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BEIRUT, April 10 (KUNA) -- Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah
categorically denied Friday that the Lebanese party has intentions to
undermine Egypt's security.
Nasrallah was reacting to accusations by the Egyptian public prosecutor
that a person identified as Sami Shehab tried to carry out acts undermining
security of Egypt.
Shehab is a member in Hezbollah, Nasrallah admitted, but added that he was
"carrying out logistic work on the Egyptian-Palestinian borders in favor of
the resistance and to transfer equipment and individuals to the Palestinian
brothers."
Egypt's public prosecutor Justice Abdulmajeed Mahmoud said interrogations
were underway with a new 49-member organization financed by the Lebanese
Hezbollah, accused of planning to carry out "hostile" actions inside Egypt.
These accusations, said Nasrallah, "aim at arousing the Egyptian people and
to say that Hezbollah wants to do sabotage acts in Egypt.
"They (those who made the accusations) want to tarnish the picture of
Hezbollah in Egypt ... (But) it is normal that Hezbollah and the resistant
movement are highly respected by the Egyptian people ...," he said.
Nasrallah said Shehab collaborated "with people whose number does not reach
10 persons and many of the arrestees have no relation with him."
Nasrallah said: "if helping the Palestinians whose lands are occupied and
they are the onse getting killed and starved is a crime, then I officially
confess of this crime."
Hezbollah, asserted Nasrallah, "does not seek a conflict with the Egyptian
regime."
The Lebanese cleric had, during the Israeli onslaught against Gaza Strip,
urged the Egyptian people and armed forces "to exercise pressure on the
political leadership" to open the Rafah crossing.
But Cairo considered this a "declaration of war on the Egyptian people,"
and accused Nasrallah of being "an agent of the Iranian regime."
Nasrallah said Hezbollah's sole objective was to liberate and protect the
Lebanese territories from the Israeli threats.
Nasrallah brushed aside reports suggesting that Hezbollah was supporting
groups in Yemen and Bahrain, calling on the Arab people and governments not to
hold Hezbollah "the responsibilities bigger than its country, circumstances
and capabilities." (end)
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