Radical muslim leader Sheik Nasrallah addresses massive rally

(13 Mar 2003)
1. Various shots of people crying at rally
2. Close on Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah crying
3. Woman crying listening to Nasrallah
4. Beginning of demo with Hezbollah and Palestinian flag
5. Hezbollah children and militants at demo
6. Demonstrators marching
7. Nasrallah at demonstration surrounded by security
8. Various of demonstration, people marching with their hands up in the air
9. Wide shot of Hezbollah and Islamic flags
10. High wide shot of streets filled with demonstrators
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader:
"Any new aggression would have as a result failure for Israel. We are here determined to fight with our
soldiers, men, women and all our capabilities, and we are ready to die. We will prove that Lebanon was and will be the cemetery of the Zionist invaders."
12. High shot of demonstrators sitting down listening to Sheik Nasrallah
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader:
"We hereby condemn and refuse this devilish Zionist administration (referring to the United States). We tell them, do not expect that the populations in this region will welcome you with flowers. They will welcome you with weapons, blood and suicide attacks. This is what the population of the region is preparing for the US invaders."
14. High shot of crowd
STORYLINE:
The leader of the Hezbollah militant Islamic group on Thursday warned that a US-led attack on Iraq would be met with weapons, blood and suicide attacks.
Speaking at a rally in southern Beirut, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah warned that any future Israeli invasion of Lebanon, or a US-led attack on Iraq would be met with fierce resistance.
More than half a million Hezbollah supporters marched through Beirut to the rally, held on the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Shi'ite Imam Husain, the grandson of the prophet Mohammed, at Karbala in modern-day Iraq in 680 C.E.
Hezbollah (Arabic = Party of God), a Shi'ite group backed by Iran and Syria, led a guerrilla war against Israel's 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon that ended in May 2000.
The group rejects a Jewish state in the Middle East, and features on a US list of terrorist organisations.
Nearly 300-thousand US forces are in the Gulf region, along with tens of thousands of British troops, preparing for war against Iraq, which Washington accuses of possessing weapons of mass destruction. Iraq has denied it has prohibited weapons.

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