Hizbollah sees Bush as top terrorist
Reuters
Date: 04-30-06
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group said President Bush should be named the world's top terrorist, responding to a U.S. official report that did not remove the group from a list of terrorist organizations.
The State Department's 2005 Country Reports on Terrorism, released on Friday, also kept Syria and Iran, Hizbollah's main backers, on its list of state sponsors of terrorism. The report said Iran provided Hizbollah with extensive funding and weapons.
"The person who deserves to be on top of the terrorists' list is the President Bush and his aides who filled the world with prisons," Hizbollah said in a statement.
"Hizbollah considers being on the U.S. terrorism list as a medal for its fighters and a confirmation that its stance and policies against the Zionist aggression and American hegemony are correct," said the statement, received late on Saturday.
Hizbollah, whose attacks were vital in ending Israel's 22-year occupation of south Lebanon in 2000, has been under international pressure to relinquish its weapons after a 2004 U.N. Security Council resolution demand it disarm.
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said on Sunday: "Hizbollah is an honorable liberation movement that has ... the biggest role and credit in liberating Lebanese lands occupied by Israel in 1978."
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