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International News Title: Nasrallah threatens to liberate Galilee if Israel attacks BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called Wednesday on his fighters to stand ready to take over northern Israel in the event of a war with the Jewish state, a threat that earned a swift response by Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. “I say to the fighters of the Islamic Resistance: Be ready. If a new war is imposed on Lebanon we may ask you to take Galilee, to free Galilee,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech in response to threats by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to march into Lebanon. “Nasrallah declared today that he will conquer the Galilee. I have news for him. He won’t,” Netanyahu said. “There is no doubt Israel has the ability to defend itself,” he told delegates at a conference of American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. “We have a strong army and a determined people. We seek peace but the army is ready to defend Israel against its enemies,” Netanyahu added. Barak told his troops on a tour Tuesday to the Israeli-Lebanese border that despite the reigning calm, they might be called on again to enter Lebanon. Nasrallah made his comments during an address to mark the party’s martyrs’ day, and also threatened Israel’s high-ranking military officials with targeting them throughout the world to avenge the death of Hezbollah’s former top military commander, whose assassination in Damascus in February 2008 was blamed on Israel. “To the Zionist generals, I say: Anywhere you go in the world, at any time, beware, for the blood of Imad Mughnieh will not be in vain,” he said. Nasrallah added that Hezbollah would maintain its arsenal and its resistance against Israel, despite the domestic campaign carried out against the party’s weapons. “There is a national conflict over the issue of weapons but weapons are a detail, the conflict is over the option of resistance, and this [conflict] is not a condemnation of the resistance, but rather a condemnation of those who backstabbed the resistance,” he said, in reference to March 14 groups. The March 14 alliance, which is expected to boycott Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s March 8-led Cabinet, has endorsed the limitation of weapons to official authorities, and support for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, as the coalition’s top priorities for the upcoming period. The upcoming Cabinet is expected to halt cooperation with the U.N.-backed tribunal upon Hezbollah’s request, with the court widely believed to issue an indictment soon involving Hezbollah members in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Nasrallah said his party would take the appropriate measures to deal with the STL’s indictment, which he described as a fabricated one that would fail to uncover the truth. “What we are heading toward in Lebanon is a U.S. political invasion,” the Hezbollah leader said. “If you want to continue supporting the court, then you are free to do so. And if the indictment or trials in absentia is the truth, then act accordingly, and we will act based on what we deem appropriate with regard to manipulation [of the Hariri investigation], which will not lead to the truth,” Nasrallah said addressing March 14 parties. Recalling the March 14 slogan that stability would not exist without justice, Nasrallah said peace would reign in the Middle East only after the Palestinian people secure justice, through the establishment of a Palestinian state, the return of refugees and the liberation of occupied territories. Touching on the popular uprising in Egypt, Nasrallah said the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime was an indication of decline in U.S. influence in the region and a major victory for resistance movements against Arab dictatorships that have long served Israeli interests. Mohammad Youssef Mansour, Hezbollah’s cell leader in Egypt who escaped or was aided to flee from prison during the recent popular uprising, appeared at the rally before Nasrallah spoke, greeting dignitaries and giving a victory salute. Mansour, who held a forged passport under the name of Sami Chehab was convicted in 2010 for spying for Hezbollah and plotting terrorist attacks in Egypt. – The Daily Star Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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ATTACK!!! Do it now Ysrael. Before it's too late!!! "Curveball"-- the mentally unstable source for much of the Bush administration's claims about WMD's in Iraq-- admits he lied: The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials who dealt with his claims, has told the Guardian that he fabricated tales of mobile bioweapons trucks and clandestine factories in an attempt to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime, from which he had fled in 1995.
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