Word: nasrallah
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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...
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...
...Hizballah, whose Shi'ite militiamen have been attacking Israeli troops in Southern Lebanon almost daily. But a look at one of the station's propaganda films shows why Yitzhak Rabin would be happy to see Lighthouse knocked out of commission. While martial music blares in the background, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's leader, is seen embracing departing fighters. Documentary footage shows guerrillas planting their flag, Iwo Jima-style, as they storm an Israeli position. Israeli troops load casualties onto stretchers and into helicopters. "Thousands upon thousands are waiting for their martyrdom," says Nasrallah of his forces. Cross hairs are superimposed...