Charbel: If No Arrests Were Made, this Doesn’t Mean Lebanon Didn’t Cooperate with STL

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Interior Minister Marwan Charbel has reiterated that the cabinet was not entitled to act on the arrest warrants issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, saying however that Lebanese judicial authorities were cooperating with the court to find the suspects.

In remarks to al-Joumhouria newspaper published Monday, Charbel said: “The protocol signed between Lebanon and the international tribunal states that judicial police would carry out the necessary investigation to arrest the suspects.”

Politics has nothing to do with it, he said.

Charbel stressed that the general prosecutor was exerting all efforts to find the four suspects against whom arrest warrants were issued by the STL.

“If the (authorities) weren’t able to arrest the suspects, this doesn’t mean that (Lebanon) did not cooperate,” he told the daily.

Asked about the seven Estonian tourists who were abducted in the Bekaa valley in March, Charbel confirmed that Lebanese authorities were following up the case but with total secrecy.

Comments 4
Default-user-icon michael alam (Guest) 11 July 2011, 12:55

Le phenicien.is the worst patriot, who needs enemies when we got a patriot like him, stop blaming lebanons woes on hariri.atleast he doesn't have blood on his hands like Ur so call march 8 fuq heads.. only tough with Ur weapons.. next Israel.comes. hope they get the job done properly

Default-user-icon jabal amel (Guest) 11 July 2011, 13:30

we have police minister with a stronger sense of humor than any other in the history of police ministers in all nations. but this is what we need to confort this CIA conspiracy.

Default-user-icon jabal amel (Guest) 11 July 2011, 13:56

here is the typical logic of the traitor.
"let the zionist do the job properly".

in lebanese experience that means not only crushing hezb'allah but also, massacres and cleaning of the area up the the lithani and annexing that area just like golan heights. The shia there are to be massacred and the rest is to be chased to Syria or other parts of lebanon. Water is to be taken away by redirecting the rivers. Jewish settlements are to be made and than they'll have "north galilee". Also, all the gas is to be taken away and pollution is to be redirected to lebanese waters.

This is for zionists "job well done". And don't tell me it's not true, this is what my tribe have gone through once (except for the gas part, that's new), for decades, and for someone calling that again is a traitor.

Thumb shab 11 July 2011, 16:16

Lebanon is entiled when the arrests are requested by Interpol.