P.I.D. Radio 1/12/11: Lebanon in Turmoil

Published: Jan. 13, 2011, midnight

WHILE THE media focuses on the shootings in Tucson Saturday, a crisis brews in the Middle East.\xa0 The government in Lebanon has collapsed as Hezbollah ministers resigned.\xa0 Indictments naming Hezbollah officials in the 2005 assassination of Prime Minister Rafic Hariri were "hours or days" away from being turned over to a pre-trial judge.
The USS Enterprise carrier strike group, with 6,000 American service personnel, has been redirected to the eastern Mediterranean.\xa0 As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted yesterday, there are now an estimated 60,000 rockets \u2014 all made in Iran and Syria \u2014 now pointed at Israel.
Also: Iran building bunkers for Hamas in Gaza; a brief look at the prophesied war of Psalm 83; and more mysterious animal deaths.