Hizbullah ‘Not Concerned with’ Arrest Warrants, Nasrallah to Make Speech on Saturday
Hizbullah considers itself “not concerned with” arrest warrants that were issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon against four Hizbullah members, sources close to the Shiite party said.
While the group refused to comment on the indictment, the sources told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published Friday that the court is “politicized and used by the United States to serve the Jewish entity.”
Unlike what is being reported, the four members do not have leadership positions, the sources said. They are Mustafa Badreddine, Salim Ayyash, Hassan Aneissy, known as Hassan Issa, and Assad Sabra.
“Two of them are Hizbullah members but the other two are only supporters,” the sources told the newspaper.
But Badreddine is reportedly a high-ranking Hizbullah fighter linked to the 1983 truck bombings at the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. He is the brother-in-law of slain Hizbullah military commander Imad Mughniyeh.
Hizbullah’s al-Manar television reported on Thursday that the indictment’s content proved the court “is politicized.”
The party’s chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has also denounced the court as a conspiracy by the U.S. and Israel and said last year that the group "will cut off the hand" of anyone who tries to arrest its members.
Nasrallah will make a televised speech at 8:30 pm Saturday to announce his stance from the indictment.
According to As Safir newspaper, Hizbullah is waiting for the procedures after the release of the indictment to ponder its next step. The party has received information that the STL hasn’t put details of the evidence in the file of the indictment and the arrest warrants that it delivered to General Prosecutor Saeed Mirza on Thursday.
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