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John Calvin
5/24/2002 (20:27) |
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Palestinians Will Win If They Love Death: Hizbollah
BEIRUT -- Hizbollah Leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, whose movement carried out several martyrdom-seeking operations on Israeli occupation forces in Lebanon, urged the Palestinians on Thursday not t
'The experience of the Lebanese resistance is that those who love death defeat those who are afraid of death,' Nasrallah said, adding that the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation was a gra
Addressing a rally to mark two years since the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon, Nasrallah said martyrdom-seeking operations were a locally-made weapon that Israel could not contain.
'The culture of martyrdom is the strongest weapon.
It does not carry a 'Made in U.S.' or 'Made in Soviet Union' stamp,' Nasrallah told 20,000 supporters.
He said Palestinian martyrdom operations, such as one near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, showed the futility of Israeli occupation and revenge attacks on Palestinian cities. Al-Aqsa martyrs brigades said it
Referring to Washington's declared war on terrorism, he said of martyrdom operations: 'This is a humble weapon that does not deserve this world war on it, on every (Palestinian) young man and woman wh
Hizbollah's war of attrition forced Israel to end its 22-year occupation of south Lebanon. It has since kept up a low intensity war against Israeli troops occupying the foothills of the Golan Heights.
Meanwhile, the pro-Iranian guerrilla group Hizbollah on Thursday denied a U.S. media report that said it had met members of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda group to plan new attacks.
'Such allegations are silly. No such meeting took place,' Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told a rally marking the second anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon.
'There is one thing that they (the United States) have not accused us of yet -- working to obtain weapons of mass destruction,' Nasrallah said.
ABC News reported that leaders of Al-Qaeda, Hizbollah and the Palestinian group Hamas had put aside their differences and held a meeting in Lebanon in late March to discuss tactics and a new level of
Hizbollah is a Shia group whose war of attrition drove out Israel from south Lebanon after a 22-year occupation. Al-Qaeda and Hamas belong to the larger Sunni sect of Islam.
The Lebanese government earlier denied the report.
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