Thursday, August 11, 2005

Hezbollah insists it will not disarm

From Big News Network.com Tuesday 9th August, 2005 (UPI) ...

Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah said it would not disarm in conformity with U.N. Resolution 1559 even if Israel pulled out of a disputed border area.

Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary General Sheik Naim Kassem was quoted Tuesday in the daily An-Nahar as saying that armed resistance would be necessary even after a possible Israeli withdrawal from the Shabaa Farms area (on the Israel lebanon border) in order to deter Israel and stop it from violating Lebanese sovereignty.

The resistance movement is not merely aimed at liberating Shabaa Farms ... We need to keep up the resistance to protect Lebanon and defend it from Israeli dangers, Kassem said.

How could we possibly protect Lebanon and deter Israeli ambitions and threats except through maintaining armed resistance? he asked.

Kassem charged that Resolution 1559, which calls on Hezbollah to disarm, is aimed at serving Israeli interests."

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