Hezbollah Exodus off the Gulf: Pro-Iranian Shiite Lebanese Sleepercells Network Found and Deported

Lebanese say UAE pressed them to spy on Hezbollah
By BASSEM MROUE (AP) BEIRUT — A Lebanese businessman alleged Thursday that he and several hundred other Lebanese were expelled from the United Arab Emirates country because they refused to spy on the Shiite militant group Hezbollah and other fellow citizens.
Hassan Alayan said more than 300 Lebanese — mostly Shiites — have been forced to leave the Emirates over the past three months. He said most of those deported said UAE authorities asked them to inform on fellow Lebanese Shiites living in the country and on Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
Authorities told the Lebanese they were being deported for security reasons, but they believe their refusal to spy was the real reason, Alayan told a news conference in Beirut. The Emirates refused to comment on the allegations, and Lebanese officials said they were contacting authorities there over the matter.
One of those deported, Zuhair Hamdan, said his residency permit was rejected after he refused to give authorities information about fellow Lebanese or possible Hezbollah sleeper cells in the UAE.
"I told them I have been living in the UAE for 33 years. How can I have information about Hezbollah," said Hamdan, who lived in the Emirates since he was 2 years old and worked as a traffic policeman.
The UAE is among several predominantly Sunni Arab nations wary of Shiite Iran's growing regional clout — which Iran partly maintains by supplying weapons and cash to the powerful Hezbollah in Lebanon.
A statement by a committee set up to represent the deportees suggested the decision by the Emirates could be the result of U.S. pressure to try to choke off routes of funding for the anti-American and anti-Israel Hezbollah. The U.S. considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization.
The Emirates is close to the United States and has cooperated with Washington in trying to shut down networks smuggling weapons to Iran, U.S. officials have said.
Alayan said some of those deported were forced to leave even after Lebanese President Michel Suleiman sent a military delegation five weeks ago to the UAE to try resolve the matter without success. More than 100 people who said they were deportees, as well as two Hezbollah legislators, attended the news conference in Beirut.
"In whose interest is it to ask Lebanese to spy on one another and on the resistance of Lebanon and Palestine?" said the committee's statement.
Alayan alleged UAE authorities have also deported Palestinians who refused to spy on the militant Hamas group, which rules the Gaza Strip. He said the Palestinians recounted similar pressures by authorities to inform on Hamas.
Some Arab media have reported that those who were deported were sending money to Hezbollah, a claim denied by Alayan and Ali Faour, another member of a committee representing the deportees.
Faour told reporters that most of those deported have been living in the UAE for decades and most were business owners.
Hezbollah, the largest and most powerful Shiite group in Lebanon, came to the defense of the deportees because most of them are Shiite. The deportees had been silent for a few months but last week started meeting with Lebanese officials to complain about their treatment.
Lebanon's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, urged UAE President Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to take "a quick initiative to rescue hundreds of Lebanese families."
Hezbollah's deputy leader, Sheik Naim Kassem, described the deportations as "clear injustice" and called on the UAE to be fair with people who are not suspected of working against their host country.

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[tasneem33]

حرام تضييع الوقت وسماع كلامك

خسرت دقائق من عمري

[obaidkarki]

tasneem33 يتم ترحيل 500 شيعي (عربي وعجمي) يومياالي مثواهم الاخير ضمن خطة ترحيل 3000 شيعي يوميا للتخلص منهم اجماليا عام 2012 الكتابة علي اليوتوب دون قول جبن لان اليوتوب دون فيديو كالكتابة علي جدران المراحيض العامة فهي دفاتر الجبناء

[obaidkarki]

tasneem33

you are right.

we begin deporting 500 shiites to iran & Iraq everyday by end of the year we will be able to ship 3000 shiites a day. if everything goes well by 2012 we will be shiite free country inshaallah. enjoy. have a donut now

لقد يتم ترحيل 500 شيعي (عربي وعجمي) يومياالي مثواهم الاخير ضمن خطة ترحيل 3000 شيعي يوميا للتخلص منهم اجماليا عام 2012

[flouka9]

Obaid,

I don't know what you have against Shiites, but let's be honest here, the sunnis wahabis/salafists extremists are much worse...

Imagine a country deporting all sunnis/christians/whatever and saying they are dirty and uncultured... wouldn't you be shocked?!

[obaidkarki]

flouka9

i don't have to hate Shiite or love Wahhabi i will worthy the worthless if i did. offensive comedy is painful facts.

sad but healthy

[SOUTHCAL100]

you are a sick mother fuker

[acr225]

If the UAE is smart they should expel the all of the Iranians as well. They should be branded before they are shipped out! This way they can really choke the iranian economy and bring their bloodthirsty regime to the bargaining table.

[acr225]

@persia4life1 If a sunni or arab in Iran called for overthrowing the iranian regime, what would happen? If he tried to establish sleeper cells in iran, what would happen? Would he be deported or stripped of citizenship? Of course not, he would be tortured, raped, and killed. Dear persian shit, you should thank the UAE for letting you come and work in their country. Ungrateful dogs like you should get the hell out of the UAE/US. Dubai already has enough persian hookers.

[acr225]

@persia4life1 Sunni and Shia are brothers? This is taqqiya. You're only saying this because the shia are weak and you know that the Sunnis(Pakistani/Turkey) can easily destroy you. If all of the sunnis were weak then you would be killing them and persecuting them just like sunnis in Iran. Shias need the Sunnis but Sunnis don't need shias. Iranians should be happy that UAE is only deporting them. Iranians occupy 3 UAE island and openly call for overthrowing all the GCC governments!

[persia4life1]

muslim hvo talk shit about suni or shia are not muslims they are fucking kafir.hvo the fuck is this asshole??fuck him.Long live iran & lebanon,shia & hezbollah.remember guys united we stand strong against the world hvo hate os.the west hate muslims.and ppl like this mofo deviding shia and suni brother and making os weak.he is worst than jews this fucker.

[Calamaro77]

yes we Love Iran BUT ONLY because they help us against the terror state of israel who occupate and killed our ppl since year 1982 But thank to Iran we have today a big Military power and whenn kingdom of emarat will support and help us we will support emarat with our souls and blood we dont care if they sunnis or not ! my brother mossad was in your country & killed shahid mabhouh in your country! so who is your enemy ? why this hate against us ? this is really sad

[Calamaro77]

your video is Full of hate and spitefulness

you have to know we Fight against the zionist and NOT AGAINST OUR ARABIC BROTHERS, we Love emarat why should we hate emarat ppl ?

we are against traitors regimes yes but not against sunni , we have sunnis allies in Lebanon and Hezbollah had very good relation with shahid Rafic Alhariri who killed by Mossad in the same way they killed mabhouh in Dabai... our enemies are those who attack our countries and not our arabic sunni brothers

[obaidkarki]

flouka9 

404 on youtube is an acronym for "thats not video premise"