When the BBC’s Lyse Doucet entered the ruined city of Qusair she found desolation. The local church was “defaced, prayer books burnt, the altars smashed.” Hezbollah soldiers “moved openly in the streets of Qusair.” However, the invasion of Syria by Hezbollah fighters to bolster Bashar Assad’s flagging fortunes hasn’t set off alarm bells about the nature of the organization. The BBC describes it in the boiler-plate Europeanism: “Hezbollah is a political and military organization in Lebanon made up mainly of Shia Muslims. It emerged with backing from Iran in the early 1980s when it fought Israeli forces.”
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