Hezbollah Chieftain Warns Israel of 'Open War'

Nasrallah blames foe for killing of top commander
Posted Feb 14, 2008 3:09 PM CST
Hezbollah Chieftain Warns Israel of 'Open War'
Lebanese Shiite clerics listen to Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who makes a speech to the crowd through a giant screen, during the funeral procession of the slain top commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a car bombing in Damascus, Syria, during his funeral procession in the Shiite...   (Associated Press)

The leader of the terrorist group Hezbollah said today that the assassination of one of its commanders amounted to a declaration of “open war” by Israel, NPR reports. "Zionists, if you want this type of open war then let the whole world hear: let it be an open war," Hassan Nasrallah told a funeral gathering for Imad Mughniyeh, killed Tuesday in Syria.

Israel has denied killing Mughniyeh, although he had long been targeted by it, and the US, for his long, high-profile list of terrorist violence—including the 1983 bombing of a US Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reuters reports. Israel’s embassies have been put on high alert, interpreting Nasrallah’s threat as a drive to attack Israeli or Jewish targets around the world. (More Lebanon stories.)

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