Word: nasrallah
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SHEIK HASSAN NASRALLAH, Hizballah leader, mocking Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, who wept publicly during the recent conflict with Israel. Nasrallah said that his militant group would not disarm and that it had actually increased its arsenal since July...
...They should be judged by the standards to which political leaders should adhere: respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of just law. On all these counts, Raúl Castro falls short. Jeremy Lefroy Staffordshire, England Radical Sheik Scott Macleod seems to romanticize Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah [Aug. 21]. Behind his smiling face is a militant radical. Nasrallah and his allies are responsible for ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon. Most of the Christian population has been driven away and replaced by Shi'ite Muslims. Nasrallah is an agent of Iran's policy of destabilization. Will Western democracies allow...
...most of them seized in last month's fighting. So far, The ICRC has received no response from Israeli authorities on its demands for access to alleged Hizballah prisoners. To strengthen their bargaining hand, the Israelis carried out a commando raid in Baalbek valley, seizing five members of the Nasrallah family - assuming they belonged to the same family as Hizballah chief Hasan Nasrallah. But when they learned that the captive Nasrallahs were not related to the Hizballah leader - one was a greengrocer, another a plasterer - the Israelis sent them back to Lebanon with apologies...
...Olmert's popularity was damaged by the perception that he conducted the Lebanon war badly, and, as the Tel Aviv protest shows, he is under increasing pressure to free the hostages. Nasrallah, on the other hand, is in no hurry. The militant cleric says that he will start talking about the fate of two soldiers only after Israel withdraws its troops completely from Lebanon...
...known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it." SHEIK HASSAN NASRALLAH, leader of Hizballah, on the capture of Israeli soldiers by his militant group, which sparked the current fighting...