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| US Vows Support for STL, Accuses Hizbullah of 'Intimidation' |
| 2010-10-30 |
| [An Nahar] The United States on Friday vowed support for the Special Tribunal for Leb, accusing Hizbullah of "intimidation" in urging a boycott. Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday warned all Lebanese not to help investigators probing the 2005 killing of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, saying that such cooperation "contributes to the assault on the Resistance." That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... "Nasrallah's remarks are an indication of how Hizbullah does not have the interest of all the Lebanese people in mind," U.S. State Department front man Philip Crowley told news hounds. "It has a narrow agenda and we will do everything that we can to help the Lebanese government and Lebanese people resist this obvious intimidation," he said. Crowley called the Special Tribunal for Leb "vitally important" for the country's future, but rejected accusations that the United States wanted to affect its findings. "We are committed to support the work of the tribunal and will do everything that we can, not to influence it, just to give it the opportunity to continue its work," Crowley said. His remarks come a day after the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, Susan Rice, accused Hizbullah's main supporters Syria and Iran of fuelling tensions in Leb through illicit arms supplies. Crowley said the United States was "concerned by the increase of tension" in Leb and accused unnamed other forces of "trying to undermine the Lebanese government and Lebanese illusory sovereignty." |
| Posted by:Fred |