Hizballah, the Good Guys
Charles Johnson
Sat Dec 24, 2005 at 9:12 am PST • Views: 247
Lebanon’s Daily Star would like us to know that Hizballah and Al Qaeda really hate each other, and they would never work together, ever, uh uh, no way: Hizbullah is Lebanon’s bulwark against Al-Qaeda.
Hizbullah’s director of media relations Mohammad Afif Naboulsi firmly denies the alleged links to the militant jihadi network, “We do not have any relation with that group, not in the present nor in the past. They are working toward tearing the Islamic Nation apart, dividing Muslims into numerous sects and mutilating the face of Islam in the world.”
Amal Ghorayeb of the Lebanese American University believes any operational cooperation between the two groups is out of the question. “Hizbullah would in no way share Al-Qaeda’s goals. The Americans have to understand Al-Qaeda is a threat to American security, Hizbullah is simply a threat to American interests,” says Ghorayeb.
An expert and writer on Hizbullah, Ghorayeb says: “Al-Qaeda would never work with Hizbullah; their greatest enemies are the Shiites. There is a very strong cultural and religious animosity on the side of Al-Qaeda.”
Frank says: