Posted on 09/12/2006 12:33:39 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
DUBAI (Reuters) - Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in remarks aired on Tuesday his group would only release the two Israeli soldiers it kidnapped if Israel freed Samir al-Qantar, the Lebanese prisoner held for the longest time by the Jewish state.
"After all that happened and this ends without Samir?" Nasrallah told Al Jazeera television in an interview.
Nasrallah stopped short of saying the group would not set the release of other prisoners as part of its conditions.
"There are other prisoners," the interviewer said.
"You ask me, will there be a deal without Samir, I say no ... Absolutely not," Nasrallah answered.
Nasrallah said he expected a U.N. "mediator" to visit Lebanon next week to try to secure a deal for the release of the two Israeli soldiers the group kidnapped in July.
"He was supposed to come late last week and he is expected to come next week, but negotiations have not yet started."
Nasrallah said the envoy was European but did not give more details.
The kidnapping of the two soldiers triggered a 34-day war between Israel and the guerrilla group
Israel needs to start bombing them again! I am tired of this clown!
Lock and load?
Next headline should read:
Ceasefire is Off! IDF.
I am tired of this clown!
i think the clown is olmert, all this nonsense would not have occured if bibi was pm. JMHO.
Time to grab Nasrallah.
In a related story, a convicted bank robber denounces the judge and police department stating, "After all this, I don't get to keep the money???". He was led away, confused, to his cell.
Amen bro.
Freeing the prisoners should have been part of the mininum conditions for the "cease fire." I don't know why Condi pressured Israel into the cease fire without getting the troops back first. Sometimes the US can meddle too much.
Agreed! Olmert is a clown too!
What does Koffing Anus think about this? It must be Israel's fault.
I believe the unconditional return of the Israeli soldiers was part of the ceasefire agreement.
I still can't understand Israel's agreement to a cease-fire that didn't include an immediate return of the three Israeli soldiers? WTF? I lost a lot of respect for Israel on that one.
IIRC, the terrorist in question:
1. Killed a father of two while making his daughter watch.
2. Smashed the head of the young girl.
3. The mother, in hiding, unintentionally suffocated their remaining child while trying to keep him from crying.
This guy should be dead already.
Nosedroolah doesn't like other provisions of the cease-fire so he is using this part to blather and swagger, hoping it falls apart and he can resume his glorious war, IMHO. He is only important when people are dying.
Nasrallah: We will not free your soldiers without an exchange.
IDF: All right, we'll do an exchange with you. You trade our two captured soldiers for five hundred of your terrorists currently at large.
Nasrallah: Currently at large? But why would we trade for fighters who are already free? Allah be praised, they are alive and well, and ready to fight!
IDF: For the moment...
I lost respect for Condi. Who knows how much cease fire pressure they put on Israel. I don't think Olmert has a strong backbone either.
I don't know why Condi is secretary of state. She's nice and talented, but she's an expert on the Soviets at a time we are at war with Islamofacism. The wrong person for the job.
The Israelis are incompetent.
They could announce that they will trade Hazb. prisoners caught recently for theirs, probably dead and force the world to accept that Hezb. won't trade because they value the life of a child murderer more than their own soldiers.
But they won't.
"I lost respect for Condi. Who knows how much cease fire pressure they put on Israel"
Huh? Most of the world tacitly supported Israel, but they wouldn't deliver the blow of the invasion. Instead they bombed north Lebanon. Very dumb move. I believe the US had to tell Israel to invade at the end so as to allow UN troops to replace them - the UN, which Israel wanted, did not and could not force Hezb. to move out.
The conditions for a ceasefire should be Hizbollah's unconditional surrender, and no peace without the capture of Nasrallah.
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