Hezbollah scraps annual event over security worries

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hezbollah paradeThe Iranian backed Lebanese militant Hezbollah group cancelled an annual event on Thursday in Beirut’s southern suburbs amid security concerns gripping the country in the wake of deadly suicide bombings earlier this week in a Christian village along the Syrian border.

In a statement, the Shiite group said it was scrapping the commemorations of the Al-Quds Day, citing the prevailing “security situation.”

It was the first time the group, which also participates as a political party in Lebanon’s government, cancelled the annual commemoration established by Iran’s late Ayatollah Ruhollah Komeini, who led the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Al-Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem. Al-Quds Day falls on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and is meant to be a day of solidarity with the Palestinians.

The Lebanese army, meanwhile, announced it had foiled two terror plots by the Islamic State group targeting residential and tourist sites in the country. The army said it had arrested five suspects linked to the plots, among them the alleged mastermind. It did not say where or when the suspects were arrested.

Lebanon has been on high alert since nine bombs exploded in the eastern border village of Qaa on Monday, killing five residents. Eight were detonated by suicide bombers. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Violence from neighboring Syria’s devastating civil war has on occasion spilled into Lebanon’s border regions. The Islamic State and al-Qaida militants briefly seized the Lebanese border town of Arsal in 2014, before security forces pushed them back across the frontier.

ABC news/ AP

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16 responses to “Hezbollah scraps annual event over security worries”

  1. Rudy1947 Avatar
    Rudy1947

    What??? No Al-Quds day? I always look forward to the rants of Nasrallrat and the Ayatoilet and the “death to America and Israel”.

    1. Rascal Avatar

      Sorry, but he will just have to shoot his video from his hideout at the Iranian embassy again this year.

      1. Christina Metron Avatar
        Christina Metron

        he scares the living heck out of you vermin doesn’t he?

        1. Rudy1947 Avatar
          Rudy1947

          Comical relief actually.

          1. Christina Metron Avatar
            Christina Metron

            I guess when you’re that demented you need an escape. Enough of you I’m bored, now GET LOST.

          2. Rudy1947 Avatar
            Rudy1947

            Poor ‘tina, nothing to add sweetheart but your usual escapism. That fine, but I’m not getting lost and you will have to deal with me on these forums.

        2. Rascal Avatar

          Scared, thats a joke. Nassy is interesting because he reflects the pathetic reality of Islamic leaders and why the ME is considered the land of war because of this sick cult/mental illness called Islam. Really he is a paper character with a compulsive lying disorder. The only thing sadder about the ME leaders is the pathetic people that blindly follow them.

          1. Christina Metron Avatar
            Christina Metron

            War in the region is 95% due to the existence of IsraHell. No Israel, know peace. that a well established fact Jack.

          2. Rudy1947 Avatar
            Rudy1947

            Not the existence, but the fact that the Arab could no longer subjugate the Jews anymore, the fact that their collective hind quarters were thoroughly kicked and the fact that Muslims can’t figure out who is in charge anymore.

    2. Christina Metron Avatar
      Christina Metron

      you still sound like an Old retarded Zionist Jew that needs to be put down, permanently.

      1. Rudy1947 Avatar
        Rudy1947

        A threat my dear? Why don’t you take care of it.

        1. Christina Metron Avatar
          Christina Metron

          Rat poison does wonders, I hear gas does well too. Pretend that you’re taking a shower, but stick your head in the oven disable the pilot light first. You’ll feel like you’re visiting you ansastor.

          1. Rudy1947 Avatar
            Rudy1947

            Time, date and location my dear.

          2. Christina Metron Avatar
            Christina Metron

            630pm Auschwitz Poland.

          3. Rudy1947 Avatar
            Rudy1947

            Date??

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