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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP188908
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1889
April 7, 2008 No. 1889
“On Hizbullah’s Al-Manar TV, American Activist Franklin Lamb Pays Respects at ‘Imad Mughniya’s Tomb in Lebanon”
SNIPPET: “During February and March 2008, Hizbullah’s Al-Manar TV aired reports on visitors from the U.S. and from Egypt who came to pay their respects at the grave of senior Hizbullah commander ‘Imad Mughniya, who was assassinated in February 2008.
One visitor from the U.S. was Franklin Lamb, author, activist, and director of Americans for the Just Peace in the Middle East and who writes on websites including Counterpunch. [1] Lamb, who was described by the Al-Manar TV reporter as “persiste[nt] in his support for the just cause of the Lebanese people’s resistance,” has demanded that the Bush administration “prove” that Hizbullah is a terrorist organization. [2]
In the Al-Manar segment that aired March 25, 2008, Lamb expressed his support for Hizbullah and said he was “honored to be in this venerable place,” and responded to criticism of his visit by U.S. Charge d’Affaires Michele J. Sison by saying that she herself should come to pay her respects.
In another segment, aired February 28, 2008, Egyptian Labor Party Secretary-General Magdi Ahmad Hussein spoke with Mughinya’s father,
To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1728.htm .
To view the MEMRI TV page dedicated to Al-Manar TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/116.htm .
Franklin Lamb Visit - Aired March 25, 2008”
420 posted on April 9, 2008 3:07:59 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP189008
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1890
April 8, 2008 No. 1890
“Hamas-Iraq: Al-Qaeda in Iraq is Subservient to Iran; ‘The U.S. is Our Main Enemy, But a More Dangerous Enemy is Iran’”
SNIPPET: “In a March 26, 2008 interview with the Qatari daily Al-’Arab, the spokesman for the Iraqi Sunni jihad organization Hamas-Iraq, Ahmad Salah Al-Din, accused Al-Qaeda in Iraq of regarding most Iraqi resistance factions as its main enemy, of subservience to Iran, and of receiving from it weapons, funds, training, and medical care for its wounded. Salah Al-Din added that in the past year Al-Qaeda in Iraq had become considerably weaker and smaller.
The following are excerpts from the Al-’Arab article on the interview:”