Hizbullah, Hamadeh trade accusations of incitement

Rym Ghazal - Daily Star - Friday, December 29, 2006:

BEIRUT: Hizbullah accused Lebanon's telecommunications minister of inciting hatred against the group, a day after the government official made the same accusation against them. Marwan Hamadeh accused Hizbullah on Thursday of "inciting" his assassination after Al-Manar, the party's television channel, accused him of revealing the whereabouts of Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to a US official during the July-August war with Israel.

Hizbullah and Al-Manar TV fired back at Hamadeh, accusing him of "inciting violence" against Hizbullah.

"[Hamadeh's] reaction was uncalled for and not objective," said Mohammad Afif, the manager of Al-Manar TV, who said the news report by his station was objective and had covered all sides.

Addressing Hamadeh, Afif said: "Go ahead. If you want to send in the report to the Information Ministry, we are ready to do the same."

Hamadeh had said that he had contacted Information Minister Ghazi Aridi, and had asked lawyers to file an official complaint against what he called the "Syrian-televised bulletin."

Posted on 02 January 2007 @ 17:29 GMT