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Hezbollah surrounded then detained a Lebanese police patrol for “entering a Hezbollah security zone.” The incident occurred in southern Beirut. “The Lebanese policemen were disarmed in the vicinity of Bir El Abed and taken to a Hezbollah interrogation center. The police were later released.

Hezbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah rejected the creation of a tribunal to investigate the murder of Rafik Hariri. Nasrallah claimed the US “ordered the Zionist regime to invade Lebanon last summer,” and denied that Azmi Bishara, a former Arab-Israeli Member of Parliament, spied for Hezbollah during the Israel-Hezbollah war last summer.

Hezbollah’s deputy prime minister admits Iran is behind the approval and funding of suicide, rocket and terror attack against Israel. Australian cleric Sheikh Taj el-din Al Hilali denied funding Hezbollah.

The State within the State: Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah “had the right to secretly transfer arms [inside Lebanon] in order to hide them from the Israeli enemy,” and will not forgive the government for seizing the weapons. Nasrallah also reiterated his intention to bring down the Siniora government.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah admitted Syria and Iran provide for the terror group’s funding and support. “Iran assists the organization with money, weapons, and training, motivated by a religious fraternity and ethnic solidarity,” Nasrallah said. “And the help is funneled through Syria, and everybody knows it.”