Wikileaks hassan nasrallah biography
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C O N F inom D E N T inom A L SECTION 01 OF 02 BEIRUT SIPDIS SIPDIS NSC FOR ABRAMS/DORAN/SINGH/HARDING E.O. DECL: 07/22/ TAGS: IS, LE, MOPS, PGOV, PREL, PTER, SY SUBJECT: TFLE01 MARCH 14 LEADER BOUTROS HARB ALSO URGES CAUTION ABOUT A CEASE-FIRE WITHOUT TEETH Classified By: Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman. Reason: Section (b). SUMMARY 1. (C) MP Boutros Harb, a key figure in the pro-reform March 14 movement, believes Hizballah, as of July 21, has not been significantly hurt -- either in its leadership or its military capabilities. Harb said that if Hizballah can reach a cease-fire in its present relatively strong condition, it will have won a major political victory -- and will be very difficult to deal with in the post-conflict phase. Concerning immediate steps, Harb asked the Ambassador to push for the establishment of two humanitarian corridors; one north-south to at least the southern city of Tyre, and a second route by sea out of the port o
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Episode 1
Julian Assange&#;s first guest was Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah.
The Hezbollah party is currently a member of the Lebanese government. Its military wing has been described as “the most proficient guerrilla organisation in the world”. Under Nasrallah&#;s leadership, Hezbollah presided over the withdrawal of Israeli troops from South Lebanon in , and the tactical victory against Israel in the war of Summer Sayyed Nasrallah has been named among the world&#;s most influential people bygd Time Magazine and Newsweek. His fame crosses sectarian divides and national borders, and he fryst vatten revered and reviled by millions of people in the mittpunkt East and all over the world.
This is the first English-language interview with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for over a decade. As turmoil spreads through the mittpunkt East, Julian Assange interrogates Hassan Nasrallah on the hard issues, including Hezbollah&#;s stance on the conflict in Syria. Other topics covered include the relatio
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Hezbollah's leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah |
Viewed by many Israelis as a terrorist and religious fanatic, Sheikh Nasrallah has become a vastly influential figure in Lebanon.
Diplomats and others who have met him describe him as highly intelligent, widely-read and politically astute.
Hassan Nasrallah was born in in southern Beirut, one of nine children of a poor grocer. After Lebanon erupted into civil war in , his family fled the city to its ancestral village in the south of the country.
As a teenager, he studied both politics and the Koran, spending three years at the Shia seminary in Najaf in Iraq, where he met Sayyad Abbas Musawi, his predecessor as leader of Hezbollah.
In , Sheikh Nasrallah was expelled from Iraq and became heavily involved in Lebanese politics, first as a member of the Shia Amal militia,