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Hezbollah denounces CNN's firing of Mideast editor

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

JULY 9, 2010 11:35

BEIRUT — Hezbollah denounced on Friday CNN's decision to fire a Middle East editor for posting a note on Twitter expressing admiration for the country's late top Shiite cleric.

Octavia Nasr later apologized for her tweet in which she described Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah as "one of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot." But CNN officials said her credibility had been compromised.

Hezbollah's spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi said CNN's decision amounts to "intellectual terrorism" and reflects the West's "double standards" in dealing with the Mideast.

He said in a statement that the decision to fire Nasr — a Lebanese who worked for CNN for two decades — exposes America's false claims regarding freedom of expression.

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