IRNA -- Secretary General of Lebanese Hizbullah Seyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that the unprecedented glorious observance of Arbaein rituals in Karbala this year would click the start of the negative countdown for ending US presence in Iraq, and in the whole Middle East region.
| That was the procession where people were whacking themselves on the heads with swords. Important safety tip: That doesn't make you smarter... |
Nasrallah who was speaking on Tuesday night at a commemoration service to mark the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussain in the south of Lebanon, compared the glorious observance of the Arbaein rituals in Iraq this year, with that of the 1982 in Lebanon. "In 1982, too, the Lebanese nation's wide participation in Arbaein rituals clicked the beginning of the strong resistance against the racist-Zionists' presence in Lebanon," said Nasrallah.
| Ummm... Yeah. That musta been what dunnit... |
Referring to the horrendous developments of the past few weeks in the Middle East, and particularly in Iraq, the Hizbullah Secretary General emphasized, "the Bush administration had initially aimed at turning its war in Iraq into a war between the world Christians and the Islamic world. But that satanic plan failed thanks to the wise stand adopted by the Pope, as well as the alertness of the Islamic Alims." Nasrallah said, "another dreadful US objective in starting a war against Iraq was flickering the flames of an internal crisis among the region's Muslim nations." He added, "Some circles helped Bush in achieving that goal, by emphasizing over the mosaic combination of the Iraqi population, but that plot, too, failed thanks to the alertness and timely moves on thepart of the Iraqi Shia leaders and nation."
| God forbid the mosaic combination of the Iraqi population should take precedence over Iranian-backed Shia plans for domination... |
Warning the regional nations that the US and Israel are together trying to imply the idea in the hearts and minds of the regional nations that they are incapable of resisting in the face of the US will, Nasrallah said, "The Americans tell a big lie about fighting to establish democracy and to safeguard freedoms in Iraq. They are actually after securing other goals there, and everyone knows it too well to be denied by them." Nasrallah added that the Iraqi nation had no longer [sic] been relieved of a nightmare called Saddam, that the Iraqis found themselves in the middle of a more horrendous nightmare, called the US occupation. |