Report: Mirza Informs STL Failure to Inform Suspects about Arrest Warrants
General Prosecutor Saeed Mirza has reportedly informed Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare that the Internal Security Forces weren’t able to find the four suspects named in the indictment in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s murder case.
Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat quoted informed sources as saying on Wednesday that Mirza handed to a delegation from Bellemare’s office in Beirut the response of the Lebanese judiciary.
Lebanon failed “to inform the four suspects about the arrest warrants issued against them despite investigation and a search operation carried out by the criminal investigations department at the ISF,” Mirza allegedly told the STL prosecutor.
The four men are Hizbullah members. They are Salim Jamil Ayyash, Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra.
Al-Hayat’s sources said that investigators questioned witnesses in Beirut but refused to say the reason behind such a procedure at this stage of the probe into Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination.
However, they unveiled that the witnesses are not civilians.
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