Hezbollah is helping Assad fight Syria uprising, says Hassan Nasrallah

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Hezbollah is helping Assad fight Syria uprising, says Hassan Nasrallah

Ian Black, Middle East editor, and Dan Roberts in Washington
The Guardian, Tuesday 30 April 2013 23.20 BST

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has confirmed for the first time that members of the powerful Lebanese Shia organisation are helping President Bashar al-Assad fight the uprising against his rule – and will stand by him.

Nasrallah – a close ally of Assad – also hinted that Russia and Iran, Syria's principal supporters, would intervene militarily to prevent his defeat.

"Syria has real friends in the region and the world that will not let Syria fall in the hands of America, Israel or Takfiri (extreme jihadi) groups," Nasrallah said in a broadcast on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV channel. "How will this happen? Details will come later. I say this based on information … rather than wishful thinking."

Alluding to concerns about growing sectarianism in the region, Nasrallah that there would be "dangerous retribution" if any harm befell the historic Sayyida Zeinab Shia shrine near Damascus.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/30/hezbollah-syria-uprising-nasrallah

[bemildred]

1. There is going to be war in Syria until there is a negotiated settlement.

Or some outside power(s) come(s) in and occupies the place (good luck with that.)

And that seems a long way off. At this point I'd say Little Assad has an excellent chance of winding up like Ghaddaffi, hunted down in the street.

Another ex-colonial franken-country collapsing around itself. How many have we seen since WWII?