This is John Batchel.

The show begins tonight in Iraq with Bill Rajel talking about a KIA of a man who's been associated with Hezbollah and mass murder, at least since 1983,

is associated with Mugnia, the dead head terrorist in Hezbollah once upon a time,

the Marine barracks, the torture and murder of the CIA station chiefs, the blowing of the American Embassy in Beirut.

And he's also associated, this man ductook, with the East Africa bombing in the Clinton administration.

He's dead. What does this mean? It means that all these years later, we take account of the fact that he was in U.S. custody in Iraq.

He was handed over to the Iraqi government at the time, put on trial, found guilty, innocent, released.

And therefore, was a very, very successful mass murder for Hezbollah until Israel found him in Syria and he's gone.

I also talked to Bill and David Diyud about the Hezbollah right now.

After more than a year of continuing to fire rockets and drones in the North Israel,

claiming they were doing this in sympathy with their brothers Hamas

and that they would stop firing when Hamas was afforded a cease fire.

As Balaz now said to have sought a separate ceasefire for itself,

Hamas is no longer a concern.

They're backing down.

What this means for the region is yet to be determined.

It hasn't happened yet, but Hezbollah is badly, badly damaged.

It will reconstitute itself over years.

And then to John Hardy and Ukraine, Bill Raju and I are traveling from Iraq to Lebanon, now off to Ukraine.

First we talk of the escalation.

The attack comes fired into Russia, Russia firing a hypersonic medium range.

ICBM, it's said, into Ukraine.

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