Report: Lassa Became a Hizbullah Military Base
The predominantly Shiite town of Lassa in the Jbeil district has been transformed into a Hizbullah military base, informed sources told al-Joumhouria daily on Wednesday.
The sources said that the Shiite party dig tunnels, set up shelters in the town and installed cameras that would take photos of vehicles and drivers.
The region’s people consider Lassa a Hizbullah settlement particularly that the party’s secretary-general, Naim Qassem, hid in the town during the Israeli offensive on Lebanon in 2006, the sources said.
The town is also considered a link between the district of Baalbeck, which is mainly Shiite, and the district of Jbeil, they said, adding that Free Patriotic Movement MPs and Shiite lawmaker Abbas Hashem have set up a network of roads that link Hadath Baalbeck with the Jbeil district all the way to the coastal town of Amsheet without passing through any Christian village or town.
On Tuesday, a team from MTV was planning to shoot a news report in Lassa when Hizbullah fighters broke its cameras and prevented it from carrying out its task.
The director of political programs at the station Ghayyath Yazbek said that this was not the first time that a crew from MTV was being assaulted.
He said the network would not file a lawsuit against anyone but would wait for the state and security agencies to solve the issue.
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