Nusra Says Hizbullah Blocking Hostage Talks, Azzam Brigades Say Party Wants to 'Implicate Army'
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Al-Qaida's Syria affiliate, al-Nusra Front, called on the Lebanese authorities Saturday to discuss its terms for the release of troops and police taken captive last month, and accused Hizbullah of impeding the negotiations.
Al-Nusra Front killed one of the hostages who were captured in fighting in the town of Arsal near the Syrian border. Jihadists of the Islamic State group beheaded the other two.
In a video posted on YouTube, al-Nusra accused Lebanese authorities of allowing Hizbullah, which has been heavily involved in the civil war in neighboring Syria, to block negotiations for the soldiers' release.
Hizbullah "is causing all attempts to negotiate the release of the Lebanese hostages to fail," the video charges.
Al-Nusra has previously demanded that in return for the release of the captive soldiers, Hizbullah end its intervention in Syria on the side of President Bashar Assad's regime and that Lebanon free Islamists jailed in Roumieh prison.
The Lebanese government has so far rejected the al-Qaida affiliate's terms.
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has urged the government not to cave in to the Sunni extremists' demands but has denied impeding efforts to free the captive troops.
Later on Saturday, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades -- another Qaida-linked group operating in Lebanon and Syria's Qalamun -- described Hizbullah as "the greatest threat to Lebanon and its existence."
"Your silence over Hizbullah's tyranny and attacks against the Sunni community in Lebanon and Syria ... will not preserve your security and interests," the group said in a message addressed to the Lebanese people.
"Hizbullah is the greatest threat to Lebanon and its existence ... and it has rejected negotiations in the case of the captive army troops because it wants to implicate the army more and more in the battle," the group added.
Last month's fighting in Arsal -- a Sunni enclave within the mainly Shiite Hizbullah-dominated Bekaa Valley border region -- was the most serious in Lebanon since the Syrian conflict erupted in March 2011.
27 September 2014, 15:00
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HA is insisting it swaps the Nusra fighters it has allegedly captured with the soldiers. Nusra is refusing to engage HA in this matter and wants to deal with the lebanese government. Anyway, this is what I have been reading on news media.
27 September 2014, 15:11
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hahahaha!!!!! you're so fascinating and hilarious!!! i wish we could meet so i could marry you!
27 September 2014, 15:13
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hope your neck is less sensitive than terrorist's, would be a shame to snap it on our first honeymoon night
27 September 2014, 15:22
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btw, why are they whining and blaming hezbollah for the failure of talks? since they said they were halting the negotiations?
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/148911-reports-al-nusra-halts-negotiations-as-jihadists-put-harsh-conditions-to-release-hostages
27 September 2014, 15:28
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all that hizbushaitan and assad want is quite simple: force the battle on Lebanon so that we loose our army.
All they care about is to disrupt our country completely.
otherwise, why did they open a corridor into Lebanon instead of to the East?
27 September 2014, 16:00
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A very clever question. It does make sense. so what should the Lebanese Armed Forces do?
27 September 2014, 15:39
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I've pretty much stopped reading all your comments because you keep accusing each other like idiots.
27 September 2014, 16:03
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There's a Morse code on the recording, the red dot blinks in a weird fashion.
27 September 2014, 16:17
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You're so out of touch with reality. Not even worth trying.
27 September 2014, 16:18
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bless anyone person, entity, organization, brigade or country that inflicts pain, suffering, death, and enormous destruction upon the iranian sectarian terrorist militia and its supporters wherever they may be.
27 September 2014, 16:21
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We don't need Da3ech to create The division between the Lebanese. Thanks to HA and its illegal weapons...we are already divided. Today the MOFA of Bahrein labelled HA as the Da3ech of Lebanon....the USA and Europe have already labelled them as terrorist....their soecialty: terrorize Lebanese people and destroy institutions to create their own state (guess which one?).
Christians should leave Aoun. He is helping them solely for his personal interest.
27 September 2014, 18:24
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Hezbullah refuses to rescue the hostages until it gets some appreciation.
27 September 2014, 18:26
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Poor Al Nusra and ISIS... they only want the best for their Lebanese captives. They are being forced to invade lebanon and behead lebanese! You idiots that support these people are a sad excuse for life! Your freedom to speak and write crap on the net would result in your beheading or crucifixion if the groups your defending, had their way!
27 September 2014, 21:33
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are the sunnis in Iraq members of ISIL, is that why your terrorist Maliki, HA, and Iran been massacring them for the last 18 years? Answer the question loser
27 September 2014, 19:43
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Can we trust Nosra for what they say. Can we not expect that they want to create strive among lebanese. I am not pro Hizbollah but do not trust extremist especially when they abduct our soldiers.
27 September 2014, 20:14
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1) I do not consider myself an M14, rather a free thinking Lebanese.
But since you consider me an M14, I will answer your Question.
Nusra's words are not gold, if anything they are rotten meat. Same with any Qaeda affiliated group.
As far as what those guys said about HA being the greatest threat to Lebanon, I disagree. Below I list what I consider the threats to Lebanon are (*in order from greatest to lowest).
I think the greatest threat to Lebanon is the fragmentation of the Lebanese along sectarian lines and the crookedness of our politicians. The second greatest threat is any Takfiri minded militant (Nusra, ISIS, Qaeda, and the likes).
27 September 2014, 20:14
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2) The third is all foreign armed groups in Lebanon (in temrs of numbers I start with Palestinians inside and outside the camps, then armed Syrians, etc.). The 4th threat is HA (in its armed and political wings), mostly armed wing. 5th is Syria's Baath (Assads specifically), and lastly Israel who will remain an enemy until Palestinians are allowed to go back wherever they and the PLO agree to.
28 September 2014, 00:11
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The Arabs (Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, ISIS, Nusra, Hizbullah, etc.) have fallen victim once again to plots of their Western oppressors--the US (former slave master of Afrikan Muslims) and the EU (former colonial masters that slaughtered and plundered Arab lands). The US and Europe have slaughtered your fathers to build their capitalist democratic empires from looting Arab, African and Asian colonies. Now they return. They want to place their claws around your resources & markets, especially Syria. The West is the Devil. Rasulullah (saw) stated: The cuisine: Arab blood. You are familiar with hadiths predicting harj, fitna, Arab Muslims insulting eachother? The US & Europe (the Devil) has trapped you into doing the worse form of evil: Muslim-on-Muslim bloodshed. You keep looking for the Devil & Yajuj & Majuj while everytime US Congressmen visit Lebanon he brings plans for Arab blood. They want all Arabs back to colonial statuses.
28 September 2014, 00:19
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Brothers donot fall for the tircks of the Americans (former slave-makers of Afrikan Muslims) and the EU (former colonial masters who murdered, plundered and robbed your grandfathers to build Europe up economically). The US fincanced the Syrian rebellion. The US is not a democracy and Arab nations are fooled. The US dumped 10-20 million Afrikan Muslim and Christian slaves into the Atlantic Ocean trying to build this so-called democracy. Stop killing eachother for these DEVILS (Americans and the EU. Salaam
28 September 2014, 00:30
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Brothers. Donot let the American and EU devils trick you into Muslim-on-Muslim killing. When the US Congressmen come to your region they come to shed blood and divide. They dont care about how many Arabs dying--they want Assad, Hizbullah, Iran and all Arabs killing eachother. Beware of these devils. The US (guilty of dumping 10-15 million Afrikan slave into the Atlantic Ocean) and the EU (guilty of plundering, slaughtering and robbing Asians, Arabs and Afrikans in colonial times) are tricking you all.
29 September 2014, 11:11
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Enough with your stupid comments leb american! Being against Hezb does not mean one is for islamists! Enough with those binary simple minds on this forum! All those against Hezb here, also are against those isil/daech crazies!
29 September 2014, 11:13
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Enough you too moe7! No christian supports those crazies! Stop this cheap propaganda!
