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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/08_04_03_f.asp
Lebanese news
Hizbullah ‘has not sent fighters to Iraq’
Official denies involvement in war
Compiled by Daily Star staff
A senior Hizbullah official said Monday that the organization had not sent any of its members to Iraq to carry out military operations there.
Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hizbullah’s deputy secretary-general, was answering reporters’ questions on whether any Hizbullah fighters had gone to Iraq to carry out suicide operations against US-led forces.
He was speaking after leading a delegation to a meeting with the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, to discuss the latest developments in the region.
“None of Hizbullah’s members has gone to Iraq to carry out operations there,” Qassem said. “We have clearly expressed our position, namely that we reject the American aggression and support the Iraqi people’s confrontation of this aggression. We also call on the Arab and Muslim world to reject this aggression through the appropriate means, but Hizbullah has not participated militarily in this battle,” he added.
Recent news reports have quoted unnamed US officials as saying that Egyptian and Syrian nationals were fighting against coalition forces.
Asked about the effects on Lebanon of the American-led invasion, Qassem said, “we may not feel direct effects on Lebanon at this stage. However, Lebanon may possibly be a focus of attention of future aggression and of American designs via the Israelis.”
“Accordingly, we must be ready and confident that we are capable of confronting challenges and dangers and that our country will not be a venue and an excursion for usurpers, whether they be Israelis or others,” he added.
Replying to a question on the importance of “warnings” to Syria and Iran, Qassem said Washington was trying to exert “psychological and moral pressure” on Damascus and Tehran to make them alter their position. “But the two countries are firm in their stand and will not be influenced,” he said.
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