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Hezbollah Leader Stresses Israel's Involvement in Hariri Assassination
TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Movement Seyed Hassan Nasrallah underlined Israel's involvement in assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and criticized the Special Tribunal for Lebanon for ignoring investigation into Israel's involvement.
Speaking for the first time since the indictment on Thursday by the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon of four members of the Lebanese movement over the murder of Hariri, Nasrallah said that Israel was behind the killing of the former Lebanese prime minister who was murdered in 2005.
"We mentioned the possibility of having Israel involved in the murder and the fact that Israeli agents were present at the murder scene one day before the murder."
"No one in the tribunal even asked the Israelis anything. This is normal, why? Because the tribunal, since its formation had a precise goal and no one was allowed to talk to Israelis … Instead of investigating the Israelis, the tribunal gathered information from them," Nasrallah stated.
He further stated that computers investigated by the tribunal were transported through Israel under their way out of Lebanon and asked why they had not been shipped out of a Beirut port.
He said Hezbollah would produce a document proving the computers were transported from south Lebanon to Israel.
Meantime, Nasrallah said warned that Hariri tribunal seeks to spread strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Lebanon.
He stressed that they would fail to inflame conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
He also underscored that the charges are an attack on Hezbollah, and authorities would not be able to arrest the four suspects named in indictment.
Last year, Nasrallah had showed footage intercepted from spy planes, which seemed to show Israel monitoring the routes Hariri's convoy took from parliament to his home in west Beirut. Hariri was killed in a bomb attack on his convoy on February 14, 2005.
Speaking for the first time since the indictment on Thursday by the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon of four members of the Lebanese movement over the murder of Hariri, Nasrallah said that Israel was behind the killing of the former Lebanese prime minister who was murdered in 2005.
"We mentioned the possibility of having Israel involved in the murder and the fact that Israeli agents were present at the murder scene one day before the murder."
"No one in the tribunal even asked the Israelis anything. This is normal, why? Because the tribunal, since its formation had a precise goal and no one was allowed to talk to Israelis … Instead of investigating the Israelis, the tribunal gathered information from them," Nasrallah stated.
He further stated that computers investigated by the tribunal were transported through Israel under their way out of Lebanon and asked why they had not been shipped out of a Beirut port.
He said Hezbollah would produce a document proving the computers were transported from south Lebanon to Israel.
Meantime, Nasrallah said warned that Hariri tribunal seeks to spread strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Lebanon.
He stressed that they would fail to inflame conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
He also underscored that the charges are an attack on Hezbollah, and authorities would not be able to arrest the four suspects named in indictment.
Last year, Nasrallah had showed footage intercepted from spy planes, which seemed to show Israel monitoring the routes Hariri's convoy took from parliament to his home in west Beirut. Hariri was killed in a bomb attack on his convoy on February 14, 2005.
