Hizbullah Denies Party Member Killed in Yemen
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Hizbullah denied on Saturday media reports that any of its members had been killed in Yemen where a Saudi-led coalition is stepping up air raids on allies of Iran-backed rebels.
“The Saudi Asharq al-Awsat daily and some Saudi and Lebanese news outlets have claimed that a Hizbullah member had been martyred in Yemen,” said the party's press office in a statement.
The terse statement added that these reports are “totally baseless.”
But it stopped short of confirming whether any of its members are fighting in Yemen.
Last month, a Gulf diplomatic official said that according to estimates, there are 5,000 Iranians, Hizbullah and Iraqi militia on the ground in Yemen.
Hizbullah is now militarily involved in Syria, where it is bolstering the embattled regime, and reportedly in Iraq.
A months-long rebellion by Shiite Huthi fighters in Yemen escalated into a regional conflict last month, when the coalition led by Saudi Arabia began conducting air strikes on rebel-held territory.
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stressed in a speech that Saudi Arabia will be roundly "defeated" in its campaign, which he called "unjust" and "illegal.”
According to al-Mustaqbal daily Saturday, several Hizbullah fighters had been killed in Yemen.
Sources told the newspaper that Hizbullah's involvement in battles in Sanaa is “possible because several of its fighters and experts, who hold the Lebanese nationality, were in Yemen's Saada before the rebels seized swathes of territory in Yemen since they entered Sanaa last September.
11 April 2015, 09:22
510
HA is a mercenary organization employed by the pasdaran as the pasdaran sees fit.
As long as the pasdaran are giving HA the money, HA is under their employ. Fullstop.
11 April 2015, 09:24
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They would do it for free. It is hatred and not just money that drives them.
11 April 2015, 15:53
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the more hizbushaitan elements dead the better it is for the Lebanese people
11 April 2015, 09:21
510
Yes, and the reason is because the Saudi-Zionist-Takfiri coalition was committing massacres against shia villages along the Lebanese-Yemeni border and they were massing in their thousands in preparation for an invasion of Jounieh and Beirut. So, the shia resistance took pre-epmtive action to protect Lebanon and specifically the Christians. I am not just saying that, you can ask mowaten, the houthi mouthpiece.
On a more serious note, there are more than a thousand sectarian terrorists belonging to the terror party currently fighting along their brothers in the Shia Nation in Yemen.
11 April 2015, 09:28
510
Hezbollah was actively fighting and killing the Syrian people from early on in 2011, the beginning of the Syrian revolution. A look back at how Nassrallah introduced his party's involvement:
1. We are NOT in Syria and nobody should be in Syria and the Syrians should resolve their own differences.
2. Yeah, we are present in very small numbers at the request of shia Lebanese living in Syria who asked for our protection.
3. We are in Syria in large numbers protecting Shia villages and Sit Zainab
4. We are in Syria protecting the Syrian regime and preventing its downfall
5. We are in Syria and you should go to Syria and let's battle it put over there.
6. We are in Syria protecting Islam.
11 April 2015, 09:34
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add :
7. We have thousands in Syria and if need be I (nassrallah) will go there myself:)
11 April 2015, 09:31
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I just read on the news, the Yemeni resistance captured and took prisoner 3 Iranian revolutionary guards, 2 of them Officers.
11 April 2015, 09:36
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Ansarullah and Hezbollah are men of god like all chiaas, but Ansarullah have nuclear weapons.
11 April 2015, 09:40
510
you have to understand their ideology. Hezbollah and its followers consider themselves part of and citizens of the larger "borderless" Shia Nation of Isalm. Khamanei's advisor explained it a few days back.
11 April 2015, 09:48
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Unfortunately there are Christians in Lebanon that support Hizbollah fighting in Yemen.
11 April 2015, 10:06
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Yep. About 500 Partisans of the caporal are paid on monthly basis. They listen all day long to Al Manar rather than to OTV and they spread thousands of rumors that many Shias are converting to Christianity.
If you ask the Bishop of Tyre if there are many conversions he will answer :"of course not". This is just to tell you that the Caporal and his followers are indeed servants to Ebola.
11 April 2015, 13:53
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@Humble,and right you are!! I have lots of FPM friends as well as from our Shiite brothers. I noticed that no matter what OTV and Al Manar say, that very same day their partisans will say and will argue even to the point of becoming loud. The best part that bewildered me was when OTV was airing that silly humoristic program called LOL. The jokes mostly were bland and at times plain sexually explicit, but the funny thing is this: the same day, all of their partisans would crack the jokes as if by the press of a button. And they laughed and laughed. Part of the Lebanese population is being programmed not to think, but to repeat, that simple, North Korean style.
11 April 2015, 14:55
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god bless Kim Jong-un
North Korea, Supreme leader
god bless democracy
11 April 2015, 12:28
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GP, these are not Christians, they are FPM partisans following an evil Freemason caporal to wherever he sends them. But Lo, look at what is happening to the Caporal Al Capaoun the Claoun, his support base has dwindled so much so that he dares not go for even university elections. Plus finally the pressures of lies and deceits have now taken their toll on his health, some reports do confirm that the Claoun is fatigued to the point where he needs to rest a lot more these days. Claoun is in bad shape, both health-wise and politically. His masters at HA HQ are in serious trouble, and the masters of his masters in Tehran fare no better either. Only the signature of their new pact with the US and the West would save them, but the wait is till June if Iran can avoid being tempted into more wild Persian dreams of grandeur.
11 April 2015, 10:14
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To Mastica and Co :
We understand that you support Ebola because you are Shias. The Shias have been in the past very good Lebanese patriots, but now that Iran is interfering, their loyalty has shifted to Iran.
Iran has interests in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait...and Lebanon. These are CONFLICTING interests...so how can you choose?
You must have loyalty to your country and not to Iran.
11 April 2015, 12:03
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(1). Southern, OK, you don't want to trust a particular paper, ok, that's fine. But then there are many more other news media that are confirming reports that indeed, Hezbollah is engaged in the war in Yemen and this for several months now. In fact Hezbollah has been in Yemen a lot longer giving training to the Houtis. My dear Southern, good and decent folks like you, Mystic, Mowaten and other good friends that post here, or for that matter by and large, can you tell me why is Hezbollah mandating itself to fight wars that are not ours? Or is Shiite interests above our common Lebanese ones? Certainly and most definitely, Hezbollah on its own cannot do much, neither on the financial logistics nor on the logistical one on the ground, HA depends heavily on Iran who sees itself promulgating a long gone Persian dream
11 April 2015, 12:50
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eventually, they will come out and admit their involvement once their casualties mount, it is inevitable. You might have missed it, but the Indonesian and Malaysian ministers of defense were in KSA early this week. I agree with your assessment that HA/Iran are playing with fire here and the days where they can roam freely in Arab countries are over. I was reading a report by a news agency on how effective the Saudi pilots have been in seeking and destroying their targets with pin point accuracy.
11 April 2015, 13:20
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marcus.. Prince Khalid ibn Salman, the youngest son of the King, is an F-15 squadron commander and was a top gun graduate at Miramar, California. I read on Al Arabiyah he was ordered by the defense Minister to take a rest for 2 days because he was flying more than 3 sorties per day.
11 April 2015, 13:23
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Marcus, the Sunni Muslim world is getting close to fever-pitch levels these days. Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey and other countries that are predominantly Sunni are indeed going to Saudi. Now most are staying mum on the issue, but some press releases are pretty bold like the ones from Pakistan and Turkey. I read an article where it mentions of the awesome power of the Saudi monarch who by the power of a Fatwa could spark off a real nightmare not only for Iran and Hezbollah, but for all Shiites in the world and that by definition has its spill-over effects as well. The we could have on our hands not only one IS but many. God help us all, yet people like Mystic remain bombastic.
11 April 2015, 14:12
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Cityboy, to answer you and if I may borrow from a great man, ""A softer approach, especially when you are confident of a case, brings about results far more than aggression." ~ Nelson Mandela.
Live and learn my brother.
11 April 2015, 15:03
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cityboy (mowaten)
was your iranian shia world at fever pitch during the Gaza war? Hamas asked HA to open a front. 24 days later, your nassrallah made a speech and addressed the "islamic" nation. Perhaps, you can tell us why you as a shia are seething with anger and poison at a situation that is thousands of miles away from Lebanon and is of no concern to us?
11 April 2015, 16:18
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(1). Hi Cityboy, you're right, I am learning every something new, and today is no exception to the rule, having learnt that some people live by tunnel vision. This thing you called Sunni/Shiite rhetoric is not something like I created but something everyone with common sense fears from the very guts. However dear City, in your atypical ways of slandering non-condescending opinions, you leave little room for maneuver, thus I will ask you, what is Hezbollah doing in Yemen, whom is it fighting against, and especially this hot potato on your lap, WHY? Is it me the Lfer that is in Yemen or the Shiite Hezbollah? Is it me the LFer that is contributing to the escalation of the much feared Sunni/Shiite conflict or people like you? tell me, who is the KSA attacking now, me or the Houtis, and who are the Houtis by the way?
11 April 2015, 16:21
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(2). Hi Cityboy. In Syria, between whom and whom is the war, mainly? Why is Hezbollah on the side of the regime and not the FSA or the rest of the Takfiri groups? Look ya City, you may want to vaunt in your own pushy ways your argument, but trust me, it won't go past 1, the conflict that is now brewing in Yemen and in other parts of the Middle East is more sectarian than you wish to admit. Now don't try to make anything stick on me, I am personally against such a war, but then I told you, I am not the one in either Yemen or Syria or Iraq, but your side. Now calm down, you won't go far this angry.
11 April 2015, 16:29
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(3). Hi Cityboy. Finally for now, why is Iran involved in Yemen and Syria, and on whose side is it with? Can you deny that Iran has dreams to revive its glory of former times? yet ya City, dreams and Vision do not always go hand in glove with economic realities, Iran is almost broke and it will have to put a lot of water in its wine if it's to survive, or rather, if the Ayatollah regime is to survive, and it knows, the worsening economy won't bode well for it, so it's reality check for Iran, what to choose, right? As was previously said during this thread, why are Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia to name some, going to Riyadh and confer with the Saudis, am I the LFer sending them or their opposition to Iran and it's Shiite doctrine of toppling Sunni led countries? Trust me City, I am not in an arm-wrestling contest with you, I am only tabling some facts on the table, but your yellow thinking deprives you from being rational, no offence meant though.
11 April 2015, 16:49
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عقد قائد الجيش الباكستاني الجنرال راحيل شريف اجتماعاً خاصاً لقادة الفيالق والأسلحة في الجيش الباكستاني، تركز على الوضع في اليمن وموقف باكستان، وتأثير الصراع في اليمن على الأمن القومي الباكستاني. وأكد بيان للجيش الباكستاني وقوف باكستان بالكامل مع أمن المملكة، وعدم السماح لأي قوة كانت بالمساس بسلامة أراضي المملكة ووحدة أراضيها أو التآمر عليها. بينما دان رئيس مجلس علماء باكستان مولانا طاهر أشرفي التمرد الحوثي في اليمن ودعم إيران له، ودعا أشرفي الحكومة الباكستانية إلى عدم الرضوخ لمطالب قادة الأحزاب في البرلمان، وإنما إرسال قوات ومتطوعين باكستانيين إلى المملكة العربية السعودية واليمن للقتال ضد الحوثيين الذين وصفهم بأنهم بغاة مفسدون في الأرض.
وجاءت تصريحات أشرفي بعد اجتماع عقده مسؤولو اتحاد المدارس الدينية الباكستانية، التي يبلغ إجمالي طلبتها 15 مليون شخص، واتحاد أئمة وخطباء المساجد في باكستان، الذين يمثلون أكثر من 75 ألف مسجد في المدن الباكستانية المختلفة.
11 April 2015, 16:58
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I just want to comment on cityboy's comment that this is not a sunni-shiaa conflict. I have seen many videos of hezbollah fighters killing Syrians (I stopped watching), funerals of hezbollah fighters, etc. and all of them contained pure sectarian slogans. I recall one fighter even saying "we are coming to take mecca, it belongs to us". Putting the Husain flag on sunni mosques in Syria is another sectarian showing. One can site many examples. It is clear to me this is a war of ideology with a sectarian blend to it.
11 April 2015, 12:07
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(2). Mowaten. That dream is a very expensive one indeed, and one that will meet head on with the Sunni world, not just the Arab world but the Sunni one worldwide. haven't you people learned anything yet in Syria? Even with all the alliance that you are part of in Syria, these days you can barely hold on to territory. Now in Yemen you got yourselves the KSA seen by the Sunni world as their leadership, if the Saudi monarch makes a Fatwa asking all the Sunnis of the world to come and help in the fight in Yemen, or Syria, what the heck will Hezbollah do? And when they set their eyes on Lebanon, what can you people do? Just within the past 24 hours, the KSA-led alliance has intensified its bombing campaign immensely, Sanaa is now barely coping.
11 April 2015, 12:12
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(3). Southern. (**Part to was wrongly addressed to Mowaten, it was to you my dear Southern**). The catastrophe in Yemen will soon blow out of all proportions, Saudi has all the resources to up the ante in Yemen and seemingly for as long as it wants, but you and Iran, what more can you do? It's been a long time now that Hezbollah and its partisans, like the ones posting here have been denying or defending Hezbollah's role in Syria and now in Yemen. When people like me keep it mild by saying we NO longer trust Hezbollah because of all the whitewash it is creating and fabricating in its bid to bee seen as a Lebanese resistance, now what can you say? No Southern, HA is no longer Lebanese and even less a Resistance, it is just a Pawn Army of Mercenaries paid by Iran and other entities to go and fight wherever Iran orders you so.
11 April 2015, 12:17
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(4) Southern. Hezbollah has been involved in many parts of the world, carrying out many proscribed activities, but sadly for you people, the world is now clamping down on your activities steadily and gradually, to the point where your ability to act is severely curtailed. Tell me, how many more corpses are you willing to receive nowadays, surely you cannot churn out more than your local population can provide? How many more lives is Sayed Hassan and HA willing to sacrifice? And if the sh*t hits the ceiling here in Lebanon, what will you do? Thankfully the LAF is here for the job. Just beware ya Southern, these past few days, the temperament in places like Pakistan and Indonesia is rising, if Saudi gives the order, HA will have a lot more to chew than it can digest.
11 April 2015, 12:27
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I appreciate your "diplomatic" approach trying to reason with these folks. Phoenix: Many of us never swallowed this resistance slogan. Hizbollah is a pure Iranian Persian entity from inception. Liberating the South ( Israel withdrew voluntarily) was part of the scheme to strengthen their hegemony over the Shia of Lebanon. Keeping their iranian arms over our heads under the pretext of Shebaa farms. Have you heard of any plans to liberate these farms whose lebanese ownership is yet to be proven. The countless excuses given by hezbollah justifying their war in Syria were being developed as the war went on. Some voices were saying Syria is important because it is a supply root for HA weapons. What excuses do they have for Yemen? IS Yemen also a supply root.
The reality is as many have already said.... the vast majority of shia believe they are part of a larger nation and Lebanon, its interests, and future are of no consequence.
11 April 2015, 14:58
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really lol. Show me where the huthis fought or are fighting al qaeda or ISIS be it in Yemen or Syria. Guess who is/was fighting Al Qaeda: President Hadi and the Sunnis of Yemen.
11 April 2015, 16:12
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Southern, I definitely take your reasoning in good faith, because I know you talk from the heart, and in this post at least I find nothing to wrong. But my fear over Hezbollah's foray now into Yemen does worry me a lot. Anyway dear Southern, let's all hope for the best because it looks apparent that we have rough seas ahead of us. Anyway brother, this is wishing you a peaceful weekend.
11 April 2015, 19:43
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better ask southern who is arming, funding, and transporting weapons to ISIS in Sinai to kill Egyptian soldiers? Is it KSA or your beloved Iran through Hamas in Gaza?
11 April 2015, 12:49
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Okay, so because Al Mostaqbal says this, it is true? How about some proof on the ground yes.
There is no proof of this report, just like there is no proof at the STL tribunals and the so called nuclear bombs in Syria and Iran, that Naharnet so happily reported.
There is proof by the way, that your Lebanese Forces recieves heavy financial support from Saudi Arabia, even though you like to deny it phoenix.
Your words alone, is proof that you love your gulf masters dolllars just like Geagea.
11 April 2015, 13:17
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Mystic, being bombastic leads to nowhere. I am speaking as a Lebanese, you are still name calling me as LF this LF that. Maybe it's because your mind is programmed to accept the master slave relationship like the one between your Hezbollah and Iran leading me to conclude that indeed quite possibly Sayed Hassan is not really master of his own fate or that of his militia HA. Then you do have that uncanny habit of denying facts yet wanting to prove fiction beyond facts, anyway Mystic, today I can't further my discussion with you for the simple cause of your rigidity. By the way, Justin thank you for responding but you see? I am still being diplomatic with our good brother Mystic, and see how he keeps name-calling me. Anyway....
11 April 2015, 13:14
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ya southern;
there will not be a so called Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia. The people are happy and love the royal family. Do you know ya southern, yesterday King Salman fired the Minister of Health on the spot and you know why?
Because he was arguing with a normal citizen at a hospital in a manner that did not show respect for the citizen. Yes, the King fired him..... and named a replacement within 2 hours!!!
11 April 2015, 14:40
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Ils sont un véritable cancer! Le pire c'est les partisans du caporal fou qui les soutiennent...
11 April 2015, 15:27
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Nah! Cannot be true, that's hogwash, a fabrication, rubbish, a rumor just like all the stories throughout the years about Hezbollah's involvements in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Bosnia... no wait those all turned out to be true.. sorry my bad.
11 April 2015, 16:35
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At this point in time, I would like to bow my hat in salute to @Southern for proving that we can all belong to different sides respectively, yet be able to debate in a decent manner and without ever having to break the decorum. My respects to you Southern.
11 April 2015, 17:17
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Yeah phoenix, I'll join you in that salute especially how Southern's respectful rhetoric matches almost verbatim the Israeli, Neo-con, Dubya rhetorics for decades when talking about the PLO, Hamas, Al Qaeda, Hezballah and myriad other Jihadi or pro Palestinian groups, with Iran, Qaddafi, Assad and Saddam playing the role of the Saudis in that narrative. I thing Bashar got the playbook from his pals squatting in the Golan since the 60s and distributed it to his minions and allies with the caveat "*do remember to replace any mentions of anyone in 'Jabhat al Soumoud wat Tassadi cum Khat al Moumana3a wal Moukawama' with KSA, Qatar (thank you.. no thank you.. whatever), Israel, Amreekah (al mawtou li.. or not), Turkey, Michel Aoun (no wait that was before Lahoud Jr-Pakradoni deal and the MOU) or whoever else is the designated villain of the month".
11 April 2015, 20:12
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Ghazanfar
Just for the record, when the agent Pakradoni and Lahoud Jr came to Paris to visit the Caporal, they told him : "we are coming to visit you with a message FAKHAMET Al Ra2ees". He knew what it meant because he was DAWLAT Al Ra2ees.
11 April 2015, 22:20
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deny deny deny deny everything! then faced with the facts deny again.. then admit!
