Hizbullah has provided alleged proof and further details on documents revealing that U.N. investigators have transferred IT equipment to Israel through a loaded container.
On Saturday, al-Manar TV showed a document that the investigators probing ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination allegedly transferred the equipment when they moved their staff to the Netherlands in 2009.
Full StoryThe Lebanese army was out in force in and around Beirut on Tuesday ahead of a three-day parliamentary session aimed at discussing the cabinet’s policy statement.
As Safir daily said that the “series of preventive security and military measures” were taken when the Special Tribunal for Lebanon issued the indictment in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s murder case on Thursday.
Full StoryU.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon praised Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s commitment to the international resolutions, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Ban sent a message to Miqati through Lebanon's Special Envoy to the U.N. Nawaf Salam welcoming the Premiership’s commitment to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Security Council resolution 1701 and all the other resolutions.
Full StoryThe March 8 and 14 forces are expected to rattle sabers at the parliament on Tuesday following a series of accusations between the two camps on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon that will try ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s suspected assassins.
The lawmakers of both sides are scheduled to confront each other head-on in parliament for three days during sessions aimed at discussing the cabinet’s policy statement, on which Premier Najib Miqati’s government will seek the legislature’s vote of confidence.
Full StoryThe Russian foreign ministry said that it will hold onto its stance calling for revealing the truth behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and “punishing the guilty.”
“Russia has offered its support to the international tribunal since its establishment” in 2007, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Full StoryIsraeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has hinted of Syria’s involvement in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination, in the first Israeli official statement on the indictment that was issued by the international tribunal in the murder case last week.
"The issue is shaking up Lebanon," Barak said Monday about the arrest warrants issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon against four Hizbullah members.
Full StoryPrime Minister Najib Miqati snapped back at the March 14 alliance on Monday accusing its members of carrying out a crime against the nation and attacking the cabinet for being unable to confront the truth that they lost power.
“Sabotaging the nation is a crime,” Miqati said in a statement. “It is the national responsibility of everyone to preserve civil peace and stability and not to sabotage or make fictitious heroic acts that stir tension.”
Full StoryThe Saudi and Egyptian foreign ministers have agreed that justice should be served in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination to achieve stability in Lebanon, informed sources said.
Al-Liwaa daily quoted the sources as saying that Egyptian FM Mohammed al-Orabi and his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal stressed during talks they held on Sunday that the questioning of the suspects is the only way to deter the offenders and end the series of assassinations that shook Lebanon in the past years.
Full StoryIranian Ambassador Ghazanfar Roknabadi described the Special Tribunal for Lebanon indictment in the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri as “politicized,” saying he supports a “non-politicized” international justice.
“We are keen that no one in Lebanon objects that Israel is the enemy, despite the differences over the techniques of the resistance,” Roknabadi told As Safir newspaper on Monday.
Full StoryThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is expected to issue in the coming months more arrest warrants in the case of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination, informed sources told al-Liwaa daily published Monday.
The warrants could be issued before or shortly after the 30-day period granted to Lebanon to serve out the STL warrants that were handed to Lebanese authorities last week. If the suspects are not arrested within that period, the tribunal can then publicly call on the four Hizbullah members to surrender.
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