Hezbollah commander Nassif killed in Homs, Syria

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One of Hezbollah’s most senior operatives has been killed in Syria and buried in his home village in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, the militant group has confirmed.

Ali Hussein Nassif, a founding member of the organisation, was killed near Homs over the weekend in what is believed to have been a roadside bomb explosion. A Lebanese government official confirmed on Tuesday that his body had been transferred from Syria through the Masnaa border crossing.

Media outlets loyal to Hezbollah, including al-Manar television and the moqawama.org website both carried stories acknowledging Nassif’s death, which they said had happened as he “carried out his jihadi duties”. The reports did not specify where he had been killed.

Senior Hezbollah officials traveled from Beirut to the party’s heartland of Baalbek to attend the funeral of their commander Ali Hussein Nassif who was killed in Homs, Syria while fighting in support of the embattled regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad

Officials in Nassif’s home village of Buday suggested that seven other Hezbollah members had recently been wounded in Syria. A separate report claimed that a second Hezbollah member, Zain al-Abidin Mustafa had also been killed “while carring out his obligation”. Senior party officials are reported to have traveled from Beirut to attend his funeral in the party’s heartland of Baalbek.

The issue of Hezbollah members fighting in Syria has remained deeply sensitive since the earliest days of the uprising. For most of the past 18 months, the Shia Islamic group had steadfastly denied that its members were in action alongside Syrian forces, despite emphatic claims from rebel groups and opposition figures.

While openly acknowledging the party’s support for the embattled regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had claimed it had only leant moral backing. However, new graves in cemetaries in Lebanon designtated for members deemed to have died as martyrs have steadily been dug throughout the summer. There has also been reported discontent among family members who had lost relatives.

Until now, little fanfare, or even acknowledgement, had marked the burials and Tuesday’s news reports, complete with photographs of Nassif’s funeral procession, appear to mark a departure from a tactic of secrecy.

In August, officials in Iran — Hezbollah’s key patron — also candidly admitted that members of the country’s armed forces were deployed in Syria, where the Alawite sect — which is aligned to Shia Islam — is entwined with the power base. Other Iranian officials later denied the admissions.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, in particular the elite Quds Force unit, is a close ally of Hezbollah. Both are closely linked to the Assad regime. Syria, Iran and Hezbollah claim to act in unison as a resistance arc against Israel — the existence of which is Hezbollah’s raison d’être.

However the group has, until now, been circumspect about its activities elsewhere. Hezbollah’s presence in Syria potentially amplifies a sectarian dimension of the now raging civil war. The anti-regime insurgency is led by the country’s Sunni Islamic majority.

A steadily increasing number of Sunni militant jihadists from outside Syria have also joined the fray since mid-July. The Assad regime has claimed since April 2011 that the popular uprising against it was an Islamist plot and has launched an evermore brutal crackdown against demonstrators and militias, which are composed largely of defectors from the regular military.

Relatives mourn Hezbollah commander and founding member Ali Hussein Nassif who was killed in Homs, Syria while fighting in support of the embattled regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad

Some defectors have provided eyewitness accounts of Hezbollah members being deployed alonsgide them while they were still serving in the Syrian army.

Two defectors who spoke to the Guardian in August said they had seen the alleged Hezbollah operatives in Homs city and in the countryside near Qusayr, 15km from the Lebanese border.

“They were very open about who they were and why there were there,” one of the men said iin the Turkish town of Reyhanli. “They said they were there for Jihad and to help Assad defeat the terrorists.”

Guardian

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45 responses to “Hezbollah commander Nassif killed in Homs, Syria”

  1. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    Ahhhh … the beginning of a healthy trend.  Just keep reporting the good news!

    1. Marwan Kassem Avatar
      Marwan Kassem

      People dying is good news, you fat disgusting pig.

      1. Patience2 Avatar
        Patience2

         ‘Street-Turds’ are not people.

        1. $31060015 Avatar
          $31060015

          Keep the gas rolling, We wont have to come after you once we are finished with the Free Syrian pigs, The gas you generate will end up destroying you. I just feel sorry for the pollution Diarrhoea boy.  

        2. $31060015 Avatar
          $31060015

          You shouldn’t put you self down Patience, Street turds like you are useful. When I work out what for I’ll let you know. Now please go and shower.

        3. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          still waiting for your replky; i take notice of your intellectual bankrupcy

    2. Marwan Kassem Avatar
      Marwan Kassem

      People dying is good news, you fat disgusting pig.

      1. Patience2 Avatar
        Patience2

         ‘Street-Turds’ are not people.

        1. $31060015 Avatar
          $31060015

          Keep the gas rolling, We wont have to come after you once we are finished with the Free Syrian pigs, The gas you generate will end up destroying you. I just feel sorry for the pollution Diarrhoea boy.  

        2. $31060015 Avatar
          $31060015

          You shouldn’t put you self down Patience, Street turds like you are useful. When I work out what for I’ll let you know. Now please go and shower.

  2. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    Ahhhh … the beginning of a healthy trend.  Just keep reporting the good news!

    1. Marwan Kassem Avatar
      Marwan Kassem

      People dying is good news, you fat disgusting pig.

      1. Patience2 Avatar
        Patience2

         ‘Street-Turds’ are not people.

        1. AntiFSA Avatar

          Keep the gas rolling, We wont have to come after you once we are finished with the Free Syrian pigs, The gas you generate will end up destroying you. I just feel sorry for the pollution Diarrhoea boy.  

        2. AntiFSA Avatar

          You shouldn’t put you self down Patience, Street turds like you are useful. When I work out what for I’ll let you know. Now please go and shower.

        3. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          still waiting for your replky; i take notice of your intellectual bankrupcy

  3. hezzies are terrorists Avatar
    hezzies are terrorists

    This is indeed very good news, may the rest of the shiite scum killing innocent civilians in Syria join this dead dog. This good news has brought a huge smile to my face. Where is that shiite on this site that claimed it was all fake news? 

    1. Marwan Kassem Avatar
      Marwan Kassem

      May you suffer a similar fate you zionist scum. When we’re finished with the Terrorist Free Syrian Army, the zionist occupiers of Palestine are next. Wait and see.

      1. dooby brother Avatar
        dooby brother

         the fsa r coming for nasrallah iran is falling apart. the fsa know how to find you and your bum buddies  u r next pal

    2. Marwan Kassem Avatar
      Marwan Kassem

      May you suffer a similar fate you zionist scum. When we’re finished with the Terrorist Free Syrian Army, the zionist occupiers of Palestine are next. Wait and see.

    3. $31060015 Avatar
      $31060015

      The New  York post quotes Henry Kissinger saying “word for word”:In 10 years, there will be no more Israel. However I disagree, It will take way less than 10 years. With Iran and Sayyed Hassan you Zionist dogs have no chance. Enjoy hell.  

      1. Hannibal Avatar

        Hey Anti I am just curious… Let us suppose that the Zionists are defeated at your hands. Now since the Palestinians are Sunnis and hate your guts will you become the occupiers of Palestine? I doubt that after such a victory you will pick up and leave… What will change then for the Palestinians? A changing of the guard from a zionist one to a persian another? Enlighten me…

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Not forgetting the Christian Palestinians are we?
          But I doubt you’ll see a good answer for that question Hannibal.

        2. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Not forgetting the Christian Palestinians are we?
          But I doubt you’ll see a good answer for that question Hannibal.

        3. $31060015 Avatar
          $31060015

          First and foremost Hannibal, I never said I hate Sunni’s, only Salifi and Wahabi dogs. Second of all remember we are not the ones threatening IsraeHELL. They are the ones who keep telling the world how they want to strike Iran. And if this happens then and only then will they see their demise. When the war is won the land of Israel will be given to it rightful owners, the Palestine’s. Are you Enlightened Hannibal

    4. $31060015 Avatar
      $31060015

      The New  York post quotes Henry Kissinger saying “word for word”:In 10 years, there will be no more Israel. However I disagree, It will take way less than 10 years. With Iran and Sayyed Hassan you Zionist dogs have no chance. Enjoy hell.  

  4. This is indeed very good news, may the rest of the shiite scum killing innocent civilians in Syria join this dead dog. This good news has brought a huge smile to my face. Where is that shiite on this site that claimed it was all fake news? 

    1. Marwan Kassem Avatar
      Marwan Kassem

      May you suffer a similar fate you zionist scum. When we’re finished with the Terrorist Free Syrian Army, the zionist occupiers of Palestine are next. Wait and see.

      1.  the fsa r coming for nasrallah iran is falling apart. the fsa know how to find you and your bum buddies  u r next pal

    2. AntiFSA Avatar

      The New  York post quotes Henry Kissinger saying “word for word”:In 10 years, there will be no more Israel. However I disagree, It will take way less than 10 years. With Iran and Sayyed Hassan you Zionist dogs have no chance. Enjoy hell.  

      1. Hannibal Avatar

        Hey Anti I am just curious… Let us suppose that the Zionists are defeated at your hands. Now since the Palestinians are Sunnis and hate your guts will you become the occupiers of Palestine? I doubt that after such a victory you will pick up and leave… What will change then for the Palestinians? A changing of the guard from a zionist one to a persian another? Enlighten me…

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Not forgetting the Christian Palestinians are we?
          But I doubt you’ll see a good answer for that question Hannibal.

        2. AntiFSA Avatar

          First and foremost Hannibal, I never said I hate Sunni’s, only Salifi and Wahabi dogs. Second of all remember we are not the ones threatening IsraeHELL. They are the ones who keep telling the world how they want to strike Iran. And if this happens then and only then will they see their demise. When the war is won the land of Israel will be given to it rightful owners, the Palestine’s

  5. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
    nayyashAl3arab

    in reply to our BBC5th einstein: rarely a palestiian christian calls himelf palestinian: either syrian or israeli or jordanian or lebanese; there plenty of things in life you need to experience “in vivo” and for that you need to be sober; reading especially in state of intoxication does not let you see the different modalities with lucidity

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Well Nay … you still didn’t answer Hannibal’s question … but I’m happy you got the point with your ‘lucid modality’, whatever the hell that means. They are all ‘of’ some country, aren’t they, after all? 😉
      By the way, nice you read BBC too … accuracy above all.

      1. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
        nayyashAl3arab

        well i hope you know territorialism is a basic animal instinct; we all delineate our territory except the traitors (please do not take it personal) and the apatride also called refugees; the UN (useless nations organisation) called the so called falastizis refugees, thus apatride (no land); hence i call them falastizi ie they come from tizi; mind you tizi could bring them glory and i can give you examples: tizi ouzou is a respectable place; please dont start with ouzou now; arak is much better; home made

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Yah .. up your tizi … I have some triple-distilled … anyone have a match?

      2. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
        nayyashAl3arab

        well i hope you know territorialism is a basic animal instinct; we all delineate our territory except the traitors (please do not take it personal) and the apatride also called refugees; the UN (useless nations organisation) called the so called falastizis refugees, thus apatride (no land); hence i call them falastizi ie they come from tizi; mind you tizi could bring them glory and i can give you examples: tizi ouzou is a respectable place; please dont start with ouzou now; arak is much better; home made

    2. $31060015 Avatar
      $31060015

      Nayyash, do I need to keep telling bro, Patience’s brain is limited, All these hard questions are confusing him. Please show compassion to the disabled brother.

  6. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
    nayyashAl3arab

    in reply to our BBC5th einstein: rarely a palestiian christian calls himelf palestinian: either syrian or israeli or jordanian or lebanese; there plenty of things in life you need to experience “in vivo” and for that you need to be sober; reading especially in state of intoxication does not let you see the different modalities with lucidity

  7. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
    nayyashAl3arab

    in reply to our BBC5th einstein: rarely a palestiian christian calls himelf palestinian: either syrian or israeli or jordanian or lebanese; there plenty of things in life you need to experience “in vivo” and for that you need to be sober; reading especially in state of intoxication does not let you see the different modalities with lucidity

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Well Nay … you still didn’t answer Hannibal’s question … but I’m happy you got the point with your ‘lucid modality’, whatever the hell that means. They are all ‘of’ some country, aren’t they, after all? 😉

      1. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
        nayyashAl3arab

        well i hope you know territorialism is a basic animal instinct; we all delineate our territory except the traitors (please do not take it personal) and the apatride also called refugees; the UN (useless nations organisation) called the so called falastizis refugees, thus apatride (no land); hence i call them falastizi ie they come from tizi; mind you tizi could bring them glory and i can give you examples: tizi ouzou is a respectable place; please dont start with ouzou now; arak is much better; home made

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Yah .. up your tizi …

    2. AntiFSA Avatar

      Nayyash, do I need to keep telling bro, Patience’s brain is limited, All these hard questions are confusing him. Please show compassion to the disabled brother.

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