March 14 to Confront STL Funding Obstacles

The March 14-led opposition will re-launch its periodic meetings in order to announce its political stances that all the members agree on, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Friday.

Sources told the daily that the opposition leadership is rearranging its way of tackling the issues to stimulate their opposing movement and obstruct any attempts to block Lebanon’s commitment to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

The STL was created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution, at Lebanon's request, to try those responsible for ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination. He was killed in a suicide car bombing along with 22 other people including a bomber on February 14, 2005.

A source affiliated with the March 14 general secretariat noted that accusing Hizbullah members of involvement in the assassination is a “major step.”

He added: “These accusations set the path of confrontations.”

However, the source said that the cabinet is the only side authorized to pay the funding of the STL, stressing the opposition’s refusal of any other solution.

In August, the court published a full indictment, saying it had enough evidence to put four members of Hizbullah on trial.

The four Hizbullah members are Salim Ayyash, 47, Mustafa Badreddine, 50, Hussein Oneissi, 37 and Assad Sabra, 34.

Ayyash and Badreddine face five charges including that of "committing a terrorist act by means of an explosive device" and homicide, while Oneissi and Sabra face charges of conspiring to commit the same acts.

The whereabouts of the four men are currently unknown.