Hizbullah Says Fighters Have 'Moral Duty to Protect' Lebanese in Border Villages
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Hizbullah official Sheikh Nabil Qaouq has said the party's fighters had a moral and nationalistic duty to protect Lebanese citizens from rebels in villages and towns on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
“What Hizbullah is doing regarding this issue is a nationalistic and moral duty in protecting the Lebanese in border villages,” Qaouq, who is the deputy head of the party's executive council, said.
The Syrian National Coalition — the main opposition group — warned on Sunday that Hizbullah's involvement in Syria's civil war could lead to greater risks in the area, and urged the Lebanese government to "adopt the necessary measures to stop the aggression of Hizbullah" and to control the border to "protect civilians in the area."
The statement coincided with a surge in fighting around the contested town of Qusayr in Syria's Homs province near the frontier with Lebanon.
Reports said that over the past two weeks, the Syrian military, supported by Hizbullah fighters, has pushed to regain control of the border area.
The pro-regime gunmen are members of the Popular Committees, which were set up last year in Syria with Hizbullah's backing to protect Syrian villages inhabited by Lebanese Shiites, although rebels accuse the fighters of attacking opposition villages in the area and fighting alongside government forces.
While Hizbullah confirms backing the Popular Committees, it denies taking part in Syria's civil war.
Qaouq snapped back at critics, saying Hizbullah “would not leave citizens in border villages to be killed, kidnapped and massacred.”
The March 14 alliance should stop insulting the party's “martyrs,” he said, adding they are “the martyrs of the entire nation.”
Several Hizbullah members have been buried lately although the party has never said how or where they were killed.
22 April 2013, 10:08
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Qaouq .you are nothing but traitor ,a lire and a joke ..Syria has been attacking Lebanese citizens in north for over a year and done nothing.you can never justify your involvement in Syria all you are doing is killing innocent civilians and children to please your masters in Syria and Iran .
22 April 2013, 11:26
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Mowaten - the Hizb and Iran are the ones that has put the shia community in this terrible position. From the beginning, they recruited militia to fight on behalf of the regime in Shia and alawi communities. But this has nothing to do with protecting lebanese in syria (Gabon next?), it is about protecting its rear bases and supply lines in syria. I suspect that this entenglement will not go well for the hizb and may well be its undoing.
22 April 2013, 11:54
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First, they said they are not involved, then they said that "individuals" were involved, now they're admitting the "hizb" is involved. Do not be at all surprised when the FSA starts carrying out attacks in Lebanon.
22 April 2013, 12:33
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MOOwaten, we're not Almanar sheep in order for you to spew their words...we know hizbocrap was involved ever since nasrocrap came out and admitted it.
22 April 2013, 14:52
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Mowaten - you repeat a propaganda line you do not even believe. From the beginning, these villages were used as safe areas by syrian military who bombs the overwhelmingly "sunni" neighboring areas. Their nighbours, in the hundreds of thousands, are refugees in Lebanon. They did not escape the FSA. They escaped the syrian regime. It is true that some opposing the regime committed sectarian killings but these were long have been eliminated in the al qusayr area by the al farouq brigade that dominates the area. As for the regime, the killings continues unabated.
22 April 2013, 15:36
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"Don't base your arguments on his words..." how does that work? What do you base your arguments on? What Almanar tells you?
23 April 2013, 04:47
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i agree with you on one thing ..i dont like HA..or any other traitors
23 April 2013, 04:48
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they use the border village's as an excuse its simple people like you who can not comprehend reality
22 April 2013, 10:26
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HA is fighting for its own survival. It is not going to wait for the results from Syria. Anyhow, it is better fighting it out in Syria, than in Lebanon.
22 April 2013, 12:12
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them fighting in Syria will bring the fight to Lebanon, expect FSA attacks in Lebanon and do not be surprised when they happen.
22 April 2013, 10:45
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Lebanon has the moral DUTY to disarm Hizbollah .... until then there's no Lebanon!
22 April 2013, 11:01
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hizbushaitan is fighting there for political reasons and nothing else, and is not limited at all to shia villages, otherwise what is there for them in Damascus?
they are executing a Iranian agenda, and they have nothing to do with Lebanese.
they are bringing destruction on Lebanese villages by shooting rockets from Lebanon.
enough BS from hizbushaitan: you cannot hide the truth anymore.
22 April 2013, 12:14
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The sane people are supporting the FSA's fight IN SYRIA..hizbocrap is supporting its fighters in another country. Don't see the difference smartypants?
22 April 2013, 12:42
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"huge chunk"= i don't know what i'm talking about.
Even if there were true this would not counter this argument. Neither of those countries you listed have had an official disassociation policy in the Syrian conflict, Lebanon does. A lebanese party officially admitting to sending fighters there is certainly not in line with this and will most definitely bring the fight to Lebanon. Enjoy.
22 April 2013, 15:02
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Clearly you do not understand what the disassociation means, to you it means sending fighters to go and die in Syria
22 April 2013, 16:30
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all of these things happened AFTER nasrocrap admitted to fighting in Syria so your argument is defunct.
22 April 2013, 11:28
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Same logic I see from Israeli supporters to justify that country aggression.
22 April 2013, 11:30
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So that also means they have the "nationalistic and moreal duty" to act above the law too?
22 April 2013, 11:33
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Scum of the Earth and its Earth day today shame such evil exist on it, Partition please.
22 April 2013, 12:17
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open the Syrian Lebanese border and let all who want to fight with or against the regime go to Syria and watch them kill each other in Syria
22 April 2013, 15:06
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HA are doing nothing wrong ! They are keeping these fanatical extremists Sunni in Syria & burying them for good , better than these Sunni extremists coming to lebanon ? Right !
22 April 2013, 15:11
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HA have no morals, and therefore by definition, no morality--they are nothing more than mercenaries and their actions in Syria are demonstrating that. How far are the 'border' towns from the border?
22 April 2013, 17:21
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I agree with people who refer to this person as a paid mouthpiece! He floods the boards with his propaganda and I am sure he is on the payroll of hizb shaitan.
22 April 2013, 21:51
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This is the beginning of the end of the 'muqawama' and the explicit conversion to sectarian militia. Even Hitler had a 'moral' story when he attacked polland and the chek republic. This is not a war where hizb can kill 10 israelis and claim divine victory and go for 100 interviews on tvs, this is a totally different war altogether, you kill 10 of the enemy they kill 10 of yours and the cycle does not stop. The single most important weakness in the israelis is their desire for life and lack of interest in wars (as they do have a good life), muslims on the the other hand go after martyrdom, so go figure. Hizb has entered the quagmire, let them enjoy their little sprint in qusair, soon they will find out that like they say in egypt "dkhhool 7amam mish zay khrogo", we all remember bashar going to bab amr, and now we see the rebels in his capital.
