Fadlallah: We Cannot Depend on Telecom Data Alone in Hariri Case
Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Hassan Fadlallah slammed on Thursday the indictment in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, saying that depending on telecommunications data alone as evidence is not enough in a case as sensitive as the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
He said during a press conference on the indictment’s telecommunications data: “The tribunal, its decisions, and the investigation have created a dangerous divide in Lebanon.”
“We want the truth in the indictment’s scientific approach of the data and does this approach really lead us to the same findings as the indictment?” he wondered.
Fadlallah also questioned the reliability of telecommunications data, saying that they are based on a series of assumptions that can lead to hundreds of possibilities.
Furthermore, the MP stressed that the STL completely ignored United Nations findings that Israel had infiltrated Lebanon’s telecommunications sector, which could make it a suspect in the assassination.
The head of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority Imad Hoballah added at the conference: “Israel’s infiltration of the sector has cost the data all of its credibility.”
He explained that the Jewish state would be capable of planting a phone line inside another, making the data adopted in the indictment unreliable.
The indictment was published on August 17 and its findings were mostly dependent on telecommunications data.
It has accused four Hizbullah members of being involved in the crime.
The party has announced that it would not cooperate with the tribunal, deeming it an American and Israeli product aimed at destroying it.
On Tuesday, the head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad held a press conference to refute the indictment.
He said: “The Resistance will determine the way it will defend itself from the indictment and tribunal.”
He added: “We had stated in the past that this tribunal does not respect the minimum amount of standards of justice, it does not want to achieve the Lebanese people’s interests, and it has adopted circumstantial evidence.”
“Such a tribunal cannot be expected to achieve justice and we would not be surprised if it was employed for the interests of imposing foreign hegemony over Lebanon,” the MP continued.
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