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Hizbullah Denies Party Member Detained in Damascus
 [An Nahar] Hizbullah denied on Monday that the Free Syrian Army captured a member of the party in Damascus...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy... , Hizbullah's media relations department said. "Al-Arabiya news channel reported that the FSA placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a member of Hizbullah identified as Sayyed Hassan Sallim al-Meqdad. The party denies these claims," said the statement. Al-Arabiya reported earlier that the FSA was able to detain a member of Hizbullah who allegedly entered Syria within a group of 1,500 people who spread in Damascus, Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... and Homs. The channel aired a video showing al-Meqdad confessing that Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... ordered him to head to Syria to "support the Shiite Syrian regime" against "the Sunni gunnies known as the FSA." Al-Meqdad, who is allegedly a sniper, noted that he hadn't infiltrated to Syria through illegal crossings, saying he was offered all the facilities on the border. "We were a group of 250 in Damascus and resided in the Shrine of Sayeda Zeinab," he said. He confessed most of the snipers are being trained in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek. Al-Meqdad urged Nasrallah to "halt his scourge of the Syrian people, who is only seeking freedom and a dignified life." Posted by: Fred 2012-08-15 |
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