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Hamade: Why Doesn't Syria Avenge Mughniyeh's Killing?

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Saturday, 23 February 2008

Minister of Communications Marwan Hamade asked Saturday why wouldn't Syria avenge the assassination of Hizbullah's Imad Mughniyeh who was killed in Damascus not in Lebanon. Mughniyeh assassination in a Damascus suburb on Feb. 12 was a "major insult to Syria's national security, unless Syria was involved in liquidating him," Hamade added. The Syrian regime, he charged, is "ready to sell its brother, father, uncle and brother in law." Hamade accused Hizbullah, Syria and Iran of "placing bets on Israel that also places bets on them. Fanatics feed each other." "We are not collaborators with Israel. We adopt a wise Arab stand and who opts for adventures let him go to adventures alone," Hamade stressed. The "focal point of difference" between the March 14 majority alliance and Hizbullah, according to the cabinet minister, is that "the resistance has become a tool for the Syrian regime and for the Iranians." "I don't believe that the majority of Shiites support Hizbullah in changing south Lebanon into scorched earth," he said. Mughniyeh, he said, is remembered "as a fighter against Israel and I do not forget Imad Mughniyeh who had kidnapped Russian diplomats, French scientists and Kuwaiti passengers of the Jabriyeh jetliner." Hamade declared that he can not exonerate Hizbullah's "logistics branch" in the attempt to assassinate him on Oct. 1, 2004 by a car bomb. He noted that Qatar managed to withdraw its contingent serving with UNIFIL in south Lebanon early in February because "it felt that something is being planned for south Lebanon and because no one wants to go back to the 1980s" in reference to the abduction of foreigners by pro-Iranian factions. Hamade said Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Abdul Aziz Khoja was cautioned by Arab and Lebanese security agencies against specific threats and advised to take precautions. "Such a warning was also addressed to many diplomats and Lebanese leaders," he added. Hamade said the March 14 alliance was asking the international community to "prevent Israel from … launching war against Lebanon." The army, he said, would prevent civil strife and safeguard security and stability, contrary to what happened in 1975 upon outbreak of the civil war when the army was pacified and prevented from practicing its role. He said Arab league Secretary General Amr Moussa would carry an Arab message that Lebanon would "not be sacrificed" in the interest of the forthcoming Summit scheduled for March 29 in Damascus.

 

 

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