AMERICA’S STILL OUR #1 ENEMY, SAYS HEZBOLLAH

from The Last Crusade:

MUSLIM MANIFESTO UNVEILED

by

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

thelastcrusade.org

Hezbollah, the Shi’ite terrorist group that serves as arm of the Iranian government, announced today that it will not disarm – as demanded by U.N. resolutions – and that it regards the United States as “the enemy.”

The declarations came from Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon.

Releasing Hezbollah’s first party manifesto in 24 years, Mr. Nasrallah listed America’s offenses as follows: (1) support for Israel; (2) “domination of international institutions,” and (3) “meddling” in the affairs of Islamic states.

Such offenses, he said, “places the American administration in the position of the enemy of our nation and our peoples.”

Nasrallah also indicated that Hezbollah, which calls itself “the Resistance,” will not comply with U.N. Security Council demands that the organization relinquish its weapons.

“The success of the Resistance experience in fighting the enemy and the failure of all plots and schemes to delete resistance movements or besieging them or even disarming them, annexed to the continuation of the Israeli threat in Lebanon, obliges the Resistance to do its best to strengthen its abilities and consolidate its strengths to assume its national responsibilities,” the Hezbollah leader said.

Other elements of the Hezbollah manifesto included:

– a lengthy diatribe against the U.S., including the accusation that it is the world’s leading exporter of terrorism, and that “the Bush administration has transformed the United States into a danger that threatens the whole world.”

– praise for Iran, the state whose Islamic revolution defeated “the Shah’s regime and its American-Israeli projects,” and which “supported the resistance movements in our region, and stood with courage and determination at the side of the Arab and Islamic causes and especially the Palestinian one.”

– the insistence that Hezbollah will never compromise with or recognize Israel, even if everyone else does.

– the view that “we are amid historical transformations that signal the retreat of the U.S. role as a predominant power and the demise of the Zionist entity.”

Hezbollah has been blamed for some of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history, including a series of suicide bombings against American and French troops and the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in the early 1980s, and the bombing of Israeli and Jewish targets in Argentina in the early 1990s.

In 1995, an alliance was formed between Al Qaeda and Hezbollah at the headquarters of Ali Numeini, a Sudanese sheikh, in Khartoum.

This alliance led to the formation of the so-called “Committee of Three” at the gathering of Hezbollah International in Tehran, Iran. The committee members were Imad Mugniyah (the commander of Hezbollah), Ahmad Salah (the head of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad) and Osama bin Laden of al Qaeda.

The Committee, during the course of its initial meeting, rubber-stamped three terrorist operations: the bombing of the US barracks in al-Khobar, Dhahran (for bin Laden), the stabbing of a US female diplomat (for Salah), and the downing of TWA Flight 800 (for Mugniyah).

The cooperation between the Sunni and Shi’ite terrorist groups also resulted in bin Laden’s “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places,” as issued on August 23, 1996.

Few terrorist commentators take note of the fact that this fatwa against the United States was signed by Hezbollah, along with dozens of other Islamic terrorist groups.