Syrian Ambassador Rejects Reports on Hizbullah Helping Regime Troops
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Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali slammed on Monday reports saying that Hizbullah is aiding Syrian forces in the border town of Qusayr.
“The Lebanese residing in Syrian territories are directly concerned with confronting the gunmen who attack them,” Ali told reporters after holding talks with Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour at the Bustros Palace.
He rejected the reports, considering them fabrications.
Earlier on Monday, Louay al-Meqdad, an official of the rebel Free Syrian Army, accused Hizbullah, in comments published in An Nahar newspaper, of carrying out an “unprecedented invasion” backed by Syrian artillery fire in villages in central Syria.
The opposition Syrian National Council said Hizbullah fighters crossed into Homs province of central Syria on Saturday and attacked three Syrian villages in the Qusayr region.
A Hizbullah official said three Lebanese Shiites were killed in clashes in Syria while acting in "self-defense,” without specifying if they were party members.
Ali called on those reporting these kind of news to “respect the moral standards and credibility.”
The diplomat said that his country is currently controlling several crossing along the Lebanese-Syrian border, noting that violations have decreased.
The ambassador told reporters that the Lebanese army is detaining gangs and gunmen along the border and confronting arms smuggling operations.
He said that these attempts “violate the brotherly ties between the two countries.”
18 February 2013, 09:16
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This man is one of Bashar's elves in Lebanon. Whenever he comes and goes to and from Syria his trunk is packed with explosive devices....
Zero credibility to his testimony.
18 February 2013, 11:03
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Mowaten stop it , you really think that HA wont interven in this war to safeguard their armament raod ? really Mowaten, you think that whatever HA says is the truth ?
18 February 2013, 12:03
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what i think slash is that there is no need for HA to intervene, and that there is no evidence whatsoever that they did beyond what they clearly announced: helping border villages to defend themselves against sectarian slaughtering at the hands of takfiris.
despite the broken record rhetoric that has been going on for more than a year, the FSA and ramiabdulrahman still havent provided one picture, a video, an actual combatant captured or anything to back their claim.
ma32oul if HA has been involved and has 5000 or 10000 men there as they claim that they still havent gotten material evidence of it? you believe that? i know your point of view and you dont have to like HA, i'm not asking you that, but have a critical mind and be objective here
18 February 2013, 15:33
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use your critical mind than to analyse the situation .. what i mean is you dont really need physical proof to know that HA is in the battle helping syria , look at it Geopoliticaly syria is the road of weapons , there is an alliance and even more than that for the syria of Bashar Assad made in public by S.H , Iran is there already after all the defections Assad needs men , HA arent in thousands there they dont need thousands of men , can you explain those bags coming from massna3 area ? can you explain those "martyrs" on manar who felt after 2010 where did they die carrying their jihadi duties? man HA is involved in syria, whether you like or not , or better accept it or not they are in there , you will go back to the story defending lebanese citizens there , well in case of war in a country every country recalls its citizens and not send mercenaries to defend them , stop the crap for once !
18 February 2013, 15:34
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there are alot of videos on youtube Mowaten showing HA and republic brigade cought , but you people ask for facts and when you are shown those facts you go to your old song : " it could be anyone claiming that they are HA members " !
18 February 2013, 15:46
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what you're saying slash when you talk about the road of weapons etc is that "they ought to be involved" in your opinion. this is where i disagree, it's not because you in their place would have done it that they did.
defending border villages from attacks certainly doesn't come without casualties, and the very few HA casualties are coherent with this. during the last year a total of what, like 10, say 20, were announced dead. Do you think if they were involved in heavy combat and operations they would only lose this much? that half of what FSA loses each day, don't tell me you admire HA so much that you think they could be involved for years in such battles and lose so few combatants.
about the videos no, i havent seen any with anything close to conclusive elements. things like filming the inside of a house with tags saying "Heazbollah was here!" is just plain ridiculous.
18 February 2013, 15:50
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watch this video that stargate posted below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D50wTv7yCS4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
18 February 2013, 15:56
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and look at the guy saying "kill all shias they shouldnt have lands here"
he's just a bum who's ready to massacre people to take their lands. some see war as a golden opportunity i guess....
18 February 2013, 10:13
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Sorry I don't understand what the problem is with being a member of a Lebanese Political Party called Hezbollah? Also I apologise but I don't understand where the problem lies with defending your home and town from Terrorists? There are thousands of Lebanese in Syria. Of course I would be doing all I can to defend my area. The questions to be asked is what is the FSA doing there terrorising Lebanese? The Lebanese government should be sending in the Maghwar to protect and free the Lebanese from these Islamists & Fatah Islam sympathisers.
18 February 2013, 14:21
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yes, you are correct!
we should send our army and maghawir to support Lebanese being oppressed in Canada :)
please let our army first defend our border town IN Lebanon from the Syrian regime daily aggressions....
we should not interfere in other countries, and should there be Lebanese there, they should leave.
18 February 2013, 15:48
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yet geha supports sending lebanese fighters to fight alongside FSA.
18 February 2013, 18:23
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if really they are Lebanese, then they are living in a foreign country.
that country has become not safe, so they should leave, and not take part in fighting in a foreign country.
if you fail to grasp that basic concept then you have a serious problem.
and to mowaten, I do not support sending nobody to a foreign country to fight. unlike you, I am a person who respects other countries sovereignty.
19 February 2013, 10:39
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oh really? that's your "basic concept" geha? people who have been living there for generations, on lands that their ancestors owned when there wasent even a border, tens of thousands of people, should just abandon their houses and everything they own and run?
we'll talk about that again when it's your house and your land and your family at stake. damn... you sound like it's a game on internet commenting stupidities like this...
18 February 2013, 15:28
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hezbollah has nothing to do in syria... another proof that this militia does not listen to the lebanese state concerning disassociation with the syrian conflict...
but we know this terrorist militia only obeys iran and not the lebanese gvt...
18 February 2013, 15:41
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Peace, why would the militia "listen to our state", when they are seeing Hezbollah all over their area? HA has already stated they have fighters their defending Lebanese in the border areas. This is a carefully worded statement. If HA turned its guns inward because of telecom lines being threatened, you don't think they would go so far as to protect their weapons supply lines in Syria in this civil war? Come on now!
18 February 2013, 15:41
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To deny is to admit, such is the way to look at the Syrians. Hezbollah fighters have been dying a lot further from Qousay, all the way in most of the areas of heavy fighting. In fact Hezbollah is not only fighting as in assisting the Al Assad regime from falling but also partaking into some grueling atrocities exacted on Syrian citizens. Now what is the ambassador trying to tell us, that either he is so dumb in not knowing that proofs are overwhelming against his regime or quite possibly that he is not used to being challenged. The disturbing thing is this fact, that when Bachar will be ousted and this looks like going to happen anyway, what kind of retribution will be exacted on Hezbollah? Now Hezbollah has one more foe to worry about, by all accounts.
18 February 2013, 17:49
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"defending lebanese villages" is just a lame excuse to justify their presence in syria along with assad s shabbiha... they cannot accept nor bear the fall of assad, that s plain and simple. that means more difficulty to get their arm supply if assad falls. lebanese villages? it s just like lebanon: they don t care... all they care about is to be iran s faithful puppet...
a militia that has thanked syria for the decades of occupation in lebanon is not worth any trust along with its allies....
18 February 2013, 21:17
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no offense to intelligence the HA apologists, but HA has been found in Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Argentina and a host of other countries--why wouldn't you believe that they would be in a neighboring country supporting a regime which is supported by their financier and supplier of arms?
19 February 2013, 09:09
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and we know that you will deny and insist that they aren't despite proof such as the HA operative captured by the Americans in Iraq, the ones that are on trial for Harriri's murder, the one being in indicted in the assisination of Harb, the ones that were captured in Egypt and so forth.
Continue to live in the stone age with your leader living in a cave and you guys acting like cavemen--INSIST and DENY--this is the M8 way--proof, who needs it.
19 February 2013, 00:11
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he has no sense of shame. a Prime Minister having to reside in KSA/France because he will be killed if he comes to Lebanon is not something people should be proud of, in fact it should be shameful for any Lebanese. But then again we are not talking about Lebanese, but Iranian puppets.
19 February 2013, 04:07
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Not to put down everything you said, but the figures on Hizbullah deaths are never accurate. The 2006 war deaths were grossly under-stated. There were hundreds of fighters who died, and the numbers were never publicly admitted. Even today only a minimum estimate can be made, but with the number of body counts and exchanges between the IDF and Hizbullah, we can conclude that there is a reasonable amount that Hizbullah did not publicly account for. It’s not because they lied or anything, it just looks better on TV for them when the world was informed of real damage on the IDF vs round-off estimates on the amount of damage inflicted on Hizbullah.
While this example does not belong to the same topic, I would definitely believe it if Hizbullah decided to hush up some funerals or deaths, given that they do consider and evaluate the political implications of their actions.
