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| Hizbullah claims US offered amnesty |
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| NewJehad |
| 11/19/01 at 08:21:37 |
| Hizbullah claims US offered amnesty Hizbullah said yesterday that the US had secretly offered to forgive it for attacks on westerners in return for abandoning its struggle against Israel. A recent American decision to freeze Hizbullah's assets as part of the anti-terrorism campaign came in response to its rejection of the offer, said Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese organisation's leader. In an interview with a Kuwaiti newspaper, Sheikh Nasrallah said that after the September 11 terrorist attacks the US sent "mediators" to Hizbullah in Lebanon. They offered to "forgive Hizbullah its past, and especially some of the events that happened in the 1980s, such as the blowing up of the marine barracks", he said. The explosion, in 1983, killed 241 people. In return, Hizbullah was asked to make a statement "distinguishing between Islam and terrorism, or between what is religious and legitimate on the one hand, and criminality and terrorism on the other", Sheikh Nasrallah said. He added that Hizbullah was also asked to "withdraw" from the Arab-Israeli struggle, to end its support for the Palestinian intifada, and to sever links with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Syria. "We rejected all these offers because we believe it is a political bomb aimed at finishing off Hizbullah," he said. The US asset freeze is opposed by the government in Lebanon, where all major political elements regard Hizbullah's activities as legitimate resistance to Israel. · The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was under pressure yesterday from members of his rightwing Likud party to sack his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, for telling the UN General Assembly that there was support in Israel for a Palestinian state. Source: The Guardian |
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