Hariri, Nasrallah at Loggerheads Over Suspected Assassins, Shiite Sect
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Former Premier Saad Hariri snapped back at Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah saying the party chief was seeking to put the entire Shiite sect in confrontation with his “fictitious schemes.”
“The accused are identified by name and Hizbullah is admitting that it is hiding them,” Hariri said in remarks to Future News TV late Wednesday about the four suspects accused of involvement in Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination.
“We will continue to live in a single nation. There is no meaning to playing with the emotions of the Shiites and putting them on alert against fictitious schemes which the Sayyed knows that they are mere fiction or an attempt to escape the truth,” Hariri said.
His remark came after Nasrallah said in a televised speech that the indictment published by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is “based on analysis and not clear evidence."
"Those who were indicted should not be called charged but unjustly treated," he said.
Nasrallah accused the court of aiming to "destroy the human and social fabric of Lebanon.”
“What’s happening now is an attempt at undermining and sabotaging the social fabric, paving the ground for wars and civil strife, dragging the resistance into (strife) and consequently striking the resistance and harming its credibility,” he said.
The Shiite party chief warned that some sides are seeking to “sabotage ties among the Lebanese sects.”
Much of the information contained in the indictment had been leaked to the media over the past two years, which Nasrallah said was a sign that the probe was tainted beyond repair.
The four suspects named in the indictment are Salim Ayyash, 47, Mustafa Badreddine, 50, Hussein Oneissi, 37 and Assad Sabra, 34.
In his remarks to Future News, Hariri addressed Nasrallah, saying “you are transferring the indictment in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination from the four party members to the entire Shiite sect in an attempt to distort facts.”
Earlier in the day, Hariri urged Nasrallah to cooperate with the tribunal.
"What is required of Hizbullah's leadership is simply to announce their disengagement with the accused. This stance will go down in history," he said in a statement released by his office.
The long-awaited international indictment which was unsealed Wednesday offers no direct evidence linking the four Hizbullah suspects to Hariri’s murder.
The indictment relies heavily on circumstantial evidence such as telephone records.
18 August 2011, 09:26
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20000 pages of painstakingly collected evidence scientifically analysed are not good enough for the Sayyed to build a case against those convicted. But 150 lebanese (if not more) arbitrarily arrested and held without trial is good enough. A final 3 minutes political verdict related to the antelias explosion where an explosives hizbollah expert died follwing the explosion of a nails stuffed device concluded to a personal dispute is satisfactory! This is the Addoum, Suleimani (the Iranian mafioso), and Ghazali sort of justice, are what they would prefer for us. Had they been in charge, they would have concluded Hariri died of a heart attack, and that his passage through the St Georges area was purely coincidental when the explosion occured. Why is it so then they have that attitude? One explanation: the assassins and their bosses in Lebanon and abroad are just one same party in crime. Their very existence is derived from such parternship, and the cases the STL are investigatingno matte
18 August 2011, 09:37
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No matter how big they may be, are probably the tip of the iceberg. Hezbollah has been set up from the beginning , under iranian sponsorshi, ( under different names in the past), to be the right hand tool of the iranian strategy in their global strategy, in the ME , stretching anywhere around the world to acheive it, southern America in particular..
18 August 2011, 09:58
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"we will continue to live in a single nation"... this coming from the man holidaying in paris and living it up in monte carlo casinos for the past 7 months. Such concern about "your" nation. Excatly how long has Saadadine lived in this nation? He was born and raised in Saudi Arabia, his family still lives there. While he was Prime minister of Lebanon, he still spent more time in Riyahd and Paris than he did in Beirut!!! Yes Saadadine is the defender of the Truth!
18 August 2011, 12:39
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ما من كفرٍ أكبر من الذي يستغل إسم الله . من يسمي حزبه على إسم الله و من يتكلم ويمارس السياسة و يامر بإسم الله. ألم ينتهي عهد الأنبياء ؟؟ ألا تخافون من قول أكاذيب أو أخطاء على ورقة مختومة بإسم الله تعالى ؟؟؟
18 August 2011, 12:40
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Nasralla is too much of a coward to release the four suspects whom are hiding in Israel.
18 August 2011, 12:50
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You guys are all haters and all your comments clearly show that you know nothing about politics. Suggest you guys to stick to your daily jobs i'm sure you'd be better off than writing nonsense.
18 August 2011, 13:05
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Only a matter of Time for their Syrian Masters to Ship Out, hopefully followed by Ahmednijad, let's see how tough they'll be then.
18 August 2011, 14:01
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nasrallagh is terrified he is next in line to die. you can see it on his facial expressions.
the government should find him and make an example of this killer once and for ever. But has Miqati the guts to do so...
18 August 2011, 14:14
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Guys i feel so sorry for you, You all look like chickens arguing back and forth,instead of looking for a brighter future,You talk about politicians as if they care about you and what you do!! Grow up people before it's too late,the only difference between the Lebanese in the civil war and the lebanese of today is that you were able to use your home weapons freely back then where as today you wish you could,instead you talk trash!!!
18 August 2011, 14:19
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Very credible comment coming from the lovely and talented ado.australia he defends the truth. BTW where is this place australia, I'm guessing somewhere near Amioun, or Hrajel and err no no probably close to Chneneer... OK OK I actually googled this australia of which the cleaver intellectual giant ado speaks, it's on the road to Jerusalem around Jounieh. Obviously ado is a hippo originally from the island of Crete and comes from a long line of fat cretins.
18 August 2011, 14:45
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OK fadi thanks for the advise and you stay jobless and stupid writing your nonsense.
18 August 2011, 14:57
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How many times must I say that Hariri is an idiot and an imbecile and a loser, huh? If the leader is an idiot, then what does this say about his followers, i.e. his Christian Sunnis and his Lebanon Never First except in robbing?
18 August 2011, 15:16
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“What’s happening now is an attempt at undermining and sabotaging the social fabric,...."
are you talking about your party creating no go zones? preventing security and investigators from following up on bombs in S.Beirut?
"... dragging the resistance into (strife) and consequently striking the resistance and harming its credibility,”
it already has no credibility.none.
18 August 2011, 15:23
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you got to love Ado and the rest of the M8 Masked may bandits.
How they are trying to lead Hariri back to lebanon.
Just like the Syrian Bootlickers hooked Gebran Tueni back to lebanon only to kill him.
18 August 2011, 15:24
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you got to love Ado and the rest of the M8 Masked may bandits.
How they are trying to lead Hariri back to lebanon.
Just like the Syrian Bootlickers hooked Gebran Tueni back to lebanon only to kill him.
18 August 2011, 15:26
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you got to love Ado and the rest of the M8 Masked may bandits.
How they are trying to lead Hariri back to lebanon.
Just like the Syrian Bootlickers hooked Gebran Tueni back to lebanon only to kill him.
18 August 2011, 15:56
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All Hariri knows is robbing , I bet if comes back he would even help us Shiites rob the Maronite church's land in Jbeil , Christian land in Hadath and Metn , Vatican land in Dahieh etc even though technicality we are taking back what's rightfully our .
18 August 2011, 16:54
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I like all anti-hezboulchaytan comments! They r brilliant! Yaani Chou hal aalam hol, ma tendon deen wala fehem kamen. sorry to have to say it, but unfortunately that these devilish people are leading our country to the dark unknown while the best of the bests are leaving the country, and the rest are helpless. I think what we lack is more faith in God and more prayers,the others pray to the Devi and he's answering their prayers, we should pray to our almighty God so He listens to us and give us victory.
By the way, I'm back home, no ightirab ba3da el yawm! Loubnanou Lana,wa sawfa yabqa Lana...
18 August 2011, 16:58
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And no phoenicien, the CHRISTIANS were here first in Lebanon. We r the true Lebanese. 1000000%. Unlike the jnoub where MANY families can trace their roots back to IRAN (Robert Fisk "pity the nation") so yeah, if u support the Palestinian cause bc it was "their land first nd it was usurped by the Jews" maybe u should practice what u preach and go back to Iran and give us Christians our land back :p
18 August 2011, 17:00
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Phoenicien: na, ur buddy Michel aoun sells the Christian lands in jezzine to the shiites, I'm sure u think that's admirable but not of a Hariri commits the same crime :P and no, phoenicien, all Hariri knows isn't robbing. He kows how to build a state up from destruction, build state institution not just for his sect but for all of Lebanon ;) truly, it is nabih berri who knows nothing more than robbing, for that has been his job foe the last 20 years. I wish anybody knew how much this man was worth, but of course, he is not amicable enough to disclose such info. Hariri didn't care, he had nothing to hide or be ashamed of. Nabih berri, walid jumblatt, sleiman franjieh, Emile lahoud, selim al hoss,Michel aoun, all these dirty men refuse to disclose their fortunes. U can type in miqati or Hariri wealth in google and get an answer, but not those men....only the guilty and rotten hide the truth.....
18 August 2011, 17:19
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Le Phenicien the only land that you and the rest of those filthy Palestinains , Syrians , and finally but not least Grubs of the Century Hezbollah, is where ill tell you way out in the middle of the Mediterranean as fish food.Though i bet that you would even leave a sour taste on those poor fish.Thank you
18 August 2011, 18:16
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Ya shabeb l3abouha Sourieh. The Syrian strategy is wait and see. I tell you all to wait and see. Soon very soon the tyrants and the terrorists will fall . The line into the sky will be them running.
18 August 2011, 22:11
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This loser needs to stay and France! Enough of his corrupt policies! ONE WAY TICKET!
19 August 2011, 00:08
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the hariri family wants to create a dynasty in lebanon
for them self only to control .
