Thursday, December 23, 2010

Is killing a Lebanese Prime Minister the way Hezbollah “defends Lebanon”?


A Hizbullah activist Mustafa Badr Aldin is responsible for the assassination of a former Lebanese Prime Minister. This is the conclusion of the investigation done by the International Commission on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri. Hariri, who was known for opposing Syrian interference in Lebanon, was assassinated on February 15, 2005 when explosives were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St. George Hotel in Beirut. 22 additional people were killed as a result of the explosion.

Aldin who is suspected of being behind the assassination is also the brother in-law of Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh who was killed in 2008 in a car-bomb attack in Damascus, while reportedly in the midst of planning major terrorist attacks in moderate Arab countries. Aldin’s name has been mentioned as a candidate to replace Mughniyeh as Hezbollah’s chief operations officer.

Aldin, who is also known by the name “Elias Sa’ab”, commanded the failed attempt to assassinate Kuwait’s ruler in 1985.

Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah addressed this and blamed the United States and Israel, saying the expected indictments were part of a Zionist and American plot to push their Middle East agenda. He suggested that Israel was in fact behind the assassination and said of the tribunal that looked into the Hariri killing: “As long as it didn’t focus on Israeli involvement, it’s not an honest tribunal.”

Hizbullah has several times denied that it is behind the Hariri assassination. Last year, following an article in the German news weekly Der Spiegel that charged Hizbullah with being behind the assassination, Hizbullah called the report an Israeli-American conspiracy “aimed at sowing discord between [Lebanon's] Sunnis and Shi’ites.”

Thursday’s report on Channel 1 added that current Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (Rafik’s son) is pressuring the Special Tribunal for Lebanon not to publish Aldin’s identity as a prime suspect in his father’s killing due to his government’s ties with Hizbullah, which is currently a part of Lebanon’s coalition government.

And there are still idiots in Lebanon who honestly believe that Hezbollah is their protector and Israel is their enemy. Really, whom the God wants to punish – He makes brainless.