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| Hizbollah blasts UN, vows to stand by Syria |
| 2005-10-28 |
| BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group said on Friday it would stand by Syria, blasting the United Nations for what it said was political incitement against Damascus over the killing of a Lebanese ex-premier. Tens of thousands of Lebanese attended an anti-Israel Hizbollah parade in Beirut's southern suburb in a show of force by the guerrilla group facing U.S.-led pressure to disarm in line with a 14-month-old U.N. resolution. "We say clearly that we stand by Syria, leadership and people, in the face of its targeting by the Americans and Zionists and attempts to punish it politically for standing by Lebanon and its resistance," Hizbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told the rally. A U.N. inquiry led by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis named senior Syrian officials as suspects in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. The report prompted the United States and France to put forward a draft resolution, set to be passed next week, at the Security Council demanding Syria cooperate fully with the probe and threatening economic sanctions. "What we are witnessing today is the using of the Mehlis report to punish Syria for a crime that it has not been convicted of as a punishment for its political and strategic options," Nasrallah said. The parade, an annual event to mark Jerusalem Day in support of Palestinians, was the first major gathering organized by the Shi'ite Muslim group since its backer and ally Syria pulled out its troops from Lebanon in April. It also came days after a U.N. envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen, said in a report the Lebanese government had not disarmed Hizbollah and Palestinian fighters in line with Security Council Resolution 1559, which calls for the disbanding of all militias. "We frankly feel that there is incitement
from more than one international report to sabotage the relations between the Lebanese themselves, the Lebanese and the Palestinians and Lebanon-Syria ties," Nasrallah said. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Outside of leaking US $$$ like a sewer, or scoring diplomatic-ideo points ags America and the Western Democracies, the UNO is and always was irrelevant to the Commies as it now is to the Radic Spetzlamists. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-10-28 23:09 |
| #4 Mmm hizbollah soup. Fucking destroy their asses, take their philanthropic network apart at the seams; fill the vacuum with intl aid to draw public support away from them. I'm sure the Massad would be happy to let us have a peak at their address book of Hizbollah goons. We can make some friendly housecalls.Then drag these fucks into the street and kill them. No fucking joke, just off their asses, they are a terrorist network and regardless of how legitimate their rule may now be in Lebanon they should all be killed like dogs. EP |
| Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-10-28 13:19 |
| #3 Thank you Hizbollah, for confirming the report. "for what it said was political incitement against Damascus over the killing of a Lebanese ex-premier" This says to me, just cause Damascus had to kill the premier, dos'nt mean you should be mad. So we are defending the killer, because you should'nt be mad. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2005-10-28 12:27 |
| #2 The subject line of this article led me to believe the terrs bombed Turtle Bay. Damn . . . . |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2005-10-28 11:38 |
| #1 Once bought we stay bought. At least give us credit for that... |
| Posted by: Nasrallah: Lion of Hizbollah 2005-10-28 10:31 |