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Nasrallah's other war: IRAQBy Olivier Guitta
I just wrote a piece for the Asia Times on Hezbollah's active involvement in Iraq. See how everything is interconnected : Hezbollah's slogan is anyway: Death to America! Nasarallah said it himself in 2004. In the last few weeks, Hassan Nasrallah (which name literally means in Arabic God’s victory), the Secretary General of the Lebanese Shia terror group Hezbollah (The party of God), has almost become a household name. Even though Nasrallah has become “famous” for starting this new Hezbollah-Israel war and declared Israel as its mortal enemy, one should not forget that the Big Satan still remains the USA. And that’s why out of all places Iraq is where Nasrallah’s influence can also be felt. Nasrallah’s biography can explain how he got close to prominent Lebanese/Iranian/Iraqi Shia clerics and in particular the Sadr family. In fact in 1975 while he was only 15, Nasrallah joined the ranks of the Lebanese Shia movement Amal- that Hezbollah broke from after its creation in 1982- led by Musa Al Sadr. Then from 1976 to 1978, he was sent to study in Najaf, Iraq at the famed Shia seminary, the Hawze. There he met most his mentors starting with Iranian Ayatollah Khomeiny and also his tutor Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr (Muqtada Al Sadr’s father). He also was in close contact with Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani and finally he was groomed by future Hezbollah leader Abbas Al Musawi whom he succeeded after Musawi was killed by the Israelis in 1992. These two years in Najaf definetely left a huge imprint on Nasrallah’s psyche.
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