(22 Sep 2006)
1. Wide of Hezbollah 'victory' rally
2. Ticker tape in the air
3. Close-up of yellow Hezbollah flags
4. Pan of crowd gathered at rally, ahead of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaking
7. Nasrallah on stage greeting crowd
8. Crowd waving yellow flags
9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader:
"(referring to recent conflict with Israel) It was America's war in terms of its decisions, its arms, its planning, and its will and in terms of giving more time to the Zionists, from two to four weeks. What has stopped this war was the Zionist failure. Let us remember the last days of the war when they lost a large number of tanks on Friday, Saturday and Sunday."
10. Pan of crowd applauding
2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader:
"Even if the whole world came, they wouldn't be able to save those two detainees (captured Israeli soldiers) except through indirect negotiations and the exchange of prisoners."
3. Cutaway of rally
4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader:
"Today I say to those who want to close the sea, the sky, the desert and the borders - and I address the enemy as well - the resistance (Hezbollah) has today more than, and I stress more than, 20-thousand rockets."
5. Cutaway of rally
6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader:
"No army in the world will be able to make us drop the weapons from our hands as long as these loyal people believe in the resistance."
7. Wide on crowd
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese packed into an open square in Beirut's bombed out southern suburbs on Friday, for a "victory over Israel" rally organised by Hezbollah.
The crowds waited in eager anticipation for the highlight of the event, a speech by Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, in what was his first public appearance since the end of Hezbollah's conflict with Israel.
The crowd, waving hundreds of yellow Hezbollah flags, cheered ecstatically when Nasrallah appeared.
The black turbaned cleric said Hezbollah possessed more than 20-thousand rockets, even after firing nearly 4-thousand rockets at Israel during the 34 days of fighting, and he vowed that the UN peacekeeping force deploying in the south and helping guard Lebanon's borders from new weapons shipments would not affect the organisation's arsenal.
"No army in the world will be able to make us drop the weapons from our hands," he said.
Nasrallah said that the US was behind Israel's war on Hezbollah, "in terms of its decisions, its arms, its planning, and its will and in terms of giving more time to the Zionists, from two to four weeks", he said, referring to the United States' refusal to demand Israel halt its bombardment of Lebanon.
He also said he would not release two captured Israeli soldiers, except in an exchange for Lebanese prisoners.
"Even if the whole world came, they wouldn't be able to save those two detainees".
Nasrallah said he decided to appear at the rally despite threats to his life.
Israeli warplanes destroyed Nasrallah's office and residence in southern Beirut in the early days of the month-long war.
The leader last appeared in public on July 12, when he held a news conference and offered to trade two Israeli soldiers his militants captured earlier that day for prisoners being held by Israel.
The cross-border raid sparked 34 days of fighting in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel.
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