Sunni leader: Hezbollah taking Lebanon 'into Syrian fire'
| Beirut
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Hariri, a former prime minister, was responding to a speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General聽聽who said that a car bomb in聽听蝉辞耻迟丑别谤苍听聽would only redouble the group's military support for Syrian President聽.
"(Nasrallah's) speech takes聽聽into deeper involvement in the Syrian fire," Hariri tweeted. "It's a pity to squander the blood of the Lebanese in such a way."
The death toll from Thursday's car bomb, already the deadliest attack in聽聽since the 1975-1990 civil war, rose to 27 on Saturday when the body of a six-year-old boy was found in the damaged ground floor of a nearby building.
Hariri's father聽, who also served as prime minister several times, was killed along with 21 others in a 2005 bombing. A U.N.-backed tribunal has indicted four Hezbollah members over the killing.
"What happened (on Thursday) was an ugly crime, but Hezbollah's war in聽聽is crime as well," Hariri said, criticising Nasrallah for calling for restraint at home while reinforcing his commitment to the battle in聽聽which has polarised聽聽and sharply raised sectarian tensions.
Most Sunni Muslim Lebanese support the rebels battling to overthrow Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of聽聽Islam. Many聽聽Lebanese support Assad and Hezbollah's support in the neighbouring country has grown from a political to a full military role.
Hezbollah guerrillas led Assad's fight to recapture the Syrian border town of聽聽in June from mainly Sunni rebels, and have also fought in the city of聽聽and near the聽聽shrine of Sayyida Zeinab south-east of.
Nasrallah said on Friday the Syrian war was a battle against radical Sunni "takfiri" groups, who he also blamed for Thursday's bomb.
Many Sunni jihadi fighters from聽聽and other Arab countries have joined the fight against Assad, and some have threatened retaliation in聽聽unless Hezbollah withdraws from聽.
The two-year conflict has killed 100,000 people inside聽聽and the violence has spread across the Lebanese border, with rocket attacks in the Bekaa Valley, street fighting in the聽聽cities of聽听补苍诲听, and bombs in聽.
