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Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah in Syria pledge
[BBC.CO.UK] The head of Lebanese bully boy group Hezbollah has declared that Syria has real friends who will not let it fall to the US, Israel or Islamic radicals.Hassan Nasrallah said Syria's opposition was too weak to bring down Bashir al-Assad's regime militarily. He was speaking in an address broadcast on Hezbollah's TV station al-Manar. BBC Arab affairs analyst Sebastian Usher says the speech tacitly confirmed the group has been involved in fighting in neighbouring Syria. The Syrian opposition has long claimed the Iranian-backed Shia movement has been supplying fighters to help Mr Assad, a key Hezbollah backer. "A large number [of rebels] were preparing to capture villages inhabited by Lebanese... so it was normal to offer every possible and necessary aid to help the Syrian army," Mr Nasrallah was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. The Hezbollah leader said it had never hidden its deaders, but that reports thon the lam numbers of its fighters had been killed were lies. He also warned that if a key Shia shrine south of Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... - that named after Sayida Zeinab, a granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad - were to be destroyed, it would spark Dire Revenge™ that could get out of control. "If the shrine is destroyed things will get out of control," he said. Mr Nasrallah tried to reassure his domestic audience that - above all - Hezbollah wanted to avoid the Syrian war coming to Leb, adds our correspondent, but many there may find little to comfort them in this latest show of defiance. Posted by: Fred 2013-05-01 |
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