Report: Hizbullah’s Rejection to Fund STL Not Subject to Bargaining
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Hizbullah has reiterated that it would not bargain on its decision to reject the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, An Nahar newspaper reported on Sunday.
Hizbullah “rejects any bargaining between the funding and other issues such as false witnesses or security appointments,” sources close to the Shiite party told the daily.
The group will confirm its point of view when the funding issue is put up for discussion during cabinet sessions, they said.
They told An Nahar that the stance of Hizbullah ministers in the government will be based on an announcement made by Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in July 2010 and other statements and remarks that have set the party’s viewpoint from the court ahead of the indictment that charged four of its members.
In July last year, Nasrallah said that all information that Hizbullah has show that the indictment in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination was written in 2008 but it had been postponed for political reasons.
A political source close to the parliamentary majority warned that the funding of the tribunal would lead to a clash between Premier Najib Miqati and Hizbullah in the next few days.
Miqati “rejects a confrontation with the international community through a government that he heads,” the source told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat.
“Both sides will lose if such a confrontation takes place inside the ruling party,” he said, adding that Miqati would either quit or go along with Hizbullah in rejecting the funding, putting himself on the international blacklist.
The premier reiterated during his visit to New York last month that Lebanon would pay its share of funds to the STL. On Thursday, he said paying Lebanon’s share to the court will serve the country and the resistance.
If Lebanon paid its dues, it will spare itself harm because there are many who harbor ill-will against Lebanon and the resistance, he added.
09 October 2011, 09:44
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we will be back here in a couple of years, and remember the hizb, one of the most criminal organization of our time...
09 October 2011, 09:50
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we will be back here in a couple of years, and remember the hizb, one of the most criminal organization of our time...
09 October 2011, 10:52
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A state within a state..... we've seen this movie before and knows how it ends...
The Hezb al-Kizb are selfish people.
09 October 2011, 11:21
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@ HzbElKzb, soon we will take that gun you have pointed at our head and we will shove it so far up your behind you will need at team of medical experts with heavy duty surgical instruments to remove it.
Enjoy your reign of terror while it lasts you cowards. Your day will come and we will see how powerful you are without your guns.
09 October 2011, 14:16
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It's time for the TRUE LEBANESE to have a True Resistance to face the Fake Basij Resistance that has kidnaped our country. Enough of the BS about Victory against Israel, and we need to Face the Enemy Israel etc.....The Real Enemy is right here on Lebanese soil, hijacking our Daily Decisions and executing the orders of their "Basij" and "Shabbiha" Masters against Lebanon.They are the REAL ENEMY and NOT Israel. They are the ones that have Executed many True Lebanese, the ones who commit Crimes and protect all sorts of criminals, they steal lands, they steal electricity... and now with the help of the Christian Traitors, Mr. CLAOUN & Sheep, they have Stolen our Government. So instead of blaming everything on Israel, whose Crimes against Lebanon Do Not Even Compare to HIZBUSTAN'S, let's take a good look at the CANCER from within.
09 October 2011, 16:04
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justice will be served, but at what price?
it is more than clear now that hizbushaitan executed our leaders under the orders of the syro/iranian regimes.
they are not leaving any doubt about this matter.
now le them assume the outcome.
09 October 2011, 18:52
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Let me start off by saying that i am for the STL, it's funding and finding out the truth.
It's funny for me to read the pro M14 people talking as if the Hizbullah is guilty, and the pro M8 as if Hizbullah is innocent. reality is non of us know exactly what cards the STL has in it's hands. International law states that people are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, i don't think that at this stage with the information the general public has any of us can say that some of the Hizb's members are guilty under that definition.
As for the M8 supporters if the Hizb is so confident of the innocence of all it's members, then they should have no problem in these members proving their innocence; if not complete innocence, at least enough to put a dent (doubt) in the prosecution's case.
10 October 2011, 15:14
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@ mowaten: the place to defend the case and to make a dent is in court not in the news papers and the media, until now no one knows what has and has not been done by the STL. Whomever says they do are feeding are feeding the rumor mill. As for the court not being ratified, are you telling me that you do not want to know who's been behind the killings in Lebanon. If your neutral then you would want to know...
I do agree that what Sayed Hassan talks about when he goes on TV makes sense, but that's one side of a two sided story. We as lebanese have a right to hear what everyone has to say, and that will only happen in court. In my eyes anyone that is trying to kill the court is afraid of something.
