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Nasrallah repeats denial Bishara aided Hezbollah during war

By News Agencies and Haaretz Service

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in remarks broadcast Sunday, denied Israeli charges that former MK Azmi Bishara helped the Lebanese group aim rockets at targets in Israel during last year's Second Lebanon War.

"All that is said about his ties to Hezbollah and providing information to Hezbollah is absolutely not true," Nasrallah said, referring to Bishara, who has been accused of treason by the Israeli police.

On Saturday, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Kassem also denied that his organization paid off or received intelligence reports from Bishara during war.




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Israel alleges Bishara supplied Hezbollah with sensitive intelligence, and suggested ways of causing more harm to Israel.

"I categorically and absolutely deny this," Nasrallah told the Iranian state television's Arabic-language station, Al-Alam. "All the accusations about contacts and giving information to Hezbollah are not true."

Bishara left Israel a month earlier after being questioned twice by investigators and later resigned his parliament seat. Police said he would be arrested immediately if he returns to Israel.

Nasrallah said Bishara was being pursued by Israel's government for his political views. He added that Hezbollah did not need the military information, "he's not of use to be an informant," Nasrallah said.

"His personality is not that of an informant. ... He is a well-known man, a thinker with a cause who says his conviction and ideas with known courage," the Hezbollah chief said. "They are holding him accountable for his political ideas."

"Israel was fed up with him [Bishara] so they fabricated those accusations against him," Nasrallah said.

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