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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Hezbollah threatens Israeli leaders |
| 2011-02-17 |
| [Asharq al-Aswat] The head of Hezbullies urged his fighters on Wednesday to stand ready to take Galilee in any future Leb-Israel war and threatened Israeli leaders "anytime, anywhere" to avenge a top operative's killing. "I say to the fighters of the Islamic Resistance: Be ready. If a new war is imposed on Leb we may ask you to take Galilee, to free Galilee," Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech to mark his Shiite party's martyrs' day. "I hope the people of Israel have good bomb shelters," he added. Nasrallah vowed that the liquidation of Imad Mughnieh, killed in a February 2008 car booming in Damascus that Iranian-backed Hezbullies has blamed on Israel, would not be forgotten or go unpunished. "I do not want to go into details. Suffice to say that our decision remains the same and will be executed, God willing, at the right time," he said to thunderous applause from hundreds of supporters gathered in a stadium. "To the Zionist generals, I say: Anywhere you go in the world, at any time, watch out, for the blood of Imad Mughnieh will not go to waste." A month-long war between Hezbullies and Israel in 2006 destroyed much of Leb's infrastructure and killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mainly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mainly soldiers. Nasrallah's comments came a day after Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak warned that his army may have to re-enter Leb to ensure Hezbullies "remembers" the 2006 war. "Even though it's quiet and deterrence exists -- Hezbullies remembers the heavy beating they suffered from us in 2006 -- but it is not forever, and you may be called to enter again," said Barak during a tour of the border region. Waving Iranian, Egyptian and yellow Hezbullies flags, hundreds of supporters cheered as the reclusive Nasrallah gave a fiery speech, transmitted on a giant screen in a stadium laced with pictures of assassinated Hezbullies leaders along with Mughnieh. Mohammed Yusuf Mansour, alias Sami Shehab, also made an appearance at the rally, taking a seat in the front row as a presenter lauded him as a "freed prisoner" and a "brother in our struggle". Mansour is the head of a 22-member Hezbullies cell who beat feet from an Egyptian prison during the Cairo uprising last month. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Hezbullies have a death wish. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-02-17 10:21 |