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| Nasrallah: The Hand that Tries to Reach Our Members Will Be Cut Off |
| 2010-11-12 |
| [An Nahar] Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Thursday his group will "cut off the hand" of anyone who tries to arrest any of its partisans over the 2005 liquidation of ex-premier Rafik Hariri. "Whoever thinks the resistance could possibly accept any accusation against any of its jihadists or leaders is mistaken -- no matter the pressures and threats," Nasrallah said in a speech on closed-circuit television to mark Hizbullah's Martyr Day. "Whoever thinks that we will allow the arrest or detention of any of our jihadists is mistaken," he said, describing his political rivals as "in a hurry to see an indictment" in the five-year-old case. "The hand that attempts to reach (our members) will be cut off," he added, prompting thunderous applause from hundreds of his party supporters gathered in the southern suburb of Beirut to commemorate the occasion. The Special Tribunal for Leb (STL), a U.N.-backed investigation into the Hariri murder, is reportedly set to issue an indictment soon that will implicate high-ranking members of Hizbullah. Nasrallah, whose party fought a devastating war with Israel in 2006, said his movement would defend itself against any accusation through whatever means it found appropriate. "Whoever thinks that the resistance will not defend itself and its honor against any accusation or attack by whatever means it finds appropriate, in agreement with its allies in Leb, is mistaken," he said. The Shiite leader also said his party -- the most powerful military and political force in the country -- was ready for another round with its arch-foe. "We await the day the indictment will be released," he said. "We are ready for any Israeli war on Leb and will again be victorious, Inshallah. "Whoever thinks that threatening us with another Israeli war will scare us is mistaken," he added. "On the contrary, whoever speaks of another war is bearing good news and not threatening us." Nasrallah's speech Thursday was the latest move in an increasingly heated campaign Hizbullah has launched to fend off the anticipated STL accusation against high-ranking members in connection with the killing of Hariri and 22 others in a Beirut bombing on February 14, 2005. The head of the Iranian- and Syrian-backed movement has warned against any accusations by the tribunal and said further Lebanese cooperation with the court would be tantamount to an attack on his powerful group. Despite Nasrallah's warnings, Prime Minister Saad Hariri -- son of the slain ex-premier -- has vowed to see the tribunal through. On the other hand, Nasrallah noted that Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom "has stated that the indictment will lead to the implementation of (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1559, which was engineered by the U.S. and France." "The Lebanese today have a golden opportunity to save their country from an American and Israeli plot," Nasrallah said, as he renewed his charge that the STL was a U.S.-Israeli ploy to "guillotine the resistance." "The Lebanese have one of two choices: either they hand the country over to ... (U.S. envoy Jeffrey) Feltman and (U.S. Secretary of State Hillary) Clinton, or they cooperate with Syria and Soddy Arabia." Leaders of regional power-houses Syria and Soddy Arabia, which back Leb's two rival coalitions respectively, have met several times in an attempt to stem tensions in Beirut. Western countries have stepped up their backing for the tribunal, with the United States announcing a 10-million-dollar donation to the court and both Feltman and U.S. Senator John I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry ... the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the empty broghans of Joe Biden... visiting Beirut. Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has urged the U.N. Security Council to "pay very close attention" to Leb, pushing for "pre-emptive diplomacy" to calm the volatile situation. Analysts have warned the standoff could lead to the collapse of the government and a repeat of the 18-month political deadlock that degenerated into deadly festivities and brought Leb close to civil war in May 2008. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 NEWS KERALA > HEZBOLLAH: WE'RE READY FOR [any]NEW WAR AGZ ISRAEL. Absolutely categorically undeniably...@etc.,OH-YES-WE-ARE/CAN, YOU-BETCHA-BOY AHMED??? AND * WAFF > NASRALLAH PROVOKES IRAN: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "PERSIAN CIVILIZATION", in IRAN, only ISLAM + "ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION". ARTIC = Be it the AYATOLLAH "WHY YES, VIRGINA, I VISITED GUAM INCOGNITO" KHOMEINI, or curr El-Hefe Supreme Cleric AYATOLLAH KHAMEINI, ALL OF IRAN'S LEADERS, ETAL. ARE ARAB DESCENDANTS FROM ARABIA + THE PROPHET MOHAMMED. Also read, IRAN = ARAB = NOT-PERSIA/PERSIAN VEE MOHAMMEDAN CONQUEST. But, I digress ... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-12 21:38 |
| #8 Reaching for members? I didn't see one word in here about the TSA.... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2010-11-12 16:31 |
| #7 And here I was thinking it only caused warts! |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-12 15:37 |
| #6 Whowhee, talk about trimming froghair. It would be medically fascinating. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-11-12 13:06 |
| #5 Maybe they'll miss and cut off their members instead... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-11-12 12:37 |
| #4 I have a theory working that if one were to snap their fingers and fulfill the wet dream world is all muslim idea, ten minutes later there would be a civil war about who was more pure, now justicfied. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-11-12 12:31 |
| #3 Wow, the message I was going to reply to is gone. Just as well, I had started to tell the truth. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-11-12 12:06 |
| #2 Okay then no hands. How about reaching out with a Hellfire? You down with that? |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2010-11-12 09:08 |
| #1 I promise not to reach for your members. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-11-12 01:49 |