Hizbullah Fears Possible Attacks on Ashura as it Maintains Contacts with Jumblat
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah expressed his concern that the party may be the target of terrorist attacks on the occasion of Ashura in mid November, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Thursday.
The party is carrying out all measures in order to thwart such assaults, Nasrallah told a number of party and religious figures on Wednesday
He also stressed that the party is cooperating with the security forces to prevent any attack on the religious occasion of Ashura.
Meanwhile, Hizbullah sources revealed to the daily that contacts are ongoing between the party and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat over a number of issues.
The contacts are being held between caretaker Ministers Wael Abou Faour and Ghazi al-Aridi and MP Akram Shehayeb, representing Jumblat, and caretaker Ministers Hussein al-Hajj Hassan and Mohammed Fneish, MP Hassan Fadlallah, and Hizbullah Liaison and Coordination Officer Wafiq Safa, representing the party.
The contacts between Jumblat and Nasrallah are therefore ongoing through these two channels, said al-Joumhouria.
At least 22 people were killed and 325 wounded in a car bombing in Hizbullah's stronghold of Dahieh in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 15.
In September, Nasrallah blamed Sunni takfiris linked to the Syrian opposition to the August 15 attack.
"It is a takfiri group working within the framework of the Syrian opposition and located on Syrian soil," he added, saying both Lebanese and Syrian nationals were involved in the attack.
On July 9, a booby-trapped car exploded at a parking lot in Bir al-Abed, leaving 53 people wounded and causing extensive material damage.
In May, two rockets slammed into the Beirut southern suburb of Shiyyah, wounding four people.
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