Nasrallah Delivers a Live Speech

Nasrallah delivers a live speech through a screen in the southern suburb of Beirut. (Photo: AP)

24 March 2008

"The one who killed our commander must be punished. The killers must be punished and they will be punished, God willing," Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Monday.

In a televised address in Beirut to mark 40 days since the slaying of Hezbollah Chief Imad Mughniyeh, Nasrallah drew cheers from the crowd saying, "We will choose the time, place and manner of punishment."

Mughniyeh was killed in a car bombing in Damascus, in February.

"We feel Mughniyeh's presence more than ever. Our brothers have found nothing but courage and our enemies have found nothing but fear of revenge," added the Hezbollah leader.

Many view, the actual source of the assassination on Chief Imad Mughniyeh was an operation, from outside of the Middle East.