Nasrallah the sugar daddy of militants

"Lebanese resistance" you say?

In an interview published today in As-Safir, Hassan Nasrallah admitted to giving "Palestinians" (read militant factions, and not NGOs or the Red Crescent) "financial, political and media support."

Ya Libnan has a good summary of the Safir interview, in which Nasrallah also admitted to smuggling weapons to militants through Jordan until December 2001, when Jordanian authorities arrested three of Hizbullah's members transporting Katyushas from Syria to the West Bank.

"After the Jordan incident and arrest of a number of our brothers, the Palestinians told us, 'This is costing you politically and is a burden for the fighters. Send us the money and we will take care of it ourselves,"' Nasrallah said, adding that the Palestinian militants got their weapons from "the mafia and Israeli officers."

Some of you may remember how Rafik Hariri stepped in at the time and personally asked King Abdallah to release the militants. We all know how Hizbullah paid Hariri back after that incident, and after Syria murdered him.

This "confession", which is old news to many, came as Jordan discovered more Hamas weapons hidden in a village north of the kingdom. These weapons, according to Jordanian authorities, were supplied by Syria, and were intended for use in attacks against Jordanian officials.

I suppose Hamas found their mafia: the Syrian regime.

As for Hizbullah, they're the proud sugar daddy of the region's militants. They give you weapons if you like, or money to buy some if you prefer. No receipts required. It's not their money anyway. Part of it comes from Iran, and the other part from Lebanese citizens donating their money every Friday to their unarmed collectors on Beirut streets. Add to that the salaries their deputies collect from the Lebanese taxpayers.

What's next? Hizbullah sending Zarqawi "help" to blow up Shia traitors?

Comments

[Hassan]

A bit off topic, but a suitable precaution for those who will not be able to read the full interview: Ya Libnan's summary is very bad.

[The Perpetual Refugee]

I kind of read between the lines here. They stopped supplying Palestinian militants with arms in 2002 because they got caught. This was because they were trying to reposition themselves as a freedom fighting movement in general, and not just a Lebanese resistance. They knew their time was coming and their marketing department acted accordingly.
A few years have gone by, Hariri (and many others) have been killed off, they've made new 'strong' allies facing off again a government that has no vision and is as weak as can be and now all of a sudden they are confident of becoming a new political and military powerhouse inside Lebanon. They have successfully repositioned themselves. The shias in Lebanon love them, the sunni Palestinians love them, the Syrians love them and the Iranians can't get enough of them. Hell, one of my Egyptian friends was going on and on about how great Nasrallah is as a leader and how Hizballah is God's gift to Lebanon (after all, they named their party after the big guy in the sky). Now the cocky son-of-a-*&^*# is much more so. The Americans and Israelis have been refering to Hizbullah as a terrorist organization for years. Now, Nasrallah with his delusional god-complex is proving that they are right.