HEZBOLLAH ESCALATES THREATS V. ISRAEL

No power can disarm Hezbollah: Nasrallah.
BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday no power could disarm his pro-Syrian Shiite militant group and that it was ready for a new conflict with Israel after last year’s war.

“No one in the world can disarm Hezbollah,” Nasrallah said in a speech broadcast on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television. “The entire world is not capable of implementing the clause concerning the disarmament of the resistance in (UN Security Council) Resolution 1559,” he said.

The 2004 resolution called for the dismantling and disarmament of all foreign or local militias operating in Lebanon, including Hezbollah which says it is a legitimate resistance group against Israel. “The resistance in Lebanon has determination, will, manpower and sufficient weapons” to face Israel in a new conflict, Nasrallah said.

“The resistance is ready, day and night, to defend south Lebanon (a bastion of Hezbollah) as well as all of Lebanon... to achieve a historic victory that will change the face of the region.”