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                   US unfit to lead war on terrorism
      Nasrallah warns against promoting American self-interests

                            Cilina Nasser
                          Daily Star staff
                           October 3, 2001

 Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that
the United States was unfit to lead the world in a war against
terrorism. He warned that the war on terrorism could involve promoting
unrest in Arab countries.
Terrorism will continue to have only a loose meaning, so that only
America can outline its definition in accordance with its own
interests, Nasrallah said.
He made the comments at the Bristol Hotel during a joint emergency
meeting of the Follow Up and Coordinating Committee for the Islamic
National Conference and the General Secretariats of the National Arab
Conference, in Beirut. The meeting was called to determine future
steps taken to deal with the United States following last month s
attacks.
America is afraid to clearly define terrorism to prevent it from being
held accountable for its actions because of a specific definition, he
said.
Nasrallah said the war which the United States has declared against
terror was deliberately vague, to better serve its interests. America
needs a vague enemy to justify the internationalization of this war.
Nasrallah said Arab-Islamic coordination was therefore required to
impose a clear, specified and correct definition of terrorism, and to
distinguish it from the concept of legitimate resistance.
This issue should neither be neglected nor be treated lightly, he
said, warning that America must not be given the chance to impose a
reality that suits its own loose definition.
Nasrallah reiterated his total rejection of having the US lead a
coalition of international forces, claiming that it was neither
qualified nor honest enough to do so. (The US) supports the terrorist
Zionist state with all the strength it possesses, he said. It has
practiced terrorism in the most horrible ways (such as) when it used
nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(The US) will therefore take advantage of the war against terror to
exercise the worst of its terrorist acts again, he predicted.
Nasrallah urged Arabs to see how greatly the US was affected by last
month s attacks. It s quite clear that America after Sept. 11 is not
the same as it was before &amp; and whatever it does it will not be the
way it was, he said. Those who did not fear it before Sept. 11, should
not fear it after.
He also said that the events in Washington and New York could herald
the beginning of the end for the world s only superpower, and he drew
comparisons with the sudden collapse of the former Soviet Union.
He warned those who would support the US that America s plans involved
a broader conflict, and that Afghanistan was only the first of several
additional stages.
No one will be excluded from this new war, he said. The US
administration will work on imposing its will for political and
military solutions in all conflicts around the world, and in the
forefront will be the Arab-Israeli struggle, the Palestinian cause and
Jerusalem. Nasrallah also predicted that the US would eventually label
anyone who opposed taking away the rights of Arabs as a terrorist.
It is therefore wrong for groups to think of protecting themselves
first. The correct policy is to study how we can protect our nation
and its causes, while preventing it from becoming future targets, he
said.
Nasrallah urged Arab and Islamic governments to grab this historic
opportunity to isolate Israel and expose its wrongdoing before the
whole world.
Governments planning to join the international coalition should have
raised this issue as a precondition for any cooperation and
coordination (with the US), he said.
Nasrallah claimed the US would take advantage of the differences
between the various regional groups to promote disorder. They will
work on using the existing contradictions and try to turn the
conflicts into bloody clashes, he said. We have to declare the highest
degrees of alertness &amp; and exercise discipline regarding issues that
could be used to instigate differences between Christians and Muslims,
Shiites and Sunnis, nationalists and patriots, pan-Arabists and
Islamists, as well as other issues of conflict related to the borders,
territory and ethnicity.
To combat this, Nasrallah said, there should be immediate intervention
the moment unrest occurs. He urged all sides to make exceptional
efforts to close ranks, saying it was vital to monitor the situation
and be accurate in selecting words and terms and ways of expression,
as well as what issues to raise and the timing of raising them.
He said a national culture of jihad, resistance and martyrdom was one
target of American interference and should therefore be strengthened.
If we lose this culture, we would lose the nation with it, he said.
With this culture &amp; the Zionists were defeated and with this culture,
the intifada continues and will, by God s will, prevail.
Former Prime Minister Salim Hoss, who also attended the meeting, said
any international coalition against terror should be led by the UN,
and not the United States. Why isn t international terrorism being
fought with the weapon of international law? he asked, predicting that
if such a campaign were to be led by the UN there would be no excuse
for anyone to break international law.
Hoss said any objective and fair definition of terrorism must classify
Israel as a terrorist state, and he urged those Arab states that
planned to join the international coalition to demand a clear
definition of terrorism. He also said those states should condemn
terrorism in all its forms, and ask the international community to
condemn &amp; the Israeli terrorism.
Arabs should undertake a wide campaign to fight terrorism under the UN
umbrella &amp; and to implement the campaign against terrorism with
awareness and rationality.
DS 03/10/01

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