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Lebanese Politician Underlines Strong Popular Support for Hezbollah Members
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior member of Lebanon's Democratic Party stressed people's all-out support and admiration for Hezbollah movement, and said Lebanese would never allow anyone to arrest Hezbollah members as requested in an unfounded indictment issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
"If the government of Mikati wants to put the court's indictment into effect, then this indictment should undergo its normal procedure while no one in Lebanon would allow an apprehension of Hezbollah members," Salim Hamadah told FNA on Tuesday.
"They (Hezbollah members) are honorable people who have fulfilled their duty and defended their country and all the Lebanese people know that raising such accusations against them is baseless and these accusations are mere lies," he added.
A large number of world officials and politicians have deplored the initial ruling of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon - the court investigating assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri - against Hezbollah members, and called it a politically-tainted move with no practical implication.
Syria's ambassador to Lebanon on Friday said the court implicating Hezbollah members in the 2005 murder of Hariri had "significantly lost credibility" after names were leaked to the press.
"The tribunal has significantly lost credibility because of these leaks, especially as Israeli media was the first to welcome the news and disclose the content of the indictment, days before it was announced," Ali Abdel Karim Ali told reporters after meeting Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
The Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon has issued arrest warrants for four members of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah in connection with the Hariri assassination.
The whereabouts of the four are unknown, however.
After the issuance of the verdict, 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 Special Tribunal's indictment of four Hezbollah members 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 to the Netherlands directly.
He said Hezbollah would introduce a document proving the computers were transported from South Lebanon to Israel.
Meantime, Nasrallah warned that Hariri tribunal seeks to spread strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Lebanon.
"If the government of Mikati wants to put the court's indictment into effect, then this indictment should undergo its normal procedure while no one in Lebanon would allow an apprehension of Hezbollah members," Salim Hamadah told FNA on Tuesday.
"They (Hezbollah members) are honorable people who have fulfilled their duty and defended their country and all the Lebanese people know that raising such accusations against them is baseless and these accusations are mere lies," he added.
A large number of world officials and politicians have deplored the initial ruling of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon - the court investigating assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri - against Hezbollah members, and called it a politically-tainted move with no practical implication.
Syria's ambassador to Lebanon on Friday said the court implicating Hezbollah members in the 2005 murder of Hariri had "significantly lost credibility" after names were leaked to the press.
"The tribunal has significantly lost credibility because of these leaks, especially as Israeli media was the first to welcome the news and disclose the content of the indictment, days before it was announced," Ali Abdel Karim Ali told reporters after meeting Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
The Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon has issued arrest warrants for four members of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah in connection with the Hariri assassination.
The whereabouts of the four are unknown, however.
After the issuance of the verdict, 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 Special Tribunal's indictment of four Hezbollah members 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 to the Netherlands directly.
He said Hezbollah would introduce a document proving the computers were transported from South Lebanon to Israel.
Meantime, Nasrallah warned that Hariri tribunal seeks to spread strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Lebanon.
