Montecresto
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 9, 2013
- Messages
- 24,561
- Reaction score
- 5,507
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- Political Leaning
- Undisclosed
Lebanon says that Saudi Arabia' intelligence agency is responsible for the bombing outside of their embassy.
BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Tuesday he was convinced a Lebanon-based Al-Qaeda group with direct links to Saudi intelligence was behind last month’s deadly bombing outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.
In a live interview on OTV, Nasrallah also took aim at Saudi Arabia over the kingdom’s policies on Iran and Syria, saying Riyadh was maintaining a hostile stance toward Tehran despite Iranian efforts for rapprochement and seeking to derail the planned Geneva 2 talks aimed at ending the Syrian conflict.
“We believe the Abdallah Azzam Brigades’ statement about the bombing ... this is a bona fide group that has a Saudi Emir and its leadership is directly linked to Saudi intelligence,” he said.
“Some of the branches that endorse the Al-Qaeda logic have been put into action by Saudi intelligence,” Nasrallah said, accusing the Saudi agency of operating Al-Qaeda-like groups in several parts of the world.
Read more: Saudi-linked group behind Iran embassy attack: Hezbollah | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: Breaking News, Lebanon News, Middle East News & World News | THE DAILY STAR)
BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Tuesday he was convinced a Lebanon-based Al-Qaeda group with direct links to Saudi intelligence was behind last month’s deadly bombing outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.
In a live interview on OTV, Nasrallah also took aim at Saudi Arabia over the kingdom’s policies on Iran and Syria, saying Riyadh was maintaining a hostile stance toward Tehran despite Iranian efforts for rapprochement and seeking to derail the planned Geneva 2 talks aimed at ending the Syrian conflict.
“We believe the Abdallah Azzam Brigades’ statement about the bombing ... this is a bona fide group that has a Saudi Emir and its leadership is directly linked to Saudi intelligence,” he said.
“Some of the branches that endorse the Al-Qaeda logic have been put into action by Saudi intelligence,” Nasrallah said, accusing the Saudi agency of operating Al-Qaeda-like groups in several parts of the world.
Read more: Saudi-linked group behind Iran embassy attack: Hezbollah | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: Breaking News, Lebanon News, Middle East News & World News | THE DAILY STAR)