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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Hezbollah Activist Boomed |
| 2004-07-20 |
| A bomb killed a senior member of Lebanese group Hezbollah in a southern suburb of Beirut yesterday in an attack the group blamed on Israel. Witnesses said the bomb exploded as Ghalib Awali started his car outside his home around 8.30 a.m. Hezbollah's TV station called him a member of the group's leadership. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Hezbollah, which played a leading role in helping to end Israel's 22-year occupation of south Lebanon in 2000, pointed the finger at the Jewish state and hinted at retribution. "The one responsible is the Zionist enemy... Israeli hands which we will cut off, God willing, and hands of their agents on the inside which we will also cut off, God willing," Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told mourners. He accused Israeli infiltrators, possibly using US or Awali, a 41-year-old father of five, had led several attacks on Israeli forces during the occupation, Hezbollah officials said. He was captured by Israeli forces in 1982 and imprisoned in Lebanon for 18 months. At his funeral in the southern town of Tulin, a few thousand mourners chanted |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 When Gaza burns, don't all the Racheal Corrie types become coins to be collected, traded, stolen ec.? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-20 1:37:56 AM |