Al-Akhbar: Report on Nasrallah, Assad Meeting Not Credible
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Al-Akhbar newspaper denied on Friday that a meeting was held between Syrian president Bashar Assad and Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
“The meeting was not held, the statements were not credible, and they are baseless,” the daily said.
It added: “The contacts we made with the concerned sides showed that the meeting didn’t occur.”
On Thursday, the newspaper reported that Nasrallah discussed with Assad the stance of the Lebanese parliamentary majority from the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
It said that Nasrallah visited Damascus around 10 days ago.
Discussions between the two officials focused on the regional developments and March 8 forces’ rejection to fund the STL.
According to the report, Assad “did not mind” funding the tribunal, saying the stability of Premier Najib Miqati’s cabinet was a priority.
But the Hizbullah chief stressed to the Syrian president that his rejection of the funding was “a matter of principle linked to the resistance.”
28 October 2011, 09:28
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Naharnet, for what reason did you remove my previous comment in relation to the 'Al-Akhbar' Newspaper making then removing statements and articles ?
Do the people not have free speech on here ?
I have not attacked any one personally not acted rudely, it would be good for you not to censor public comments based on what you think is legitimate or Illegitimate , that is the point behind a public forum like this one.
Thank you. CEDAR .
28 October 2011, 15:35
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I think the meeting happened, though I do not know how Nasrallah climbed out of his hole and made it to Damascus without the Israelis detecting his movement, and I think that Assad told Nasrallah exactly as was reported, that he will not support Hezbollah's opposition to funding the STL.
Assad has enough problems and does not need to give the international community any more ammunition with which to justify more sanctions. Assad, anyway, was not the party who ordered the killing. It was Khamenie in Iran. Given the lecture that Ahmadinejad gave Assad a couple of days ago about slaughtering his own people, I am sure that Assad, to retaliate, told Nasrallah to go fly a kite about the STL funding issue. Its not Assad's problem.
Al Akhbar is a Hezbollah mouthpiece so of course, it denies the reality when the reality does not fit the Hezbollah narrative for facts.
28 October 2011, 17:46
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Of course the report was not credible it was reported by Al Akhbar after all.
