Hizbullah Commander Killed near Damascus
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
A military commander of Hizbullah was killed in fighting near the Syrian capital and has been buried in his southern Lebanese hometown of Kfar Sir, residents said Monday.
"Hizbullah military commander Hossam Ali Nisr, aged 33, was buried on Saturday. He was defending Sayyida Zeinab," which houses a Shiite shrine southeast of Damascus, "when his group was attacked and he was killed," one resident told Agence France Presse, without giving a date.
Hizbullah is a key Damascus backer and has sent fighters into Syria to support President Bashar Assad in his regime's bid to crush a 29-month rebellion.
Fighters of Hizbullah played a key role in the government's recapture in June of the rebel bastion of Qusayr, near the Lebanese border.
The report of Nisr's killing comes after Hizbullah chief sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said he was ready to go to Syria to fight extremists he accused of staging a deadly car bomb attack last Thursday in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a bastion of his movement.
According to a final count, 27 people were killed in the attack.
"I will go myself to Syria if it is so necessary in the battle against the takfiris (radical Sunni Muslims), Hizbullah and I will go to Syria" to fight rebels trying to oust the Damascus regime, Nasrallah said in an angry reaction to the car bombing.
Tensions have soared in fragile Lebanon over the conflict in neighboring Syria. Though Lebanon is officially neutral, the country is deeply divided between those backing Assad's regime and those who oppose it.
19 August 2013, 14:27
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Every Lebanese drop of blood should be charged against the leader whose brainwashing them..what a shame..all this because Assad does not want to share his empire with the sunnis...same problem we have in Lebanon when it comes to forming a government or employment in the state...
19 August 2013, 15:04
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The best part is that mr jamiroqai (I'm going deeper underground) promised to go fight on the front line. What a false promise. He never keeps his word....
19 August 2013, 16:41
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Citizen of Isfahan :
Definition of a promise
A declaration assuring that one will or will not do something; a vow.
19 August 2013, 17:08
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Don't threaten with something you dont have. Ayya respect? You keep calling me different childish names (citizen of isfahan and whatever). So how about you start showing some respect if you want to earn mine?
"if necessary" does that ring a bell? it's a hypothetical situation, a figure of speech. the promise is that if they do one more terrorist attack they will feel the full weight oh HA slapping down on them.
19 August 2013, 17:23
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Citizen of Isfahan is cute. I could have used Tehran. But Isfahan is a city of wonders....
19 August 2013, 15:45
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Everything has a beginning and an end. Hizbullah apparently decided to take a short cut to its own demise.
19 August 2013, 16:16
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many more body bags are on the way.
this terrorist Iranian militia is worth zero, and the sooner they get all killed the better.
19 August 2013, 16:20
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More dead filthy militia and their supporters, More good news.
19 August 2013, 16:38
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They're uneducated people..... Bass chou 3alam! They don't value life.... The worst in mankind like al Qaïda or Nosra.
19 August 2013, 16:59
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Walla, there's no reason to laugh. It's sad for Lebanon. The day Aoun turns away from them, your stand will be different, and that will be laughable.
Because guess what, alliances can be undone!
19 August 2013, 17:10
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no it's hilarious, you arrogantly call them uneducated but you're the fool here, stuck on an old sectarian image where the shia were the second rank citizens. things have changed more than you could imagine.
19 August 2013, 17:22
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Aha, there I gotcha!
I never mentioned Shia. I know Shias are educated people, actually half of my building in Beirut is occupied by Shias and some are retarded but others are great. I even once related on naharnet how my second floor neighbour (Amal) saved our life during the civil war when other armed Hezbollah terrorists were knocking on our door to abduct us or worse. I never considered them as second class citizens as I get them goods from Europe as presents whenever I go to Beirut.
So the uneducated people my dear Mowaten (or Movaten of Isfahan) LOL are the people going to Syria in order to kill human beings. They're Hezbollah terrorists.
No2ta 3al sater
19 August 2013, 18:35
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Ah non FT!
Hezbollah = Shia
But
Shia ≠ Hezbollah
And unlike you my friend I have no apprehensions towards ANY sect in the world. I am certainly not a racist......
About info update, the day Aoun, Nasrallah, Berri and all leaders that took part in the civil war get judged, is the day we will finally be able to live together without animosity. Amnesty laws don't work. We have a memory, we don't forget the atrocities committed by the people we see on TV everyday. I do hope you'll understand this because it's in every Lebanese subconscience.
19 August 2013, 20:59
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To2borné FT, ma alazak.
1) I certainly don't seek your approbation and judgement for my credibility for fairly obvious reasons.
2) Michel Aoun is guilty of war crimes. Joke aside about him fleeing the country like Arafat, he killed a lot of people, innocent people and has to answer for his crimes. He belongs to the same bag Berri and the others belong. A life taken is a life taken. How it was taken doesn't matter.
19 August 2013, 17:21
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The guy shouldn't have been in Syria! No Lebanese should go and interfere in Syria civil war; we have had enough misery on our own
19 August 2013, 18:56
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i agree with u Marc, but that goes both ways , the shia, sunnis and others too.
but we are known to worry about others before worrying about our country, we fight for others interests and to the highest bidder. as always i dont follow any political party in lebanon, because i think they are all corrupt and they have been politicians for the past 30 some years and nothing changed.
peace
19 August 2013, 19:53
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I was going to add, that goes for every lebanese fighting in syria for either side. it is just hizb iran's 'resistance' guise that gets attention.
20 August 2013, 07:43
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The takfiri and m14 cheerleaders in these threads are always so hostile. You guys need a hug.
20 August 2013, 08:20
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@anonymetexasusa
You and I seem to have the same problem. Somehow our comment gets posted 3 times....
lol
