Request of Kidnappers of Lebanese Pilgrims to Draw Nasrallah Retort
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected on Friday to announce a clear stance on the conditions set by the alleged kidnappers of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Syria.
Nasrallah is scheduled to make a speech in UNESCO via video link during a ceremony organized by the Iranian embassy to commemorate the death of the Islamic revolution leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
A previously unknown armed group calling itself the "Syrian Revolutionaries -- Aleppo Province" said on Thursday that it is holding the pilgrims who were kidnapped in Aleppo last week while returning from a pilgrimage to Iran.
"The kidnapped Lebanese are being looked after by us and are in good health," the group said in a statement received by Qatar-based satellite news channel al-Jazeera.
"Negotiations for their release are possible as soon as Nasrallah apologizes.”
But al-Jadeed TV said the families of the abducted men sent a letter to Nasrallah urging him not to apologize.
The Hizbullah chief, who last week appealed for calm in Beirut’s southern suburbs after the May 22 abduction, said in a speech that his party would not change its position concerning the conflict in Syria.
"If this kidnapping is aimed at putting pressure on our political position, it's a waste of time," he said about his support for the regime of President Bashar Assad.
01 June 2012, 10:51
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Nasrallah is putting all Shiite people around the world in danger, while he keeps hiding under ground, making statements, what a wise leader. I feel sorry for his people; soon they will be discriminated from all universe.
Gulf, Turkey, Syria, Europe, America... I wonder where a Shiite person is able to live in peace outside Dahie.
01 June 2012, 12:09
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bravo for the kidnappers !!! You fight fire with fire... may be the Lebanese and Syrian sunnis should unite and stand up to the Shia Hegemony in the region....
01 June 2012, 13:28
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Stand up to the Shia Hegemony, that's your solution ? wala you are smart ,,,,, this is not the solution Mr Rami, I would say no Syrian nore lebanese been kidnapped. Solution ,,,, Fight in Syrian or in Zimbabwe but Leave US alone,,,,,,,
01 June 2012, 13:28
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Why not the christians with them? Because they also live under the same hegemony...
01 June 2012, 17:08
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That was probably the one & only good post from CandleThrower! Not sure about his mowaten alias Motormouth....
01 June 2012, 18:01
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Hezbollah is sectarian, have you forgotten?
I'm sure will willl come up with some excuse claiming they are not sectarian, can't wait for that.
02 June 2012, 05:23
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So when Hezbollah abducted journalists, priests and university professors who were in Lebanon during the civil war living and suffering with the Lebanese, it was carrying out a justified act? Weren't those hostages, kept by Hezbollah for as long as 7 years, innocent victims who had families who worried about them? Am I to understand that only Lebanese civilians are innocent hostages while all "foreigners" are guilty and fair game?
01 June 2012, 12:54
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Lol! Why should Nasrallah apologize to filthy and uneducated terrorists? Hopefully the Syrian forces will find the abducters and duly slit their throats!
01 June 2012, 16:14
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If he is capable of doing all that, why then he did nothing to save the hundreds of Lebanese prisoners in Syrian jails? Maybe he values the Syrian regime (his protege) more than his fellow country men? It makes me sad.
01 June 2012, 15:15
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"nasrallah said in a speech that his party would not change its position concerning the conflict in Syria". nasrallah, how many children need to dye? and how many mothers need to morne their slaughtered children for u to change ur position?if the situation continues like that ther will b no children left.
the same applyes to aoun
01 June 2012, 15:50
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to the sick people of lebanon( all of the above names)
i read ur comments, u r talking about killing, kidnaping, sliting throats, abducting... as if it is a game .
there s people s human life and dignity on the line .
we deserve beeing ruled like sheep and by an iron fist. we have no respect to human life. god help us
01 June 2012, 15:51
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Why do you still refer to these 11 as "pilgrims". That is not a relavent term to this story. They are not being held because they are "pilgrims". They are being held because they are Hezbollah insurgents fighting in Syria killing Syrians. This is the relevancy of their detention.
02 June 2012, 01:09
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@rudes, or is that rubes. Where do you get the information that the 11 Hezbollah officers went to Syria with the 40 women. How do you know that they were not already there, doing their killing and that the way to get them back into Lebanon was to put them with a bunch of women pilgrims??
During the war in Lebanon, any time you had to get through enemy lines along a major road, we always picked up old women who were going our way. Its less suspicious for the guys at the checkpoints when they see old women in the car. This is probably what these guys were doing. Hiding behind the skirts of old women pilgrims.
01 June 2012, 17:13
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Why should the kidnapping of 'shia" be "headline" news and importance for HA and not all other Syrian/Assad kidnapped-Lebanese? I think most of us know the answer. Get rid of the one & only true axis of evil....Iran/Assad/HA....and the world will see peace!
