Hezbollah undecided on cooperation with Hariri Tribunal

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The Special Tribunal for Lebanon wants again to question people linked to Hezbollah, but the party has not decided whether to cooperate, the group’s deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has said.

In an interview published on Friday, Qassem said: “Yes, there was a new request after the month of Ramadan to (question) people who could be linked to Hezbollah in one way or another.”

“But we have not taken any decision on the matter for now,” Al-Afkar magazine quoted him as saying.

In March, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah confirmed that investigators from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) had interrogated members of his party.

Then in July, he claimed that the tribunal, set up three years ago in line with a U.N. Security Council resolution, was likely to indict members of his armed group.

Nasrallah made clear that his party would not go along with any such decision by the tribunal which he has slammed as biased and part of an Israeli plot.

Qassem did not say whether the latest STL request was to interview people already questioned, new people or a combination of both.

A war of words between Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s camp and Hizbullah, largely related to the U.N.-backed probe, has escalated in recent weeks, raising fears of renewed sectarian violence.

Hariri’s Western- and Saudi-backed coalition has accused Hizbullah of wanting to bring the court down.

For its part, the party, which is backed by Syria and Iran, has accused those close to Hariri of having “manufactured” evidence to implicate Damascus in the assassination.

Last Saturday, in a show of force, Hizbullah bodyguards escorted from Beirut airport the former head of the country’s General Security Department, Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed, who has been sought for questioning by State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza over recent remarks against PM Hariri.

The Hariri camp branded the airport incident as an “invasion.”

Asked about this by Al-Afkar, Qassem said the Hizbullah members who went to meet Sayyed were accompanied by “their bodyguards,” adding that “what happened at the airport was totally normal.”

Sayyed was held for four years without charge in connection with Hariri’s murder. Earlier this month, he accused the current premier of selling his father’s blood in order to frame Syria for the killing.

Naharnet

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13 responses to “Hezbollah undecided on cooperation with Hariri Tribunal”

  1. Here is the biggest traitor in lebanon including Nassrallah and Jamil AL Saadan. I wish these people disappears there are no different than the israelis. This monster is the biggest threats to Lebanon with his body Nassrallah. May they rot in hell soon inshallah.

  2. Here is the biggest traitor in lebanon including Nassrallah and Jamil AL Saadan. I wish these people disappears there are no different than the israelis. This monster is the biggest threats to Lebanon with his body Nassrallah. May they rot in hell soon inshallah.

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    Here is the biggest traitor in lebanon including Nassrallah and Jamil AL Saadan. I wish these people disappears there are no different than the israelis. This monster is the biggest threats to Lebanon with his body Nassrallah. May they rot in hell soon inshallah.

  4. Don’t think your cooperation is an option Hezbkhara

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    Don’t think your cooperation is an option Hezbkhara

  6. There are too many problems in this country … From Israel to Hezbollah to stl … Somethings gotta give – something will explode

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    There are too many problems in this country … From Israel to Hezbollah to stl … Somethings gotta give – something will explode

  8. josephphd Avatar

    the lebaneese shia,s need to wake up those people are playing them nasrallah and quassim
    they are getting paid millions of dollars from iran and they only pay them (ha fighters) few hundred dollars and using a religion as a tool to lie to them and recrute them;n for all these young shia,s men member of ha you have been played as a fool and sooner or later the lebaneese governement is going to try you for crimes you have or you will commit agaist other lebaneese citizens just do the right thing for you and for your family and join the only legal institutaion is the the state of lebanon and the money you are making now the state will pay you the same or more ;so why do you want to keep working for someone making to his pocket millions of dollars and paying few hundred a month beside when the war comes you are the one under the gun and they hide in a tunnel 500 ft under the ground and above all you will be tried one day in the lebaneese court as a traitors because you are working for persians and not the state of lebanon
    so wake up the lebaneese shi,as young men you have been played as a fool by the persians and join the lebaneese brothers and the state of lebanon and obey the lebaeese law not the persian law before its late and believe me you can tell those persians to get out of your life because you are a free lebaneese and you are not persian and you will only work for the the state of lebanon and be proud of you lebaneese race not the persian race and tell those persians just like your grand father and great grand father has been lebaneese you and your son and your grand son will and be lebaneese ;

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    le lebaneese shia,s need to wake up those people are playing them nasrallah and quassim

    they are getting paid millions of dollars from iran and they only pay the ha fighters few hundred dollars and using a religion as a tools to lie and recrut all those young shia,s men for all these youg shia,s member of ha you have been played as a fool and sooner or later the lebaneese governement is going to try you for crimes and gangs activities just do the right thing for you and join the only legal institutaion is the the state of lebanon and the money you are making now the state will pay you the same ;so why do you want to keep working some one making millions to his pocket millions of dollars and paying few hundred a month beside when the war comes you are the one under the gun and they hide in a tunnel 500 ft under the ground

  10. josephphd Avatar

    to the very lost :
    do,nt be lost its simple the march 14 represents 75% of the lebaneese people wich is the legal state and we are trying to liberate the rest of the lebaneese the 25% from the persians and bring them to join the state of lebanon and join the rest of lebaneese and freethem from the persian conspiracy against them so we can all the 100% of lebanon citizens work for the state of lebanon only not for the persian empire

    1. VeryLost Avatar

      i seee… so 25 % = aoun and hezbollah ..

      i just cant wait to finally see this country able to go about doing propper things instead of all these dumb things..

      and when does the indictment come out? does any1 have a fair idea when it will show its findings?

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    to the very lost :

    do,nt be lost its simple the march 14 represents 75% of the lebaneese people wich is the legal state and we are trying to lierate the rest of the lebaneese the 25% from the persians and bring them to join the state of lebanon and freethem from the persian conspiracy against them

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      Anonymous

      i seee… so 25 % = aoun and hezbollah ..

      i just cant wait to finally see this country able to go about doing propper things instead of all these dumb things..

      and when does the indictment come out? does any1 have a fair idea when it will show its findings?

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