{"id":595,"date":"2008-02-15T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2008-02-15T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T17:01:17","slug":"hizbullah-and-syria-threaten-revenge-in-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/hizbullah-and-syria-threaten-revenge-in-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Hizbullah and Syria Threaten Revenge in Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/objects\/pages\/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=954278\">Nasrallah: Mughniyah&#39;s blood will lead to elimination of Israel<\/a><\/div>\n<div>By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent<br \/>Last update&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;23:06 14\/02\/2008<\/div>\n<p>Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday threatened to retaliate against Israel for the killing of militant commander Imad Mughniyah Tuesday, saying &quot;his blood will lead to the elimination of Israel.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mughniyah, the deputy secretary general of the Lebanon-based guerilla group, was killed in a bomb blast in a residential neighborhood in Damascus late Tuesday. Israel denied involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Nasrallah also vowed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/954388.html\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><u>strike Israeli targets abroad<\/u><\/font><\/a> after accusing Israel of taking the fight beyond Lebanese borders by killing Mughniyah in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You have killed Hajj Imad outside the natural battlefield,&quot; Nasrallah said, addressing Israel and referring to Hezbollah&#39;s longtime contention it only fights Israel within Lebanon and along their common border.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You have crossed the borders,&quot; Nasrallah said in the fiery eulogy at Mughniyah&#39;s funeral in south Beirut. &quot;With this murder, its timing, location and method &#8211; Zionists, if you want this kind of open war, let the whole world listen: Let this war be open.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Like all human beings we have a sacred right to defend ourselves,&quot; said Nasrallah, speaking in a videotaped message broadcast over a giant screen at the ceremony in a Hezbollah stronghold. &quot;We will do all that takes to defend our country and people.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSL14506186\">Syria says will prove who killed Hezbollah leader<\/a><br \/>Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:35pm EST<br \/>By Khaled Yacoub Oweis<\/p>\n<p>DAMASCUS, Feb 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Syria will soon present &quot;irrefutable&quot; proof of who was behind the assassination of Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah, the foreign minister said on Thursday, hinting that Israel was responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As a state, we will irrefutably prove the party involved in this crime and who stands behind it. An investigation is ongoing,&quot; Walid al-Moualem told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We hope that you will soon hear the results of this mighty effort,&quot; Moualem said after meeting his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki, who came from Beirut where he attended Moughniyah&#39;s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Tuesday&#39;s killing in a district of the Syrian capital swarming with security would undermine chances for peace with Israel, Moualem said the assassination killed &quot;any effort to revive the peace process&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Whoever wants peace does not commit terrorism, whoever wants peace does not lay siege to Gaza with a million and half Palestinians struggling for the minimum to survive,&quot; he said&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has since stepped up pressure on the Damascus government and announced this week preparations to expand financial sanctions against Syrian officials and their associates. <\/p>\n<p>Moualem said Syria will respond &quot;in kind&quot; to the latest U.S. escalation. 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