Hizbullah Denies Report Linking Party to ISF Arms Raid
Hizbullah on Monday denied media reports claiming that party officials had tried in vain to mediate to prevent security forces from seizing arms from the home of a party member in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
“Nizar al-Husseini is neither an official nor a member in the party,” Hizbullah’s media relations unit said in a statement.
“Remarks that a Hizbullah group had clashed with the Internal Security Forces and prevented them from performing their duty are false and baseless, as neither a clash nor a prevention had taken place,” the statement added.
A security source told An Nahar daily published Monday that weapons and four stolen vehicles were seized from “Hizbullah member Nizar al-Husseini” on Sunday after a BMW X5 stolen from the Beirut thoroughfare of Hamra was discovered outside his house in the southern suburb of Bir al-Abed.
The source said security forces found the vehicle through the GPRS system, adding that when they reached Bir al-Abed three Hizbullah gunmen arrived there and argued with the policemen for lack of coordination with the party on the raid.
According to the report, the dispute turned ugly when a gunman shot an officer in the foot.
Security forces insisted on carrying out their task and seized the car of the three gunmen, the X5 and four other stolen vehicles, the report said.
Although al-Husseini escaped, the patrol arrested his son and seized from his house a large number of weapons and ammunition in addition to a device that decodes new cars, said the report.
“Hizbullah officials tried to mediate by telling us that the seized arms belong to the party but we insisted on confiscating them and that’s what happened,” the source told the newspaper.
Later on Monday, the ISF issued a statement confirming that the raid and the clash had taken place. However, the statement did not mention anything about the political affiliation of the home’s owner or the gunmen who it said arrived on the scene in a black Kia Sportage.
Security forces seized “a quantity of weapons, explosives, military uniforms -- similar to those of the army, ISF and other fatigues – and advanced electronic devices,” the statement said.
They also seized “four stolen BMWs from the parking of the building,” it added.
“The probe is ongoing under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities and the search continues to arrest the rest of the gang’s members,” it noted.
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I read in Lorient-Lejour that the ISF didn't take the weapons. However, they might be unaware of the latest developments. The guy that shot the cop should be in Roumieh and judged very severely because he attacked the state.
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Ashraf el Neiss...
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Mmmmm... Naharnet you should correct the typo in the headline... If now Hizbullah meditates it makes Hassan a kind of new Ghandi... Well, maybe that's the solution, right?
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This is very typical for a militia. Lawless self-important criminals. Having a leader wearing a turban changes nothing. All are criminals
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Did they arrest the Gunman who shot the officer in the foot??? The suspense is killing me..
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Of course they did... and soon they will help the Lebanese authorities all their other members who are wanted for murders (for example Hariri case), drugs trafficking, cars thefts, smuggling operations, illegal telecoms, illegal possession of weapons...
I would love to see Hizbustan cooperate with the Lebanese authorities.
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"...only idiots blow up their own allies." I guess you just call Hizballah "idiots"
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Thieves, criminals and thug. You all belong in jail. Saints my butt
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petty thieves are cought and their name goes public as for big thieves who steal billions are in power and intouchable ,
min aina laka haza ?
this question should be asked to all influent and politicians and public servants
starting from prosecutors to judges to security forces , to politicians and even to common rich lebanese
if they bring proof to their fortune sahtein 3ala 3alboun
if not take all their money and hang them
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naharnet can you really go lower than that!??Come on can any sane person believe that 3 ISF members went to the heart of dahyeh and arrested a Hizbullah member without Hizbullah consent? So either dahyeh is not a hizbullah geto despite what the 14 Martians are saying or this story did not happen. so who is lying??
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Your 10:06 comment is quite brilliant FT... for a teenager :) ...especially the "hezb was the MAIN ally for rafic hariri" part... ouch... seems that politics 101 will be your first class...right after English 101 of course :)
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Why should they need hizbolla consent to arrest a car thief??
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@keserweneh
??? "polite" ..."civilized"... "swearing"... you have quite some nerve my friend...
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ok could patriot could we keep this polite and civilized, we have enough swearing on the streets,to be able to keep it away from this forum
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Hahahaha Chris... "little scraps"... exactly... the Hezb does much worse every day...
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and what have you brought to the table in the last month or so instead of saying no one makes any sense except you? :)
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Sorry I cannot answer you with Chris login. They deleted my inflammatory comment and my account.
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So you are not denying that a hizbolla member was using "resistance" weapons to steal cars??? You completely missed the crux of the story!
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flame ??? and you bring something to the table??? talk about politics for dummies....
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FT
So you compare US/Europe influence to Syrian influence in Lebanon huh??
Yes I would compare Europe/US to Iran or Saudi Arabia, but your analogy is not a serious one FT...
We are not treated as a western province... we are treated as a Syrian one...BIG difference my dear...
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Grandissez un peu...
We all know that, generally, car thieves are located in the Bekaa and that NOTHING happens without the Hezbollah's approval. That's one point. On this one, I'm willing to believe the legal authority's version because one of them was shot in the foot. The officer who conducted this operation should be given a medal as there are many more cases like this one. My sister has an apartment which is rented under the all law, she took it to justice, hired a lawyer, took it to court, paid $20000 for the the guy as compensation so he leaves (he stopped paying rent for the past 12 years!). So everything is in order, guess what... he's belongs to the hizb and doesn't want to leave. The police is too scared to pull him from his 'cojones'.
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Edit: ... My sister has an apartment which is rented under the OLD law... not 'all'.
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Ashraf el ness. They are the cancer of Lebanon. They are responsible for half of Lebanon's problems. Our little country deserves better than this.
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Excellent description, couldn't have done it better. They are the cancer of Lebanon. To Ben Zona: what are you expecting? He took the money and lives for free. You should give us his name and location.
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Ceci est le lot de tout un pays habitué au non-respect de la loi (je suis avocat et je sais de quoi je parle). Essaie un peu de déloger un palestinien ou certains Akariens d’un appartement qu’ils occupent, de forcer Solidaire à payer ses impôts... Vous avez raison c’est malheureux mais c’est le lot de tout le pays.
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Pays archaïque, peuple archaïque et système législatif archaïque. Tout est archaïque dans ce pays... I ne faut guère s'étonner de ce qu'on découvre en lisant divers témoignages.
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Flame thrower one day I hope you and your masked mates become
Electricity payers
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"Hizbullah officials have tried in vain to mediate to prevent Lebanese security forces from seizing arms from the home of a party member in Beirut’s southern suburbs,"
So more or less, this is telling everyone what we already know--Hizb isn't the "resistance" as it claims but more like the mafia which is how it acts. Why else are party officials trying to cover for a thief?
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Also proves you are a liar in accusing them using their weapons against Lebanese. Dumbo. Plus if they wanted to protect the thief, they would have used your palestinians camps.
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bravo Watan !!!!
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Excusez-moi Slash mais en 3 commentaires il y a plus de 6 insultes! Je doute que ça soit le bon exemple de la société progressiste que tu prônes
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You're wrong FT, I will not apply the hezbollahi method to get rid of a Hezbollah thug. That's the difference between them and us. Anybody in Lebanon can buy weapons and use them to pressure the other, that's the coward way. We want justice to be served and Ben Zona's court sentence to be followed by legal actions. You however seem to encourage illegal activities.
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Hold on one second.....don't these scums (HA) state that their sole purpose is to be the 'resistance' to defend against the Zionist Israelis? >>>>>>> Hizbullah officials have tried in vain to mediate to prevent Lebanese security forces from seizing arms <<<<
Does one need to say more? They are liars/scumbags/low-life tribesmen who's goal is to take over the country & send Lebanon back to prehistoric days. God help the people of Lebanon. Our only hope is to remove Assad from the picture and that should cut the snake's head and destroy HA as well.
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I thought your government and the army was in the hands of Hizballah. I guess not in this scenario of yours. HA stood in the face of the IDF, now you want to tell me they were afraid of the ISF, if they really wanted to interfere.
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aaawiihaaa hizbuallah ashraf naaaass...
aaawiihaaa hizbuallah never rob people...
aaawiihaaa hizbullah do not sell or use drugs....
aaawiiihaaa hizbullah are saints.....
aaawiiihaaa hizbullah do not possess weapons.....
an utter shame and a joke that people are allowed to store this amount of weapons in the name of resistance weapons!! the shiaa have been stealing cars for 20 years and asking for ransom from people and the government has never dared to arrest anyone! these vehicles have been getting stolen every day from Hamra and many stories have been reported about it...
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Listen idiot. USA went to afghanistan and fought the Taliban because they are terrorists, but now they want to sit with them and negotiate, so they can be a part of the government. My point is HA are lebanese, doesn't matter what you think of them. So deal with it.
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listen idiot, Hisbzustan will only bring death and destruction upon lebanon because of their arrogance which is paralleled to the idiot in damascuans. Syria is changing and the monopoly of hizbustan over weapons will be history in 2013-14 and everyone will obtain weapons especially the muslims. can you imagine the consequences of having two states one in da7iye and one in tripoli? cause this is where things are heading. If your hizbustan do not save the lebanese state by handing heavy weapons and murder suspects another civil war is looming. Go read sub7i tfayli's recent comments.
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amazing how they want the weapons back because they are resistance weapons, but they forget that the weapons are owned and possessed by a criminal.. these hizbullah members are the true filth of Lebanese society!. they banned alcohol in their areas not because it is haram but because all their children were skipping school and getting drunk.
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I guess the device to decode new cars was an important part of the "resistance". Bunch of thugs and thieves.
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They are Muslims on their ID cards only... As far as I know, stealing is prohibited, so is killing and many other things they do in their shady suburbs and southern cities.
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if anyone of you guys saw the report on the news, you would have noticed that these weapons are israeli weapons :)
furthermore they were under the protection of hizbushaitan. :)
moreover, these guys were stealing cars (nt fr resale) but rather to fill them with explosives :)
on top of that, the ones they hate are once more the ones who caught them, i.e. ISF.
and if anybody still dares to say hizbushaitan does not have an israeli agenda .......
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بإختصار يا سيد حسن أنت تصف رئيس وزراء الحكومة المجوسية فى العراق بالوطني والشريف وكذلك أصدرت نعي للهالك الجعفري وصفته فيه بالعالم المجاهد والشهيد وكذلك أرسلت مؤخرا دعوة للص العميل أحمد الجلبي لحضور مؤتمر "نصرة روافض البحرين" بصفته مقاوما !!هل هناك شك فى أن هؤلاء أتوا جميعا فوق ظهور الدبابات الأمريكية لدرجة أن أحد المعممين على اليوتيوب جعل من بوش محررا ووجه له رسالة بعنوان "الله يحميك ياعمي يا بوش"!فلماذ حلال على شيعتك طلب تدخل الشيطان الأكبر وحرام على السوريين؟ثم ألا تعلم بأن من لا يملك سلاحه لا يملك قراره؟فكيف تتبجح بالمال الإيراني؟
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Days are changing idiot. Hamas already left you and in sectarian wars numbers always win, the future Syria is not your old ally and your fake leverage is expiring. Go read the advice of sub7i tfayle. Read lebanese history and see if weapons saved the maronites, minorities can succeed for some time but not all the time, every dog has its day and your days are coming to an end and you know it. Weapons should only belong to the state. Take some wisdom from the Iraqi position who did not invite the syrian regime to the arab sumit in baghdad. In other words learn your size and act accordingly, you are mere 10 percent in the greater picture and eventually everyone gets weapons.
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I don't know about this story!? I mean HA is scum but ISF doesn't go to da7yi to collect on a late power bill. Yet now they are busting down doors and going face to face up against HA!?? I find it hard to believe. I wish it was true and they disarm all of HA but I don't see it happening with this interior minister. Maybe barood would have. And you know there is no one in da7yi jacking cars and has guns, unless he is HA connected!
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You all make me sick! From one Lebanese living outside of Lebanon, I can tell you the whole world is laughing at you all... M8 and M14, you are the common joke in the real world!.
For as long as you all sit and bitch about each other and waste every moment of everyday building up hate, the world is sitting by waiting for you to self distruct once again into civil war.
God has given both Muslims and Christians of Lebanon the best piece of land in the world and all we know how to do is destroy what everyone else wants. It is like having the winning Lotto ticket but burining it in the fire without making the most of it.
I tell you this once more, as a proud Lebanese living outside Lebanon, you all are making us look bad, you all are turning Lebanon into the common Joke, you all make me sick.
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Come on guys, let's hear the real story, the ISF got a tip from the GPRS and owners, they spotted the subject and his location, while the area is being monitored by the three ISF, the later did contact HA for coordination to apprehend Mr Al-Husseini, when the HA members showed up to the seen to tip off their brother and make him run away, they've gotten into a fight with the three ISF members already on sight keeping on eye on Al-Husseini movements and received a shot in the foot because the ISF this time played the game smarter and was already on site before the permission/call was made, at which point more support came to the seen to clean the mess and apprehend cars/arms/humans and etc... God bless the Lebanese Army.
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If your story was true. What is to stop them from killing the ISF or better yet blow them up as you say. God bless the Lebanese army, few days ago, you were calling them, an extension to the Syrian army of Bashar.
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no Flame ,the other half is caused by cunts such as yourself,big dig and GMA Speedy gonzales.
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Oh well my goals are quite simple ya galiboun:
NO to the Syrian influence in Lebanon
NO to Hezbollah/Amal weapons
Yes to an Audit of the state's expenses since 1989
Yes to clear borders with Syria
I would say that's a start...
For info, I have no "leader" even if I have sensibilities... like you do... as for your life coaching, please be kind to apply it to yourself. I need no advice from someone who supports terror, weapons, drug smuggling, kidnappings, and assassinations. You lecture us about spreading hatred and call us "dopes"... what kind of person are you?
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إننو لو كمشو شي صاروخ و الحزب لم يقبل إنو ياخدو كانت شوي برمت ب راسنا
بس كم رشاش و قمبلة يدوية؟ بشرفكن ولوو؟ هولي صارو الولاد عميلعبو فيهون بالشارع و القضل بيرجع للتيّارات السلفيّة و يلّلي عمبموّلها العالم كلو و هيدا هوي الخطر الحقيقي...
Of course Hizballah will deny that they are party members. But than again, secretly they will be freed again, and no one will know how it happened. The worse is, no one will ask, and we'll forget about them.