March 14 tells cabinet: Find Hariri killers or quit

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The March 14 General Secretariat issued a statement on Wednesday calling on the cabinet to either find the men indicted in the assassination of Lebanon’s former PM Rafik Hariri or “quit.”

“The cabinet is held complete responsibility, and it should either find the suspects or leave,” March 14 statement said.

The statement added that the TIME magazine interview published last Friday with one of the suspects indicted by the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is a “scandal for the government that declared its inability to locate the accused.”

“The accused man’s statements to the magazine is a ‘provocative challenge’ by Hezbollah.”

March 14 warned that Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is “using the Shiite community” to confront the tribunal.

“Dragging Lebanon’s Shiites into the adventures of some parties that claim to represent them is something we reject.”

Four Hezbollah members have been indicted by STL in Hariri’s 2005 assassination. However, the Shiite group strongly denied the charges and refuses to cooperate with the court.

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.

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

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26 responses to “March 14 tells cabinet: Find Hariri killers or quit”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Children’s game … Hide & Seek … only they are supposed to be grown men.

    1. This is how civil war breaks out

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Children’s game … Hide & Seek … only they are supposed to be grown men.

  3.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Children’s game … Hide & Seek … only they are supposed to be grown men.

    1. This is how civil war breaks out

  4. libnan1 Avatar

    M14 was in power for six years after Hariri death, how come they never arrested the killers !!!! Maybe Hariri should come back to Lebanon and send some of his supporters, like Rifi, to find them.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Then we’ll have civil war for sure …

      1. antar2011 Avatar
        antar2011

        we will have civil war if all sides were equal in the balance of arms/weapons…but unfortunately the only side that could claim is ready for war is the party of shaytan.

    2. antar2011 Avatar
      antar2011

      ermmmm a reminder, the killers were only known recently?
      if they were known beofre, when m14 were in power, then i am sure they would not have hesitated in arresting them, if they were allowed to. but this govt is not even trying…

      this is getting tedious to explain the simple logical thing…but Aoun supporters have lost even their senses totally..

      1. while i am not pro anybody unless it includes everybody i find it notable that the last few months harriri was active as a prime minister he made visits to syria ,iran and many others indicating an open mind to a possible solution to the crisis even though he must have been privy to evidence and instinctive personal feelings  that possibly  pointed to syria and maybe hizbollah. yet he remained composed and classy in his speech and conduct as a prime minister should. all in all he is a better man than i am as i could not have gone to syria or iran under the circumstanses. time will tell if he was putting the countrys intrest above his personal loss.

        1. antar2011 Avatar
          antar2011

          he already had put the country’s interests above his own loss…as you rightly suggested.
          he could have always refused to got o Bashaar whn he knows how the butcher hated his father, he could have always declined to visit the murshed when he was sure the former was putting his nose into the country’s affair and obstructing the course of the STL…but he didn’t did he? he put all of that aside and went to them wanting to forgive and start a new page.
          that’s a muslim who fears Allah and a man with morals behave…unlike Nasrushaytan, Khamenei and the butcher next door.

          i do not want time to tell me if he put the interest of the country before his own, i am sure he did.

      2. while i am not pro anybody unless it includes everybody i find it notable that the last few months harriri was active as a prime minister he made visits to syria ,iran and many others indicating an open mind to a possible solution to the crisis even though he must have been privy to evidence and instinctive personal feelings  that possibly  pointed to syria and maybe hizbollah. yet he remained composed and classy in his speech and conduct as a prime minister should. all in all he is a better man than i am as i could not have gone to syria or iran under the circumstanses. time will tell if he was putting the countrys intrest above his personal loss.

  5.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    M14 was in power for six years after Hariri death, how come they never arrested the killers !!!! Maybe Hariri should come back to Lebanon and send some of his supporters, like Rifi, to find them.

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      Then we’ll have civil war for sure …

      1.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        we will have civil war if all sides were equal in the balance of arms/weapons…but unfortunately the only side that could claim is ready for war is the party of shaytan.

    2.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      ermmmm a reminder, the killers were only known recently?
      if they were known beofre, when m14 were in power, then i am sure they would not have hesitated in arresting them, if they were allowed to. but this govt is not even trying…

      this is getting tedious to explain the simple logical thing…but Aoun supporters have lost even their senses totally..

      1. while i am not pro anybody unless it includes everybody i find it notable that the last few months harriri was active as a prime minister he made visits to syria ,iran and many others indicating an open mind to a possible solution to the crisis even though he must have been privy to evidence and instinctive personal feelings  that possibly  pointed to syria and maybe hizbollah. yet he remained composed and classy in his speech and conduct as a prime minister should. all in all he is a better man than i am as i could not have gone to syria or iran under the circumstanses. time will tell if he was putting the countrys intrest above his personal loss.

        1.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          he already had put the country’s interests above his own loss…as you rightly suggested.
          he could have always refused to got o Bashaar whn he knows how the butcher hated his father, he could have always declined to visit the murshed when he was sure the former was putting his nose into the country’s affair and obstructing the course of the STL…but he didn’t did he? he put all of that aside and went to them wanting to forgive and start a new page.
          that’s a muslim who fears Allah and a man with morals behave…unlike Nasrushaytan, Khamenei and the butcher next door.

          i do not want time to tell me if he put the interest of the country before his own, i am sure he did.

  6. tony.ghattas Avatar
    tony.ghattas

    libnan1, what sort of an ignorant post you publish. Please don’t write stupide comments for the sake of it ! we should applaud you for just making the effort to come up with such a well thought and provocative idea. Well done !!
    like many assasinations in the past, not even a single one of them was investigated thoroughly and the criminals were brought to justice. now that we have a UN backed tribunal which is the same body that has successfully brought to juctice dictators and leaders accused of genocide we have a chance to be seen serious as a country and let international justice – not biased Lebanese- take its course.
    It is only through an independent/international court that the accused can be proven guilty or not. and it is not a lebanese party that can decide who are the killers.
    So please go back to your pram or watch the cartoon netword-as I am tod by my kids-a new episode of simpson will soon be shown on TV and leave the politics to someone else !

  7. tony.ghattas Avatar
    tony.ghattas

    libnan1, what sort of an ignorant post you publish. Please don’t write stupide comments for the sake of it ! we should applaud you for just making the effort to come up with such a well thought and provocative idea. Well done !!
    like many assasinations in the past, not even a single one of them was investigated thoroughly and the criminals were brought to justice. now that we have a UN backed tribunal which is the same body that has successfully brought to juctice dictators and leaders accused of genocide we have a chance to be seen serious as a country and let international justice – not biased Lebanese- take its course.
    It is only through an independent/international court that the accused can be proven guilty or not. and it is not a lebanese party that can decide who are the killers.
    So please go back to your pram or watch the cartoon netword-as I am tod by my kids-a new episode of simpson will soon be shown on TV and leave the politics to someone else !

  8. libnan1 Avatar

    First the Simpson is not on the cartoon network, you meant square pants. You probably watch Bevies and Buttheads.

    I guess you didn’t get what I meant by my post. I will explain it to you. Hariri knew the names of the people to be indicted long time ago while he was PM. Nothing was secret at the STL. So if M14 think that the ISF lead by his cowboy buddy Rifi is willing or capable of arresting the accused then they should done so long time ago else shut the hell up; elseif they think this government can do it and they could not do it then send Rifi to do it; endif.

    BTW, how are things in Peoria.

    1. Mazen_M Avatar

      Even if Hariri “knew the names of the people to be indicted”, his government still could not arrest them until there is an arrest warrent. So you can’t blame his government. The arrest warrent was issued last month, so now this government has the responsibility to arrest them.

    2. 2160John Avatar

      Peoria hahaha

      That place is really ghetto and 3 hours driving from Chicago.

  9.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    First Simpson is not on the cartoon network, you meant square
    pants. You probably watch Bevies and Buttheads.

    I guess you didn’t get what I meant by my post. I will
    explain it to you. Hariri knew the names of the people to be indicted long time
    ago while he was PM. Nothing was secret at the STL. So if M14 think that the
    ISF lead by his cowboy buddy Rifi is willing or capable of arresting the
    accused then they should done so long time ago else shut the hell up; elseif
    they think this government can do it and they could not do it then send Rifi to
    do it; endif.

    BTW, how are things in Peoria.

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      Even if Hariri “knew the names of the people to be indicted”, his government still could not arrest them until there is an arrest warrent. So you can’t blame his government. The arrest warrent was issued last month, so now this government has the responsibility to arrest them.

    2.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      Peoria hahaha

      That place is really ghetto and 3 hours driving from Chicago.

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