Beirut’s southern suburb marked Resistance and Liberation Day Monday as tens of thousands of people gathered at the Raya playground to listen to the speech of Hizbullah leader Hasan Nasrallah.
In his words, the Shiite leader touched the issue of a recent article in a German weekly magazine, which claimed that Hizbullah was behid the 2005 murder of ex-Premier Rafic al Hariri. "When it comes to the Der Spiegel article, I said that the last battle is to create an Arab-Iranian and Sunni-Shiite conflict. After the (2006) July war the last battle being plotted by some against Hizbullah is the unjust accusation of murder", he said.
According to Nasrallah, Der Spiegel’s report is more dangerous than Ain el-Rummaneh bus attack which triggered the 15-year civil war in 1975. "This is why we have to deal with it responsibly because it is an agenda to sow strife."
And he added: "We will deal with Der Spiegel report on the grounds it is an Israeli accusation against Hizbullah and we will deal with it on this basis."
