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Al-Qaeda at odds with Hezbollah over Israel
Published: 06 April, 2010, 15:55
Edited: 07 April, 2010, 12:58
Osama bin Laden (Al-Jazeera out)
TAGS: Arms, Conflict, Military, Middle East, Terrorism
One of the leaders of international terrorist network Al-Qaeda has blamed Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah and the Lebanese army for protection of Israel from terrorists.
A leading Al-Qaeda operative, Salah Al-Karawi, expressed his indignation and dissatisfaction with the fact that Hezbollah prevents strikes on Israel but at the same time does not make any moves against the Jewish state. Lebanon’s army does the same, in his opinion, as expressed in an interview with one of the terrorist network’s websites, as Haaretz newspaper reports.
It is the first time a high-ranking figure in the global terror organization has openly condemned the Lebanese group for undermining its campaign against the Jewish state.
Al-Karawi – 35th on the list of Saudi Arabia's 85 most-wanted men – threatened that Al-Qaeda will hit Israel from Lebanese territory again. “The matter of the conflict is not the fight between Arabs and Jews, but the confrontation of Good and Evil,” he said.
He warned that the notorious terrorist organization intends to confront “traitors” such as Hezbollah, the Lebanese army and UN peacekeeping forces (UNIFIL) in Lebanon.
Earlier on Saturday, April 3, four Palestinian radical organizations – Hamas, the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestinian Islamic Jihad – made the decision to stop firing at Israeli territories with “Qassam” rockets.
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Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda are two completely different things. Hezbollah is a political organization and basically a 'partisan' militia type group. It's interest is in defending it's country, not imposing it's will on another country. Furthermore, they are from different Islamic sects: Al-Qaeda is a Sunni group, and Hezbollah is Shia and backed by Iran. Al-Qaeda claims that it hates Iran and considers it's Shiite beliefs blasphemous. The two are natural enemies, and Al-Qaeda has condemned Hezbollah on several occasions. It has even tried to make Hezbollah look bad by launching rockets into Israel that later get blamed on Hezbollah. One notable instance of this occurred around the time of the Gaza war. Nobody believed that Hezbollah did not fire those rockets into Israel, only to have Al-Qaeda admit that they did it many months later. In short, the two groups have never been allied or even sympathetic to one another, so it's a bit misleading to depict them as now 'being at odds' over Israel.