Hezbollah official calls Time interview a “fabrication”

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Agriculture Minister Hussein Hajj Hassan, a key Hezbollah official said in an interview with Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas published on Tuesday that the TIME magazine interview with one of the people indicted by the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is a “fabrication.”

Hassan said that the TIME magazine’s Beirut correspondent Nicholas Blanford’s statement denying his conducting of the interview, contradicts the interview itself.

“I do not think that this naive and twisted propaganda could give any credibility to the STL; we all know the reason behind and the objectives of the tribunal.” he said

Blanford revealed on Sunday that another person conducted the interview quoted in his article, adding that he only wrote “the analysis part.”

TIME magazine chief editor Howard Chua-Eoan sent an email to Future News TV last Sunday confirming that the interview with one of the people indicted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri is true.

In the email, Chua-Eoan said that the magazine “stands by the interview ‘Accused Hizballah Man Speaks’ published at TIME.com on Aug. 19, 2011.

In the interview the Hezbollah member indicted in the murder of Hariri boasted : “The Lebanese authorities know where I live, and if they wanted to arrest me they would have done it a long time ago. Simply, they cannot.”

According to Time magazine , the accused man arrived alone aboard a scooter at the home of his Hezbollah comrade. While discussing the indictments, he revealed his true identity and confirmed it by showing an old ID card, but agreed to be interviewed only on condition that neither his name nor the location be revealed.

Four Hezbollah members have been indicted by the STL. However, the Iranian and Syrian-backed Shiite group strongly denied the charges and refused to cooperate with the court.

The pictures of the 4 Hezbollah members and their indictments were published by STL

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15 responses to “Hezbollah official calls Time interview a “fabrication””

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Well .. now I guess we will need a 7-year STL on a reporter being duped by a bunch of actors who wished to cause trouble for Hezzys or Leb. Even practical jokes cannot be ruled out … although it is dangerous these days to even try to make a joke.

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    Anonymous

    Well .. now I guess we will need a 7-year STL on a reporter being duped by a bunch of actors who wished to cause trouble for Hezzys or Leb.

  3. Fauzia45 Avatar

    These people are always talking about ¨fabrications¨,¨conspiracies¨,¨plots¨!

    1. 7akibalash Avatar
      7akibalash

      they are projecting their actions on others, psych 101.

    2. antar2011 Avatar
      antar2011

      a sign of weakness…..these pple are weak even if they look like giants now.

      1. Patience2 Avatar
        Patience2

        They look like the ‘giant’ street-turds that they are.

  4. Fauzia45 Avatar

    These people are always talking about ¨fabrications¨,¨conspiracies¨,¨plots¨!

    1. antar2011 Avatar
      antar2011

      a sign of weakness…..these pple are weak even if they look like giants now.

      1. Patience2 Avatar
        Patience2

        They look like the ‘giant’ street-turds that they are.

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    Anonymous

    These people are always talking about ¨fabrications¨,¨conspiracies¨,¨plots¨!

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      they are projecting their actions on others, psych 101.

    2.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      a sign of weakness…..these pple are weak even if they look like giants now.

      1.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        They look like the ‘giant’ street-turds that they are.

  6. guss043 Avatar

    your whole party is fabrication of Rafsanjani ,Hizbollah was created in Iran, and KLhameini ordered the Killing Of Hariri , assad blessed and Hizbollah executed with precision,But you knwo what, you are going to be uprooted from Lebanon in a surgical precise manner very soon!!!!!

  7. guss043 Avatar

    your whole party is fabrication of Rafsanjani ,Hizbollah was created in Iran, and KLhameini ordered the Killing Of Hariri , assad blessed and Hizbollah executed with precision,But you knwo what, you are going to be uprooted from Lebanon in a surgical precise manner very soon!!!!!

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