Russia wants Hezbollah included(resolving conflict)

[cal04]

ANY agreements aimed at resolving the Israel-Lebanon conflict should be coordinated with all the main forces in Lebanon, including Hezbollah, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19949300-1702,00.html

[IndianaGreen]

1. Can't have a peace conference without the combatants present

That's elementary, my Dear Watson!

[bemildred]

2. Gee, who could have thought of that? nt

[VegasWolf]

8. Not dimwit or rice! nt

[VegasWolf]

9. Putin pissing all over Bush's shoes! nt

[LostinVA]

3. I think you have to do this -- like No. Ireland and the IRA

[Theyareallthesame]

4. I still don't trust the Russians.

[bemildred]

5. Me neither. We definitely need to keep an eye on them. nt

[underpants]

6. Me either especially after that basketball game

Welcome to DU :hi:

[Massachusetts]

7. "Quis costodiet ipsos custodies"

And who is keeping an eye on us?

[Scurrilous]

10. Hamas, Hizbullah not on Russia's terror list

State publishes list of groups it regards as terrorist organization, fails to include Hamas or Hizbullah. Official says movements do not represent threat to Russia

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3282840,00.html

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"Russia on Friday published a list of 17 groups it regards as terrorist organizations and did not include the Palestinian movement Hamas or Lebanon's Hizbullah group, both of which are regarded as terrorists in Washington. Groups on the list, published in the official daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta, included al-Qaeda and the Taliban as well as the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a rebel group fighting for Kashmir's independence from India, and Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood.

The Russian Federal Security Service's top official in charge of fighting international terrorism, Yuri Sapunov, said that Hamas and Hizbullah were not a major threat to Russia and were not regarded as terrorist groups worldwide. But he said that Russian security agencies took account of international lists of terrorist groups when exchanging intelligence with foreign counterparts.

Sapunov told Rossiiskaya Gazeta that the list of 17 "Includes only those organizations which represent the greatest threat to the security of our country." Also on the Russian list were groups linked to separatist militants in Chechnya and Islamic radicals in Central Asia. Russia in the past has come under criticism for its refusal to list Hamas and Hizbullah as terrorist organizations."

[ronnie624]

11. The U.S. government isn't on the list either.

What sort of "terror list" doesn't include the biggest, most dangerous terrorist organization of them all?