Word: nasrallah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nasrallah: We will take revenge on the Israeli armed forces. They were responsible for killing our people in Qana, and they occupy our land...
...Nasrallah: Yes. We totally exclude anything outside Lebanon. From the political point of view and the point of view of world public opinion, it is not in Hizballah's interest or to its benefit to retaliate anywhere outside the occupied area...
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is secretary-general of Hizballah, the Lebanese guerrilla movement that fought a 16-day war with Israel last month. Nasrallah, 36, joined Hizballah shortly after it was founded with Iranian support in 1982. He was elected leader in February 1992, immediately after the assassination by the Israeli military of his friend and predecessor, Sheik Abbas Mussawi. In his first interview with Western correspondents since the fighting began, Nasrallah met with TIME's Beirut bureau chief, Lara Marlowe, and her husband Robert Fisk of Britain's Independent...
...Nasrallah: The [cease-fire] understanding is very clear: it prohibits both sides from shelling civilians under any circumstances. But it is very difficult for the Israelis to refrain from shelling the villages, because the people they are fighting are Lebanese. When our people come back from attacks, they will go back to their homes...
Israel says it will continue until Hizballah signals it has had enough. Hizballah, however, may not cave in so easily. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the party's leader, has pledged to retaliate in a way that will "astonish Peres...