STL investigators clash with women in Beirut suburb- update

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Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV reported today that a dispute broke out between investigators of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon ( STL) and women at a clinic for women in al Dhahiya a Hezbollah stronghold south of the capital , Beirut .

The Lebanese Internal Security Forces ISF, intervened to end the dispute and closed the clinic, according to local reports

According to NBN TV the clash started when the investigators started questioning some women at the clinic.

Tension escalated in Lebanon following reports that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will soon issue its indictment into the 2005 assassination of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Last July, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the tribunal is “an Israeli project” that will indict Hezbollah members. Nasrallah accused Israel of being behind Hariri’s assassination but refused to provide the evidence to STL to support his claim. Hezbollah and its March 8 allies have been calling for the abolition of STL.

Some leaders are concerned that should the court indict Hezbollah members, it could lead to a Shiite-Sunni strife, but others disagree since Hezbollah and its allies the Syrian backed Palestinian militants are the only armed militias in Lebanon.

Update: reaction to attack against the STL investigators

-Dr. Iman Sharara told Al-Jadid TV: A man from the investigation team called Muwafaq called me over the phone on Friday asking me to set up an appointment.

This was in reference to the claim that the STL investigators stormed into the Sharara clinic without an appointment

MTV reported that prosecutor Said Mirza has launched an investigation into the incident that took place at the Sharara clinic and started investigations with Dr. Iman Sharara.

March 14 MP Khaled Zahraman met with Lebanon’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani. After the meeting, he described what happened at the Sharara clinic as “alarming,” noting that it may be the start of an attempt to disrupt security.

Phalange Party MP Elie Marouni commented about the incident by saying : The assault on international investigators is one of many incidents aimed at thwarting STL. Is it a coincidence that 150 women happened to be passing by when it happened?

Update II

Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor General Daniel Bellemare’s office denounced in a statement issued on Wednesday, the “use of violence” against two of its investigators and their interpreter during an incident in al Dhahiya, saying that the event will not deter the office’s investigation.

A group of women charged at STL investigators at Sharara clinic in the Dhahiya on Wednesday morning and grabbed a briefcase from them, AFP reported.

The STL’s statement said its team had obtained approval from Lebanese authorities for its visit to the doctor’s office as a “legitimate step in [the STL’s] ongoing investigation,” and that the doctor had received approval from the Beirut Order of Physicians and agreed to the meeting.

“The session with the doctor was conducted in a respectful manner. During the meeting, a large group of people showed up unexpectedly and violently attacked the investigators and their female interpreter,” the statement said.

“Several items belonging to [Bellemare’s office] staff were stolen during the attack,” it added.

The three team members were taken by the Lebanese army and received medical attention at the STL’s office in Beirut, the statement also said.

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26 responses to “STL investigators clash with women in Beirut suburb- update”

  1. i am having hard times reading this, can some one translate for me?????????????some of the elements of the story i recall reading were 2 stl male investigators (dark suits and shades optional) entering a gynecologist clinic in dahieh, still in dahieh, where a large group of women entering all of a sudden the clinic and started shouting and cursing the investigators and snatching their briefcase,then isf elements intervening???? and finally came the ultimate hezbollah source, who spoke on condition of anonimity and said his party is not in any way linked to the incident!!!!!!! it sounds like an episode of twilight zone revisited in lebanon!!!!!!!!!To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=211606#ixzz13ZPVlhjB

  2. Sure this is Hezbollah tactics and they said they had nothing to do with it. The doctor herself said I didn’t have any appt. so how did these women show up at the Clinic without someone instigating them. Well Hezbollah will do anything to hide their crimes and they say they’re not guilty in the assassinations of Hariri and many others. This what thugs and criminals set out to do by intimidating their victims to scare them away. Will this will even strengthen the resolve of the STL even if Hariri gov’t resigned and Lebanese gov’t fall under Hezbollah Spell. The STL inshallah will not go away. I hope now more than ever they announce the indictments and get this over with. I am tired of it and I am tired of Hezbollah destroying Lebanon alongside with Syria and Iran. They complain about Israel in the past and now but they don’t see themselves doing the same thing. Rot in Hell and you will soon God Willing!

  3. Sure this is Hezbollah tactics and they said they had nothing to do with it. The doctor herself said I didn’t have any appt. so how did these women show up at the Clinic without someone instigating them. Well Hezbollah will do anything to hide their crimes and they say they’re not guilty in the assassinations of Hariri and many others. This what thugs and criminals set out to do by intimidating their victims to scare them away. Will this will even strengthen the resolve of the STL even if Hariri gov’t resigned and Lebanese gov’t fall under Hezbollah Spell. The STL inshallah will not go away. I hope now more than ever they announce the indictments and get this over with. I am tired of it and I am tired of Hezbollah destroying Lebanon alongside with Syria and Iran. They complain about Israel in the past and now but they don’t see themselves doing the same thing. Rot in Hell and you will soon God Willing!

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    Sure this is Hezbollah tactics and they said they had nothing to do with it. The doctor herself said I didn’t have any appt. so how did these women show up at the Clinic without someone instigating them. Well Hezbollah will do anything to hide their crimes and they say they’re not guilty in the assassinations of Hariri and many others. This what thugs and criminals set out to do by intimidating their victims to scare them away. Will this will even strengthen the resolve of the STL even if Hariri gov’t resigned and Lebanese gov’t fall under Hezbollah Spell. The STL inshallah will not go away. I hope now more than ever they announce the indictments and get this over with. I am tired of it and I am tired of Hezbollah destroying Lebanon alongside with Syria and Iran. They complain about Israel in the past and now but they don’t see themselves doing the same thing. Rot in Hell and you will soon God Willing!

  5. socal6666 Avatar

    So, hzballa sent there women to do the job! is that it? LOL funnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

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    So, hzballa sent there women to do the job! is that it? LOL funnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

  7. Fauzia45 Avatar

    Verbal threats and attacks have been used against the STL!It seems they have not given the right results !They have been playing a dangerous game and have been using all kinds of cards! Now they are using action !!!

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    Verbal threats and attacks have been used against the STL!It seems they have not given the right results !They have been playing a dangerous game and have been using all kinds of cards! Now they are using action !!!

  9. joseph_phdmath Avatar
    joseph_phdmath

    hezbollah waisting there times playing those games
    nothing will stop the stl investigations
    stl = un = russia.france,china,usa,europe,turkey,etc……………….165 countries word wide
    to stop the stl = stopping the entire world from doing there job and that ,s =~ impossible
    its time for hezbollah to turn in there heavy weapons to the state and pledge allegiance to the lebaneese state and withdraw there miltias from the occupied terroteries south of lebanon and turn the area to the lebaneese army controle
    and become political group just like all the others did if they trl honest about beeing lebaneese
    otherwise they will prove the opposite that they are a persians occupiers of south lebanon

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    hezbollah waisting there times playing those games

    nothing will stop the stl investigations

    stl = un = russia.france,china,usa,europe,turkey,etc……………….165 countries word wide

    to stop the stl = stopping the entire world from doing there job and that ,s =~ impossible

  11. The verdict is known ,no need to even investigate , Assad ordered the killing of Hariri, and the Iranian Boos of the Mullah mercenaries executed the order with the knowledhe of Lahoud and Hamdan and Sayyed .
    Eventually the word has to get rid of them , and they will , Lebanon is not Afghanistan , in Lebanon you can run but you can;t hide , Nasrallah has to go to Syria or to his country Iran eventually where he belong !!!

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    The verdict is known ,no need to even investigate , Assad ordered the killing of Hariri, and the Iranian Boos of the Mullah mercenaries executed the order with the knowledhe of Lahoud and Hamdan and Sayyed .
    Eventually the word has to get rid of them , and they will , Lebanon is not Afghanistan , in Lebanon you can run but you can;t hide , Nasrallah has to go to Syria or to his country Iran eventually where he belong !!!

  13. As usual, HA is resorting to violance. These kinds of acts are usually and normally conducted by animals. It is imperative that the STL and the Lebanese authorities take the proper action to prosecute the transgressors. Shu fowda el2adyyeh, come on people.

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    As usual, HA is resorting to violance. These kinds of acts are usually and normally conducted by animals. It is imperative that the STL and the Lebanese authorities take the proper action to prosecute the transgressors. Shu fowda el2adyyeh, come on people.

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    As usual, HA is resorting to violance. These kinds of acts are usually and normally conducted by animals. It is imperative that the STL and the Lebanese authorities take the proper action to prosecute the transgressors. Shu fowda el2adyyeh, come on people.

  16. The government should order big signs and place them on the entrance for every area controlled by the Iranian party that say
    “CAUTION !! EXTREME DANGER AHEAD , YOU ARE ENTERING A LAWLESS AREA ,RUN BY BANDITS AND IRANIAN MERCENARIES , RISK OF BEING KIDNAPPED,,BEATEN ,MUGGED ,ASSASSINATED , ENTER AT YOUR WON RISK ,POLICE / ARMY CAN’T HELP YOU !!”

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    The government should order big signs and place them on the entrance for every area controlled by the Iranian party that say
    “CAUTION !! EXTREME DANGER AHEAD , YOU ARE ENTERING A LAWLESS AREA ,RUN BY BANDITS AND IRANIAN MERCENARIES , RISK OF BEING KIDNAPPED,,BEATEN ,MUGGED ,ASSASSINATED , ENTER AT YOUR WON RISK ,POLICE / ARMY CAN’T HELP YOU !!”

  18.  Avatar

    The government should order big signs and place them on the entrance for every area controlled by the Iranian party that say
    “CAUTION !! EXTREME DANGER AHEAD , YOU ARE ENTERING A LAWLESS AREA ,RUN BY BANDITS AND IRANIAN MERCENARIES , RISK OF BEING KIDNAPPED,,BEATEN ,MUGGED ,ASSASSINATED , ENTER AT YOUR WON RISK ,POLICE / ARMY CAN’T HELP YOU !!”

  19. The government should order big signs and place them on the entrance for every area controlled by the Iranian party that say
    “CAUTION !! EXTREME DANGER AHEAD , YOU ARE ENTERING A LAWLESS AREA ,RUN BY BANDITS AND IRANIAN MERCENARIES , RISK OF BEING KIDNAPPED,,BEATEN ,MUGGED ,ASSASSINATED , ENTER AT YOUR WON RISK ,POLICE / ARMY CAN’T HELP YOU !!”

  20.  Avatar

    The government should order big signs and place them on the entrance for every area controlled by the Iranian party that say
    “CAUTION !! EXTREME DANGER AHEAD , YOU ARE ENTERING A LAWLESS AREA ,RUN BY BANDITS AND IRANIAN MERCENARIES , RISK OF BEING KIDNAPPED,,BEATEN ,MUGGED ,ASSASSINATED , ENTER AT YOUR WON RISK ,POLICE / ARMY CAN’T HELP YOU !!”

  21. Balad filten , seriously what president we have, what PM and what army and what police, Lebanon is a Somalia in many ways ,just have a pretty face,( depend how you look at it) , but it is not a country , it is a lawless land at the mercy of Nasrallah bandits .We are losing the battles not because of their arms but because of the cowardliness of the president ,the PM and the minister of defense , how long before they are shown where are their limit . The battle is being lost when Lebanese are disgusted and are leaving and the one outside have no envy to come back to a country going to be handed over to the dark ages leader(s). How long before at least for once they are shown some fire power, decision has to be made and should have been made last time when they entered the airport where Lebanese expect to be the most secured , an order should have been given to open fire on the Jeep Cherokees and killed all inside with no pity , the cars were without plate , real bandits in !!! , they should have been arrested as bandits and charged with violating governement properties and kidnapping of the salon of Honor and opening it for a wanted Scumbag named Sayyed , and army should open fire on them on the airport runaway ( dont give a dam t about their past glory and liberation from Israel , they were bandits at that time nothing else and they were pure bandits in Bour Abi haidar ), tanks should have opened fire , and Jamil el sayyed should have been handcuffed and dragged in a police car like a dog for investigation about threatening the PM life .
    I am really waiting and all Lebanese waiting for the hopeless president and PM who apparently lost their guts or actually never had any , to show the Iranian party a good show of force even it will take 500 hundred soldier dead ,but better than losing the nation to the bandits that are roaming our streets , and today they moved on further as it seems they are graduating Mullah women bandits , it is time to open fire , real fire for on them when they break the law, and let them use their weapons because they did already use it and it is over the neck of all people in Lebanon , Sunni,Christian and Druze ( maybe not Druze for now but later on ,no doubt ) , if the Army and Police not doing anything now , when the STL issue their verdict , you don’t think that each one of us better to have a machine gun with many many bullets , Aoun is inviting them to kill and rape and occupy ( the mother of all coward this little men who call himself a soldier ” hal Azaar likbir” ) .
    Seriously ,if the army officer(s) and soldiers in charge of Moustakbal TV watched the bandits going up an burn the TV station ( some witnesses said even the officer help them out) on May 7 , you can trust your life to this army, I am telling you it is not a rumour that people are getting armed for the STL preliminary verdict, just where my family live and neighborhood, each family bought brand new machine guns at very expensive prices ,there is no other hope for now other at least than to defend yorself and family from the Iranian Najjad bandits troops

  22. Balad filten , seriously what president we have, what PM and what army and what police, Lebanon is a Somalia in many ways ,just have a pretty face,( depend how you look at it) , but it is not a country , it is a lawless land at the mercy of Nasrallah bandits .We are losing the battles not because of their arms but because of the cowardliness of the president ,the PM and the minister of defense , how long before they are shown where are their limit . The battle is being lost when Lebanese are disgusted and are leaving and the one outside have no envy to come back to a country going to be handed over to the dark ages leader(s). How long before at least for once they are shown some fire power, decision has to be made and should have been made last time when they entered the airport where Lebanese expect to be the most secured , an order should have been given to open fire on the Jeep Cherokees and killed all inside with no pity , the cars were without plate , real bandits in !!! , they should have been arrested as bandits and charged with violating governement properties and kidnapping of the salon of Honor and opening it for a wanted Scumbag named Sayyed , and army should open fire on them on the airport runaway ( dont give a dam t about their past glory and liberation from Israel , they were bandits at that time nothing else and they were pure bandits in Bour Abi haidar ), tanks should have opened fire , and Jamil el sayyed should have been handcuffed and dragged in a police car like a dog for investigation about threatening the PM life .
    I am really waiting and all Lebanese waiting for the hopeless president and PM who apparently lost their guts or actually never had any , to show the Iranian party a good show of force even it will take 500 hundred soldier dead ,but better than losing the nation to the bandits that are roaming our streets , and today they moved on further as it seems they are graduating Mullah women bandits , it is time to open fire , real fire for on them when they break the law, and let them use their weapons because they did already use it and it is over the neck of all people in Lebanon , Sunni,Christian and Druze ( maybe not Druze for now but later on ,no doubt ) , if the Army and Police not doing anything now , when the STL issue their verdict , you don’t think that each one of us better to have a machine gun with many many bullets , Aoun is inviting them to kill and rape and occupy ( the mother of all coward this little men who call himself a soldier ” hal Azaar likbir” ) .
    Seriously ,if the army officer(s) and soldiers in charge of Moustakbal TV watched the bandits going up an burn the TV station ( some witnesses said even the officer help them out) on May 7 , you can trust your life to this army, I am telling you it is not a rumour that people are getting armed for the STL preliminary verdict, just where my family live and neighborhood, each family bought brand new machine guns at very expensive prices ,there is no other hope for now other at least than to defend yorself and family from the Iranian Najjad bandits troops

  23.  Avatar

    Balad filten , seriously what president we have, what PM and what army and what police, Lebanon is a Somalia in many ways ,just have a pretty face,( depend how you look at it) , but it is not a country , it is a lawless land at the mercy of Nasrallah bandits .We are losing the battles not because of their arms but because of the cowardliness of the president ,the PM and the minister of defense , how long before they are shown where are their limit . The battle is being lost when Lebanese are disgusted and are leaving and the one outside have no envy to come back to a country going to be handed over to the dark ages leader(s). How long before at least for once they are shown some fire power, decision has to be made and should have been made last time when they entered the airport where Lebanese expect to be the most secured , an order should have been given to open fire on the Jeep Cherokees and killed all inside with no pity , the cars were without plate , real bandits in !!! , they should have been arrested as bandits and charged with violating governement properties and kidnapping of the salon of Honor and opening it for a wanted Scumbag named Sayyed , and army should open fire on them on the airport runaway ( dont give a dam t about their past glory and liberation from Israel , they were bandits at that time nothing else and they were pure bandits in Bour Abi haidar ), tanks should have opened fire , and Jamil el sayyed should have been handcuffed and dragged in a police car like a dog for investigation about threatening the PM life .
    I am really waiting and all Lebanese waiting for the hopeless president and PM who apparently lost their guts or actually never had any , to show the Iranian party a good show of force even it will take 500 hundred soldier dead ,but better than losing the nation to the bandits that are roaming our streets , and today they moved on further as it seems they are graduating Mullah women bandits , it is time to open fire , real fire for on them when they break the law, and let them use their weapons because they did already use it and it is over the neck of all people in Lebanon , Sunni,Christian and Druze ( maybe not Druze for now but later on ,no doubt ) , if the Army and Police not doing anything now , when the STL issue their verdict , you don’t think that each one of us better to have a machine gun with many many bullets , Aoun is inviting them to kill and rape and occupy ( the mother of all coward this little men who call himself a soldier ” hal Azaar likbir” ) .
    Seriously ,if the army officer(s) and soldiers in charge of Moustakbal TV watched the bandits going up an burn the TV station ( some witnesses said even the officer help them out) on May 7 , you can trust your life to this army, I am telling you it is not a rumour that people are getting armed for the STL preliminary verdict, just where my family live and neighborhood, each family bought brand new machine guns at very expensive prices ,there is no other hope for now other at least than to defend yorself and family from the Iranian Najjad bandits troops

  24. joseph_phdmath Avatar
    joseph_phdmath

    march14 should arrange another march similar to the one that pushed syria out of lebanon
    this time should be a call to disarm hezbollah militias and the palestinians and for the lebaneese army to be in charge of evry part of lebanon

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    march14 should arrange another march similar to the one that pushed syria out of lebanon

    this time should be a call to disarm hezbollah militias and the palestinians and for the lebaneese army to be in charge of evry part of lebanon

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