Nassrullah says Israel waged war again, Joint Syrian-Iranian committee to investigate assassination of senior Hizbullah military leader Imad Mughniya

Joint Syrian-Iranian committee to investigate assassination of senior Hizbullah military leader Imad Mughniya

Date: 15 / 02 / 2008 Time: 13:55
Bethlehem - Ma'an -

The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reda Shaikh 'Attar on Friday announced the formation of a joint Syrian-Iranian team to investigate the assassination of senior Hizbullah leader Imad Mughniyya.

Mughniyya was killed on Tuesday evening in the up market "Kafr Sousse" neighbourhood of Damascus, when his booby-trapped Mitsubishi jeep was blown up. Israeli intelligence services had been pursuing him for 20 years.

Shaikh Attar said before his Friday sermon in Tehran that the decision to form the investigation team was made during talks with Syrian officials.

He said that the committee will "endeavour to uncover the perpetrators of this criminal act."

Ramadan Abdulllah Shalh, the Secretary General of Islamic Jihad, said that Mughniya's assassination had "opened an era of unique Arab-Zionist confrontations."

"Our revenge will be a unique kind of attack and will mark the beginning of the end for the Zionist enemy," he added, describing Mughniya's assassination as "another nail in the coffin of the Zionist entity".

"We will not keep silent about what is going on and we have our men who are going to avenge his soul," he added.

"Imad Mughniya was killed because Palestine was present in his heart more than any other Palestinian," Shalh said.

Nasrullah: Hezbullah ready for "open war"

Date: 14 / 02 / 2008 Time: 16:06
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Secretary General of Hezbollah, Shaikh Hassan Nassrullah promised to wage an open war against Israel, saying that Israel chose war when it assassinated Hezbullah military leader, Imad Mughniya.

Mughniya was killed in a car bombing in the Syrian capital, Damascus on Wednesday. Hezbollah blamed Israel for the attack.

Nasrullah was delivering a eulogy before the burial of Mughniya in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese capital. He said that Israel committed a "great folly" when they chose to assassinate Mughniya. He pointed out that the world historians have to start chronicling this date as the beginning of the collapse of the state of Israel.

Nasrullah said that Israel lost the war against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006 considering that the war is still ongoing as no ceasefire has been announced.

With regards to Hezbollah's reaction to the assassination of Mughniya, Nasrullah quoted his own word during the war in 2006 when he addressed the Israelis saying, "If you Zionists choose to fight an open war, you will have an open war." He was hinting to the fact that Hezbollah during the last war started launching missiles at Israeli cities in the north after the Israeli army shelled civilian targets in Lebanon.

This quote may imply that Hezbollah will undertake military action against Israeli targets anywhere as he said, "I remind that you killed Mughniya outside the battle field, and if you Zionists have already chosen an open war, I repeat now, let it be an open war."

Nasrullah reiterated that assassination of resistance leaders such as Mughniya does not weaken resistance. He revealed that as soon as the 2006 war ended, Hezbollah fighters led by Mughniya and others began to prepare for another possible war. He said, "This time, there will not be one Imad Mughniya awaiting you, or thousands of fighters, because Mughniya has almost completed his mission and prepared dozens of well-trained fighters who will fight you, willing to die as martyrs."

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