Nasrallah Calls For Capital Punishment For All Agents Beginning With Shiite Agents First
Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah urged Lebanese prosecutors to seek the capital punishment against all recently captured Israel espionage ring members.
In a televised address on Friday commemorating the ninth anniversary for the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon, Nasrallah said: "I call for the capital punishment for all arrested agents and beginning with the Shiite agents first."
He cautioned that any Lebanese working for Israeli intelligence is dangerous saying: "espionage rings do not only work on gathering data, some carry out operations. A 20 Kg of TNT were uncovered at the home of one agent this brings up a lot of questions."
The possibility of Israeli involvement in recent and past assassinations and bombing episodes in Lebanon should be pursued by the Lebanese authorities Nasrallah added that: "Those with a preconceived stance must know that the Israeli possibility should be pursued and maybe through this we could arrive at the causes of all explosions and events that occurred in Lebanon."
He called for the full cooperation by all citizens with security forces for uncovering all [Israeli] agents.
The secretary-general paid tribute to southern Lebanese residents for standing up to many challenges that were not addressed by the state.
"From the very beginning the people of the south wanted the state to play a role in their lives. From the early 1960″s until his disappearance Imam Moussa Sadr was calling on the state to send the army to the south to protect it and no one answered him. This is the product of negligence and weakness," Nasrallah said.
Sadr was a pioneer in launching the Amal movement in the 1970″s that addressed the demands and needs of south Lebanon residents.
Nasrallah addressed supporters in saying that their guilt lies in fact that they resisted the Israeli occupation and won a victory against Israel.
"We do not propose the resistance as an alternative to the Lebanese state. The state that calls itself a state and abandons the south is not a state. We want a strong, just and capable state and on May 7 we shall seek to build this state," Nasrallah said.
He pointed to the parliamentary elections on June 7 saying the opposition”s aim behind the elections is not to rule but to save Lebanon from conspiracies regardless of the opposition”s share in government.
Nasrallah said he wanted to have a single electoral list for the opposition in Jezzine rather than two "both parties are dear to the heart, and we in Hizbullah shall work in Jezzine to please both parties."
He was referring to the Free Patriotic Movement headed by MP Michel Aoun and the Amal movement headed by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.