Al Qaeda calls Hezballah terrorist

Observer/Guardian:
A branch of al-Qaida has accused the Lebanese group Hezbollah of terrorism, blaming it for two bombs that killed 47 people outside a Sunni mosque in northern Lebanon on Friday.

Al-Qaida's north African branch, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim), threatened retribution against the Shia Muslim group, a US-based intelligence monitoring website reported.

Aqim said in tweets that it knew "with certainty" that Hezbollah was responsible. "That vile party … should know that it will meet retribution soon," it said, according to the monitoring service Site.

Although Aqim does not operate in Lebanon, its statement shows growing regional hatred of Hezbollah by radical Sunni Muslim groups and a deepening sectarian divide in the Middle East.

The Iranian-backed Hezbollah, which was once lauded by both Sunnis and Shias for its battles against Israel, has lost support from many Sunnis since it joined Bashar al-Assad's side in his fight against a majority Sunni uprising in Syria.
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The sectarian war in the Middle East is growing and Iran is about to find its proxies on the receiving end.   Of course, Hezballah has been a terrorist organization from its inception, but the Islamic religious bigots were happy with their work when they were attacking the US and Israel.

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