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Posted 6:32
P.M. : December 4, 2002
Hezbollah calls for global attacks
December 4, 2002
LONDON — The leader of the Lebanese Muslim
group Hezbollah is urging a global suicide bombing campaign,
increasing the prospect that the regional conflict between Arabs
and Israelis will expand to mimic or even merge with al Qaeda's
war against the West
Two recent speeches by the Lebanon-based
Hezbollah leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, have raised the
specter of attacks outside the region by a powerful and
well-organized military force — a force that successfully pushed
the Israeli army out of southern Lebanon two years ago.
"By Allah, if they touch Al Aqsa we will act everywhere
around the world," Sheik Nasrallah told an estimated 10,000
gun-toting, bearded fighters in southern Lebanon on Friday.
Several hundred "suicide commandos" also took part.
Al Aqsa refers to a sacred Muslim site in
Jerusalem that, although under Israeli military control, is in
practice administered by Palestinian Muslim authorities.
The site, holy to both Jews and Muslims, is a flash point
for tension and outbreaks of violence.
