Nasrallah is a bad name to have in Lebanon

BEIRUT (AFP) - Nasrallah is a bad surname to have in Lebanon, as
Israel tries to break the militant group Hezbollah.
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Fourteen-year-old Mohammed Hassan Nasrallah found out the hard way when Israeli airborne commandos seized his father and four other men in eastern Lebanon, even though they are unrelated to Hassan Nasrallah, the firebrand head of the Shiite Muslim movement.

Mohammed was asleep, together with his father, mother, brothers and sisters, when Israeli elite troops broke into his home on August 2, breaking the doors and shattering the windows of their home in Hay al-Osseira near the eastern city of Baalbek.

"They started shouting, they took us out one after the other and tied our hands behind our backs," he told an AFP correspondent in the Bekaa Valley.

posted by Lazarus, 1:01 PM