Word: hizballah
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...death of Mughniyah may have marked a turning point in the long conflict between Hizballah and Israel. After years of ambivalence over Mughniyah's connection with the Shi'ite party, Hizballah leaders have embraced him as one of its greatest resistance leaders, responsible for turning the group's military wing into the heavily armed crack fighting force it is today. In the West, Mughniyah was better known for his alleged association with the large-scale suicide bomb attacks and kidnappings of foreigners in 1980s Beirut. More recently, Mughniyah reportedly assisted militant groups in the Palestinian territories and in Iraq, ensuring...
...Hizballah believes that Mughniyah's assassination is part of an Israeli plan to decapitate the leadership of militant anti-Israel groups as a precursor for launching a new war against the Shi'ite organization. "Mughniyah was killed in the context of an open and comprehensive war through which Israel is preparing for another war," Nasrallah said at a ceremony Friday marking the beginning of the annual "week of the resistance," in which dead Hizballah leaders are honored...
...Nasrallah warned that Hizballah was more than ready to fight another war and threatened Israel that its army would be destroyed if it entered Lebanon. "We will kill you in the fields, we will kill you in the cities, we will fight you like you have never seen before," he said speaking via a large television screen before an audience of tens of thousands of supporters. "Your army will be destroyed in the south and so will your prestige and you will remain without an army. Israel cannot last without an army...
...year-old son, Jihad. Dressed in crisp camouflage uniform and forage cap, Jihad Mughniyah marched briskly onto the stage and delivered a confident and impassioned speech, pledging that "the strugglers of my father and myself are ready to continue in his footsteps." The rhetoric even had hard-nosed Hizballah security men and top rank party officials dabbing their eyes with handkerchiefs as the audience burst into applause and cheers at the end of the speech...
...These guys are very ready for war," says Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a Hizballah expert with the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East Center in Beirut. But not everyone in south Lebanon is ready for another round with Israel. Many residents of the battle-scarred south are still repairing the damage of the 2006 war and the notion of another conflict striking the region is not welcomed, even among some Hizballah supporters. "God bless Nasrallah and the resistance. They have fought and sacrificed for Lebanon. But we are tired of wars and just want to raise our children in peace," said Hassan...