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Sheik Fadlallah; 'We Have Reservations'.
Byline: Rod Nordland
Sheik Muhammed Hussein Fadlallah is the senior religious leader of Lebanon's 2 million Shia and spiritual leader of Hizbullah. Still classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, Hizbullah has more recently gone mainstream, fielding candidates in national elections, sponsoring social programs for the poor and banning the terrorist tactics espoused in the mid-1980s. NEWSWEEK's Baghdad bureau chief Rod Nordland spoke with the cleric at his well-guarded home in the Beirut suburbs. Excerpts:
NORDLAND: Does the liberation of Iraq's Shia change your view of America?
FADLALLAH: America is responsible for a great part of what Saddam did, including his obtaining WMD. It encouraged him in the war against Iran and later Kuwait, so as to legitimize its own military presence in the gulf. Saddam was a monster, but America supported that monster as it does many others in the world.
Still, Saddam issued a death sentence against you. Don't you owe some debt of gratitude?
None. America was pursuing its own interests; it wasn't being a charitable organization. OK, it laid off its employee, Saddam. From that point of view, Iraq is better off. On the other hand, Iraqis don't feel they're better off--or more secure.
Yet you must feel glad to see your fellow Shias in Iraq free from oppression.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Sheik Fadlallah; 'We Have Reservations'.