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Reply on the latest rumor spread mainly by Al Arabiya Sayyed Nasrallah Denies Reports of Being Poisoned Mohamad Shmaysani 25/10/2008 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah denied reports that he was poisoned. In an interview with Al-Manar TV, Sayyed Nasrallah said that the reports were broadcast by a previously unknown internet site and “unfortunately some local and Arab media outlets contributed in circulating this baseless information.” His eminence stressed such reports come in the framework of a psychological war against the resistance adding that the one the targets of such a war was to suggest liquidations and struggles within Hezbollah. Sayyed Nasrallah told Al-Manar that “if you make a research about internet sites that spread such baseless information you will find that they are all run by the same black room to serve US-Israeli interests.” “At first we thought of denying this false information through a statement, but when local and Arab media outlets circulated the news we decided to deny it through a television interview, and here I am in front of you telling everybody that I have not been poisoned,” the Hezbollah chief said. Al Manar.