Hizbullah on Friday congratulated Libyan revolutionaries on the capture and death of Moammar Qadaffy...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland...
a day earlier on the outskirts of his hometown Sirte.
"Hizbullah congratulates the people of Libya on turning the page on more than four decades of tyrannical rule," read a statement released by the group.
"This people today stands before a historic opportunity ... and must protect its revolution from the greed of powerful nations."
Hizbullah also urged Libya's new leaders to uncover the fate of revered Shiite leader Imam Moussa Sadr, who disappeared in 1978 on a trip to Libya.
Iranian-born Lebanese holy man Sadr, who would be 83 in April, vanished on a trip aimed at negotiating an end to Leb's 1975-1990 civil war.
Relations between Libya and Leb have been at a low point since the holy man's disappearance, which dealt a heavy blow to the Shiite community.
Abdul Moneim al-Honi, a former colonel who took part in the 1969 revolution that brought Qadaffy to power, recently revealed that the Libyan leader had ordered Sadr killed during his visit and that the holy man was buried in the southern region of Sabha.
Leb's foreign ministry will dispatch a delegation tasked with following up the Sadr case to Libya on Sunday, ministry sources told Al-Manar television.