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Israel behind Lebanese assassinations?


The appearance of a story in the German magazine Der Spiegel claiming Hezbollah was behind the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri comes after the recent breaking of an Israeli spy ring based in southern Lebanon, which we reported on a couple of weeks ago. The Der Spiegel article, as Nasrallah points out, seems to be a pre-emptive move by Israel before the fingers get pointed their way.

Nasrallah: Der Spiegel, Israel teamed for murder

Hezbollah's Secretary General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, calls the recent accusatory article in the German daily, Der Spiegel a cover-up for Israeli assassinations in Lebanon.

"I consider the report in the Der Spiegel an Israeli accusation," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in the Lebanese capital, Beirut on Monday calling the move "a plot" of "far-reaching aims".

"The Israelis are acting preemptively before it is discovered that their spying networks were involved in the assassinations in Lebanon," he added.

The resistance leader made the comments after the magazine referred to an unnamed source as claiming that the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was "planned and executed by Hezbollah".

Nasrallah's comments also bore reference to Hezbollah and Lebanese intelligence counterespionage forays which have led to the apprehension of around 30 suspected Israeli-commissioned spies. One suspect, Ziad Homsi, has admitted to being tasked to organize the assassination of the secretary general.

While "we are witnessing the uncovering of Israeli espionage networks...," the Israelis thought "let's implement this plot against Hezbollah," Nasrallah continued with regards to the article.

He said the report deliberately coincided with the June 7 Lebanese elections which, he said both the US and Israel feared an overwhelming resistance triumph, the Israeli military maneuvers that begin on May 31 and the growing international expectation from Tel Aviv to submit to a two-state solution and give the right of the Palestinian refugees to return.

"Der Spiegel is ready for this mission" which he said was, on a broader scale aimed at "creating an Arab-Iranian conflict and a Sunni-Shia conflict."

Within hours of the appearance of the report, the Israeli media headlined the story and Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, and Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, called for the International Tribunal's issuance of an arrest warrant against Nasrallah.

"They made the accusations. They made the judgment. And they want to call for punishment."

Addressing thousands of his supporters on the occasion of the Resistance and Liberation Day, which marks Hezbollah's liberation of southern Lebanon in the year 2000 from 22 years of Israeli occupation, the Hezbollah chief concluded with an appeal to the international community to "punish Israel" before Tel Aviv could bring its conspiracy to fruition. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95977§ionid=351020203
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