Hizbullah, allies win 10 seats in East Lebanon polls

source: Reuters, 12-6-2005.
summary: BEIRUT - Lebanon`s Hizbullah resistance group and its allies swept all 10 seats in general elections in an east Lebanon constituency on Sunday in the third stage of parliamentary elections.
"They said today that the Bekaa is a shield for the resistance like the south and all of Lebanon," the group`s deputy chief Sheikh Naim Kassem told a news conference.‏
The win brings the number of seats won by the resistance movement to 33 in the 128-member assembly.‏