Now Lebanon - New York Times: Nasrallah's Speech is Additional Pressure on the Weak Government - October 29, 2010

The New York Times noted on Friday that Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech Thursday night has added more pressure on the "weak Lebanese government." It said that he issued a "strongly-worded warning" against any cooperation with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which has "surpassed several of his other speeches on the matter and which may make the tribunal's duties much more difficult to execute." The paper noted that a number of Hizbullah's local opponents directly responded to Nasrallah's speech, which they considered a "threat against the state." It pointed out the fact that the speech took place a day after an attack against international investigators at a medical clinic in Dahiyeh, highlighting Nasrallah's statements that "what happened at the clinic is a new phase" and "cooperation with the international tribunal is an attack against the Resistance."