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Hezbollah: US troops face defeat in Iraq
US occupation troops in Iraq face defeat, a senior political official of Lebanon's radical Shiite movement Hezbollah predicted Thursday. "The Americans must know that defeat awaits their 250,000 troops in Iraq and not victory," Ibrahim Amin as-Sayyed said in a speech in the southern port city of Sidon. "It was God's will for their forces to be gathered over there so as to be defeated," he said. Just as "God wanted the Zionists to be gathered in Palestine to be defeated." Sayyed said Hezbollah was not concerned by the US pressure on Syria and Iran to halt their support for the movement, whose fighters were widely credited for Israel's pullout from south Lebanon in May 2000 after 22 years of occupation. Given the strength of Hezbollah, the United States and Israel should "stop and think a thousand times before doing any damage to Lebanon", he warned.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-07-26 |
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