Wikileaks hassan nasrallah biography
Julian Assange's first guest was Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah.
This week I am joined by a guest from a secret location in Lebanon.!
Who was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?
He steered Hezbollah's evolution from a militia founded to fight Israeli troops occupying Lebanon, into a military force stronger than the Lebanese army, a powerbroker in Lebanese politics, a major provider of health, education and social services, and a key part of its backer Iran's drive for regional supremacy.
Born in 1960, Hassan Nasrallah grew up in Beirut's eastern Bourj Hammoud neighbourhood, where his father Abdul Karim ran a small greengrocers.
He was the eldest of nine children.
He joined the Amal movement, then a Shia militia, after Lebanon descended into civil war in 1975. After a short spell in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf to attend a Shia seminary he rejoined Amal in Lebanon before he and others split from the group in 1982, shortly after Israel invaded Lebanon in response to attacks by Palestinian militants.
The new group, Islamic Amal, received considerable military and organisational support from Iran&#