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Hizbullah Pours Scorn on March 14 Forces for 'Aligning Themselves with Israeli Enemy'

A Hizbullah legislator has slammed the March 14 forces and demanded that the government step down for alleged collusion with Israel and its U.S. ally over demands for the group to lay down its weapons.
"The forces of March 14 (the anti-Syrian coalition which leads the government) aligned themselves with the Israeli enemy from the start" of the conflict that ravaged Lebanon from July 12 to August 14, Hizbullah MP Ali Ammar told a mass rally in the Haret Hreik district of Beirut's southern suburbs Monday night.

"They planned the assassination of the (Islamic) Resistance (Hizbullah's military wing) in collaboration with the Americans and the Israelis," Ammar told supporters waving Hizbullah flags and holding pictures of the party's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

He said that when Israel was killing children in the south, the March 14 forces were meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the U.S. embassy in Awkar.

"The Resistance will keep its weapons," he said repeatedly, rejecting the demands of the U.N. Security Council truce resolution which ended the conflict.

He said: "If you want, through the language of dialogue or negotiations to negotiate with anyone about these arms then I will tell you who to bargain with ... only with the shoes of the children of Qana."

"This government must go," he said to chants of "Government, resign" from the crowd that was attending a festival to observe the 15th day of Shaaban, the birthday of Imam al-Mahdi, a 9th-century religious leader.

Resignation demands came despite the fact that Hizbullah has two ministers in Premier Fouad Saniora's government.

Ammar repeated Hizbullah calls for the formation of a government of national unity embracing factions outside the current cabinet, including Free Patriotic Movement leader Gen. Michel Aoun, as well as pro-Syrian Christian notables like former legislator Suleiman Franjieh.

The rally was the biggest organized by Hizbullah since the end of the devastating Israeli offensive launched after the group captured two soldiers in a deadly cross-border raid on July 12.

Spotlights highlighted the damaged buildings around the group's stronghold in the southern suburbs which took the brunt of the Israeli bombardment.

Monday night's rally came the same day British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Lebanon for talks with Saniora and members of the government at the Grand Serail. Hizbullah's ministers didn't attend the meeting.

Blair's visit was met with demonstrators who waved Lebanese and Hizbullah flags and photos of some of the hundreds killed in Lebanon during the recent war.

Ammar also slammed the government for "receiving Blair the killer."(AFP-Naharnet) (AFP photo shows Hizbullah supporters waving the party's flags and holding up portraits of Nasrallah)

Beirut, 12 Sep 06, 07:48


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