Lebanon Bids Resistance Leader Moghnieh Farewell
Source: Al-Manar TV, 14-2-2008
Indeed, the procession of martyrs never stopped, as it's not meant to stop before complete victory. Once again, a great leader's martyrdom had given the resistance movement momentum. Lebanon's Hizbollah held a mass funeral for its martyred commander Imad Moghnieh in Beirut on Thursday.
Huge crowds gathered in Beirut's southern suburb at Sayyed Shohada'a Complex to bid Moghnieh farewell, a top Hizbollah Military leader. The ceremony started with reading verses of Holy Quran, and then Imam Mahdi scouts played the Lebanese and Hizbollah anthems and death melody.
Iranian leaders mourned the assassination of Hizbollah commander Imad Moghnieh, describing him as a "great man" and accusing "Israel" of being behind his assassination. Supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both sent personal messages of condolence to Hizbollah's Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
"The occupiers of al-Quds (Jerusalem)... have lost the reason for their existence and such crimes can only shorten their filth-filled and corrupt lives," Ahmadinejad said in the letter read by Iranian Foreign Minister Manoushehr Mottaki in the funeral. "Moghnieh was neither the first nor the last martyr to defend the dignity of the nations, but his death has cast more shame on the Zionists and their supporters," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote in the letter.
"The occupiers of al-Quds must know that these crimes will not compensate for their humiliating defeat during their invasion of Lebanon," he added. "Despite the fact that the Lebanese nation has lost a great commander - there are hundreds of thousands, even millions more Hajj Radwans who possess the same courage and resolve to join the struggle against the occupiers, the terrorists and the uncultured."
"Moghnieh is a source of pride to all believers; he fought the occupiers and supported the right of self-determination," Mottaki said during the memorial service.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed the crowd at the funeral via a video link and stressed Moghniye's blood would soon serve in the fall of the Jewish state. Following Sayyed Nasrallah's firm speech, his deputy Sheikh Naim Kassem led prayers on the martyr's body.
After prayers, Moghnieh's casket was carried by a group of his brothers-in-arms and followed by a huge procession to the Rawdat Shahedein cemetery in Beirut's southern suburb where the martyr was laid in his final resting place.
Indeed, the procession of martyrs never stopped, as it's not meant to stop before complete victory. Once again, a great leader's martyrdom had given the resistance movement momentum. Lebanon's Hizbollah held a mass funeral for its martyred commander Imad Moghnieh in Beirut on Thursday.
Huge crowds gathered in Beirut's southern suburb at Sayyed Shohada'a Complex to bid Moghnieh farewell, a top Hizbollah Military leader. The ceremony started with reading verses of Holy Quran, and then Imam Mahdi scouts played the Lebanese and Hizbollah anthems and death melody.
Iranian leaders mourned the assassination of Hizbollah commander Imad Moghnieh, describing him as a "great man" and accusing "Israel" of being behind his assassination. Supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both sent personal messages of condolence to Hizbollah's Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
"The occupiers of al-Quds (Jerusalem)... have lost the reason for their existence and such crimes can only shorten their filth-filled and corrupt lives," Ahmadinejad said in the letter read by Iranian Foreign Minister Manoushehr Mottaki in the funeral. "Moghnieh was neither the first nor the last martyr to defend the dignity of the nations, but his death has cast more shame on the Zionists and their supporters," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote in the letter.
"The occupiers of al-Quds must know that these crimes will not compensate for their humiliating defeat during their invasion of Lebanon," he added. "Despite the fact that the Lebanese nation has lost a great commander - there are hundreds of thousands, even millions more Hajj Radwans who possess the same courage and resolve to join the struggle against the occupiers, the terrorists and the uncultured."
"Moghnieh is a source of pride to all believers; he fought the occupiers and supported the right of self-determination," Mottaki said during the memorial service.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed the crowd at the funeral via a video link and stressed Moghniye's blood would soon serve in the fall of the Jewish state. Following Sayyed Nasrallah's firm speech, his deputy Sheikh Naim Kassem led prayers on the martyr's body.
After prayers, Moghnieh's casket was carried by a group of his brothers-in-arms and followed by a huge procession to the Rawdat Shahedein cemetery in Beirut's southern suburb where the martyr was laid in his final resting place.
