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He has used it to carve up vegans, whom he called the "Hezbollah-like splinter faction" of vegetarians, and the culinary moralist

NYT > Home Page By FRANK BRUNI 2011

Mr. Sadr's associates deny having Hezbollah-like aspirations.

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On U.S. concerns that Iran is creating Lebanese Hezbollah-like militant movement in Iraq:

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Though, it has failed to set up a Hezbollah-like terrorist militant group in Afghanistan.

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Then the Kyl-Lieberman amendment makes four points of the sense of the senate regarding the issue of our military being vital to Iraq and the region, the need to prevent Iran from creating a Hezbollah-like force in Iran and the need to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organization ... and to follow that naming up quickly.

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Sadr can reconstitute his militia with relative ease, turning it into a Hezbollah-like organization capable of wielding influence both on the streets and in the political arena.

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In his best-selling book Kitchen Confidential the former New York cook remarked somewhat amusingly, "Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn."

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It's perplexing how Bourdain, whose show is easily one of the most lively and intelligent on TV, has become such an impassioned foe of "silly" vegetarians and their "Hezbollah-like" vegan cousins.

Nikolas Kozloff: Anthony Bourdain: Coolness Factor Wearing Thin 2009

Rounding out the PR blitz was the widely-anticipated Petraeus report, which included this quote on Iran from the Iraq military commander: "It is increasingly apparent to both coalition and Iraqi leaders that Iran, through the use of the Quds force, seeks to turn the Iraqi special groups into a Hezbollah-like force to serve its interests and fight a proxy war against the Iraqi state and coalition forces in Iraq."

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It also expressed the sense that it is "a critical national interest" to prevent Iran from "turning Shi'a militia extremists in Iraq into a Hezbollah-like force."

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