LEBANON - Jan 30 - Hizbullah Blames Bush For Unrest.

Lebanon's Hizbullah movement use the Shi'ite Muslim Ashura commemorationay to accuse the US and Israel of being responsible for the unrest in the country. Seven people died in political and sectarian clashes in the country last week. "The one who fomented chaos in Lebanon, who destroyed Lebanon, who killed women and children, old and young in Lebanon, is George Bush", Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah leader, told a rally in the southern suburbs of Beirut. He accused the US of ordering Israel to wage war against his movement last summer as part of what he called the American campaign against "resistance groups" in the Middle East. The war started in July when Hizbullah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed three. The speech followed remarks by the US president in which he deplored last week's violence and accused Hizbullah, Iran and Syria of trying to destabilise Lebanon. Hizbullah and its political allies have been demonstrating for the past two months to bring down the pro-western government of prime minister Fouad Siniora, and gain more of a say in a new cabinet. Lebanon's schools and universities were set to reopen on Wednesday having been closed since Jan 25, when fighting between rival student groups led to widespread clashes. Violence last Jan 25 took place mainly between the supporters of the Shi'ite Hizbullah and Amal movements and Sunni and Druze backers of the government. Rival christian groups had clashed earlier in the week. In the southern town of Nabatiyeh, in the Shi'ite heartland, thousands of young men on Jan 28 carried out the Ashura ritual of cutting themselves and allowing the blood to flow freely. One of them said that the Shi'ite harboured no ill will against the Sunni but that the Sunni were less tolerant of them. One young woman watching the procession of bleeding young men said that the ritual showed the "Shi'ite capacity for sacrificing for a cause".