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Ahmadinejad receives fake gift from Hezbollah: report Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah deceived Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by giving him a gun he claimed was taken from an Israeli soldier in the 2006 war, an Israeli newspaper reported Sunday. The mass-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper said the gun, which Nasrallah presented to Ahma-dinejad in person on his two-day visit to Lebanon, was a type of weapon not used by the Israeli military since the early 1970s. The paper quoted a military spokesperson as saying that the weapon was most likely a FN FAL 7.62 millimeter caliber rifle that went out of use in 1974, meaning it could not have been taken from Israeli soldiers during the 2006 Lebanon War. A military spokesman contacted by AFP declined to comment on the report. The devastating 34-day war in the summer of 2006 claimed the lives of some 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers. The war was widely seen as a victory for Hezbollah, which prevented Israeli forces from recovering two soldiers whose capture in a deadly cross-border raid had sparked the conflict. AFP |
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