Top Hizbullah Military Commander Ali Bazzi Killed in Syria Fighting
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A top military commander of Hizbullah died in fighting Sunday in Syria, a Lebanese security source said.
"Ali Bazzi, a high-ranking Hizbullah military commander, was killed today in a combat zone," the source said without specifying the location.
Earlier the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that four Hizbullah fighters died Sunday during battles in Nabuk, one of the last rebel-held areas in the Qalamoun region bordering Lebanon.
"There is fierce fighting in Nabuk between government forces, backed by Lebanese Hizbullah fighters, and al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," said the watchdog.
A website for Bint Jbeil, Bazzi's hometown in southern Lebanon, also announced the commander's death and posted pictures of him in military garb and holding an automatic rifle.
"Ali Hussein Bazzi... died a martyr as he was carrying out his sacred duty as a jihadist," read the announcement.
Meanwhile residents of southern Lebanon said that two other Hizbullah fighters -- Ali Saleh and Qassem Ghamloosh -- were also killed in Syria on Sunday and buried.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has repeatedly defended his group's involvement in Syria.
On Tuesday he said in an interview with OTV that Hizbullah is fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon from the Syrian rebels, who include jihadists linked to al-Qaida.
Hours after that interview Hizbullah announced the death of one of its top military commanders, Hassan al-Laqqis, saying he was shot dead near Beirut and blaming Israel for his murder.
And on November 28, the southern town of Rishknaniyeh held a funeral for Wissam Sharafeddine, another prominent Hizbullah field commander in Damascus' countryside.
Syrian regime forces made gains Sunday in the key town of Nabuk, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Regime forces have surrounded and pounded Nabuk for the past two weeks.
Taking the Nabuk area would cement regime control of territory linking Damascus province with Homs province in central Syria.
Also on Sunday, Hizbullah's al-Manar television broadcast a video showing four booby-trapped vehicles, saying they were seized by the Syrian army in Nabuk and they that were destined to be used in bomb attacks in Lebanon.
“Most of the booby-trapped cars that were sent to Lebanon came from Yabrud and Nabuk via Arsal,” Nasrallah said on Tuesday, noting that had Hizbullah refrained from intervening militarily in Syria's Qusayr and Qalamoun areas, “dozens and hundreds of explosive-rigged cars would have entered Lebanon.”
08 December 2013, 21:11
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few of them actually
http://www.yalibnan.com/2013/12/08/syria-war-turning-into-cemetery-for-hezbollah-commanders/
08 December 2013, 21:18
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Beautiful news. The FSA were more productive than me today, who can blame them for defending their country from jihadist invaders.
09 December 2013, 08:23
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several more in Syria-- I am sure there are a lot more than we know of.
08 December 2013, 21:20
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i heard they'll bury him in Sayda, there's gonna be havoc...
08 December 2013, 21:28
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No way in hell this man gets buried in my city. He belongs in Bint Jbeil where the bazzi originate.... Or in the sea to feed the fish with his terrorist cousin Ben laden.
08 December 2013, 22:46
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last time they tried to bury in sayda a hizbo killed in syria, sunnis blocked them to bury him in the martyrs' cemetery.
Hizbos had to go to another cemetery to avoid mayhem...
09 December 2013, 08:25
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bury him on Iran-- these people are Iranians and not Lebanese as far as I am concerned-- cancerous Iranians
08 December 2013, 21:40
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"Ali Hussein Bazzi... died a martyr as he was carrying out his sacred duty as a jihadist," read the announcement.....................
How does this statement differ than one by the Takfiris? "Martyr & Jihadist".
It is a shame that these die hard, well trained fighters are not putting their loyalties in the service of the Republic of Lebanon but rather into sectarian loyalties.
08 December 2013, 22:33
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had Hizbullah refrained from intervening militarily in Syria's Qusayr and Qalamoun areas, “dozens and hundreds of explosive-rigged cars would have entered Lebanon.
Great job protecting Dahiye from those scumbags!
08 December 2013, 22:48
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... now pull out and protect your own country's borders, if you want to be useful.
08 December 2013, 23:07
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Inshalla you will rot in hell you filthy scumbag.. This is what you get for raping women, killing children and the rest of our syrian brethren. Hope everyone that supports the devil party's actions in syria will suffer the same way as the syrian people suffers today from the murderous regime and the so called shiite militias.
08 December 2013, 23:39
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May God forgive him for supporting a Tyrant and dying for him by fighting muslims.
09 December 2013, 00:23
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Nasrallah said Hizbullah has a “very modest presence there” but more and more of its fighters keep getting killed in Syria. Isn't it about time for Nasrallah to jump out of his bunker & personally join the fight to keep Assad in power… I meant to keep Lebanon safe from the “Israeli takfiri terrorist”
09 December 2013, 02:02
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he died a brainwashed killer for khamenei and assad...
May he rot in hell!!!
09 December 2013, 05:46
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icey, tu me tues avec tes question. Je ne sais pas d'ou tu les sors (franchement chapeau bas!) mais je suis tout le temps plie en de rire en deux.
Et bonjour au fait.
et bonjours tout le monde aussi.
09 December 2013, 08:02
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The trend is starting-- a few losses already this week! I think it is what we call karma!!!!
09 December 2013, 20:05
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HA is fighting in Syria to ensure it is not geographically cutoff from Iran and it can continue receiving smuggled weapons and whatever else, unimpeded and with total disregard for law and order.
Repeating a lie a million times does not change the facts to suit your propaganda. Heart eating savages are rejected by all Lebanese and all Lebanese will fight them with rocks if we have to should they decide to bring their ideology of jihad and hate to Lebanon.
09 December 2013, 20:32
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@HA, your self-appointed duties were to protect Lebanon from the Israelis, you have done that well, thank you. Now please return to the southern borders and continue to protect us from the Israelis and leave killing other Arabs to other evil doers. You were never sanctioned, commissioned, authorized or mobilized by the Lebanese people or the Lebanese government to fight wars in foreign countries to protect our borders. If you are so concerned about takfiri heart eating cannibals and again want to self-assign yourselves the task to protect us without our consent, go amass your forces on the northern/eastern border but do it from the Lebanese side and protect us until you are blue in the face. STOP the lies and propaganda, have the decency and courage to state your business in Syria as it really is, to protect your shipping lanes and ability to roam freely to other countries, the Syrian people are just collateral damage to you; the end justifies the means.
