Assafir: Hizbullah Confronts US Disfigurement Campaign Legally and Politically

Assafir daliy revealed today that Hizbullah is in the process of pressing the government with an inquiry via the chairman of parliament over the US violations of Lebanese sovereignty committed by the American Assistant Secretary of State and former US ambassador to Lebanon Jeffery Feltman concerning the latter's declaration of paying sums amounting to half a billion dollars in bribery to confront Hizbullah in Lebanon.

The daily revealed details of the coming motion and added that the party in also in the process of presenting the government with a similar inquiry in an attempt to confront the premier and president and ministers with their obligations on confronting such a dangerous matter.

The daily also revealed that a legal committee within Hizbullah is studying the prospect of filing a lawsuit against the US government and certain Lebanese personalities and parties who received money from the Americans, stressing that Hizbullah has a detailed list of their names.

In the same context, member of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc MP Nawwaf Moussawi stressed, "Hizbullah will pursue the issue till the very end, and will not burn phases."

"We've shed light from parliament on the dangerous violation which the US administration committed with respect to Lebanese sovereignty and Lebanese national security and the dignity of the media profession and Lebanese national unity through what Feltman declared. This issue is a horrid scandal, and it cannot be faced with slighting or silence, namely because the tools used in disfigure Hizbullah's image are sectarian and denominational instigation," Moussawi told Assafir daily.

Moussawi stressed that Hizbullah is concerned with "confronting this cultural, security, media, and political threat" just as it is concerned with defending the country against any military aggression.

Moussawi considered it the parliament's duty to uphold its responsibilities in defending Lebanon in the first degree and Lebanon's natural right to defending its national unity, and its right to reach the truth without deception and its right to protect its social and political makeup, and to protect the media profession, and to prevent the use of the ‘aid' as tools for political influence."

Moussawi also stressed the role of the government in this sense, "especially in revealing the manner of receiving the money and how and where it was spent and through whom."