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NGO: At least 79 Hizbullah Fighters Killed in Qusayr | |||
2013-05-28 | |||
[AnNahar] At least 79 Hizbullah members have been killed fighting alongside the Syrian army in the town of Qusayr since last week, a watchdog said on Monday.
Hizbullah has been sending fighters to fight alongside the Syrian army against rebels for several months. But the battle to retake rebel stronghold Qusayr in the central province of Homs has been its biggest and bloodiest engagement so far. On Saturday alone, 22 fighters from the Shiite group were killed in Qusayr, the source close to the group told Agence La Belle France Presse. The same day, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed his group would win a "victory" in Syria. "I say to all the honorable people, to the mujahedeen, to the heroes: I have always promised you a victory and now I pledge to you a new one" in Syria, he said at a ceremony marking the 13th anniversary of Israel's military withdrawal from Leb. Nasrallah said Hizbullah would always stand by its ally, Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Light of the Alawites... , and his regime, stressing that its own interests were at stake. "We will continue along the road... bear the responsibilities and the sacrifices," he said in a video link of a speech delivered live on a huge screen. "This battle is ours... and I promise you victory." Nasrallah appealed for Leb to be protected from the violence raging across the border. But on Sunday several rockets slammed into Hizbullah's southern Beirut stronghold, wounding four people. And fighting between pro-Syrian regime Alawites and pro-uprising Sunnis in the northern port of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... has killed 31 people in the past week. | |||
Posted by:trailing wife |
#5 The 3% rule? What's that, Shipman? |
Posted by: trailing wife 2013-05-28 23:11 |
#4 Yes. Alan it does. That said, I agree totally. I want to see how close we can get to the 3% rule. |
Posted by: Shipman 2013-05-28 16:05 |
#3 Why am I torn about this? I want to see more alQ wannabes sniffing the sulphur too. Let's go for some ol' timey Cold War Mutually Assured Destruction here. I want the corpse-count on both sides to be stratospheric. Does that make me a bad person? |
Posted by: AlanC 2013-05-28 14:08 |
#2 Fat Hassan needs a Jew missile up his fundament. Just sayin'... |
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-05-28 11:59 |
#1 I still prefer that a larger number of casualties be of the maimed type. Dead to Hesb'allah means 'martyred'. Maimed becomes 'operational burden', 'morale-breaker' and a cost to Nasrallah later. |
Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-28 11:09 |