In its first comment on last week’s suicide attacks in New York and Washington, Hizbullah on Sunday described the assaults as “tragic events” but warned the United States not to resort to more “unjust policies.”
“After many Muslim scholars stated their position toward the bloody attacks which recently occurred in New York and Washington ... we call for caution and not falling prey to a state of fear and panic that was intended to be spread throughout the world to give the US administration free rein to practice all types of aggression and terrorism under the pretext of fighting aggressions and terrorism,” a statement said.
“Now the big question is whether what the American administration is planning really has to do with retaliating against the perpetrators of the latest attacks, or whether it wants to exploit those tragic events to exercise more hegemony over the world and practice more unjust policies which have led to this level of hate against the US by many peoples and governments in the world.
“We are sorry for any innocent people who are killed anywhere in the world. The Lebanese, who have suffered repeated Zionist massacres in Qana and elsewhere, massacres that the US administration refused to condemn at the UN Security Council, are familiar with the pain and suffering of those who lost their loved ones in bitter events.”