FSA Chief of Staff Warns Nasrallah: We Know How to Get to You

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General Selim Idriss, chief of staff of the rebel Free Syrian Army, on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, describing him as a “criminal” and “leader of Shabiha.”

"The killer does not belong to a religion, sect or nationality, and any killer will be killed eventually," Idriss said, according to a statement issued by the Joint Command of the Free Syrian Army.

"We know how to get to you and your era has practically ended," Idriss added, addressing Nasrallah.

He vowed that "anyone who dares to attack our people and our land will pay a hefty price.”

Addressing “our brothers, the great Lebanese people,” Idriss called on them to “regain their state that has been taken over by the terrorist Hizbullah gang.”

“It is time for Lebanon's spring to begin and for Lebanon to regain its normal position, sovereignty and prosperity,” Idriss added.

Three Lebanese Shiites have been killed in fighting in Syria, a Hizbullah official said Sunday, as the Syrian opposition accused the Lebanese group of intervening on the side of the regime.

He said they were acting in "self-defense,” without specifying if they were Hizbullah members.

Just hours earlier, the main bloc of the Syrian opposition accused the Damascus ally of having intervened "militarily" on the side of the regime, and warned this posed a threat to ties between neighbors Syria and Lebanon.

Hizbullah has systematically denied sending fighters into Syria, though its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged in October 2012 that party members had fought Syrian rebels but said they were acting as individuals and not under the group's direction.

Nasrallah clarified that the Hizbullah fighters were killed while defending Lebanese-inhabited border towns inside Syria. He explained that there are 23 Syrian border towns and 12 farms that are inhabited by Lebanese residents of various religious beliefs, adding that around 30,000 Lebanese residents live in these towns.

“The residents of these towns took the decision to stay and defend themselves against the armed groups and did not engage in the battle between the regime and the opposition,” Hizbullah's leader added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the three slain Lebanese were members of pro-regime militias who had been trained by Hizbullah.

Louay al-Meqdad, spokesman for the Supreme Council of the Free Syrian Army, has accused Hizbullah of shelling Syrian territory with artillery and rocket launchers from bases inside Lebanon.

On Wednesday, General Idriss threatened to shell positions of Hizbullah in Lebanon after accusing it of firing across the border into territory it controls.

"In the past week... Hizbullah has been shelling into villages around Qusayr from Lebanese territory, and that we cannot accept," Idriss told Agence France Presse on the phone, adding that the rebels had given Hizbullah a 48-hour deadline to stop the attacks.

Conflicting reports emerged on Thursday that the Free Syrian Army had shelled Hizbullah positions in Lebanon and Syria.

The FSA said that the attacks targeted a Hizbullah artillery position in Lebanon's Hermel region in the Bekaa, reported al-Arabiya.

Head of the FSA's Farouq brigades Taleb al-Dayekh announced that it launched “mortar attacks against a number of Hizbullah locations in Lebanon's Hosh al-Sayyed Ali region,” reported Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5).

The rebel FSA later said that it shelled a Hizbullah position in the western Reef Qusayr area near the Lebanese-Syrian border.

FSA sources later denied to Sky News that it had targeted Hizbullah positions in and outside of Syria.

Comments 23
Default-user-icon dandoun (Guest) 21 February 2013, 16:55

hahahahah...where is the candid camera :)

Thumb andre.jabbour 21 February 2013, 17:00

A li li li li li li li li li li li li li li. My friends are singing boukra'l 3eid, min 3ayed, ndiba7 ba2ret el sayyed. You're wrong my friends, you're going to get the sayyed himself! Don't kill him yet, he needs to appear before the STL and many other courts.

Long live the FSA.

Missing abraham 21 February 2013, 17:20

can you tell us who is FSA
If this general is so confidant of the success of his revolution, how come he couldn't do it with his forces, he had to bring all those fanatics from all over the world to do his job.
No wonder you are located in Turkey, because a genocidal govermant like Turkey loves genocidal general like you

Thumb andre.jabbour 21 February 2013, 19:33

Hawa Hawa Hawa, shoo 7ilo el Hawa...

Missing canadianadam 22 February 2013, 15:52

Fanatics flock to all conflicts just like they did in Libya. It doesn't mean the majority arnt true Syrians seeking a change.

Thumb lebanon_first 21 February 2013, 17:13

No way buddy. HA are a bunch of thugs. But they are lebanese thugs, and lebanon will deal with them in due time from lebanon. We dont accept your alien interference.

Thumb geha 21 February 2013, 17:15

hizbushaitan drew this to themselves. their arrogance based on their weapons forbid them to expect that people when aggressed they will ultimately respond.
now hizbushaitan has the Israelis, the FSA and march 14 on their backs.
let us see what the very near future will bring.

Thumb Elemental 21 February 2013, 20:12

This is what happens when 2 non-Lebanese militias come in...

Default-user-icon + Oua nabka + (Guest) 21 February 2013, 20:33

Wahabies versus Hezbollah wish they destroy each other to the last one of them

Thumb imk_ 21 February 2013, 20:35

After FSA's failure in Syria, they're now trying to spotlight Hezbollah and Lebanon to cover their failure and move the attention. That's pathetic. Who is that guy anyway lol. And Geha I don't think a Hizb shaitan would go after a fellow shaitan (israel). People if only you focus your hatred on israel the world would be a better place. Put in mind that every second you spend hating on a arab brother, you'll be serving the western agenda. Stay united against the israeli existence to kill that cancer and save our country palestine from the vicious occupation.

Missing realist 21 February 2013, 20:50

FSA failure? Lol, with minimum help and againstI relentless war machine armed with and Air Force and Scud missiles the FSA in one year controlled more than half of Aleppo, practically most country sides
in Syria and started to have a significant footing in the capital itself. how is that a failure lol? is this clear by now the time is on the rebellion side and vs time the rebellion will win even if it took few years

Thumb lebnanfirst 21 February 2013, 20:37

Just wanted to share a general bit of information one might find interesting about the new approach to arming the Syrian rebels (FSA et. al.).
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/who-just-started-arming-syria-rebels

Thumb lebnanfirst 21 February 2013, 20:48

@ karim_m1
What you said might have had some veracity to it were the FSA being badly defeated. As it stands, those rag tag rebels have been able to stand up to a powerful and well equipped army and even win against that army in several places.
A sane person will stop and consider facts and accord respect where respect is due whether or not one agrees with the FSA.
Finally Arab arrogance you say, like you are not an Arab is that the insinuation? For shame. Man nakara aslahou la asla lahou.

Thumb imk_ 21 February 2013, 21:30

Since you're talking about aircrafts and scuds you should know that no area can be controlled by the FSA if it wasn't a hostage situation, that's their main tool. If it wasn't for that FSA rebels would be gone by now. There's no way on earth they can survive and last that long if that wasn't the deal, simple logic. And you know very well if president Asad fall which clearly won't the only ones whose benefiting from that will be israel and the western powers. Why? Because it'll change the whole equation and the arab alliance will be weakened which it'll serve their agenda by the deletion of a great threat to israel's existence.

Default-user-icon Yavdaguin Dijtajtouj (Guest) 22 February 2013, 00:39

Isn't Assad closer? How about teaching the Israelis something? gabby987 is beyond himself in excitement! I guess the Assad regime is once again about to collapse and so will Hizbullah. EVIVA!

Default-user-icon pierre m (Guest) 22 February 2013, 03:33

Oh my...hahahaha joint chief of what... I wouldn't trust these fsa clowns to manage a bowl of jello, let alone run a country.

Default-user-icon MyLebanon (Guest) 22 February 2013, 05:33

Get him, what are you waiting for...

Thumb imk_ 22 February 2013, 12:55

Bidal 3ende e7ses eno fi nes men barrat lebnen gher lebneniye bifuto bya3mlo comments........

Thumb sophia_angle 22 February 2013, 14:52

i am with the syrian revolution but when i see their way in cutting heads n slaughtering people n putting car bombs in public areas ?!?! wat nxt? they r even worse than the regime...to be free needs a lot of educational backgrounds r these people ready to be free?!

Missing mohammad_ca 22 February 2013, 15:25

can you explain how this guy, like nasrocrap, is a criminal? enough of your verbal diarrhea.

Missing canadianadam 22 February 2013, 15:51

We know your name is not Omar, is this McKini cough cough Mowaten, I mean McLovin

Missing canadianadam 22 February 2013, 15:53

Get ready to move Karim. You and the Farsis are no longer welcome interfering in their country or ours.

Missing canadianadam 22 February 2013, 15:56

Yes he probably is, and if he isn't, he'd be as crazy as Qaddafi was thinking his time won't come. Aoun for brzezzident right FT no matter what the cost. Sorry if I've offended your allegiances.