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Hizballah Confirms Assisting Palestinian Militants
(Toronto Globe and Mail) Matthew Kalman - Hizballah official Ghaleb Awwali, 40, died when he turned the ignition key in his car in Beirut on Monday, triggering a powerful explosive device. At his funeral on Tuesday, Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged that Awwali was responsible for covert assistance to Palestinian militants. Awwali was "among the team that dedicated their lives in the last few years to help their brothers in occupied Palestine," Nasrallah said. "We do not want to hide this truth. We want to declare it and boast about it." In the West Bank city of Nablus, leaders of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the terrorist wing of Fatah, said they speak to their Hizballah handlers by telephone almost daily.