Alleged Hizbullah 'Execution' Video Sparks Online Outrage
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A gory online video that shows suspected Hizbullah fighters executing gravely wounded Syrian rebels has sparked outrage and controversy in Lebanon.
The video shows armed men in fatigues, at least one wearing the yellow arm band purportedly sported by the Lebanese group, dragging several bloodied men out of a van and shooting them dead.
In parts of the video, the men speak in the Lebanese dialect of Arabic, and at the end of the video one man calls them over, saying: "One moment, one moment. We are doing our duty, not avenging ourselves."
The others call out: "For the sake of God, for the sake of God."
The one minute, 40 second video's authenticity could not be confirmed, and it was unclear when or where it might have been shot.
Contacted by Agence France Presse, Hizbullah declined to comment on it.
Al-Arabiya television said it may have been filmed during the battle for Qusayr, a strategic Syrian town near the Lebanese border that Syrian troops recaptured from rebels with the help of Hizbullah earlier this year.
Lebanese media largely steered clear of the video, either because they were unable to confirm it or for fear of worsening sectarian tensions.
But the video triggered outrage on Twitter, with many observers comparing Hizbullah to radical Sunni rebel groups that have carried out past atrocities.
"Between the Sunni Salafist jihadists and the Shiite fundamentalist jihadists, we really have to watch our backs," wrote Mustafa Fahas on Facebook.
On Twitter at least one user compared the video to the infamous clip of a Syrian rebel eating the organs of a dead Alawite, a member of the Shiite offshoot sect to which Syrian President Bashar Assad also belongs.
"Horrific and disgusting," Lebanese editor Angie Nassar wrote in a Twitter post linking to the video.
Hizbullah -- which has always presented itself as Lebanon's first line of defense against Israel -- has come under intense criticism for its decision to enter the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Assad regime.
It has said it joined the battle to protect Lebanon from extreme Islamists among the ranks of the Syrian rebels and to protect Shiite holy sites in Damascus province.
Syria has long been a key part of the supply line between Iran and Hizbullah, which fought a devastating war with Israel in 2006.
10 October 2013, 20:48
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Criminals, Sectarians, Hateful Thugs. May the Lord punish them for what they have done.... everything! I watched the video so did most people all over the world. This is an organization and a culture that must be annihilated as it poses a danger to humanity. Their hatred for their fellow moslems outweighs any other cause the falsely claim to fight for. Nassrallah is a criminal.
10 October 2013, 22:07
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:) lol @liberty! This was a "truck" insurgency according to a very well known poster here on Naharnet, and similar to the Baniyas insurgency was swiftly put down. In wars, people die including women and children. Karbalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Mazloooooooooooooom
11 October 2013, 01:49
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Southern Shia are NOT Muslims!!! But I will NOT hate you but pity the like of you!!! I will Leave you alone to follow your beliefs but LEAVE US alone... OR....
11 October 2013, 02:28
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Israel did it. This is all fabricated and a ploy my Zionists, like the U.S., Israel and Baba Ghanouj.
10 October 2013, 21:03
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Araf! The whole organization should be judged in the Netherlands.
10 October 2013, 21:05
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Nassrallah has created a cult similar to others in modern history including the Nazis. He has convinced an already agreeable shia society he is their hope and protection. Yo may ask hope for what? It is their hope to control Lebanon through weapons, obtain privileges, and avenge the death of their Hussain by humiliating and killing Sunnis. For them, if you kill a Sunni you go to heaven. They believe when all Sunnis are killed their Mahdi will appear. Yes, it is a cult, a disease, a tumor.
10 October 2013, 21:22
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NEVER EVER AGAIN should Hezbollah be part of a government. NEVER! C'est fini!
10 October 2013, 21:46
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Naharnet is hardly accessible 2day. it's laggy! i guess a lot of people want to know how far these obnoxious hizballa terroritas are willing 2 go 2 ensure their survival as an internacional terrorist and criminal org.
10 October 2013, 22:26
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'Te fatigue pas avec cette enflure ! Il est irrécupérable. De plus, je lui ai interdit de m'adresser la parole, Il me salissait.
10 October 2013, 22:47
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I could clearly hear the heavy southern lebanese accent in the video. So if it isen't hezballah, then who is it? Don't be foolish. These were clearly hezballah. They like to show themselves as honourable with high morals but they are just thugs.
10 October 2013, 23:20
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Disgusting. Executing prisonners of war is against Geneva convention. Allah yse3idna to have such a milicia controlling our country.
11 October 2013, 00:40
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Controlling our country ? No
Holding a country hostage YES
They'll pay 4 it. trust me, it'll get back at them like a boomerang in the face !
10 October 2013, 23:23
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Southern. This behaviour is obviously not accepted by the leadership of HA. It is a few rogue elements who are under the extreme tension of war acting of their own.
Cant you say this instead of systematically defending each and every action that HA does?
10 October 2013, 23:26
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"even they know it's another staged video, they want to believe it... Hate!"
just like all the videos of alqaeda you talk about, they are all staged.... LOL
10 October 2013, 23:39
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sure , not easy for hezbis to acknowledge their militia acts like qaeda or nusra! LOL their brain bugs !
11 October 2013, 00:03
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you are just to pity... i let you to your sexual fantasies of yours always resorting to them when you get nervous...
11 October 2013, 00:05
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and the killings of lebanese in car bombings and distribution of sweets in dahiye the day hariri got killed and... and...
11 October 2013, 00:06
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now you feel like all those victims of car bombings in their neighborhood by your syrian friends... just reap what you sow
11 October 2013, 00:20
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he carefully avoided to mention the baklawa distribution to celebrate killings, have you noticed? LOL
11 October 2013, 00:24
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no baklawa distribution when hariri died, when others died to... seems you are definately trying to omit that... sure it is embarassing for your propaganda... poor thing.
11 October 2013, 00:48
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yes they did ... seems you have selective memory poor thing....
11 October 2013, 00:53
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al qaeda and hizballa are two sides of one same coin. they feed on sheep like u .... lost people in life.... hopeless and helpless, again like u.
11 October 2013, 01:00
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no he is fun! he is better than mr bean, more laughs! but the funniest thing is that he is not even aware of it. but eventually he gets boring... i ll let him rant , i have more important things to do now... entertaining he was and for free! LOL
11 October 2013, 00:55
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and if you and M14 dislike al-qeada so much then why support them in syria???
yes in fools heads like yours M14 support qaeda... but i won't bother your neurones with it, they are too tired to understand reality.... good luck with your lala world ... always funs and good laughs reading your stupidities!
11 October 2013, 02:03
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Shameful criminal act whoever has done it. I hope the culprits whoever they are perish in their own hatred.
However I find it difficult to believe anything I find on Youtube. It is definitely not a reliable source of information
Just check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXH5VfEAbs for example. It could be anyone staging anything
11 October 2013, 03:13
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Did you see me take sides lebanonforever? You will never see me take sides as what's happening is criminal on both sides. Ultimately what is happening in Syria from whichever angle you look at it, is shameful at best and simply beyond barbaric. Extremism has no one face, I'm afraid, and all its faces are ugly.
We should take all news these days with a pinch of salt is all I'm saying.
Your words ooze anger fired aimlessly. I don't think "we" disagree about politics as I don't trust or believe in any one political movement, party or politician that exists in Lebanon.
Any normal level headed person wants what's best for the country. I hope we all at least agree on this.
11 October 2013, 03:53
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Trust me lebanonforever I know how you feel because this is how I feel, frustrated.
Lebanon has always had so much potential to be a great country but unfortunately it's not. We failed our country in so many ways it is heartbreaking. We had so many chances to move on and live with dignity and respect but we always get sucked into conflict. We are easily lured be hatred. It does nothing but separate us and what we need is unity. Unity for Lebanon because there is no alternative. We either live as one or as a nation we die. God bless
11 October 2013, 04:37
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Absolutely disgusting.
How in the world can they say this isn't HA?!?!
Remember during the civil war we would know who was who from their dialect! That isn't easily faked.
Disgusting.
11 October 2013, 04:44
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Respect that you called that. I hope FT and southerner and blind followers of m8 and m14 learn from what you said.
11 October 2013, 05:20
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when u c such atrocities committed by hizballa, u an no longer doubt they killed pierre gemayel, tueni or kassir.
11 October 2013, 08:53
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Southern, on what basis you are denying outcry manner this video. Just because it potentially incriminates Hizbullah. It may be true it may be fake. The best you could do is to say well lets wait until this video is authentified. As a hizbullah supporter your support to hizbullah should be intelligently but not blindly.
11 October 2013, 09:44
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Its the Hizib who committed this crime, the Hizib which was created in 1983 by Haras Sawry Irani - Safak related to Mousad.
This truth Its the Hizib who committed this crime, the Hizib which was created in 1983 by Haras Sawry Irani – related or who inherited the Safak ruled by to Mousad.
These truths that Hizib is pulling its fellow’s people only not all Shia to the mud, Syrians r 24 Millions, how many the Hizib r? They used lately teenagers to protect the surrounding of Daheya, where even it own peoples were not happy with this action to be separated from other part of the surroundings, u can figure the yellow strips at least on one of the shoulders killers, same yellow strips used during the invasion of Abra, so believe it, yess, it the Hizib who committed this war crime, to be continued....
11 October 2013, 09:58
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and there will come one day when all Hizb criminals will be pulled to Netherlands, only if Israel and USA agreed to pull Hizb to Lahay court, as they are both the back supports of the Hizib, and USA is lying to us that they r supporting Syrian peoples whom they r killed by BARAMEEL MOTFAJIRAH / exploded barrels and gas cylinders, chemicals, it assad who statd that he will keep on killing Syrians till they became 9 millions as he said on TV, may ALLAH put mercy on these Syrian Martyrs.
11 October 2013, 10:03
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Sorry, as my comment was divided into 3 parts due to text size.
May ALLAH put mercy on these martyrs................
11 October 2013, 10:43
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If this video is true .. than I am not god anymore....
Clearly a bed directed movie .. done by alostakbal
11 October 2013, 14:58
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why are you trying to deny this? Hizb iran has been part of the shabiha in syria and the basij in iran, and you get an impression that being civil isn't part of the job description. Just accept it and move on--stop acting indignant. War sucks, and all sides are guilty of crimes, including your beloved hizb iran.
11 October 2013, 17:18
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How close to impossible it is to get some yellow fabric, wrap them around their arms and say Ali and Hussein, AND FILMING THEMSELVES, TOO. Therefore, this must be real, of course, and should cause outrage in the brains of the brain-dead. As if we have not seen enough real footage of fresh heart-eating animals in Syria.
11 October 2013, 19:08
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this is disturbing who ever did this may god show him and everyone he cares for no mercy
11 October 2013, 20:30
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@thelabanesepatriot, bala marba, bala akhle2, bala asl, bala deen. Ya 3eib el shoum 3ala heik kalem. I feel sorry for you.
24 December 2013, 14:52
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Thats what i call justice kill the fsa hyenas wherever u find them.
