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Friday, 25 June 2010

Hezbollah to Confront US Campaign Politically and Legally


25/06/2010 The testimony of US Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman concerning the USD 500 million by the US administration to bribe people into criticizing Hezbollah continues to cause repercussions in Lebanon.

Lebanese daily As-Safir revealed on Friday that Hezbollah is preparing to confront the US disfigurement campaign politically and legally.

According to As-Safir, the Resistance party is in the process of pressing the government with an inquiry via the chairman of parliament over the US violations of Lebanese sovereignty. The daily revealed details of the coming motion and added that the party in also in the process of presenting the government with a similar inquiry in an attempt to confront the premier and president and ministers with their obligations on confronting such a dangerous matter.

As-Safir also said that a legal committee within Hezbollah is studying the prospect of filing a lawsuit against the US government and certain Lebanese personalities and parties who received money from the Americans, stressing that Hezbollah has a detailed list of their names.

Meanwhile, member of the Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Nawwaf Moussawi told As-Safir that Hezbollah will pursue the issue till the very end, and will not burn phases. "We've shed light from parliament on the dangerous violation which the US administration committed with respect to Lebanese sovereignty and Lebanese national security and the dignity of the media profession and Lebanese national unity through what Feltman declared," he said. "This issue is a horrid scandal, and it cannot be faced with slighting or silence, namely because the tools used in disfigure Hezbollah's image are sectarian and denominational instigation," he added.

The Hezbollah MP stressed that the Resistance party is concerned with "confronting this cultural, security, media, and political threat" just as it is concerned with defending the country against any military aggression.

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