father's death would be the last sight her little girl would ever see. &lt;br /&gt;
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Kuntar then took the butt of his assault rifle and brought in down on Einat's head, crushing it against a rock. &lt;br /&gt;
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Smadar Haran would later recall, &amp;quot;By the time we were rescued from the crawl space, hours later, Yael, too, was dead. In trying to save all our lives, I had smothered her.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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Two weeks ago, in an act of heroism that is beyond imagination, Smadar Haran spoke publicly of coming to terms with the impending release of the monster who turned her life into a waking nightmare. &amp;quot;Samir Kuntar isn't, nor has he ever been, my private prisoner,&amp;quot; she told a news conference. &amp;quot;His fate must be decided now according to Israel's needs and ethical interests.&amp;quot; ...Kuntar... his elevation to the status of hero and martyr to the &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Palestinian struggle&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; or the &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Lebanese resistance&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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For Israelis, even after all these years, the release of Kuntar is a form of self-inflicted torture. So heinous, so unpardonable were his crimes, that American Jewish author and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, himself a veteran of the [[IDF]], wrote on The [[Atlantic Monthly]]'s Website... &amp;quot;As unbelievable as this sounds, Israel is actually thinking of swapping Samir Kuntar in a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. Kuntar is perhaps the most terrible person held in an Israeli prison, a man who crushed the skull of a Jewish child against a rock.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.haaretz.com/news/bradley-burston-the-pleasure-that-hezbollah-takes-in-torture-1.249790&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Terror attack on US embassy====&lt;br /&gt;
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'''The attack on the [[U.S.]] Embassy in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]] on April 18, 1983 .'''&lt;br /&gt;
The bombing was carried out via a stolen van, carrying 2000 pounds of explosives,  slamming into the embassy, killing 63 people.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/usmnf.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.iranfocus.com/en/terrorism/victims-of-1983-bombing-of-u.s.-embassy-in-beirut-recalled.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.americanmemorialsite.com/beirutembassy.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.beirut-memorial.org/history/index.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.americans-working-together.com/american_veterans/id93.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Terror attack on peacekeeping US marine====&lt;br /&gt;
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'''The attack on [[U.S.]] Marine Barracks in Oct. 1983.'''&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/23/the-1983-marine-barracks-bombing-connecting-the-dots/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Hezbollah conducted simultaneous suicide truck bombings against the two buildings housing U.S. Marines and French paratroopers in Beirut, killing 241 Marines and 58 French soldiers who were in Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping mission.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.stratfor.com/hezbollah_irans_ace_hole&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/textual/topics/marinesleb.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/23/world/main579638.shtml&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/02/14/2008-02-14_hezbollah_terror_thug_behind_83_lebanon_.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A US federal judge found (in 2003) Iran liable for the 1983 bombing of a US marine barracks. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2951938.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/30/iran.barracks.bombing/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Beirut mission started out as an effort to stabilize a fragile peace in a war-torn country. Lebanon had been in turmoil since the Palestine Liberation Organization, having been expelled from Jordan, took refuge there in the 1970s. In 1975, a panoply of Christian and Muslim militias, turned what had been a Middle East oasis into a no-man's land of urban warfare. &lt;br /&gt;
The situation fell apart quickly. Islamic Militia leaders began to view the [[United States]] and its allies as favoring the Christian-led forces of the Lebanese government. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/terror.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Targeting Israeli civilians====&lt;br /&gt;
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Hezbollah has been '''targeting Israeli civilians, for years.''' since the 1980s, (Which prompted Israel in 1996 to conduct a defensive operation &amp;quot;Grapes of Wrath.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;amp;x_outlet=118&amp;amp;x_article=1148&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;) its main weapon - firing rockets, missiles into residential areas&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.haaretz.com/news/barak-to-un-hezbollah-arms-target-israeli-civilians-1.266260&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3275609,00.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.haaretz.com/news/eight-hurt-as-record-number-of-rockets-hits-northern-israel-1.194063&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=37034&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/hizattacks1.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/24/154609.shtml&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/8956/hezbollah-rocket-attacks-hurt-19-israelis-in-kiryat-shmona/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/exeres/9EE216D7-82EF-4274-B80D-6BBD1803E8A7,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
For example, in 24 Jul 2006 - Hezbollah fired more than 70 Katyusha rockets into Israel, several of which landed in Nahariya, Safed, and Kiryat Shmona. Medics treated at least 49 people who were lightly to moderately wounded. More than 2200 rockets have been fired at Israeli cities since July 12, killing 17 Israelis, all of them civilians. 20 Israeli soldiers were killed in other incidents.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=aijac-timeline&amp;gt;http://www.aijac.org.au/resources/hezb_00-06.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. Though there were also other methods like in Apr 2001 – A 42 year-old Israeli woman was stabbed to death in Haifa. Her murder was the initiation rite of a terrorist cell, whose members were apprehended in July. Six members of a Hezbollah-linked Palestinian terrorist cell responsible for the murder, originally thought to be criminally motivated, were arrested in July. The murder was the initiation rite of one of the terrorists into the organization.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Chronologies of modern terrorism'', Barry Rubin, Barry M. Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin, M.E. Sharpe, 2008, ISBN 0765620472, 9780765620477, p. 218&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+since+2000/Victims+of+Palestinian+Violence+and+Terrorism+sinc.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Use of its civilian population in war====&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Use of Lebanese as human shields''' &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.standwithus.com/pdfs/flyers/humanshield.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=439dbdcc-167c-423c-9d52-b14a90605440&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/photos-that-damn-hezbollah/story-e6frf7r6-1111112144002&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://abcnews.go.com/International/video?id=2702658&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/05/D8LQVLHG2.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060730-093558-9976r.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;font size=1&amp;gt;(copying the Arab-Palestinian tactics routine [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Hamas+war+against+Israel/Hamas+exploitation+of+civilians+as+human+shields+-+Photographic+evidence.htm ]&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov22/0,4670,PalestiniansHumanShields,00.html ] [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227222,00.html ][http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/04/sm.03.html ][http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6166998.stm ][http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/05/israel.gaza/index.html ][http://www.pmw.org.il/latestBulletins.htm ][http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/08/hamas-palestinian-victims/print/ ][http://article.wn.com/view/2010/03/15/Israeli_report_Hamas_used_civilians_as_human_shields_in_Gaza/][http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/2102-Palestinians-Brag-About-Using-Human-Shields-for-Terrorists.html ][http://www.peacewithrealism.org/headline/gaza02.htm ][http://www.peacewithrealism.org/headline/admit.htm ][http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;amp;doc_id=1304 ][http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23431&amp;amp;only&amp;amp;rss ])&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;, especially was publicized, in their initiated war with Israel, Hezbollah's use of &amp;quot;Christian villages as shields in missile attacks.&amp;quot; witnesses: &amp;quot;If Israel does nothing Hezbollah will continue to fire rockets from inside Lebanon shockingly using Christians as human shields actually.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Hezbollah is hiding among civilian populations and launching attacks behind human shields.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/17528670.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/hezbollah_uses_christian_villages_as_shields_in_missile_attacks/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, this crime has been categorized as a &amp;quot;Hezbollah specialty&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer072806.php3&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, even using the [[U.N.]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.drudge.com/archive/83811/hezbollah-used-un-human-shields&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, A.) to cause casualties among their own Arab population, especially among children, in order to generate sympathy and an outcry in the Arab world. B.) Hated Israelis' image get tarnished, an &amp;quot;important&amp;quot; goal in it of itself to make the Zionists look as &amp;quot;killers.&amp;quot; C.) To cripple Israel's humane army to respond, thus enables them to come out as &amp;quot;heroes.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.telospress.com/main/index.php?main_page=news_article&amp;amp;article_id=112&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &amp;amp; saviours against the Zionist enemy.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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====Subjugation, persecution====&lt;br /&gt;
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Hezbollah has a long history of persecuting Christians, decries a Lebanese author.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.independentconservative.com/2006/08/02/hezbollah_kills_christians_part2/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The writer W. Phares explains on the suffering of civilians, especially since Hezbollah's take over in 2000: &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;Such takeover by the Jihadist militia was expected to provoke an exodus by thousands of civilians who would have been subjected to Hezbollah’s persecution. However suddenly on May 23, the Israeli Government then under Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered a quick pull out from the security zone without waiting for the local force, at the time known as ‘South Lebanon Army’ (SLA) to be transferred under the United Nations or to operate as a local force to stop Hezbollah until the UN would decide what to do.&lt;br /&gt;
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The population of the &amp;quot;security zone&amp;quot; was about 150,000 counting the district of Jezzine; and its local forces were about 3,000 strong. the make up of the population was Christian, Shia and Druse with some Sunni villages to the East. To their north Hezbollah had massed its forces backed by Iranian Pasdaran advisors. Between 1984 and 2000 Hezbollah launched several offensives against the SLA positions but was unable to overrun them permanently.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6309/pub_detail.asp&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Civil war====&lt;br /&gt;
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Some of '''civil war/clashes waged on the Lebanese''' by the Hezbollah:&lt;br /&gt;
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In Jan. 2007,  clash pits Hezbollah against rule in Lebanon. The police said at least three people died and 100 more were wounded throughout the country in the violence.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/world/middleeast/24lebanon.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16806540/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Rival factions return to arms as Lebanon stares into the abyss&amp;quot; in Nov 2007.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2926154.ece&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In May 8, 2008 Clashes erupted as Hezbollah chief [[Hassan Nasrallah]] claims 'War' &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/middle_east/jan-june08/lebanon_0508.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, clashes between Hezbollah and Druze continued in Lebanon for the 5th day, it erupted in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli, as fighting between the Hezbollah militia and its rivals grew. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1404713.php/17_dead_in_Lebanon_-_Druze-Hezbollah_clashes_break_out__2nd_Lead_&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/12/lebanon.violence/index.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Lebanese army said it will intervene, it will use force from to stop fighting, which brough the overall toll to 81 dead and about 250 wounded. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL12505038200805&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-05-12-clashes-bring-lebanon-death-toll-to-81&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In July 2008, fighting among Lebanese government and the Islamic Hezbollah terrrorists categorized as &amp;quot;Sectarian battles,&amp;quot; the battles killed six, wounded 50.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iLbRHS1sn11z7Yw3qRkPMqnqF_xw&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSL5690185._CH_.2400 &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/07/26/sectarian_fighting_kills_6_in_lebanon/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In 28 Aug 2008, Hezbollah has &amp;quot;brazenly attacked the Lebanese Army&amp;quot; – in its shooting-attack on an army helicopter, killing 1st Lt. Samer Hanna and wounding several others – so say the leaders of Lebanon’s pro-democracy movement.&lt;br /&gt;
This is not the first time Hezbollah has attacked the Lebanese government. But it is one of the boldest attacks to date against the army. Hezbollah kills Lebanese Army Officer.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=2389&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Global violence===&lt;br /&gt;
Hezbollah is another example (like Al Qaeda) of an Islamist insurgency that is both local and transnational.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Heads we win: the cognitive side of counterinsurgency (COIN)'', David C. Gompert, RAND Corporation, 2007, p. 27 [http://books.google.com/books?id=xLDuAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;q=hezbollah]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Attack on US, French embassies in Kuwait====&lt;br /&gt;
Hezbollah's responsible for [[U.S.]] and [[French]] embassies attacks in [[Kuwait]] in 1983&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=yMnAlqo47sgC&amp;amp;pg=PA96&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.  &lt;br /&gt;
The American embassy in Kuwait was bombed in a series of attacks whose targets also included the French embassy, the control tower at the airport, the country's main oil refinery, and a residential area for employees of the American corporation Raytheon. Six people were killed, including a suicide truck bomber, and more than 80 others were injured.&lt;br /&gt;
In Kuwait, 17 people were arrested and convicted for participating in the attacks. One of those convicted was Mustafa Youssef Badreddin, a cousin and brother-in-law of one of Hezbollah's senior officers, [[Imad Mughniyah]]. After a six-week trial in Kuwait, Badreddin was sentenced to death for his role in the bombings.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Hijacking Kuwaiti planes====&lt;br /&gt;
A year after the 1983 attacks (on US, French targets), Kuwait Airways flight 221 was hijacked wherein the hijackers demanded the release of Islamic militant: 'Al-Dawa 17.' Two US passengers were killed and Iranian police freed the hijackers in [[Iran]] where the plane had been diverted. Imad Mugniyah and Hezbollah were accused by US authorities in the hijacking and killings.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 1988, militants hijacked a second plane, Kuwait Airways Flight 422, with 110 passengers for 16 days. At one point during the hijacking, the plane was diverted to Iran where multiple survivors reportedly believed the original hijackers deplaned and were replaced by a fresh crew of hijackers who were armed with increased gun power.&lt;br /&gt;
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During the ordeal, the hijackers met with reporters who quoted one as saying upon requesting the refueling of the plane in order to enable the plane to leave Algeria, &amp;quot;We will liquidate our account with Kuwait elsewhere. We don't want to have the massacre in a friendly country.&amp;quot; A hijacker was quoted as saying, &amp;quot;Kuwait has to know that we do not fear death.&amp;quot; The hijackers demands included the release of Al-Dawa 17.&lt;br /&gt;
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The plane was diverted to Cyprus where two young [[Kuwait]]is aged 20 and 25 were tortured and then shot. Their dead bodies were dumped on the tarmac of the [[Cyprus]] airport.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTM4NTY5MTEwMA==&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ct_130208e.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.esisc.org/documents/pdf/en/note-hezbollah-eng.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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====Iraq====&lt;br /&gt;
Already in November 24, 2003, The [[New York Times]] elaborated in an article: &amp;quot;A region inflamed, the hand of Tehran,&amp;quot;  Hezbollah, in Iraq, that Hezbollah, the  Iranian-backed Shiite group, has established a significant presence in Iraq.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDE113BF937A15752C1A9659C8B63&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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In 2006. U.S. Officials said: &amp;quot;Hezbollah Training Iraqi Shiite Militia Group.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232262,00.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/world/middleeast/28military.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[Wall Street Journal]] wrote (2007) on Iran's Proxy War, The &lt;br /&gt;
involvement of Hezbollah in Iraq. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118368904375158857.html?mod=googlenews_wsj&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[BBC]] reported on additional proof, US officials had in 2007 of the link. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6260690.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
In an article on Iran in Iraq, the [[Washington Post]] wrote on [[Iran]]'s Hezbollah soldiers and methods in the war in [[Iraq]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/07/iran_in_iraq.html?nav=rss_blog&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
the [[CNN]] reported on a Hezbollah agent played deaf before confessing, the &lt;br /&gt;
top special operations officer with Lebanon's Hezbollah militia pretended to be &lt;br /&gt;
deaf and mute when he was captured in Iraq.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://us.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/02/iraq.hezbollah/index.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2008, there were reports on Hezbollah training Iraqis in Iran&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/world/middleeast/05iran.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Iraqi president [[Jalal Talabani]] charged (May, 2008) Hezbollah interference, in a Baghdad interview, he accused the leader of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah of meddling in Iraq's &lt;br /&gt;
affairs.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/05/30/Talabani_charges_Hezbollah_interference/UPI-44791212150201/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In May, 2010, the [[US]] said that [[Syria]] must curb arm shipments to Hezbollah, top US diplomat has urged [[Syria]] to do more to prevent arms shipments to the militant [[Lebanese]] Hezbollah and stem the flow of militants into [[Iraq]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h9Pa9-v36WUhm6_Mqn4inXf_J8iAD9FQL82O0&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In July 2011, U.S. official charged that militias are using Iranian weapons to target U.S. troops in Iraq.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Official: Militias Using Iranian Weapons to Target U.S. in Iraq.&amp;quot; [[CNN]], July 3, 2011 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/07/03/iraq.us.militia.attacks/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
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====Somalia====&lt;br /&gt;
The [[New York Times]] reported on Hezbollah in [[Somalia]]. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;U.N. Says Somalis Helped Hezbollah Fighters,&amp;quot; [[New York Times]] 15 Nov 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/world/middleeast/15nations.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
From [[NPR]] (November 15, 2006), the &amp;quot;[[U.N.]] Report ties [[Somali]] Islamists to Hezbollah,&amp;quot; in an alarming report about the situation in Somalia.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;U.N. Report Ties Somali Islamists to Hezbollah,&amp;quot; [[NPR]], November 15, 2006 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6493083&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
More than 700 Somali fighters are said to have gone to support and get training from Hezbollah..&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6154690.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The [[Time]] reported in 2010, on the Somali al-Shabab getting aid from Syria and Iran and is &amp;quot;believed to have formed direct alliances with militant groups elsewhere, including Lebanon's Hizballah.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Somalia's al-Shabab Wants to Join Terror's Big League,&amp;quot; [[Time]], &lt;br /&gt;
14 Jul 2010 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2003837,00.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Namibia====&lt;br /&gt;
There were reports by a human rights organisation in 2011, of  jihadists-terrorists: Hezbollah  and al-Shabab operating in Namibia.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Terrorists operate in Namibia: NamRights‎,&amp;quot; Informante,  Nov 2, 2011 http://www.informante.web.na/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=9000&amp;amp;Itemid=1&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Gambia====&lt;br /&gt;
Freedom Newspaper (2011): &amp;quot;There is a Hezbollah cartel in Gambia.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Explaining: &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;There is a Hezbollah cartel in Banjul [the Gambian capital], who are acting in concert with the country's President Yahya Jammeh to sell arms to the terrorist group's main base in Lebanon, a source reaching the Freedom Newspaper has alleged.&lt;br /&gt;
The arms deal goes like this: Gambia procures the arms from Iran, and in turn sells these deadly weapons to Hezbollah.&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; Worst part is, that  the &amp;quot;Gambian President has been accused of acting in concert with Lebanese alleged Hezbollah supporters.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Breaking News - Gambia &amp;quot;DID JAMMEH SELLS IRANIAN ARMS TO HEZBOLLA,&amp;quot; Freedom Newspaper http://www.freedomnewspaper.com/Homepage/tabid/36/mid/367/newsid367/5960/Breaking-News-Gambia--DID-JAMMEH-SELLS-IRANIAN-ARMS-TO-HEZBOLLAH-/Default.aspx&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hudson-ny.org/1989/iran-charm-offensive-in-africa-part-ii&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Hezbollah buying Iranian arms from Gambia, paper reports,&amp;quot; NOW Lebanon, 28 Feb 2011&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=245299&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; This despite a [[BBC]] report in 2010 of Gambia cutting ties with the Islamic Republic.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Gambia cuts ties with Iran and orders diplomats to go.&amp;quot; [[BBC]], November 23, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11819143&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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====Senegal====&lt;br /&gt;
Senegal has long been a favorite 'fund0raising' hub for the terrorist organization Hezbollah.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/ENGLISH/IRAN/PD=&lt;br /&gt;
F/JULY_03.PDF&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.justice.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/E7CC31EF-A384-46A9-8E92-6B3416FA6299/0/feb05.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Worth mentioning that Senegal accused Iran in Feb. 2011 for supplying weapons to separatist rebels that killed its soldiers.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE71M01A20110223&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Afghanistan====&lt;br /&gt;
Hezbollah Link in the war in Afghanistan have been found in 2007, as &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;NATO Finds Copy of Hizbullah's Explosives in Afghanistan&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20080126073425/http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2007/07/copy_of_hezboll.php [http://www.lebanonews.net/mainra.asp?raid=2268] [http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=116544]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; And in 2011 the Wall Street Journal wrote: &amp;quot;Iran Funnels New Weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Iran Funnels New Weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan,&amp;quot; [[WSJ]]&lt;br /&gt;
Solomon, Jay, July 2, 2011 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303763404576420080640167182.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Sudan====&lt;br /&gt;
The Hezbollah, reportedly, is very supportive of Al-Bashir's genocide in the [[Sudan]].&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2432545&amp;amp;amp;title=Lebanese_Hezbollah_Holds.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; From a March 2009 report: &amp;quot;Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah leaders offer support for Sudan's chief.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://lubbockonline.com/stories/030709/wor_406280388.shtml&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Egypt====&lt;br /&gt;
In 2009, the [[BBC]] reported that [[Egypt]] was 'hunting Hezbollah suspects'&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7996665.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, prosecutor accused Hezbollah of plotting attacks in Egypt, of sending operatives to [[Egypt]] to carry out attacks in the country and to smuggle weapons.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1469836.php/Prosecutor_accuses_Hezbollah_of_plotting_attacks_in_Egypt__Roundup&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKL8213444&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-08-voa48.cfm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
On Apr 2010 An Egyptian court convicted 26 men of belonging to a Hezbollah cell.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/world/middleeast/29cairo.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Hezbollah Plot exposed Egypt's shared interests with Israel.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.forward.com/articles/104793/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Analysts said that the Egypt-Hezbollah standoff dents Egypt-Iran relations.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/13/content_11180887.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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====Azerbaijan====&lt;br /&gt;
Hezbollah plotted embassy attack' in Azerbaijan - was revealed in 2009. A trial under way in Azerbaijan of two Hezbollah members and four Azeris, where prosecutors drew a link between Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror missions.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.ijn.com/ijn-news/international/1017-iran-hezbollah-plotted-embassy-attack-in-azerbaijan&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/31/1005514/hezbollah-plot-to-bomb-azerbaijan-embassy-foiled&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Syria====&lt;br /&gt;
In March, 2011, at the height of the so-called &amp;quot;Arab spring,&amp;quot; Hizbullah and Iran were helping Assad kill protesters.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;INN, March 2011, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143155&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;In May 2011, a report came out: &amp;quot;Hezbollah forces helping Syria in crackdown on protesters.&amp;quot; A Lebanese parliament member said &amp;quot;Syrian forces have breached the border with Lebanon; notes fear that Syrian forces will kidnap refugees who fled the government crackdown in Syria.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Report: Hezbollah forces helping Syria in crackdown on protesters,&amp;quot; Haaretz, May 29, 2011 http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/report-hezbollah-forces-helping-syria-in-crackdown-on-protesters-1.36471&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In August 2011, Syria's youth coalition accused Hezbollah of role in Assad's brutal crackdown.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Syria's youth coalition accuses Hezbollah of role in Assad's brutal crackdown.&amp;quot; AlArabiya, August 26, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/26/164222.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Indeed, The [[AP]] reported (Oct 24, 2011) &amp;quot;Since the uprising.. Syrians have unleashed their anger at Hezbollah over its blunt support for the regime. Some protesters have set fire to the yellow flag of Hezbollah and pictures of Nasrallah.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Hezbollah leader: Syria largely out of 'danger zone' &amp;quot; Star Tribune,&lt;br /&gt;
24 Oct 2011 http://www.startribune.com/world/132481743.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Hezbollah: Syria largely out of 'danger zone' &amp;quot;, CBS News, 24 Oct 2011&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501713_162-20124862.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In November 2011, activists charged Hezbollah in abduction of Syrian activists in [[Lebanon]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Activist says Hezbollah involved in abduction of Syrian opposition in Lebanon,&amp;quot; The Daily Star, November 08, 2011, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Nov-08/153373-activist-says-hezbollah-involved-in-abduction-of-syrian-opposition-in-lebanon.ashx&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The persecution caused fear for those seeking exile in Lebanon.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Syrian Exiles Find Fear Rather Than Refuge in Lebanon‎,&amp;quot; Jakarta Globe, November 15, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/international/syrian-exiles-find-fear-rather-than-refuge-in-lebanon/478562&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Bahrain====&lt;br /&gt;
In June 1996, the Bahraini government said it has uncovered a coup plot by an Iranian-backed group, Hezbollah-Bahrain.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;BBC News - Timeline: Bahrain, Jun 4, 2011 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/817505.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In April 2011, Bahrain government accused Hezbollah of aiding opposition groups.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Bahrain government accuses Hezbollah of aiding opposition groups,'' [[CNN]], Apr 25, 2011 http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-25/world/bahrain.hezbollah_1_wefaq-hezbollah-camps-hassan-nasrallah?_s=PM:WORLD&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Indeed, ''Tehran has been seeking to destabilize and annex Bahrain for decades.'' It ''established a military wing for Hezbollah in Bahrain,'' and in 2011, its thugs incited &amp;quot;protests&amp;quot; in that country.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Iran's Bahraini Ambitions‎,&amp;quot; [[Wall Street Journal]], Mitchell A. Belfer, Oct 5, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204612504576608852457881450.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In November 2011, Bahrain linked terror suspects to Iran.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Bahrain terrorist suspects had links with Iran,&amp;quot; ABC Online, November 14, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-14/bahrain-terrorist-suspects-had-links-with-iran/3663812&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Bahrain says terror suspects linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard,&amp;quot;‎ The Guardian, 14 November 14, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/14/bahrain-terror-iran-revolutionary-guard?newsfeed=true&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Al Arabiya TV reported that Bahraini MP said &amp;quot;Hezbollah, Iran behind the terrorist cell&amp;quot; which planned to murder prominent Gulf figures.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Bahraini MP: Hezbollah, Iran behind the terrorist cell,&amp;quot; November 14, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.yalibnan.com/2011/11/14/bahraini-mp-hezbollah-iran-behind-the-terrorist-cell/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Europe====&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Hijacking TWA flight=====&lt;br /&gt;
Among the highlighted terror crimes of the Hezbollah is the: [[TWA]] Hijacking, June 14, 1985: A Trans-World Airlines flight '847' was hijacked en route to [[Rome]] from [[Athens]] by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists, and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for seventeen days, during which one American hostage, a [[U.S.]] Navy sailor, was murdered. After being flown twice to [[Algiers]], the aircraft was returned to [[Beirut]] after Israel released 435 Lebanese and [[Palestinian]] prisoners.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_chron.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan06/longarm010506.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://army.mil/terrorism/1989-1980/index.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://terrorism.grady.uga.edu/history/analysistwa.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/30/newsid_2527000/2527337.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011010-1.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The plane was on a scheduled flight from Cairo to Athens. Hijackers --the two terrorists were brandishing grenades and pistols-- forced it to Beirut and twice went to Algiers before returning to Beirut releasing most of the (non-American) 152 passengers along the way, and murdering U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, one of the passengers—beating him, torturing, shooting him in the temple and dumping his body on the tarmac of Beirut International Airport (June 15).&lt;br /&gt;
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On June 30, Hezbollah released 39 American passengers they held captive for 17 days.&lt;br /&gt;
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German authorities arrested [[Mohammed Ali Hammadi]] and convicted him of Stethem’s murder in 1987. Hammadi was paroled in 2005 and returned to Beirut, where he is believed to be living today (2009).  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://middleeast.about.com/b/2009/07/01/robert-stethems-murder-on-twa-flight-847.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-07-17/news/1994198059_1_stethem-lebanon-officer-2nd-class&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/13/justice-for-robert-dean-stethem-the-marines-in-beirut-and-other-american-victims-of-hezbollah/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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From a letter, Robert's brother Kenneth has sent to president George W. Bush in 2006 as Robert's murderer was released by the German government (and fled to Lebanon) in an apparent exchange for a [[German]] hostage in [[Iraq]]:&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;While Robert was being dragged to the door, he knew that all he had to do in order to live was to cry into that transmitter, but he wouldn't do it. He would not give in to the demands of the terrorists. He would not allow the honor and dignity of America to be intimidated by the fear and pain that Hammadi and terrorists everywhere represent. Robert sacrificed his life in order to protect our liberty and defend our way of life.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/09/opinion/main1190219.shtml &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Dowining of a French airline=====&lt;br /&gt;
The [[Los Angeles Times]] wrote in November 1, 1989 that a Palestinian group allied with Hezbollah is linked to a plane crash.&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Specialists have linked a terrorist bomb that destroyed a French airliner last month (Oct, 1989) in Africa to a Palestinian group allied with the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, the newspaper Figaro said... Working with fragments of a suitcase found in the wreckage of the airliner, specialists in Paris' central police laboratory found similarities to a terrorist bomb that exploded at a Paris department store almost five years ago. The February 1985 attack at the department store resulted in the arrest of Habib Maammar, a Tunisian member of a group directed by the Palestinian bomb maker Abu Ibrahim.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-11-01/news/8911013269_1_hezbollah-bomb-police-in-paris&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Terror attack on French department stores=====&lt;br /&gt;
Paris' Boulevard Haussmann was targeted in 1985 and 1986 during attacks on [[Paris]] department stores, many of them claimed by the Lebanese Hezbollah militants, which left 13 dead and 303 injured.&lt;br /&gt;
Terrorists from Hezbollah, set off bombs in both Printemps and Galeries Lafayette in December 1985, injuring 43 people.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5351735.ece&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hVze0Fn4iyxmce-rEhgNsHQOLRiw&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Workers at [[Printemps]] in December 1985 when Hezbollah bombs exploded on the ground floor there and in the Galeries Lafayette department store, recalled the attack which led to a bomb scare in Dec. 2008, when explosives were found there.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/world/europe/17paris.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&amp;amp;sid=aB8Ct9mWIdhw&amp;amp;refer=germany&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Network=====&lt;br /&gt;
Although Europe has recently been exempt from Hezbollah attacks, numerous intelligence experts and officials assert that the group's operatives maintain cells across the continent. German authorities, in particular, have expressed concern about the presence of several hundred Hezbollah members in their country. &lt;br /&gt;
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Reports of an increase in Hezbollah recruiting have emerged in eastern European countries, specifically Slovakia, Bosnia and Russia . And over the past few years, Hezbollah has sent operatives with European identification papers to Israel in order to collect intelligence for future attacks. Efforts by European authorities to curtail Hezbollah's influence have included France 's 2004 ban of Hezbollah's television station and chief propaganda machine, Al- Manar, from that nation's satellite television providers. Spain and the United States have made similar moves.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=emerson&amp;gt;http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Attempts of attacks between 1988-1996=====&lt;br /&gt;
Other attacks researchers have attributed to Hezbollah include an unsuccessful attempt to carry out attacks in Cyprus in 1988; a plot, foiled by Spanish police, to carry out attacks against Jewish targets in Europe in 1989; an unsuccessful attempt to detonate a car bomb outside a Jewish community building in Romania in 1992; and a planned 1996 attack, also foiled by police, on an Israeli institution in Paris.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40451&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Attempts of 'massive-attacks' in 2009=====&lt;br /&gt;
In 2009, there was a report of a &amp;quot;Massive Hezbollah Terror Attack Against Israeli Target In Europe,&amp;quot; that has been thwarted. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/01/28/report-massive-hezbollah-terror-attack-against-israeli-target-in-europe-thwarted/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Latin America====&lt;br /&gt;
From a US statement in 1995 titled &amp;quot;Latin American Terrorism backed by Iran&amp;quot; &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&amp;quot;We believe that Hizballah activities, which include narcotics and smuggling as well as terrorism, are supported in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The organization is known to have cells in Colombia and Venezuela as well. Hizballah cells are concealed amidst the large Shia' Muslim population of Lebanese origin which has settled in the tri-border area.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/1995_h/h950928w.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Venezuela=====&lt;br /&gt;
US designated two Hezbollah operatives in [[Venezuela]] as terrorists- Hezbollah has used the tri-border region between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay to recruit, train, raise and launder money, and plot attacks.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1036.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Venezuela]]'s [[Hugo Chavez]] (Called a dictator &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2006/11/fleischman.php&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/3341771.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.davidbruceallen.com/strategyoped/2007/05/hugo_chavezs_fi.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;amp; his regime a dictatorship &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401768.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and has close ties with the Mullahcracy theocracy dictatorship of the Islamic Republic of [[Iran]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/adios-democracy&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/08/sean-penn-wants-reporters-jailed-calling-chavez-dictator/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;) has publicly supported a Hezbollah candidate for the Lebanese government, he was a supporter of Hezbollah during the 2006 war in Lebanon; afterward, the group placed signs in Lebanon proclaiming &amp;quot;Gracias, Chavez!&amp;quot; He openly invited Hezbollah members to live in Venezuela. Venezuela's embassies in the Middle East have been used to launder Hezbollah's dirty money, per investigation by the U.S. Treasury Dept&lt;br /&gt;
In January 2010, Israeli intelligence released information that Chavez shipped heavy arms to Hezbollah the year before; the ship originated in Venezuela, stopped in Iran and docked in Lebanon. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&amp;amp;nid=20408&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Chavez has a close relationship with Iran's President Ahmedinejad. The two leaders regularly visit each other. In 2007, they instituted weekly flights between Tehran and Caracas. Interestingly, the aircraft stops one place - Damascus, Syria. Journalists and others have tried to book a seat on the aircraft and have been denied. The passenger and cargo manifests are kept secret.&lt;br /&gt;
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In an article (2009) in Forbes Magazine it was discussed how an attack by Israel against Gaza could be fought asymmetrically by Hezbollah - with help from Venezuela and Chavez.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/21/venezuela-iran-terror-oped-cx_mr_des_0121rowanschoen.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font size=1&amp;gt;(Worth mentioning [asides from Chavez's &amp;quot;personal&amp;quot; war with &amp;quot;imperialist&amp;quot; US] that Venezuela, has a large Lebanese-Arab community &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/14/int14.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, many of them supported, financed Chavez's presidency.&lt;br /&gt;
There's also a significant concentration of this community in the area bordering with Colombia (Macau). &lt;br /&gt;
Jews have been attacked&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=10717&amp;amp;amp;ArticleId=326963&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; in that country.&lt;br /&gt;
From a (2000) report on &amp;quot;Antisemitism And Racism,&amp;quot; responses to the intifada in the &lt;br /&gt;
media, in wall graffiti and by Arab organizations in Venezuela such as FEARAB &lt;br /&gt;
(Arab Federation for Latin America) were directed at de-legitimizing the State &lt;br /&gt;
of Israel, which was accused of causing the Palestinian tragedy. The radical &lt;br /&gt;
language used against Israel was not infrequently antisemitic, for example, the &lt;br /&gt;
comparison of Israeli soldiers with Nazis &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://antisemitism.tau.ac.il/asw2000-1/venezuela.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, described (in 2009) as &amp;quot;the New Hero in the Arab World.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.usnews.com/blogs/mideast-watch/2009/1/16/venezuelas-chavez-the-new-hero-in-the-arab-world.html?s_cid=etRR-0224&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, moreover, Hezbollah's Nasrallah said: Arabs have much to learn from Chavez.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7oi23/nasrallah_arabs_have_much_to_learn_from_chavez&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, he was even exhorting his countrymen to return to their &amp;quot;Arab roots,&amp;quot; Chavez has paid &lt;br /&gt;
state visits to rouge-Arab-Islamic states like: Libya, Iraq and Iran and signed a series of mutual-cooperation.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_6_19/ai_98415813&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, it has been said that &amp;quot;The &lt;br /&gt;
Arabs have appreciated Chavez's declarations of support, and the Arab League has &lt;br /&gt;
promised to lobby in behalf of Venezuela in the United Nations.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/23/MNG18K43KL1.DTL&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, a defector even accused: 'Chavez gave money to Al Qaeda.'&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30350&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
In an alarming report, the [[ADL]] wrote (2008) &amp;quot;Chavez's Venezuela: The Jewish Community Under Threat&amp;quot; on praise for Chavez &lt;br /&gt;
and his anti-Israel actions echoed across the Arab and Muslim, Chavez Fosters &lt;br /&gt;
Atmosphere of Intimidation and Fear for Venezuelan Jewish community.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/Chavez_Venezuela_Under_Threat.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_10&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and that the Chavez Regime is 'Fostering Anti-Semitism, hate and Supporting Radical Islamists, which led to a rise in Anti-Semitism in Venezuela.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/venezuela_anti_semitism_report.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_5&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, Intelligence sources say Chavez is withholding information on Arabs, some of whom were important financial contributors to terrorism.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2_19/ai_96238181/pg_2&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and has illegally given more than 270 Venezuelan passports to Arab &lt;br /&gt;
extremists. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=265102&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;)&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Attack on Israeli embassy in Argentina=====&lt;br /&gt;
Hezbollah &amp;amp; Iran attacked the Israel's embassy in Argentina in 1992, in which 29 people were killed.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7242383.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hizballah.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.haaretz.com/news/argentina-iran-behind-bombs-at-israeli-embassy-jewish-center-1.235493&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/argentina.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Attack on a Jewish center (Amia) in Argentina=====&lt;br /&gt;
Hezbollah and [[Iran]] both are also charged, via clear evidence, by Argentinian court, terror bombing on the (civilian building) [[Amia]] 'Jewish-Argentine Mutual Association Community Cente' which killed 85 and wounded 300. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6085768.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3179861.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/argentina_e.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20061026/ai_n16818404&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, furthermore, Argentina accuses Iran of meddling in probe of the 1994 Jewish center bombing&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/787765.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, the investigation finds [[Iranian]], Hezbollah and [[Syrian]] involvement. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/Terror/terror_buenos_aries_attack.asp&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Haaretz]] wrote in detail on &amp;quot;How Iran planned the Buenos Aires blast - 1994&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=273898&amp;amp;contrassID=2&amp;amp;subContrassID=1&amp;amp;sbSubContrassID=0:&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=====Bombing in Panama=====&lt;br /&gt;
July 19, 1994 Panama, A suicide bomber reportedly linked to Hezbollah detonated a bomb on a commuter plane in Colón, [[Panama]], killing all 21 people aboard, including 12 [[Jewish]] businessmen, at least four of whom were [[Israeli]], and three [[U.S.]] citizens.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/main_Terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_5&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/1995_h/h950928w.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40451 &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Jane's intelligence review: Yearbook,'' Jane's Information Group (1994), [http://books.google.com/books?&amp;amp;id=ATFEAQAAIAAJ&amp;amp;q=panama p. 64]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Whitewashing Hezbullah,'' The Israel Report, May/June 2000&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/mayjun00/whitewash.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''The &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; Team of Terror,'' aijac&lt;br /&gt;
http://aijac.org.au/news/article/the-a-team-of-terror-revisited&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Hezbollah and its Goals | Palestine Facts http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1991to_now_hezbollah.php&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Earlier, on July 18, a bomb killed 95 people at a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, &lt;br /&gt;
Argentina. The next day, an explosion on a commuter plane in Panama killed all 21 people aboard, inclding 12 Jews. An anti-Israel group in Lebanon had indirectly claimed responsibility for both attacks.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Asian bulletin, Volume 19, Issues 7-12'', Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League, Asian-Pacific Anti-Communist League, APLFD (Organization), APACL Publications, 1994, p. 71&lt;br /&gt;
[http://books.google.com/books?cd=10&amp;amp;id=pkonAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;dq=panama]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Experts on terrorism make the link, after the Lebanese newspaper An- Nahar published a communique from an organization calling itself Ansar Allah taking responsibility for the AMIA bombing as well as the bombing over Panama of an Alas Chiricanas passenger airliner. &lt;br /&gt;
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As it turns out, the name Ansar Allah turned out to be one of the many fictitious names that Hezbollah has used to claim responsibility for its attacks. Moreover, experience has shown that Hezbollah has habitually adopted this method for the clear purpose of avoiding blame for the various actions it has carried out, except for those realized in Lebanon where the conflict has taken the form of a conventional war.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/argentina_amia_e.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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From the [[LA Times]], Aug. 4, 1994 &amp;quot;Hezbollah: The Latin connection.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;Bombings in Argentina and Panama prompt concern over the radical group's growing presence in the region. Experts say lax security and porous borders create a prime base for terrorists.&amp;lt;ref name=latimes1994&amp;gt;http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-04/news/mn-23412_1_porous-borders&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17874369/ Hezbollah builds a Western base], From inside South America’s Tri-border area, Iran-linked militia targets U.S. By Pablo Gato and Robert Windrem, ''NBC News'', May 9, 2007. Retrieved from MSNBC.com June 4 2007.&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[category:Political Parties]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[category:Terrorism]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Islam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Lebanon]]&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Bashar al-Assad</title>
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'''Bashar al-Assad''' is the current president of [[Syria]]. As a member of the Ba'ath Party of Syria, he is a [[socialist]] [[dictator]], though in his reign some limited [[free market]] reforms were implemented. In 2011, the [[Arab Spring]] led to widespread protests in his country, and he used armed forces and [[tank]]s to clear out protestors, which led to, as of now, more than 5,000 deaths. &lt;br /&gt;
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==Foreign Relations==&lt;br /&gt;
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Under al-Assad, Syria maintains a close alliance with theocratic [[Iran]], despite his more secular form of governance. Like his father [[Hafez al-Assad]], his relation with [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] was sour and tense, and after [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] he established good relations with the new Iraqi government.&lt;br /&gt;
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Al-Assad is very anti-American. Neither [[George W. Bush]] nor [[Barack Obama]] have met with him and both administrations have accused him, rightfully, of harboring [[terrorist]] organizations such as [[Hamas]] (which had its headquaters in [[Damascus]]) and [[Hezbollah]]. He is also hostile to [[Israel]] and [[Zionism]] and refuses to recognize the country's right to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Personal life==&lt;br /&gt;
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President al-Assad believes in [[Shia]] [[Islam]] in its [[Alawite]] variant (which is seen by some Muslims as a heretical sect), and Syrian Alawite elites are his base of support. He is married to [[Asma al-Assad]], a former [[investment bank]]er educated in [[Britain]].&lt;br /&gt;
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His elder brother, Basil, was killed in a car accident.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Presidents of Syria]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Hamas</title>
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'''Hamas''' ([[Arabic]]: '''حركة حماس''' &amp;quot;zeal&amp;quot;) is a radical [[Islamic]] political and militant organization in [[Gaza]] and the [[West Bank]]. The group is regarded as a [[terrorist]] organization by the [[United States]], the [[EU]], [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[Israel]], [[Japan]], [[Jordan]] and moderate Islamic leader [[Faisal Abdul Rauf]]. The name Hamas is an acronym of ''Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya'' (Islamic Resistance Movement). Hamas combines Palestinian nationalism with [[Islam]]ic fundamentalism, and &amp;quot;regards the territory of the present-day State of Israel — as well as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — as an inalienable Islamic ''waqf'' or religious bequest, which can never be surrendered to non-Muslims.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement'' [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3377113,00.html YNet] Accessed July 18 2007&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Its charter commits the group to the destruction of Israel, the replacement of the Palestinian Authority with an Islamist state on the West Bank and Gaza, and to raising &amp;quot;the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Before [[Arab Spring]], Hamas had its headquaters in [[Damascus]], [[Syria]] under the protection and support of that country's dictator, [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Hamas also receives much support from theocratic [[Iran]].&lt;br /&gt;
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== Name ==&lt;br /&gt;
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''Hamas'' is an [[Acronym and initialism|acronym]] of the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] phrase حركة المقاومة الاسلامية, or '''Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya''' or &amp;quot;Islamic Resistance Movement&amp;quot;. Ami Isseroff on ''MidEast web'' states that the acronym is also the Arabic word for &amp;quot;zeal&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.mideastweb.org/hamashistory.htm &amp;quot;A History of the Hamas Movement&amp;quot;]. Copyright 1999-2002. ''MidEast Web''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Hamas was founded by terrorist Sheik Ahmed Yassin as the [[Egypt|Egyptian]] [[Muslim Brotherhood|Muslim Brotherhood's]] local political arm in December 1987, following the outbreak of the first [[intifada]]. Hamas published its official charter in 1988. From the 1990s it achieved notoriety for its use of the tactic of [[suicide bombing]], principally against civilian targets in Israel. Hamas members started carrying out terrorist attacks starting in the late '80s, at first in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The first Hamas suicide bombing took place on April 26 1993, when Saher al-tamam attacked two Israeli buses in front of a coffee shop in Mehola, killing and injuring several Israelis. It is believed to have killed more than 1500 people in more than 350 separate terrorist attacks since then. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Opinion of Fatah ===&lt;br /&gt;
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It also set itself in opposition to the [[secular]] [[Fatah]] movement. In the 2006 elections to the [[Palestinian Authority]] legislature Hamas gained a majority of seats; its government was dissolved in June 1997 by Palestinian President [[Mahmoud Abbas]] following the military takeover by Hamas of the [[Gaza Strip]] after several days of fighting between Hamas and Fatah.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the other hand, Hamas has also cooperated with the Fatah in its campaign of terror against Israel. For example, after the failure of the 2000 peace talks former leader of the Fatah movement [[Yasir Arafat]] ordered Hamas to start launching attacks against Israel.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=189549 Arafat ordered Hamas attacks against Israel in 2000 - Jerusalem Post]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In his later years Arafat also sought to create an leadership organization which would have included the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=13434 Arafat's Hamas Honeymoon -FrontPage Magazine]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Islam ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Like the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], which Hamas branched off from, Hamas believes the rules of Islam, or the [[Sharia]] to be a sufficient guide for all areas of life. Since Hamas sees Islam as a sufficent guide for all areas in life, and as a way of life, they, as the Covenant of Hamas says, tries to make Islam its programme.&amp;lt;ref name = &amp;quot;hamascovenant&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant Hamas Covenant]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Freemasons, Lions Club and the Rotarians ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Hamas views the [[Freemasons]], [[Lions Club]], and the [[Rotarians]] as groups that help support [[Zionism|Zionist]] interests, and it believes that they were created with zionist money and are driving forces behind the drug trade and [[alcoholism]].&amp;lt;ref name = &amp;quot;hamascovenant&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Anti-Semitism ===&lt;br /&gt;
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The group has anti-semitic beliefs such as Jews as plotting to control the world, Jews acquire wealth by stealing, that the Jews control the media, government and finance.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.adl.org/PresRele/IslME_62/4877_62.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Also, the co-creator of Hamas said that the Holocaust is the greatest of lies created by the Zionists.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=18086&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades===&lt;br /&gt;
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In 1991, Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades became the armed branch of the group Hamas. It is names after Ezzedeen Al-Qassam, an Islamic militant who was killed in 1935. The stated goals of the brigade are as followed:to fight Israel, take over Israel, and invoke a spirit of Jihad among the Palestinians. The group is made up of many different cells. Secrecy is important, and sometimes cells do not know what other cells are doing. The group said by September of 2000, more than 800 of its members had been killed. The leader of the militant wing is Muhamad Deif.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?action=aboutus&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Social Programs ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Hamas conducts numerous social welfare actions, known as ''Dawa'', including relief and education programs, school funding, soup kitchens, and sports leagues. These programs are viewed as propaganda and recruitment exercises, or both. In December 2001, the Bush administration seized the assets of the Holy Land Foundation, the largest Muslim charity in the United States, upon finding proof it was funding Hamas.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''ibid.''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Popularity ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Hamas is still fairly popular among many Palestinian people, but it is not as popular as it was at one point in time. Their total unwillingness to negotiate with the nation of [[Israel]] has weakend Hamas's support. The people are starting to get weary of the violence there.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/#12&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In January of 2006 the political wing of Hamas won many seats in the Palestinian elections.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/02/mil-060218-voa05.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Palestinians inspect homes in Gaza, 2009.jpg|center]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Palestinians inspect homes destroyed near the border with Egypt in Gaza, 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Mosab Hassan Yousef==&lt;br /&gt;
The revelation that Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, had spied for Israel for 10 years, and that he had also converted to Christianity, sent reverberations through the Middle East.  Mosab worked alongside his father in the West Bank from the second Intifada to the current stalemate, and during that time he became one of the top spies for Israel's internal security arm, the Shin Bet.  &lt;br /&gt;
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The younger Mr. Yousef's disillusionment with Hamas and Islam came as a result of his continued exposure to Hamas cruelty in prison. In 1996, Mosab was arrested by the Israelis for buying weapons, and while he was beaten and tortured badly in custody, he was more shocked by the way the maj'd, Hamas's security wing, dealt with other prisoners in the Megiddo prison in northern Israel. By agreeing to work with the Shin Bet, he got out of prison early..&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Every day, there was screaming; every night, torture. Hamas was torturing its own people!&amp;quot; he writes. The Muslims he met in jail &amp;quot;bore no resemblance to my father&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;were mean and petty . . . bigots and hypocrites.&amp;quot;   &lt;br /&gt;
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The Shin Bet approached him in prison after his arrest and asked him to spy for Israel, and being a double agent appealed to him as a way of gaining revenge on Israel from the inside. He accepted and stayed on Shin Bet's payroll for a decade, and in the early years they encouraged him to study and be a model son.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703915204575103481069258868.html#printMode Matthew Kaminski, ''They Need to Be Liberated From Their God''], Wall Street Journal,   March 6, 2010&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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According to a review by [[New York Times]] best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg of Mosab's book, ''Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices'', &lt;br /&gt;
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Mosab hated the Jews. He cheered when Saddam Hussein fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel during the 1991 Gulf War, and was disappointed when Israel wasn't destroyed. He wanted Hamas to seize back all the land of &amp;quot;Palestine&amp;quot; from the Jews. But in 1996, at the age of 18, he was arrested by the Israelis for buying automatic weapons to kill Jews. He was sent to an Israeli prison. There he was stunned at what he saw: Muslims torturing Muslims. &amp;quot;I had never heard a human being scream like that guy did. What could he have done to deserve that.&amp;quot; (p.97) &lt;br /&gt;
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Months later, after being released from Israeli prison, Mosab was walking past the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Someone [a British cab driver] -- not knowing who he was -- invited him to a Bible study. Curious, he attended. They studied the New Testament, and gave Mosab a copy to read for himself.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|&lt;br /&gt;
I began at the beginning [in the Gospel According to Matthew], and when I got to the Sermon on the Mount, I thought, Wow, this guy Jesus is really impressive! Everything He says is beautiful! I couldn't put the book down. Every verse seemed to touch a deep wound in my life. It was a very simple message, but somehow it had the power to heal my soul and give me hope. Then I read this: `You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.' (Matthew 5:43-45)....I was thunderstruck by these words. Never before had I heard anything like this, but I knew that this was the message I had been searching for all my life.&amp;quot; Five years earlier, I would have read the words of Jesus and thought, What an idiot! and thrown the Bible away....But now, everything Jesus said on the pages of this book made perfect sense to me. Overwhelmed, I started to cry.&amp;quot; (p.122-123) &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/AG1A043PNTPX7/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;sort_by=MostRecentReview  Joel C. Rosenberg, ''Love Your Enemies? How The Son Of The Founder Of Hamas Went From Jihad To Jesus'', review]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I converted to Christianity because I was convinced by Jesus Christ as a character, as a personality. I loved him, his wisdom, his love, his unconditional love. I didn't leave [the Islamic] religion to put myself in another box of religion.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703915204575103481069258868.html#printMode&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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After the deceased PLO chief [[Yasser Arafat]] turned down the Israeli offer of 90% of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as the capital of a new Palestinian state, a outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000 led to  Mosab being fully activated as a spy.&lt;br /&gt;
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In an interview with the [[Wall Street Journal]],  Matthew Kaminski reported, &lt;br /&gt;
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Mr. Yousef tells me that he was horrified by the pointless violence unleashed by politicians willing to climb &amp;quot;on the shoulders of poor, religious people.&amp;quot; He says Palestinians who heeded the call &amp;quot;were going like a cow to the slaughterhouse, and they thought they were going to heaven.&amp;quot; So, as he writes in the book, &amp;quot;At the age of twenty-two, I became the Shin Bet's only Hamas insider who could infiltrate Hamas's military and political wings, as well as other Palestinian factions.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The motivation, he says, was to save lives.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I'd seen enough killing. I was a witness to lots of death . . . Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful . . . no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives—or in other words they owe my Lord their lives.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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His handler—a &amp;quot;Captain Loai,&amp;quot; now retired from the Shin Bet—corroborated many of these stories to Haaretz. The paper said the Shin Bet considered Mr. Yousef &amp;quot;the most reliable and most senior agent.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703915204575103481069258868.html#printMode Matthew Kaminski, ''They Need to Be Liberated From Their God''], Wall Street Journal,   March 6, 2010&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Gideon Ezra, formerly deputy leader of Shin Bet and now a member of the Knesset for the Kadima party,  told BBC World Service that Mosab had been one of its agents. Mosab Hassan Yousef was considered Shin Bet's most reliable source in the Hamas leadership, earning himself the nickname &amp;quot;the Green Prince&amp;quot;. One of his Israeli &amp;quot;handlers&amp;quot; told the paper that he had saved many lives, with one of his insights &amp;quot;worth 1,000 hours of thought by top experts&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The amazing thing is that none of his actions were done for money&amp;quot;.    &lt;br /&gt;
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Mosab Hassan Yousef converted to Christianity, and he later moved to the United States in 2007.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8533952.stm?ad=1 BBC NEWS ''Hamas man's son was Israeli spy''] February 24, 2010&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;    &lt;br /&gt;
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The United States is currently in the process of determining whether he qualifies for political asylum, as Islam requires the death of those who convert.  &lt;br /&gt;
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In an Associated Press interview, Mosab stated, &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;To be honest with you, being killed is not the worst thing that can happen.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I know this is very dangerous and this will offend many people. The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the God of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist.&amp;quot;  Later adding, &amp;quot;Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Sheik Hassan Yousef said in a letter that his family had renounced &amp;quot;the one who was once our eldest son, who is called Mosab.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hrgjmmb3eX8TDEIAXEcp-TOfWpnAD9E7HI480 The Associated Press, ''Hamas spy unafraid, criticizes Islam'] Mar 3, 2010'&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==See Also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Picture Gallery: Israeli children victims of terrorism]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Suicide bomber: a personal account]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7v1C0VUhyA A Hamas made video of one of their suicide bomber operations]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN-dKwod3VM&amp;amp;feature=related Fox news video interview of Mosab Hassan Yousef], the son of  Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the founders of Hamas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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{{Terrorism}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Middle East Politics]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Terrorism]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Islam]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Bashar al-Assad</title>
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'''Bashar al-Assad''' is the current president of [[Syria]]. As a member of the Ba'ath Party of Syria, he is a [[socialist]] [[dictator]], though in his reign some limited [[free market]] reforms were implemented. In 2011, the [[Arab Spring]] led to widespread protests in his country, and he used armed forces and [[tank]]s to clear out protestors, which led to, as of now, more than 5,000 deaths. &lt;br /&gt;
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==Foreign Relations==&lt;br /&gt;
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Under al-Assad, Syria maintains a close alliance with theocratic [[Iran]], despite his more secular form of governance. Like his father [[Hafez al-Assad]], his relation with [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] was sour and tense, and after [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] he established good relations with the new Iraqi government.&lt;br /&gt;
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Al-Assad is very anti-American. Neither [[George W. Bush]] nor [[Barack Obama]] have met with him and both administrations have accused him, rightfully, of harboring [[terrorist]] organizations such as [[Hamas]] (which had its headquaters in [[Damascus]]) and [[Hezbollah]]. He is also hostile to [[Israel]] and [[Zionism]] and refuses to recognize the country's right to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Presidents of Syria]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Bashar al-Assad</title>
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'''Bashar al-Assad''' is the current president of [[Syria]]. As a member of the Ba'ath Party of Syria, he is a [[socialist]] [[dictator]], though in his reign some limited [[free market]] reforms were implemented. In 2011, the [[Arab Spring]] led to widespread protests in his country, and he used armed forces and [[tank]]s to clear out protestors, which led to, as of now, more than 5,000 deaths. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Foreign Relations==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under al-Assad, Syria maintains a close alliance with theocratic [[Iran]], despite his more secular form of governance. Like his father [[Hafez al-Assad]], his relation with [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] was sour and tense, and after [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] he established good relations with the new Iraqi government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Al-Assad is very anti-American. Neither [[George W. Bush]] nor [[Barack Obama]] have met with him and both administrations have accused him, rightfully, of harboring [[terrorist]] organizations such as [[Hamas]] (which had its headquaters in [[Damascus]]) and [[Hezbollah]]. He is also hostile to [[Israel]] and [[Zionism]] and refuses to recognize the country's right to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Foreign Relations==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under al-Assad, Syria maintains a close alliance with theocratic [[Iran]], despite his more secular form of governance. Like his father [[Hafez al-Assad]], his relation with [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] was sour and tense, and after [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] he established good relations with the new Iraqi government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Al-Assad is very anti-American. Neither [[George W. Bush]] nor [[Barack Obama]] have met with him and both administrations have accused him, rightfully, of harboring [[terrorist]] organizations such as [[Hamas]] (which had its headquaters in [[Damascus]]) and [[Hezbollah]]. He is also hostile to [[Israel]] and [[Zionism]] and refuses to recognize the country's right to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Foreign Relations==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under al-Assad, Syria maintains a close alliance with theocratic [[Iran]], despite his more secular form of governance. Like his father [[Hafez al-Assad]], his relation with [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] was sour and tense, and after [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] he established good relations with the new Iraqi government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Al-Assad is very anti-American. Neither [[George W. Bush]] nor [[Barack Obama]] have met with him and both administrations have accused him, rightfully, of harboring [[terrorist]] organizations such as [[Hamas]] (which had its headquaters in [[Damascus]]) and [[Hezbollah]]. He is also hostile to [[Israel]] and [[Zionism]] and refuses to recognize the country's right to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Presidents of Syria]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Bashar_al-Assad&amp;diff=953708</id>
		<title>Bashar al-Assad</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Bashar_al-Assad&amp;diff=953708"/>
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'''Bashar al-Assad''' is the current president of [[Syria]]. As a member of the Ba'ath Party of Syria, he is a [[socialist]] [[dictator]], though in his reign some limited [[free market]] reforms were implemented. In 2011, the [[Arab Spring]] led to widespread protests in his country, and he used armed forces and [[tank]]s to clear out protestors, which led to, as of now, more than 5,000 deaths. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Foreign Relations==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under al-Assad, Syria maintains a close alliance with theocratic [[Iran]], despite his more secular form of governance. Like his father [[Hafez al-Assad]], his relation with [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] was sour and tense, and after [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] he established good relations with the new Iraqi government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Al-Assad is very anti-American. Neither [[George W. Bush]] nor [[Barack Obama]] have met with him and both administrations have accused him, rightfully, of harboring [[terrorist]] organizations such as [[Hamas]] (which had its headquaters in [[Damascus]]) and [[Hezbollah]]. He is also hostile to [[Israel]] and [[Zionism]] and refuses to recognize the country's right to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Foreign Relations==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under al-Assad, Syria maintains a close alliance with theocratic [[Iran]], despite his more secular form of governance. Like his father [[Hafez al-Assad]], his relation with [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] was sour and tense, and after [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] he established good relations with the new Iraqi government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Al-Assad is very anti-American. Neither [[George W. Bush]] nor [[Barack Obama]] have met with him and both administrations have accused him, rightfully, of harboring [[terrorist]] organizations such as [[Hamas]] (which had its headquaters in [[Damascus]]) and [[Hezbollah]]. He is also hostile to [[Israel]] and [[Zionism]] and refuses to recognize the country's right to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Presidents of Syria]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Bashar_al-Assad&amp;diff=953707</id>
		<title>Bashar al-Assad</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Bashar_al-Assad&amp;diff=953707"/>
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:President Syria Bashar al Assad.jpg|150px|thumb|right]]&lt;br /&gt;
'''Bashar al-Assad''' is the current president of [[Syria]]. As a member of the Ba'ath Party of Syria, he is a [[socialist]] [[dictator]], though in his reign some limited [[free market]] reforms were implemented. In 2011, the [[Arab Spring]] led to widespread protests in his country, and he used armed forces and [[tank]]s to clear out protestors, which led to, as of now, more than 5,000 deaths. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Foreign Relations==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under al-Assad, Syria maintains a close alliance with theocratic [[Iran]], despite his more secular form of governance. Like his father [[Hafez al-Assad]], his relation with [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] was sour and tense, and after [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] he established good relations with the new Iraqi government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Al-Assad is very anti-American. Neither [[George W. Bush]] nor [[Barack Obama]] have met with him and both administrations have accused him, rightfully, of harboring [[terrorist]] organizations such as [[Hamas]] (which had its headquaters in [[Damascus]]) and [[Hezbollah]]. He is also hostile to [[Israel]] and [[Zionism]] and refuses to recognize the country's right to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Presidents of Syria]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Bashar_al-Assad&amp;diff=953705</id>
		<title>Bashar al-Assad</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Bashar_al-Assad&amp;diff=953705"/>
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'''Bashar al-Assad''' is the current president of [[Syria]]. As a member of the Ba'ath Party of Syria, he is a [[socialist]] [[dictator]], though in his reign some limited [[free market]] reforms were implemented. In 2011, [[Arab Spring]] led to widespread protests in his country, and he used armed forces and [[tank]]s to clear out protestors, which led to, as of now, more than 5,000 deaths. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Presidents of Syria]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Jpatt&amp;diff=953704</id>
		<title>User talk:Jpatt</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Jpatt&amp;diff=953704"/>
		<updated>2012-01-13T19:35:39Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;== Archive 2008 ==&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Jpatt/Subway_Troll Here]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Archive 2009 ==&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Jpatt/2009]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Archive 2010 ==&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Jpatt/2010]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Archive 2011 ==&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Jpatt/2011‎]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Blank3r ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Good job stopping him.[[User:JonM|JonM]] 14:40, 11 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Adambro==&lt;br /&gt;
Hi Jpatt, what did you mean by &amp;quot;AdamBro is clan but keep on eye on him. Sock puppets of BL4NK3R; NoohWicky, UtterMuppet, Maggie, B0LLL0X&amp;quot;. Is he a sockpuppet ? --[[User:PhilipN|PhilipN]] 17:04, 11 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:AdamBro is clean, as far as socks are involved. He might be what Tony has said, so follow his future edits.--[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 17:10, 11 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I will, thanks for the info. --[[User:PhilipN|PhilipN]] 17:15, 11 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Thank you ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Thanks for the welcome and reverting vandalism on my user and talk page! I don't understand that vandal --- it was my first day and I don't think i wrote anything controversial, why would anyone do that to me? [[User:Lansing|Lansing]] 12:02, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Get used to liberal intimidation. We can block their ideology but they counter with vandalism. --[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 12:15, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::What a shame, indeed. [[User:Lansing|Lansing]] 14:35, 13 January 2012 (EST)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Jon_Huntsman,_Jr.&amp;diff=953389</id>
		<title>Jon Huntsman, Jr.</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Jon_Huntsman,_Jr.&amp;diff=953389"/>
		<updated>2012-01-12T17:04:09Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;{{Officeholder&lt;br /&gt;
|name=Jon Huntsman, Jr.&lt;br /&gt;
|image=Huntsman.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
|party=[[Republican]]&lt;br /&gt;
|spouse=Mary Kaye Huntsman&lt;br /&gt;
|religion=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints&lt;br /&gt;
|offices=&lt;br /&gt;
	{{Officeholder/ambassador&lt;br /&gt;
	|for=United States&lt;br /&gt;
	|to=China&lt;br /&gt;
	|president=[[Barack Hussein Obama]]&lt;br /&gt;
	|terms=August 11, 2009-April 30, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
	|preceded=Clark Randt&lt;br /&gt;
	|former=n&lt;br /&gt;
	|succeeded=&lt;br /&gt;
	}}&lt;br /&gt;
	{{Officeholder/governor&lt;br /&gt;
	|number=16th&lt;br /&gt;
	|state=Utah&lt;br /&gt;
	|terms=January 3, 2005 – August 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;
	|preceded=Olene Walker&lt;br /&gt;
	|former=y&lt;br /&gt;
	|succeeded=Gary Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
	}}&lt;br /&gt;
	{{Officeholder/ambassador&lt;br /&gt;
	|for=United States&lt;br /&gt;
	|to=Singapore&lt;br /&gt;
	|president=[[George H.W. Bush]]&lt;br /&gt;
	|terms=1992-1993&lt;br /&gt;
	|preceded=Robert Orr&lt;br /&gt;
	|former=y&lt;br /&gt;
	|succeeded=Ralph Boyce&lt;br /&gt;
	}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr.''' is a [[RINO]] former Governor of [[Utah]]. He is currently seeking the [[Republican]] nomination for president in 2012.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2071003,00.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The [[libertarian]] [[Cato Institute]] has praised his tax policies, but criticized his spending.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-624.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
He supports civil unions for [[homosexuals]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/51795519-90/civil-cowan-gay-governor.html.csp&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but claims to be [[pro-life]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/03/jon-huntsman-touts-pro-life-record-at-faith-and-freedom-coalition-conference/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He has stated his belief in both [[Darwinism]] and [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|man-made global warming]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/177429-huntsman-call-me-crazy-i-believe-in-evolution-global-warming&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Having almost no chance of winning the nomination,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Presidential Election 2012]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Huntsman may simply be an attempt to siphon support away from [[Mitt Romney]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, in the economic sphere, he is more conservative than the leading candidates such as Romney and [[Newt Gingrich]], as he fully supports [[Paul Ryan]]'s budget and would repeal [[ethanol]] subsidies, a failed liberal faux-environmentalist program.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Liberal]] [[Barack Obama]] appointed Huntsman as his ambassador to [[China]]. He was previously ambassador to Singapore for [[George H.W. Bush]]. He served as the governor of Utah from 2005-2009.&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[RINO]] (stance on [[civil unions]] and environmental policy)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Huntsman, Jr., Jon}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Republican Governors]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Utah Governors]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mormons]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:2012 Presidential Candidates]]&lt;br /&gt;
==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://jonhuntsmanjr.com/ Official website]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Jon_Huntsman,_Jr.&amp;diff=953388</id>
		<title>Jon Huntsman, Jr.</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Jon_Huntsman,_Jr.&amp;diff=953388"/>
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&lt;div&gt;{{Officeholder&lt;br /&gt;
|name=Jon Huntsman, Jr.&lt;br /&gt;
|image=Huntsman.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
|party=[[Republican]]&lt;br /&gt;
|spouse=Mary Kaye Huntsman&lt;br /&gt;
|religion=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints&lt;br /&gt;
|offices=&lt;br /&gt;
	{{Officeholder/ambassador&lt;br /&gt;
	|for=United States&lt;br /&gt;
	|to=China&lt;br /&gt;
	|president=[[Barack Hussein Obama]]&lt;br /&gt;
	|terms=August 11, 2009-April 30, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
	|preceded=Clark Randt&lt;br /&gt;
	|former=n&lt;br /&gt;
	|succeeded=&lt;br /&gt;
	}}&lt;br /&gt;
	{{Officeholder/governor&lt;br /&gt;
	|number=16th&lt;br /&gt;
	|state=Utah&lt;br /&gt;
	|terms=January 3, 2005 – August 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;
	|preceded=Olene Walker&lt;br /&gt;
	|former=y&lt;br /&gt;
	|succeeded=Gary Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
	}}&lt;br /&gt;
	{{Officeholder/ambassador&lt;br /&gt;
	|for=United States&lt;br /&gt;
	|to=Singapore&lt;br /&gt;
	|president=[[George H.W. Bush]]&lt;br /&gt;
	|terms=1992-1993&lt;br /&gt;
	|preceded=Robert Orr&lt;br /&gt;
	|former=y&lt;br /&gt;
	|succeeded=Ralph Boyce&lt;br /&gt;
	}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr.''' is a [[RINO]] former Governor of [[Utah]]. He is currently seeking the [[Republican]] nomination for president in 2012.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2071003,00.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The [[libertarian]] [[Cato Institute]] has praised his tax policies, but criticized his spending.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-624.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
He supports civil unions for [[homosexuals]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/51795519-90/civil-cowan-gay-governor.html.csp&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but claims to be [[pro-life]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/03/jon-huntsman-touts-pro-life-record-at-faith-and-freedom-coalition-conference/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He has stated his belief in both [[Darwinism]] and [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|man-made global warming]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/177429-huntsman-call-me-crazy-i-believe-in-evolution-global-warming&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Having almost no chance of winning the nomination,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Presidential Election 2012]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Huntsman may simply be an attempt to siphon support away from [[Mitt Romney]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, in the economic sphere, he is more conservative than the leading candidates such as Romney and [[Newt Gingrich]], as he fully supports [[Paul Ryan]]'s budget and would repeal ethanol subsidies, a failed liberal faux-environmentalist program.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Liberal]] [[Barack Obama]] appointed Huntsman as his ambassador to [[China]]. He was previously ambassador to Singapore for [[George H.W. Bush]]. He served as the governor of Utah from 2005-2009.&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[RINO]] (stance on [[civil unions]] and environmental policy)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Huntsman, Jr., Jon}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Republican Governors]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Utah Governors]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mormons]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:2012 Presidential Candidates]]&lt;br /&gt;
==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://jonhuntsmanjr.com/ Official website]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Jpatt&amp;diff=953387</id>
		<title>User talk:Jpatt</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Jpatt&amp;diff=953387"/>
		<updated>2012-01-12T17:02:07Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Lansing: /* Thank you */ new section&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Archive 2008 ==&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Jpatt/Subway_Troll Here]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Archive 2009 ==&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Jpatt/2009]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Archive 2010 ==&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Jpatt/2010]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Archive 2011 ==&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Jpatt/2011‎]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Blank3r ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Good job stopping him.[[User:JonM|JonM]] 14:40, 11 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Adambro==&lt;br /&gt;
Hi Jpatt, what did you mean by &amp;quot;AdamBro is clan but keep on eye on him. Sock puppets of BL4NK3R; NoohWicky, UtterMuppet, Maggie, B0LLL0X&amp;quot;. Is he a sockpuppet ? --[[User:PhilipN|PhilipN]] 17:04, 11 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:AdamBro is clean, as far as socks are involved. He might be what Tony has said, so follow his future edits.--[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 17:10, 11 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I will, thanks for the info. --[[User:PhilipN|PhilipN]] 17:15, 11 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Thank you ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Thanks for the welcome and reverting vandalism on my user and talk page! I don't understand that vandal --- it was my first day and I don't think i wrote anything controversial, why would anyone do that to me? [[User:Lansing|Lansing]] 12:02, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Amnesty_International&amp;diff=953063</id>
		<title>Talk:Amnesty International</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Amnesty_International&amp;diff=953063"/>
		<updated>2012-01-11T23:24:24Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;This entry states that all of Amnesty International's stated missions are Christian in nature or seem to be based on Christian principles.  This, however, is not true.  For example, Amnesty International works heavily on fighting discrimination against gays and the death penalty (the latter of which, those who believing in a literal interpretation of the Bible, support... &amp;quot;eye for an eye&amp;quot;).  {{unsigned|Facio}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==God Bless Amnesty International==&lt;br /&gt;
It's good that there are non-partisan organizations such as Amnesty International out there, fighting tyranny of all political stripes whether communist or fascist. They don't cover up the crimes of dictators just because of their political ideology --[[User:FreedomandLiberty|FreedomandLiberty]] 11:50, 13 June 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Image of summary of critical press releases ==&lt;br /&gt;
The article includes an image with the caption &amp;quot;A summary of all critical press releases put out by Amnesty over the period 1995–1998&amp;quot;, the image being of a textual list.  The image was copied from an external document, and is used under the &amp;quot;fair use&amp;quot; provisions, partly on the basis that &amp;quot;no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information&amp;quot;.  But being a simply textual list, this is simply not true, as it could easily be recreated as a table in the article.  I propose deleting the image and replacing it with a table of the same information. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 00:22, 1 September 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
== Free and Democratic Pakistan!? ==&lt;br /&gt;
Pakistan is not free and is certainly not democratic. While Musharaff is not as brutal as many other dictators in history, he still is a dictator. In addition, he doesn't control many parts of the country. Speaking poorly of Islam can turn you into a corpse in Pakistan because of the number of fundamentalists. It is a lie to call a country like that free --[[User:ChavezFan|ChavezFan]] 16:46, 29 October 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:The only reference to &amp;quot;Free and Democratic Pakistan&amp;quot; is in a table which refers to Amnesty press releases during the period 1995 to 1998.  The article does NOT say that Pakistan is free and democratic ''today''.  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 21:19, 29 October 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Criticism==&lt;br /&gt;
I have to strongy defend the use of Anti-American as a headline. The most work AI does is on America. There are literally hundreds of documented cases biased. Anti-Israel, I have not a problem. But, to list somehow people thought AI was biased in favor of America, seems uncommon and has zero value in my op.--'''&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#6698FF&amp;quot;&amp;gt;J&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#E41B17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;p&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#F88017&amp;quot;&amp;gt;a&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#347C17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#A74AC7&amp;quot;&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;'''&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;[[User:Jpatt|  ]]&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 21:05, 28 October 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Well, a large part of the &amp;quot;Anti-American&amp;quot; section is taken up with a quote about reports on Australia, which is incongruous with the original title.  The only mention of America is your own comment that AI &amp;quot;exposes an anti-American standpoint increasingly common in liberal groups&amp;quot; by &amp;quot;disproportionately criticiz[ing] free democratic nations over authoritarian nations&amp;quot;, &amp;amp; the logic of that is a little flawed since the USA isn't the only free democratic nation.  Also, I think when assessing criticisms of AI, it is best to present both viewpoints.  Obviously you do not like this organisation much, but please don't assume that all conservatives agree with you on this.  [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 21:21, 28 October 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I can agree with most you have said. I will put an Anti-American header, just with new content. Presenting both viewpoint's is not my intentions. I will have to limit inclusion or others will have to give the other view. Besides the criticism section, which will expand, is the only dirt. The rest of the page is authentic encyclopedic, no blemishes or ill will. Just so we understand, I am all for human rights. These people have deviated so far left, the organization no longer has the clout, nor the accuracy nor the proper intentions and need to be called out. Their cause is valiant, their mission is a disgrace.--'''&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#6698FF&amp;quot;&amp;gt;J&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#E41B17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;p&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#F88017&amp;quot;&amp;gt;a&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#347C17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#A74AC7&amp;quot;&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;'''&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;[[User:Jpatt|  ]]&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 21:35, 28 October 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:: &amp;quot;Anti-American&amp;quot; is too specific.  &amp;quot;Accusations of bias&amp;quot; is probably a bit too broad.  What about something like ''Anti-democracy'' or ''Anti-west''?&lt;br /&gt;
:: We must be fair, and that means not making them out to look worse than they are.  So if there's evidence that they are at times pro-American, it's only fair to include that.  That doesn't, by the way, prevent anyone from producing evidence that the apparent pro-American view was actually due to something else, or perhaps that they used to be pro-American but no longer are.&lt;br /&gt;
:: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 22:01, 28 October 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I can agree. They take the greedy road, legal courts of Democracies are where the money is. Closed nations, authoritarian nations are too much work, too much risk, no great finacial payoff if any. Anti-Democracy is well suited.--'''&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#6698FF&amp;quot;&amp;gt;J&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#E41B17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;p&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#F88017&amp;quot;&amp;gt;a&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#347C17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&amp;quot;#A74AC7&amp;quot;&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;'''&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;[[User:Jpatt|  ]]&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 22:07, 28 October 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Disagree.  &amp;quot;Anti-democracy&amp;quot; implies they are opposed to the principle of democracy.  Far from it.  The reason many of their campaigns are focussed on democratic nations such as USA (as I believe they freely acknowledge) is that these countries have made positive statements in regard to human rights and have populations inclined to support human rights issues.  AI believe they have some chances of success by raising public awareness of issues such as the death penalty &amp;amp; inhumane interrogation techniques, and creating pressure for these countries to make reforms.  Closed totalitarian natons are much less likely to make these kind of reforms, and creating public awareness within those countries is problematic because of freedom of speech is not upheld.  Obviously AI still has campaigns regarding these countries, raising international awareness &amp;amp; creating international pressure.  If the title &amp;quot;Accusations of bias&amp;quot; is too broad, the specific name for this kind of bias (as used in Wikipedia article on AI for example) is &amp;quot;selection bias&amp;quot; - I.E. bias in terms of which countries they select for focus.  [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 10:32, 29 October 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::: Point taken that &amp;quot;anti-democracy&amp;quot; implies that they are opposed to democracy itself, but then you go on to in effect say that their bias is democracy-related!  Yes, &amp;quot;selection bias&amp;quot; is probably correct, but I don't believe that it's self-explanatory.  Just throwing out an idea to keep us thinking, how about &amp;quot;Bias against democratic countries&amp;quot;?  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 10:41, 29 October 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::The selection bias is ''related'' to democracy &amp;amp; freedom of speech because those countries are where AI suggests it can have the biggest impact, as I outlined above, but this is not a bias against democracy.  Selection bias isn't a self-explanatory term, but it could be explained in the text.  However, if you don't want to use it as a section title, I think your suggested title of &amp;quot;Bias against democratic countries&amp;quot; is satrisfactory, as this is what much of the the controversy/criticism boils down to, but please keep in place the last paragraph mentioning accusations of pro-American/British bias too.  [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 11:43, 29 October 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Biased against AI? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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This article is heavily biased against AI. It makes the organization seem to be a mainly Anti-American leftist anti-Israel organization, which cannot be farther from the truth. It is one of the few organizations that are very vocal in its criticism against the current authoritarian and anti-American regime of China, and should be noted as such. AI has no agenda except to promote human rights everywhere in the world. [[User:Lansing|Lansing]] 18:24, 11 January 2012 (EST)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Liberal democracy</title>
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&lt;div&gt;A '''liberal democracy''' is a political system where a democratic process (such as a majoritarian [[election]]) determines who will occupy political offices, but at the same time some fundamental rights of all citizens, such as [[free speech]] and the freedom of the [[press]], are protected from encroachment from the government or the majority.&lt;br /&gt;
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Political scientist [[Robert A. Dahl]] is one of the best-known exponent on liberal democracy.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Robert C. Neville''' is an American [[theologian]] and philosopher. He graduated from [[Yale University]] in 1963 with a Ph.D. Known as one of the main [[Boston Confucians]], Neville wrote extensively on [[Confucianism]], [[pragmatism]] and [[Christian]] theology. Currently he teaches at [[Boston University]] in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
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==On politics and liberalism==&lt;br /&gt;
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However well the [[social contract]] practices of [[liberal democracy|liberal democracies]] work in many instances, there is nevertheless a need to tie public obligations to [[personal responsibility]] in a  different way from that of the contract tradition. For, when things go bad, that is just the time for personal responsibilities to become acute, not for them to be dissolved in a convenient return to nature. How can the values giving content to public obligations to be conserved, in [[Plato]]'s sense, when it is no one's responsibility to do so, or even to think beyond personal interest? (page 249, ''The Highroad Around Modernism'')}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Charles Sanders Peirce]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[John Dewey]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.bu.edu/sth/academics/faculty/robert-c-neville/ Official page]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;'''Robert C. Neville''' is an American [[theologian]] and philosopher. He graduated from [[Yale University]] in 1963 with a Ph.D. Known as one of the main [[Boston Confucians]], Neville wrote extensively on [[Confucianism]], [[pragmatism]] and [[Christian]] theology. Currently he teaches at [[Boston University]] in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
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==On politics and liberalism==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|&lt;br /&gt;
However well the [[social contract]] practices of [[liberal democracy|liberal democracies]] work in many instances, there is nevertheless a need to tie public obligations to [[personal responsibility]] in a  different way from that of the contract tradition. For, when things go bad, that is just the time for personal responsibilities to become acute, not for them to be dissolved in a convenient return to nature. How can the values giving content to public obligations to be conserved, in [[Plato]]'s sense, when it is no one's responsibility to do so, or even to think beyond personal interest? (page 249, ''The Highroad Around Modernism'')}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Charles Sanders Peirce]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[John Dewey]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.bu.edu/sth/academics/faculty/robert-c-neville/ Official page]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==On politics and liberalism==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|&lt;br /&gt;
However well the [[social contract]] practices of [[liberal democracy|liberal democracies]] work in many instances, there is nevertheless a need to tie public obligations to [[personal responsibility]] in a  different way from that of the contract tradition. For, when things go bad, that is just the time for personal responsibilities to become acute, not for them to be dissolved in a convenient return to nature. How can the values giving content to public obligations to be conserved, in [[Plato]]'s sense, when it is no one's responsibility to do so, or even to think beyond personal interest? (page 249, ''The Highroad Around Modernism'')}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Charles Sanders Peirce]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[John Dewey]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.bu.edu/sth/academics/faculty/robert-c-neville/ Official page]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Robert C. Neville''' is an American [[theologian]] and philosopher. He graduated from [[Yale University]] in 1963 with a Ph.D. and wrote extensively on [[Confucianism]] and [[pragmatism]]. Currently he teaches at [[Boston University]] in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
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==On politics and liberalism==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|&lt;br /&gt;
However well the [[social contract]] practices of [[liberal democracy|liberal democracies]] work in many instances, there is nevertheless a need to tie public obligations to [[personal responsibility]] in a  different way from that of the contract tradition. For, when things go bad, that is just the time for personal responsibilities to become acute, not for them to be dissolved in a convenient return to nature. How can the values giving content to public obligations to be conserved, in [[Plato]]'s sense, when it is no one's responsibility to do so, or even to think beyond personal interest? (page 249, ''The Highroad Around Modernism'')}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Charles Sanders Peirce]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[John Dewey]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.bu.edu/sth/academics/faculty/robert-c-neville/ Official page]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Robert C. Neville''' is an American [[theologian]] and philosopher. He graduated from [[Yale University]] in 1963 with a Ph.D. and wrote extensively on [[Confucianism]] and [[pragmatism]]. Currently he teaches at [[Boston University]] in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
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==On politics and liberalism==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|&lt;br /&gt;
However well the social contract practices of liberal democracies work in many instances, there is nevertheless a need to tie public obligations to personal responsibility in a  different way from that of the contract tradition. For, when things go bad, that is just the time for personal responsibilities to become acute, not for them to be dissolved in a convenient return to nature. How can the values giving content to public obligations to be conserved, in Plato's sense, when it is no one's responsibility to do so, or even to think beyond personal interest? (page 249, ''The Highroad Around Modernism'')}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Charles Sanders Peirce]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[John Dewey]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.bu.edu/sth/academics/faculty/robert-c-neville/ Official page]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;[[Image:998086u.jpg|right|thumbnail|200px|An essay by the [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] Dr. James Spiegel describes Bertrand Russell as a &amp;quot;misogynistic and a serial adulterer; a chronic seducer of women, especially very young women, even in his old age.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=469:the-causes-of-atheism&amp;amp;catid=96:bonus-content&amp;amp;Itemid=80&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
'''Bertrand Russell,''' 3rd Earl Russell (1872–1970) was a 20th century [[philosopher]], [[mathematician]] and political activist and was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in Literature in 1950 for his writings.&lt;br /&gt;
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Russell visited the [[Soviet Union]] and met [[Lenin]] in 1920. In a tract, ''The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism'', he wrote:&lt;br /&gt;
:I believe that [[Communism]] is necessary to the world, and I believe ... [[Bolshevik|Bolshevism]] deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the [[Progressivism|progressive]] part of mankind. But the method by which [[Moscow]] aims at establishing Communism is a pioneer method, rough and dangerous, too heroic to count the cost of the opposition it arouses. I do not believe that by this method a stable or desirable form of Communism can be established. Three issues seem to me possible from the present situation:&lt;br /&gt;
:* The ultimate defeat of Bolshevism by the forces of [[capitalism]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* The victory of the Bolshevists accompanied by a complete loss of their ideals and a régime of [[Napoleon]]ic [[imperialism]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* A prolonged world-war, in which civilization will go under, and all its manifestations (including Communism) will be forgotten.&lt;br /&gt;
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Russell wrote further:&lt;br /&gt;
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:&amp;quot;To understand Bolshevism it is not sufficient to know facts; it is necessary also to enter with sympathy or imagination into a new spirit. The chief thing that the Bolsheviks have done is to create a hope, or at any rate to make strong and widespread a hope which was formerly confined to a few... I cannot share the hopes of the Bolsheviks any more than those of the Egyptian anchorites; I regard both as tragic delusions, destined to bring upon the world centuries of darkness and futile violence... I do not know whether Bolshevism can be prevented from acquiring universal power. But even if it cannot, I am persuaded that those who stand out against it, not from love of ancient injustice, but in the name of the free spirit of Man, will be the bearers of the seeds of progress, from which, when the world's gestation is accomplished, new life will be born.&amp;quot;  &lt;br /&gt;
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Russell's most significant early work was a three-volume attempt to derive all mathematical principles from a well-defined set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic, entitled ''Principia Mathematica'' (1910-1913).  He published this work with [[Alfred North Whitehead]]. Although the ''Principia'' is widely considered by one of the most important and seminal works in logic and philosophy, part of its success was in inspiring others to question its propositions. In 1931, [[Kurt Godel]] proved that what Russell attempted could not possibly be both consistent and complete.&lt;br /&gt;
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During the [[Cold War]] he advocated nuclear disarmament, even if it were unilateral on the part of Western powers, a stance mocked as &amp;quot;better Red than dead.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=uIRi0BOvTi4C&amp;amp;pg=PA391&amp;amp;lpg=PA391&amp;amp;dq=%22better+red+than+dead%22+%22Bertrand+Russell%22&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ots=WwFRaEaAmY&amp;amp;sig=h5XEKBrZOQidfBaca9EqJySsISM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Russell was also the first president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and authored the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. &amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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A member of British nobility with the title of &amp;quot;Earl&amp;quot;, Russell remained a hero to those on the political left, particularly in the English-speaking world, throughout his life.   In his 1929 book ''Marriage and Morals'', he argued that that sex between a man and woman who are not married to each other is not necessarily immoral if they truly love one another.  In the 1960's he became a vocal critic of the [[Vietnam War]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Russell also famously encapsulated the dilemma faced by all those seeking objective moral truths in the face of almost overwhelming logical evidence to the contrary:&lt;br /&gt;
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:''&amp;quot;I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don't like it.&amp;quot;'' &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://uk.encarta.msn.com/quote_1861989747/Ethics_I_cannot_see_how_to_refute_the_arguments_for_the.html]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Philosophy, 1960, &amp;quot;Notes on Philosophy&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Contributions to Mathematics and Philosophy==&lt;br /&gt;
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Bertrand Russell was particularly known for the famous &amp;quot;[[Russell's Paradox]]&amp;quot;, which wrecked havoc on intuitivistic set theory. The basic restatement of the paradox is the following: suppose there is a predicate &amp;quot;x is a set that does not contain itself&amp;quot;, does the set that is the extension of that predicate contain itself. To solve this, Russell came up with the incomprehensibly complex [[theory of types]], which was later abandoned in favour of the [[Zermelo-Fraenkel]] axioms.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Russell's numerous writings had a significant influence on mathematical logic and philosophy.  His works contributed to the many branches of science even though he discredited some of his earlier writings. &lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
:The Principles of Mathematics (1902)&lt;br /&gt;
:Principia Mathematica (1910-13)&lt;br /&gt;
:The ABC of Relativity (1925)&lt;br /&gt;
:Education and the Social Order (1932)&lt;br /&gt;
:A History of Western Philosophy (1945)&lt;br /&gt;
:The Impact of Science upon Society (1952)&lt;br /&gt;
:My Philosophical Development (1959)&lt;br /&gt;
:War Crimes in Vietnam (1967)&lt;br /&gt;
:Our Knowledge of the External World (1926)&lt;br /&gt;
:Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1962)  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;  http://www.nndb.com/people/954/000044822/ &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
===Agnostic or atheist?===&lt;br /&gt;
His own self characterization: &lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;I never know whether I should say '[[Agnostic]]' or whether I should say 'Atheist'.... As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one [can] prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Russell, Bertrand (1947) &amp;quot;Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?&amp;quot;[http://www.luminary.us/russell/atheist_agnostic.html] Most online sources say &amp;quot;by which one prove,&amp;quot; probably a mistake.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The evidence points to Bertrand Russell being a &amp;quot;[[Weak atheism|weak atheist]]&amp;quot; (Bertrand Russell wrote an essay entitled ''Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?'').&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.luminary.us/russell/atheist_agnostic.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  In 1927, Bertrand Russell wrote an essay entitled &amp;quot;''Why I am not a Christian''&amp;quot; which was based on a lecture Russell gave the same year.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://gregbahnsen.blogspot.com/2007/06/interlude-why-bertrand-russell-should.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://gregbahnsen.blogspot.com/2007/06/interlude-why-bertrand-russell-should.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Below are some works by [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologists]] which show the inconsistencies and logical fallacies of Bertrand Russell's essay:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://gregbahnsen.blogspot.com/2007/06/interlude-why-bertrand-russell-should.html Critique of Bertrand Russell's essay &amp;quot;Why I am not a Christian&amp;quot;] by Dr. Greg Bahnsen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.berith.org/pdf/Why_Bertrand_Russell_Was_Not_A_Christian.pdf Why Bertrand Russell was not a Christian] by Rev. Ralph Allan Smith (1996)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/10-bertrand-russell-and-christianity-part-1 Bertrand Russell and Christianity] by the Christian Courier&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Notes and references==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Bertrand}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Nobel laureates in Literature]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Philosophers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mathematicians]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Logic]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Elizabeth Anscombe]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Bertrand_Russell&amp;diff=952774</id>
		<title>Bertrand Russell</title>
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&lt;div&gt;[[Image:998086u.jpg|right|thumbnail|200px|An essay by the [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] Dr. James Spiegel describes Bertrand Russell as a &amp;quot;misogynistic and a serial adulterer; a chronic seducer of women, especially very young women, even in his old age.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=469:the-causes-of-atheism&amp;amp;catid=96:bonus-content&amp;amp;Itemid=80&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
'''Bertrand Russell,''' 3rd Earl Russell (1872–1970) was a 20th century [[philosopher]], [[mathematician]] and political activist and was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in Literature in 1950 for his writings.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Russell visited the [[Soviet Union]] and met [[Lenin]] in 1920. In a tract, ''The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism'', he wrote:&lt;br /&gt;
:I believe that [[Communism]] is necessary to the world, and I believe ... [[Bolshevik|Bolshevism]] deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the [[Progressivism|progressive]] part of mankind. But the method by which [[Moscow]] aims at establishing Communism is a pioneer method, rough and dangerous, too heroic to count the cost of the opposition it arouses. I do not believe that by this method a stable or desirable form of Communism can be established. Three issues seem to me possible from the present situation:&lt;br /&gt;
:* The ultimate defeat of Bolshevism by the forces of [[capitalism]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* The victory of the Bolshevists accompanied by a complete loss of their ideals and a régime of [[Napoleon]]ic [[imperialism]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* A prolonged world-war, in which civilization will go under, and all its manifestations (including Communism) will be forgotten.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Russell wrote further:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;To understand Bolshevism it is not sufficient to know facts; it is necessary also to enter with sympathy or imagination into a new spirit. The chief thing that the Bolsheviks have done is to create a hope, or at any rate to make strong and widespread a hope which was formerly confined to a few... I cannot share the hopes of the Bolsheviks any more than those of the Egyptian anchorites; I regard both as tragic delusions, destined to bring upon the world centuries of darkness and futile violence... I do not know whether Bolshevism can be prevented from acquiring universal power. But even if it cannot, I am persuaded that those who stand out against it, not from love of ancient injustice, but in the name of the free spirit of Man, will be the bearers of the seeds of progress, from which, when the world's gestation is accomplished, new life will be born.&amp;quot;  &lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Russell's most significant early work was a three-volume attempt to derive all mathematical principles from a well-defined set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic, entitled ''Principia Mathematica'' (1910-1913).  He published this work with [[Alfred North Whitehead]]. Although the ''Principia'' is widely considered by one of the most important and seminal works in logic and philosophy, part of its success was in inspiring others to question its propositions. In 1931, [[Kurt Godel]] proved that what Russell attempted could not possibly be both consistent and complete.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During the [[Cold War]] he advocated nuclear disarmament, even if it were unilateral on the part of Western powers, a stance mocked as &amp;quot;better Red than dead.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=uIRi0BOvTi4C&amp;amp;pg=PA391&amp;amp;lpg=PA391&amp;amp;dq=%22better+red+than+dead%22+%22Bertrand+Russell%22&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ots=WwFRaEaAmY&amp;amp;sig=h5XEKBrZOQidfBaca9EqJySsISM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Russell was also the first president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and authored the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. &amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A member of British nobility with the title of &amp;quot;Earl&amp;quot;, Russell remained a hero to those on the political left, particularly in the English-speaking world, throughout his life.   In his 1929 book ''Marriage and Morals'', he argued that that sex between a man and woman who are not married to each other is not necessarily immoral if they truly love one another.  In the 1960's he became a vocal critic of the [[Vietnam War]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Russell also famously encapsulated the dilemma faced by all those seeking objective moral truths in the face of almost overwhelming logical evidence to the contrary:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:''&amp;quot;I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don't like it.&amp;quot;'' &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://uk.encarta.msn.com/quote_1861989747/Ethics_I_cannot_see_how_to_refute_the_arguments_for_the.html]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Philosophy, 1960, &amp;quot;Notes on Philosophy&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Contributions to Mathematics and Philosophy==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bertrand Russell was particularly known for the famous &amp;quot;[[Russell's Paradox]]&amp;quot;, which wrecked havoc on intuitivistic set theory. The basic restatement of the paradox is the following: suppose there is a predicate &amp;quot;x is a set that does not contain itself&amp;quot;, does the set that is the extension of that predicate contain itself. To solve this, Russell came up with the incomprehensibly complex [[theory of types]], which was later abandoned in favour of the [[Zermelo-Fraenkel]] axioms.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Russell's numerous writings had a significant influence on mathematical logic and philosophy.  His works contributed to the many branches of science even though he discredited some of his earlier writings. &lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
:The Principles of Mathematics (1902)&lt;br /&gt;
:Principia Mathematica (1910-13)&lt;br /&gt;
:The ABC of Relativity (1925)&lt;br /&gt;
:Education and the Social Order (1932)&lt;br /&gt;
:A History of Western Philosophy (1945)&lt;br /&gt;
:The Impact of Science upon Society (1952)&lt;br /&gt;
:My Philosophical Development (1959)&lt;br /&gt;
:War Crimes in Vietnam (1967)&lt;br /&gt;
:Our Knowledge of the External World (1926)&lt;br /&gt;
:Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1962)  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;  http://www.nndb.com/people/954/000044822/ &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
===Agnostic or atheist?===&lt;br /&gt;
His own self characterization: &lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;I never know whether I should say '[[Agnostic]]' or whether I should say 'Atheist'.... As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one [can] prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; Russell, Bertrand (1947) &amp;quot;Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?&amp;quot;[http://www.luminary.us/russell/atheist_agnostic.html] Most online sources say &amp;quot;by which one prove,&amp;quot; probably a mistake.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The evidence points to Bertrand Russell being a &amp;quot;[[Weak atheism|weak atheist]]&amp;quot; (Bertrand Russell wrote an essay entitled ''Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?'').&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.luminary.us/russell/atheist_agnostic.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  In 1927, Bertrand Russell wrote an essay entitled &amp;quot;''Why I am not a Christian''&amp;quot; which was based on a lecture Russell gave the same year.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://gregbahnsen.blogspot.com/2007/06/interlude-why-bertrand-russell-should.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://gregbahnsen.blogspot.com/2007/06/interlude-why-bertrand-russell-should.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Below are some works by [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologists]] which show the inconsistencies and logical fallacies of Bertrand Russell's essay:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://gregbahnsen.blogspot.com/2007/06/interlude-why-bertrand-russell-should.html Critique of Bertrand Russell's essay &amp;quot;Why I am not a Christian&amp;quot;] by Dr. Greg Bahnsen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.berith.org/pdf/Why_Bertrand_Russell_Was_Not_A_Christian.pdf Why Bertrand Russell was not a Christian] by Rev. Ralph Allan Smith (1996)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/10-bertrand-russell-and-christianity-part-1 Bertrand Russell and Christianity] by the Christian Courier&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Notes and references==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Bertrand}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Nobel laureates in Literature]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Philosophers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Mathematicians]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Logic]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Elizabeth Anscombe]]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Anscombe&amp;diff=952773</id>
		<title>Elizabeth Anscombe</title>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Elizabeth Anscombe''' was a British philosopher. She continued the analytic tradition of [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] and was a prolific author on [[ethics]]. She famously defended [[abstinence]] in an essay.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/AnscombeChastity.php&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Bertrand Russell]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Anscombe&amp;diff=952772</id>
		<title>Elizabeth Anscombe</title>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Elizabeth Anscombe''' was a British philosopher. She continued the analytic tradition of [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] and was a prolific author on [[ethics]]. She famously defended [[abstinence]] in an essay.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/AnscombeChastity.php&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{reflist}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Anscombe&amp;diff=952771</id>
		<title>Elizabeth Anscombe</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Lansing: a start article for a thinker who defended chastity!! good for us&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;'''Elizabeth Anscombe''' was a British philosopher. She continued the analytic tradition of [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] and was a prolific author on [[ethics]]. She famously defended [[abstinence]] in an essay.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/AnscombeChastity.php&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Lansing</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Muammar_al-Gaddafi&amp;diff=952752</id>
		<title>Muammar al-Gaddafi</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Lansing: israel&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi in Dimashq.jpg|thumb|right|200px|&amp;quot;Leader and Guide of the 1969 Revolution.&amp;quot;]]&lt;br /&gt;
Colonel '''Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: معمر القذافي, b. 1942 - d. October 20, 2011) was the Head of State of [[Libya]], a [[socialist]] and [[dictator]] until the 2011 Libyan civil war. He rose to power through a coup that he led in 1969, and he ruled Libya for more than forty years ending with his capture and death. Once he became the leader of Libya, he renamed all the months in the calendar and published the Green Book, which was a series of pamphlets on democracy, economics, and sociology.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the 1970s, Gaddafi attempted to assume the leadership of a pan-Arabic movement, a position left open by the death of President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] of [[Egypt]]; however, other Arab nations mostly ignored him.  He attempted to extend his influence in Africa by supporting [[Uganda]]'s [[Idi Amin]] in the [[Uganda-Tanzania War]] with military aid and equipment, including [[Tupolev Tu-22|Tu-22]] jet bombers.  In the 1980s, Gaddafi became a sponsor of [[terrorism]] and President [[Ronald Reagan]] ordered a retaliatory bombing of his palace and key Libyan targets (Operation El Dorado Canyon). (In August 2003, Libya agreed to pay $2.7 billion to families of the 270 killed on board flight 103, when it blew up in December 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Just six months after the settlement, Qaddafi was visited by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Tripoli.) &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.nndb.com/people/641/000026563/ Muammar Qaddafi.] &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the 1990s, Gaddafi changed course and severed all ties with terrorism to normalize relations with the West. In 2006, the &amp;quot;decision of the US to restore full diplomatic relations with Libya marks the crowning success of his efforts to have his country accepted back into the international community.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3336059.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Condoleezza Rice]] praised Libya for its &amp;quot;excellent co-operation&amp;quot; in the US-led war on terror. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4773617.stm] (BBC News).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Full diplomatic relations with the United States were restored in 2006, and the Gaddafi regime's turnaround has been heralded by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a model for others to follow. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gaddafi was a lifelong enemy of [[Israel]] and under his reign Israel was not recognized by Libya. He also expelled Palestinian Arabs from Libya.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/05/world/libya-s-leader-urges-other-arab-countries-to-expel-palestinians.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient [[Nelson Mandela]] speaking of the values he shares with Gaddafi, said,&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|In a world where the strong may seek to impose upon the more vulnerable; and where particular nations or groups of nations may still seek to decide the fate of the planet - in such a world respect for multilateralism, moderation of public discourse and a patient search for compromise become even more imperative to save the world from debilitating conflict and enduring inequality. When we dismissed criticism of our friendship with yourself, My Brother Leader, and of the relationship between South Africa and Libya, it was precisely in defence of those values.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71656?oid=222537&amp;amp;sn=Detail&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Libyan people thrived under his leadership. A delegation of medical professionals from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus wrote in an appeal &amp;quot;Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin that after becoming acquainted with Libyan life, it was their view that in few nations did people live in such comfort&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Gaddafi and Mandela 1.JPG|thumb|300px|Nobel Peace Prize winner [[Nelson Mandela]] greets an old friend and ally, Muammar Gaddafi.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Schoolboys chant pro-Gaddafi slogans Reuters.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Schoolboys chant pro-Gaddafi slogans, Photograph: Reuters.]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{Clear}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|&lt;br /&gt;
China is a different kind of competitor. It is a rising economic power and America is unable to stop it. It has an unprecedented human wealth. In addition, it is a nuclear-weapon state and a permanent member of the Security Council. Everywhere in the world, China is making economic, human and political inroads. Unlike America which unwisely has chosen the harsh military approach, China is making those inroads using soft power. America continues its brazen interference in the internal affairs of states in the name of democracy and human rights. Africom is a case in point. Such interference is no longer acceptable. America itself is condemned in the field of human rights. It makes a habit of taking losers as allies... America is aware of the danger China poses. [http://www.algathafi.org/html-english/cat_1_11.htm China..America..The inevitable Confrontation.]&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Libyan uprising 2011]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== External links ==&lt;br /&gt;
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*[http://www.nndb.com/people/641/000026563/ Muammar Qaddafi.]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/dictators/muammar-qaddafi/ Muammar Qaddafi.]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.algathafi.org/html-english/index.htm Official web site.]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://israelstreams.com/?israelinsider.html?http://israelinsider.com/Articles1/Diplomacy/4062.htm  Gadhafi ready to compensate Jews who fled Libya.] Israel Insider.&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142593 Qaddafi is Jewish and I'm His Cousin.]&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Libya]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Africa]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Muslims]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Muammar_al-Gaddafi&amp;diff=952751</id>
		<title>Muammar al-Gaddafi</title>
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi in Dimashq.jpg|thumb|right|200px|&amp;quot;Leader and Guide of the 1969 Revolution.&amp;quot;]]&lt;br /&gt;
Colonel '''Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: معمر القذافي, b. 1942 - d. October 20, 2011) was the Head of State of [[Libya]], a [[socialist]] and [[dictator]] until the 2011 Libyan civil war. He rose to power through a coup that he led in 1969, and he ruled Libya for more than forty years ending with his capture and death. Once he became the leader of Libya, he renamed all the months in the calendar and published the Green Book, which was a series of pamphlets on democracy, economics, and sociology.  &lt;br /&gt;
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In the 1970s, Gaddafi attempted to assume the leadership of a pan-Arabic movement, a position left open by the death of President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] of [[Egypt]]; however, other Arab nations mostly ignored him.  He attempted to extend his influence in Africa by supporting [[Uganda]]'s [[Idi Amin]] in the [[Uganda-Tanzania War]] with military aid and equipment, including [[Tupolev Tu-22|Tu-22]] jet bombers.  In the 1980s, Gaddafi became a sponsor of [[terrorism]] and President [[Ronald Reagan]] ordered a retaliatory bombing of his palace and key Libyan targets (Operation El Dorado Canyon). (In August 2003, Libya agreed to pay $2.7 billion to families of the 270 killed on board flight 103, when it blew up in December 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Just six months after the settlement, Qaddafi was visited by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Tripoli.) &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.nndb.com/people/641/000026563/ Muammar Qaddafi.] &amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In the 1990s, Gaddafi changed course and severed all ties with terrorism to normalize relations with the West. In 2006, the &amp;quot;decision of the US to restore full diplomatic relations with Libya marks the crowning success of his efforts to have his country accepted back into the international community.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3336059.stm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Condoleezza Rice]] praised Libya for its &amp;quot;excellent co-operation&amp;quot; in the US-led war on terror. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4773617.stm] (BBC News).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Full diplomatic relations with the United States were restored in 2006, and the Gaddafi regime's turnaround has been heralded by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a model for others to follow. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient [[Nelson Mandela]] speaking of the values he shares with Gaddafi, said,&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|In a world where the strong may seek to impose upon the more vulnerable; and where particular nations or groups of nations may still seek to decide the fate of the planet - in such a world respect for multilateralism, moderation of public discourse and a patient search for compromise become even more imperative to save the world from debilitating conflict and enduring inequality. When we dismissed criticism of our friendship with yourself, My Brother Leader, and of the relationship between South Africa and Libya, it was precisely in defence of those values.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71656?oid=222537&amp;amp;sn=Detail&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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The Libyan people thrived under his leadership. A delegation of medical professionals from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus wrote in an appeal &amp;quot;Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin that after becoming acquainted with Libyan life, it was their view that in few nations did people live in such comfort&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Gaddafi and Mandela 1.JPG|thumb|300px|Nobel Peace Prize winner [[Nelson Mandela]] greets an old friend and ally, Muammar Gaddafi.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Schoolboys chant pro-Gaddafi slogans Reuters.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Schoolboys chant pro-Gaddafi slogans, Photograph: Reuters.]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{Clear}}&lt;br /&gt;
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China is a different kind of competitor. It is a rising economic power and America is unable to stop it. It has an unprecedented human wealth. In addition, it is a nuclear-weapon state and a permanent member of the Security Council. Everywhere in the world, China is making economic, human and political inroads. Unlike America which unwisely has chosen the harsh military approach, China is making those inroads using soft power. America continues its brazen interference in the internal affairs of states in the name of democracy and human rights. Africom is a case in point. Such interference is no longer acceptable. America itself is condemned in the field of human rights. It makes a habit of taking losers as allies... America is aware of the danger China poses. [http://www.algathafi.org/html-english/cat_1_11.htm China..America..The inevitable Confrontation.]&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Libyan uprising 2011]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== External links ==&lt;br /&gt;
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*[http://www.nndb.com/people/641/000026563/ Muammar Qaddafi.]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/dictators/muammar-qaddafi/ Muammar Qaddafi.]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.algathafi.org/html-english/index.htm Official web site.]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://israelstreams.com/?israelinsider.html?http://israelinsider.com/Articles1/Diplomacy/4062.htm  Gadhafi ready to compensate Jews who fled Libya.] Israel Insider.&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142593 Qaddafi is Jewish and I'm His Cousin.]&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Evergreen State College</title>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Evergreen State College''' is a liberal [[art]]s college located in the state of [[Washington]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==Famous alumni==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Rachel Corrie]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Colleges]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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