Nasrallah Says Jihadists Incapable of Invading Bekaa
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Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stressed that jihadists located in Syria's Qalamun region and on the outskirts of the northeastern town of Arsal in Lebanon are not able to enter the Bekaa Valley.
“We are fully prepared” for such a scenario, Nasrallah was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
According to al-Akhbar daily, he told visitors that Hizbullah should stay united. “If there had been any security breach, this does not mean that we failed.”
“The biggest countries in the world cannot claim that they are in full control of security,” the Hizbullah secretary-general said.
Last week, local dailies said that Nasrallah visited his party's fighters on the Lebanese-Syrian border dressed in military fatigues in a strong show of support.
Nasrallah met the fighters in their posts after he visited some families in the eastern Bekaa Valley to extend condolences to the party members who were killed in battles with extremist groups.
Hizbullah has sent fighters to Syria to back President Bashar Assad's forces against rebels trying to remove him from power. The armed intervention in Syria earned the Shiite group the enmity of Syria's predominantly Sunni rebels. Assad is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Over the past year, Syrian troops and Hizbullah fighters have captured most of the towns and villages in Syria's mountainous Qalamun region along the Lebanon border, depriving the rebels of residential areas where they can stay during the winter.
“As every day passes, we become more aware that our fighting in Syria is for the protection of Lebanon,” Nasrallah said, according to al-Akhbar.
“We have a golden opportunity to break the takfiri plan,” he added.
Hizbullah fighters have also clashed with jihadists, who infiltrated Lebanese territories.
Earlier this month, al-Qaida's Syrian affiliate, al-Nusra Front, attacked positions manned by Hizbullah on the outskirts of Brital, killing several of its fighters.
There have been reports of other skirmishes between Hizbullah and militants along the Lebanon-Syria border.
Nasrallah described the battles in his remarks carried by al-Akhbar daily as a “minor mistake that has been resolved.”
He told his visitors that he walked on foot for several kilometers during his visit to Hizbullah fighters in their bases on the border with Syria.
“Our situation on the ground is very strong and our preparations are very advanced. Our plans are coherent and we are ready for any step they (the jihadists) take,” he said.
The militants “are incapable of invading any Bekaa region because they are trapped,” Nasrallah added.
The fighters from al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State have only two options – either to die from cold or leave in civilian clothing, he stressed.
The militants engaged in bloody clashes with the Lebanese army in Arsal last August. They took with them hostages from the military and police and later executed three of them.
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21 October 2014, 08:24
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I'm not scared about few takfiris, I'm worried about Iran having taken over our country, creating tensions between communities and eventually bring Lebanon into a new civil war...
Sunnis can't stand anymore oppression from these syro-iranian agents and their lackeys into our institutions...
21 October 2014, 08:41
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Please stop this sunni oppression crap. We are all oppressed. Christians, Druze, and Sunnites. The oppressors are HA Shias. Why are we only talking about sunni oppression? because they grow beards and do terror acts?
21 October 2014, 09:37
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all oppressed, not the same way/intensity, not protected or resisting the same way either. Christians safe in mount lebanon, druze in chouf, not in contact with hizbos, unlike sunnis living in mixed areas/cities...
21 October 2014, 11:14
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Cedre this is not a fight between comunities (please don t fall in this lime assad succeeded to do in syria) this is a fight betwween lebanese citizen who want a state were all should have same right and duty and a sectarian, retarded millicia engaged in yemen/irak/syria and god knows where under the comand of senile illuminated khomayini who is letting iranian people live like in midle ages...dragging us in a war that dates for centuries..
Chill cedre, donnot lose north, especialy not now...
21 October 2014, 12:46
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Dude, what about the Shia who do not support Hizb? You think we're not oppressed as well? Nobody in my family supports Hizb, yet a lot of them live in areas controlled by Hizb in Dahyeh and the Bekaa, and they have to talk in whispers for fear of retribution from Hizb in the form of eviction from jobs, having their cars smashed at night, or being jumped on the street in broad daylight (all of which already happened to the unrepentant among us). Lopping all Shia with Hizb is ridiculous. Hizb only cares for its own - i.e., Syrio-Iranian - interests, and is ready to do unto other Shiites what they do to the takfiriyyé at the slightest sign of dissent, only with more impunity than what they do to other sects because they think that they own all of Shia.
21 October 2014, 13:30
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Totaly agree maxx, and i feel sorry we couldn't do more for shiite comunity under the control of hezbos....
22 October 2014, 00:08
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Another case you can find about if you go to Maroun Misik, also in Shiyyé7, is that of Gabby, the Christian husband of a local Shiite lady. Gabby moved into Maroun Misik around 1998 after he got married and opened up a "dikkénè" on sheri3 Maroun Misik. He used to sell Almaza (that's how I know him). He was threatened numerous times to leave because he was "corrupting the youth" by selling them alcohol - though it was the "youth", of whom I was one, who were going to his shop and having to wait until all the other customers left so that, upon repeated insistence, he would bring out the beer from the back of the shop (it's not like he had it on public display). Then one day Hizb followed through with their threats and threw a Molotov cocktail into his shop. He managed to escape the fire; his Shiite wife and their newborn daughter weren't so lucky.
21 October 2014, 15:32
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I can't believe what I'm hearing. Christians have mixed cities. I think if you keep an assassination tally, Sunni are far behind. Look Jumblat was threatened through his hearland being attacked to flip flop. We had our political parties outlawed and leadership jailed and exiled. Are you serious right now? We suffered under Assad/HA dominance for years.
21 October 2014, 15:43
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zahle, this is 2014, not 1984.
Nobody denying Christians suffered, got thrown out of their lands in the south and the chouf, were sent into exile but now Sunnis are the victims of the syro-iranian tandem for not willing to submit. Many cynical christians/druze actually it's a good thing for them that sunnis and shias fight/weaken each others...
22 October 2014, 00:15
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Ok wait 84 was worse, but how many of us were killed in the 2000's assassinated?
22 October 2014, 02:05
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zahle1, for me the '80s saw the end of lebanese christians as a demographic power, thousands among the youngest fleeing for EU, US, Canada, Australia and south America, cant compare with less than 100 journalists and politicians killed after 2000.
21 October 2014, 08:45
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“We have a golden opportunity to break the takfiri plan,” he added.
I think you have a platinum opportunity to get your plan broken.
21 October 2014, 10:24
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Why do you ask about Flamethrower? Does a brainwashed know he is brainwashed?
21 October 2014, 12:36
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The arrogance, they speak of themselves like they are a separate country.
21 October 2014, 16:21
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Lemme get this straight, so first Nasrallsah said that his Jihadis'd gone to Syria so the other Jihadis don't come to Lebanon. Then he tell us that his Jihadis are on the Lebanese border to stop the other Jihadis from entering Lebanon. Now he's talking about no letting the other Jihadis invade the Bekaa. Nothing is going according to what Nasrallsah says but this does not mean that he failed.. the people of Beirut, Jounieh and Saida are now starting to wonder if what Naiim Qassem claimed the other day was a sick joke.
21 October 2014, 18:10
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“The biggest countries in the world cannot claim that they are in full control of security,” the Hizbullah secretary-general said.
I see, so your statelet has better security than the US, UK, Russia, France...
21 October 2014, 21:01
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another screen name, another ban, another punishment, another year, another century as flamethrower embarks on another adventure chasing his illusive dream to earn a gold medal in posting nonstop propaganda and misinformation
21 October 2014, 22:22
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Flamey, you kept making fun of Geagea when he said ISIS wasn't a threat to Lebanon, and now Nasrallah is saying they're incapable of entering Beqaa. By default you're agreeing with Geagea, isn't that amazing????????? Hahahahahahahahaha
22 October 2014, 02:46
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That statement of course means that they are (capable of invading the Bekaa)
