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Inside the Middle East
August 10, 2010
Posted: 926 GMT

By the CNN Wire Staff

Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) - Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Israel on Monday of having been behind the 2005 killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

"We accuse the Israeli enemy of this assassination," said Nasrallah, who spoke with reporters in Beirut via a video link from an undisclosed location. "Israel has the capabilities to execute this type of assassinations and similar attacks. They are well-known in this field and, indeed, have the expertise in targeting Palestinian and Lebanese figures, here and abroad.

"Lebanon offers Israel a fertile soil with the spies that they have on our land, and this is how Israel was plotting from the beginning to accuse Hezbollah of the assassination of Hariri."

There was no immediate reaction from the Israelis.

Hariri was assassinated February 14, 2005, when a bomb erupted near his motorcade in Beirut. A U.N.-sponsored investigation is under way. Last month, Nasrallah said Hariri's son, current Prime Minister Saad Hariri, had told him that the special tribunal would implicate rogue Hezbollah members for the killing but not the party itself.

Nasrallah said he would reject any such conclusion.

"We absolutely reject accusing any Hezbollah member of the killing of Hariri," the Hezbollah leader said. "We will not accept any indictment to anyone in Hezbollah." Read full story

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glory33   August 10th, 2010 11:23 am ET

for all of you idiots who think you know a lot about Lebanon and the middle east,listen to this:first,before his assassination hariri was defending Hezbollah's military because its the only way we can defend ourselves and our land from the Israeli terror..and the only way to get our occupied land from israel...second israel killed hariri to accuse Hezbollah with his murder....third for isreal its like a holiday when Lebanese people fight each other..so they are willing to do everything to corrupt Lebanon with bombs and assassinations...fourth Hezbollah doesn't have spy planes ..if he has he would send them to israel..and HELLO your congress said that hezbollah has high technology and more than any other organization..fifth,the israeli media didn't show the spy plane videos because they were ashamed of themselves....and yea we believe hasan nasrallah because everything he said till now from 1993 is true(freedom of south,2006 victory,freedom of prisoners).but you only believe what YOUR media shows you..i dont blame you!!!but if you live here you will find that everything you hear there is big fat LIE...and for your own info. hariri never wanted peace nor deplomatic relations with israel,and neither do we all lebanese..last thing..israelis make me laugh every time they mess things up they claim to be innocent..they killed 9 Turkish nationalists,1200 lebanese CIVILIAN,and the list never ends but the UN always forgives them and its OK for israelis to kill arabs..but when arabs reply they become TERRORISTS!!!wel i think the only terrorists are ISRAEL AND THE UN.....................FREEDOM FROM ZIONISM..FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE

miriam   August 10th, 2010 11:27 am ET

Hezbollah are under pressure and Lebanon is readying for another internal crisis.

What better way to deflect the expected blame and attempt to unify the nation by fabricating more myths about Israel.

The sad thing is that people actually believe Nasrallah, whether through absolute devotion to his terrorist ideology or through absolute devotion to anything anti-Israel.

glory33TheTerrorist   August 10th, 2010 1:32 pm ET

Glory33 you speak such lies, as all hizbullah=muslims=terrorists. You guys killed Harriri as he was the only western diplomt for womens rights, wester democarcy, everything that the avreage muslim/hizubullah/terrorist is against.

Not every Muslim is a terrorist, but EVERY terrorist is a Muslim!

suaadashaer   August 10th, 2010 2:11 pm ET

The evidence presented by Nasrallah shows that the Israeli complacency is backfiring. Soon Sunnis and Shiaa will be further united in Lebanon. Isreal has been doing the slaughter. Hariri was killed because he helped, in 1996, in condemning israeli massacre in Qana where civilians were killed at a UN compound in South Lebanon. They wanted to use the assassination for many purposes. The Lebanese understand that. The Israelis should ask their intelligence why they underestimated Hizbullah's intelligence and putting at risk their soldiers. Was the failure of 2006 war due to such complacency? Was Hizbullah watching the israeli troops and targeting them through Israeli drones during the 33 day war?

John A   August 10th, 2010 2:36 pm ET

Glory 33, good blog thanks.
Please remember only Americans soaked in Zionist owned media propaganda are oblivious to facts on the ground in the middle east. And unfortunately the more enlightened Europeans don't have the political or military muscle to liberate American opinions from being taken hostage by Zionist owned media.

But there are many signs that Americans who are going bankrupt are finally asking how did things come to this point. Printing worthless paper dollars which are backed with nothing from a country that produces nearly nothing is the reason for Americas decline. And the worthless paper money had to be printed to pay for wars based on lies and to pay for Israel, as Israel has no possibility to pay for its own ambitions.

Sadly as the American people wake up and verge on political rebellion, their leaders will most likely suck them into another fake war against Iran or N. Korea and then ask American citizens to unite behind another dumb puppet president at war. American politics are driven by Zionist dominated banks and media. No decisions made in the white house are for the strict benefit of the USA. First comes Israel and then comes the USA.

Americans need to free themselves from the yolk of Israeli Zionist media/bank led slavery and withdraw from all of the wars Israel wants. America should also stop paying for Israel so that the Israelis for the first time in history realize they cant afford non stop war and they should start making reasonable negotiations with their neighbors. But as things stand, radicle trouble makers in Israel can do what they want, because they know America will foot the bill in dollars and in blood.

Ariely   August 10th, 2010 2:38 pm ET

Lying to infidels is a tradition in Arab culture

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth"

Dining reality
Blaming others
Inventing false stories and later believes on their own tells.

http://www.islamreview.com/articles/lying.shtml

1 example
Following the 1967 defeat, Egypt president Nasser and Jordan king Hussein- had a phone call in with they decided to blame international forces destroying the Arab air forces.
It has been intercept by Israel and broadcast world wide
***************
Arabs/Iran play the traditional ME policy of diverting attention from their problems to the defending Israel

Arabs are EASILY MANIPULATED by leaders against imaginary enemy

1:Hisbula is expected to be involved in Hariri killing?
2: Islamic Iran ideology of world domination is under increasing international pressure?
Hisbila- Syria –Hamas to fire on the defending Israel
3: Islamic Iran declaration to destroy Israel

Attack and Blame Israel? -– Attack and blame Israel?????

Think once again- Stop being a peon

mike   August 10th, 2010 6:06 pm ET

hahahahahahaha anyone who believes this garbage is a moron
and unfortunately Lebanon is a country of Moron's

it is actually to Israel's benefit that Lebanon Unites and becomes an Iranian female dog
because when the next war will break out
Israel will annihilate Lebanon

The Lebanese people have brought there ending upon themselves by submitting to the Iranians.
You guys can thank your prime minister Hariri for that

E Ebraham   August 10th, 2010 7:07 pm ET

Israel assassinated Al Hariri, it is very clear, they did for many reasons
one of them to force Syria to leave lebanon and they did
after they finished with Syria and they use this case against Hizballah
The internation tribunal is a big joke (it is the biggest scadle gate in the whole world).
The tribunal is in the hand of the Americans and the Israels, and it is very silly and studpid not to see that.
Nasrallah has shown more convincing evidence against Israel, than the stupid evidence talked about by the tribunal which are telephone calls, that are certainely fabricated by Israel>
Saad A Hariri, if he does not take the evidence given by Nasrallah seriously and he goes after the accusation of Hizbullah, then he is not after the truth to know who killed his father, and he would be part of the American Israel plot against Hizbullah.

Smith in Oregon   August 10th, 2010 9:46 pm ET

It is likely a IDF Mossad assassination team that murdered former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but that was 5 years ago. Why all the fuss now?

I noticed today a Congressman voted to cut funding to the Lebanese Army. Something appears to be 'up'. As usual America's Shadow Government is entirely keeping the American People in the dark and the last of the last people to be informed as to what is actually going on.

tim   August 10th, 2010 10:09 pm ET

According to glory33TheTerrorist
"Not every Muslim is a terrorist, but EVERY terrorist is a Muslim!"

Was Timothy McVeigh a Muslim? Were the IRA Muslims? Was Hitler a Muslim? Was Stalin a Muslim? Was Mao a Muslim? Were the Basque nationalists Muslims?
That's just a handful among *many* terrorists who aren't Muslims.
Don't be so stupid and ignorant, goddamn. I mean, the shockingness of your stupidity is really breathtaking.

paul83838   August 10th, 2010 10:24 pm ET

glory33 i agree with you everytime israelis kill people its ok but when arabs fight back were considerded terrorists ........

ray   August 11th, 2010 5:20 am ET

It's Israel's old 'Assassination. under a false flag' game

Unfortunately for them it's no longer IDF and Mossad run by former US and .Northern Europeans but now ignorant clumsy Russian thugs.

Big problem is American Israeli Firstists –Like Schultz of Starbucks who send tax free money to build settlements not to mention virtually all our Congresspeople and every Administration who take the carrots from AI PAC or the Stick from the Zionist totally owned and operated (all) Media

miriam   August 11th, 2010 1:53 pm ET

It's predictable to see the same age-old anti-semitic accusations being directed at the collective and individual Jew.

Nasrallah's almost 3 hour ramble proved nothing other than desperation.

There are plenty more reasons why any of the various factions in Lebanon and their backers would have assasinated Hariri than those conspiracies blaming Israel.

It is well known that Israel watches Lebanon and judging by the recent upsurge in arrests of suspected Israeli spies it may be possible that Nasrallah is on the list, after all ,why else would he be destroying Lebanon and just how did he get access to supposed IDF materials and seem to be so "informed" about Israeli activites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Conspiracy is conspiracy and is convincing only to the gullible and brain-washed.

smz   August 11th, 2010 7:46 pm ET

Most of your probably have not seen the press conference in full. If interested, see it all here:

http://shiatv.net/view_video.php?viewkey=273da729db5650a99559

miki   August 12th, 2010 8:35 am ET

off course nassralla will blame israel, cos he needs a common enemy to try to avert civil war with the lebanese christiians. its the stupid lebanese who believe him, that will be the downfall of their country. hizbolla gaining some political power in the lebanese government was the first big mnistake, an now the country will pay the price. if hariri has any brains or balls now, he would call israel for peace talks and form an alliance with israel and the west, so to get rid of hizbolla once an for all, but alas, he oesnt have the brains/balls nor the guts to make such a bold move.

valkyrie22   August 16th, 2010 9:37 am ET

This kind of assassination "by way of deception" is MOSSAD's signature. This was most likely, a desperate attempt by Israel to create chaos amongst the different factions in Lebanon. If it looks, smells, feels, sounds and tastes like Israel- then it most likely is.

Mario   August 16th, 2010 7:39 pm ET

If the Israelis believe they only have inside information they must really be delusional but it would not surprise me since they believe that the world is only 5 thousand Years old. Go figure? Their God is some supernatural being that has given them the right to whatever land in the ME they decide to appropriate. Of course all legal? I mean their God is also a Notary.
The Muslims have as many Quislings as the Jews have unfortunately that does not help to bring peace to the region. Everyone is smarter than the other and at every opportunity tries to up the ante.
The region is filled with Neanderthals and this will not change in the foreseeable future! Everyone knows that the Israelis murdered Al Hariri. Deny, Deny, Deny, etc. !

Frank   August 17th, 2010 11:26 am ET

Whenever something happens in the Middle East, the Arabs blame Israel. The Arabs are only good in blaming others. The Arabs have a brain but it is out of order. Hezib Allah which is also known as the Party of God is a name chosen by Hassan Naser Allah, I sometimes wonder how on Earth he got this name and by whose authority, did God or Allah come down from the Heavens and said to Hassan, hey Hassan you need to create a party and name it after me. He is Kafir.
The Airport in Beirut is controlled by Shia Muslims who are very dumb. Every time at the passport control, there are police who check passports page by page to make sure there are no Israeli stamps. Everyone knows that you can tell Israeli passport control at the boarder not to stamp your passport. Lebanon is full dumb people. The same applies for Syria. The passport control staff at the Syrian boarder are all millionaires. They all take bribes. You give them USD2 and they won't even bother check the boot of the car, all they do is open and close the boot. Anyone can take anything into Syria because Arabs can be bought and sold with a few pennies or cents.

John A   August 25th, 2010 10:34 pm ET

Frank, if Israel is to blame why should the Arabs say anything else. Israel was founded on terror, most of its leaders have been former terrorists, Israel has broken the Geneva convention and UN resolutions more than any other country.

So ask yourself again, why would the Arabs blame Israel? Actually Frank everyone except Zionist controlled America blames Israel.

If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck.

If it assassins like a criminal and wages war like a lunatic state, it probably is Israel. No point blaming the Arabs for that!

MNsoldier   September 2nd, 2010 4:07 pm ET

I am so tired of the religous world spreading their hate. I would not be all in favor of giving Iran on nuke. I would hope they use it against Israel, it would ensure the end of the middle east and bring about peace. Israel would fire several back at Iran, and Syria and neighboring countries. Once the dust settles we would not have as many idiots spreading their cr@p. May your gods come take you away and leave the rest of the world in peace.

MNsoldier   September 2nd, 2010 4:09 pm ET

Israel fire first and be done with it. Use of them pacified Japan and I am sure it would make quick work of the cowards in man dresses.

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