They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Monday, August 14, 2006

Nasrallah declares unprecedented 'victory'

The Daily Star

Hizbullah's leader declared Monday that his fighters had achieved a "strategic and historic victory" over Israel and that it was "wrong timing and immoral" to publicly discuss disarming the group. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah'sremarks came in a speech televised about 12 hours after heavy fighting in South Lebanon stopped abruptly under a UN-brokered cease-fire, sending tens of thousands of displaced Lebanese back toward their homes.

"We are before a strategic and historic victory, without any exaggeration, for all of Lebanon, the resistance and the whole of the Arab nation," Nasrallah said. "We came out victorious in a war in which big Arab armies were defeated [before]."

Addressing the 1 million Lebanese displaced by the war, Nasrallah vowed to immediately begin paying money to thousands of families whose homes were completely destroyed in Israel's campaign. Read more