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Re: [casi] Bomb in Najaf has kills 82, including leading Shia - FT



With all due respect to Sayyid Nasrallah he, understandably, has a
one-agenda policy. It is well documented that he has never mentioned the
suffering of Iraqis under Saddam Hussein when he talks of the former
dictator - because he doesn't want to infuriate his Palestinian supporters
since this would damage his agenda.

He's saying what his crowd wants to hear.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Parkinson" <mark44@myrealbox.com>
To: <casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [casi] Bomb in Najaf has kills 82, including leading Shia - FT


> On 29 Aug 2003 at 19:46, Yasser Alaskary wrote:
>
> > The fact that it was carried out next to the shrine of Imam Ali means
> > it definitely was not a shi'ite group and not a religious sunni group.
> > which leaves the primary suspects as saddam followers or wahabis.
>
> Nasrallah hints at another suspect or even collusion.
>
> http://194.90.101.50/gsnlib_a/GSN2003/2003_09/20030902/215947.html
>
> US, Israel stood to gain from Najaf bomb-Hizbollah
>
> 02.09.2003 1:32:00 Reuters World Report
>
> BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanon's Hizbollah
> guerrilla group told mourners massed in Beirut that the United States
> and Israel had most to gain from the killing of a top Shi'ite cleric
> in a car bombing last week in Iraq.
>
> "The Americans do not want a state in Iraq, they want a splintered
> Iraq and the Israelis want to crush Iraq," Hizbollah leader Sheikh
> Hassan Nasrallah told about 3,000 Shi'ites gathered in the city's
> southern suburbs to mourn Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim.
>
> "For more than one reason it is in Israel's interests and part of its
> plan to kill the leaders that present or even might present a danger
> to Israel," Nasrallah said.
>
> The cleric stopped short of blaming Israel or its main ally the
> United States directly for Hakim's killing on Friday in an attack in
> Najaf, one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest cities, which killed more than
> 80 people.
>
> Supporters who could not cram into the vast hall where Nasrallah
> spoke watched him on television screens in the street outside, many
> waving Hakim's picture or black flags. Iraqi mourners held banners
> proclaiming their loyalty to Hizbollah.
>
> Nasrallah, whose Iranian-backed group helped drive Israel out of
> southern Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation, said attacks
> such as Hakim's killing or Israeli attacks on Palestinian militant
> leaders would strengthen the Arabs.
>
> "In Palestine today, Israel has taken the decision to cross out the
> leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the leaders of the uprising in
> Palestine," Nasrallah said.
>
> "But this (Arab) nation, in its cultural, emotional and mental make-
> up...when it is threatened with death is provoked and when it is
> killed it awakens and resurges," he said.
>
> Nasrallah said such an awakening had started to take place in Iraq as
> a result of the killing of Hakim, which was the deadliest attack
> since the United States toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in April.
> Washington and members of Iraq's U.S.-appointed governing council
> have blamed Saddam loyalists for the attack.
>
> "Oh Americans and Zionists, no matter how much of our leaders' blood
> you spill you cannot impose on us your tyranny or your projects," he
> said.
>
>
>
>
> Mark Parkinson
> Bodmin
> Cornwall
>
>
>
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