Hezbollah will not hold annual rally this month

The militant Hezbollah
group says its leader will give an annual speech later this week but it
did not announce the usual public rally that accompanies it.






Sheik Hassan Nasrallah
normally holds a rally every year in mid-February marking the death of
three of the group's leaders including Hezbollah's top military
commander Imad Mughniyeh who was killed in 2008 by a bomb that ripped
through his car in Damascus, Syria.






Hezbollah
did not give a reason for not announcing the annual rally that is
usually attended by hundreds of supporters in their stronghold south of
Beirut.






The
cancellation appears to be related to a wave of bombings in Hezbollah's
strongholds around Lebanon that left scores of people dead over the
past months.






Last year, Hezbollah openly joined Syria's civil war, fighting alongside government forces.





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