Hariri: Hezbollah dragging Lebanon into war | The Times of Israel

Saad Hariri (photo credit: US State Department)

BEIRUT (AP) — One of Lebanon’s most powerful Sunni politicians accused the leader of the Shi’ite militant group Hezbollah on Saturday of dragging the country further into neighboring Syria’s civil war............

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REMEMBER ALL THOSE DEAD MARINES? Justice for Hezbollah | The Weekly Standard

The Obama administration is heralding a conference later this month in Geneva where representatives of Bashar al-Assad’s regime will ostensibly sit down with the Syrian rebel forces opposing them. The effect will be to prop up Assad. Sen. John McCain, on the other hand, is committed to the Syrian people. We commend him for the courage he showed last week when he became the most senior American official to visit Syria since the shooting started, entering from the Turkish border. Meeting with rebel leaders, McCain could hardly have been surprised to learn that the last thing they want is an intra-Syrian peace process with the ruling clique that slaughtered peaceful demonstrators for a year before the opposition finally picked up arms in its own defense. What the rebels want from the United States, Free Syrian Army general Salim Idriss told McCain, is what they’ve been requesting for a year—weapons and the grounding of Assad’s air force with a no-fly zone. Idriss added one new item to the wish list: Bomb Hezbollah.


Funeral for a Hezbollah fighter, killed in Syria/Landov

This request comes as the Lebanese militia has fully entered the Syrian civil war on the side of Assad—fighting not just to keep its ally in Damascus in power, but also to be of service to the Iranian regime, the patron of both Assad and Hezbollah, and to keep open the conduit that allows Iran to ship armaments through Syria to Hezbollah’s strongholds in Lebanon..........

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BBC News - Hezbollah fighters 'invading' Syria - rebel chief

 
Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria have been buried in Lebanon

Syrian rebels, the Free Syrian Army, has accused Hezbollah fighters of "invading" Syria in a BBC interview.

Gen Selim Idriss said that more than 7,000 fighters of the Lebanese Shia movement were taking part in attacks on the rebel-held town of Qusair.

Gen Idriss made an urgent appeal for more weapons "to defend our citizens".

The UN Human Rights Council condemned government attacks on Qusair, and the involvement of foreign fighters..........

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'5,000 Hezbollah troops in Syria, with 5,000 more set to join them' | The Times of Israel

Hezbollah fighters hold party flags during a parade in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla/File)

DEAD SEA, Jordan — Lebanon’s Hezbollah has 5,000 troops fighting alongside President Bashar Assad’s forces in Syria, and another 5,000 are getting ready to join them, a World Economic Forum gathering heard Sunday.

Salman Shaikh, director of the Doha Center of the Brookings Institution think tank, said there were also 1,500-2,000 fighters from Iraq in the battlegrounds of Syria. He said that not only was Syria “on the abyss,” but that after two years of civil war, there was growing danger that the fighting could draw in “the entire region.”

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DUH MOMENT AS NASRALLAH PROPAGANDIZES: Hezbollah admits its troops fighting in Syria | The Times of Israel

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. (photo credit: image capture from Channel 2/Al Manar)

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah admitted for the first time Saturday that his Shiite terrorist group had deployed fighters to Syria, saying his group would not stand idly by while its chief ally Syria is under attack.

In a televised speech commemorating Resistance and Liberation Day, which marks Israel’s 2000 withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah members are fighting in Syria against Islamic extremists who pose a danger to Lebanon.................

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Nasrallah ‘killer of Syrian people’ as tensions in Lebanon rise - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

The FSA says Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is "a killer of the Syrian people." (File photo: AFP)

The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) held Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah personally responsible for the situation in the Syrian border town of Qusayr, as sectarian tension was on the rise in neighboring Lebanon.

“We announced that Hassan Nasrallah will be held personally responsible for the current situation because he in person is meeting with all of [his fighters] before they head to Qusayr,” FSA spokesperson Louay Almokdad told Al Arabiya English. “We are today calling Nasrallah a killer of the Syrian people.”.......

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Hezbollah declares war on Syrian people, SNC chief says - Alarabiya.net English

George Sabra is elected as the interim chief of Syria’s main opposition group until elections for a new president. (AFP)

The Syrian National Coalition’s interim president said Monday the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has declared war on the Syrian people amid reports the movement is leading the fight against rebels in the central province of Homs.

“What is happening in Qusayr in Homs is Hezbollah declaring a war on the people of Syria,” George Sabra said in a press conference in Istanbul shortly after being named the new Syrian opposition interim chief.
“Hezbollah fighters have crossed the border into Syrian towns and cities.”

Sabra also said there are ongoing massacres in Syria, citing recent reports that at least 500 people have been killed in the past week by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

“Some of them were killed [with] knives in very barbaric ways. We are afraid this kind of behavior will continue. It is a massacre. It is crime against humanity,” he said, adding: “We put this fact in front of the international community to do what [it] has to do.”.....................

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THE REAL TERRORISTS: Over 1000 Hezbollah fighters arrive in Syria to back Assad forces - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

Hezbollah fighters march and while carrying their movement’s flag. (Courtesy of AP)

Over 1,000 members of the Lebanese Shitte militant group, Hezbollah, entered Syria in the past few days via waterways in the Mediterranean Sea, Saudi daily al-Watan reported on Sunday.

According to the report, around 1,200 fighters arrived to Syria's Tartus port in order to fight alongside regime troops.

The armed members who arrived from Lebanon to Syria committed "a hideous crime" in the town of Talkalkh, the daily said, adding that tens of thousands of fighters entered from Iraq to aid the Syrian regime.

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KILLING FOR ASSAD: Hezbollah’s new low - NYPOST.com

By AMIR TAHERI

EXCERPT:

Created by the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah’s army is designed mainly to bully the Lebanese into submission. It is also used for terrorist operations in other countries, including Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen.

But it has hit a new low now, joining the despot Bashar al-Assad’s murder squads against Syrian people.

Last September when I reported that Hezbollah was fighting in Syria, the group and its masters in Tehran launched a campaign of denial. “Hezbollah would never fire a bullet against Muslim brothers,” the party’s TV station, Al-Manar, repeated.

Yet echoes of Hezbollah’s involvement in the massacre of civilians in Syria have been heard across the Middle East. Even the Lebanese media, operating with a Hezbollah gun pressed to their heads, confirm the story — albeit in a roundabout way............

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Syrian rebels claim successful attack on Hezbollah | The Times of Israel

Syrian rebels battle Hezbollah operatives near Qusayr, February 2013 (photo credit: screen capture Muslim Voice/Youtube)

Syrian rebels said they attacked and destroyed a convoy carrying Hezbollah operatives and officers of the regime’s army near the Lebanese border on Tuesday.

Trucks carrying the fighters, including a high-ranking Syrian officer, were blown up by landmines planted on the Beirut-Damascus highway after the rebels were informed of the convoy’s route, a statement by the Free Syrian Army said. According to the statement, all of the passengers were killed in the explosion.

The convoy was reportedly en route to Lebanon, where its members were slated to meet an unnamed security official................

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UNHOLY CAUSE: Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria will ‘go to hell,’ says former leader

In a televised interview with Al Arabiya in October 2012, former Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Sobhi Tfaili urged Hezbollah to reconsider its political position towards Syria. (Al Arabiya)

By AL ARABIYA

Former Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Sobhi Tfaili criticized the participation of Hezbollah fighters in the Syrian conflict, saying those who are killed in Syria will “go to hell” and are not considered martyrs.

During a televised interview this week, Tfaili “confirmed” that Hezbollah is fighting alongside the regime in Syria.

“Hezbollah members who kill children, terrorize people and destroy houses in Syria will not be martyrs and will end up in hell,” he said...........

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WE CAN ONLY HOPE: If Syria’s Assad falls, Hezbollah’s next - Frida Ghitis - MiamiHerald.com

If Syria’s Assad falls, Hezbollah’s next - Frida Ghitis - MiamiHerald.com

HEZBOLLAH FIGHTING FOR TYRANT ASSAD: Syrian rebels pan Hezbollah 'military intervention' | The Times of Israel

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks to supporters (photo credit: Ferran Queved/propaimages/Flash90 File photo)

Opposition forces in Syria on Sunday accused the Lebanese group Hezbollah of “military intervention” that threatened “regional peace and security.”

According to a statement released by the Syria National Council (SNC) and quoted by AFP, Hezbollah militants on Saturday attacked three villages in Homs province, near the Lebanese border, causing “civilian casualties and the exodus of hundreds of people.”

“In the past two days, 12 Syrian rebels were killed and 30 wounded, while three Hezbollah members were killed and 14 others were wounded in battles,” a Lebanese security source told The Daily Star.

The involvement of the militant group “stoked sectarian tensions” in the area, the SNC statement said.

FULL ARTICLE HERE: Syrian rebels pan Hezbollah 'military intervention' | The Times of Israel

DEBKA FILE'S LATEST TAKE ON ISRAELI-SYRIAN STRIKE: Obama green light for Israel to strike Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah military links

 

Obama green light for Israel to strike Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah military links