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| Hariri, Nasrallah at Loggerheads Over Suspected Assassins, Shiite Sect |
| 2011-08-19 |
| Former Premier Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. snapped back at Hizbullah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... saying the party chief was seeking to put the entire Shiite sect in confrontation with his "fictitious schemes." "The accused are identified by name and Hizbullah is admitting that it is hiding them," Hariri said in remarks to Future News TV late Wednesday about the four suspects accused of involvement in Rafik Hariri's Feb. 2005 liquidation. "We will continue to live in a single nation. There is no meaning to playing with the emotions of the Shiites and putting them on alert against fictitious schemes which the Sayyed knows that they are mere fiction or an attempt to escape the truth," Hariri said. His remark came after Nasrallah said in a televised speech that the indictment published by the Special Tribunal for Leb is "based on analysis and not clear evidence." "Those who were indicted should not be called charged but unjustly treated," he said. Nasrallah accused the court of aiming to "destroy the human and social fabric of Leb." "What's happening now is an attempt at undermining and sabotaging the social fabric, paving the ground for wars and civil strife, dragging the resistance into (strife) and consequently striking the resistance and harming its credibility," he said. The Shiite party chief warned that some sides are seeking to "sabotage ties among the Lebanese sects." Much of the information contained in the indictment had been leaked to the media over the past two years, which Nasrallah said was a sign that the probe was tainted beyond repair. The four suspects named in the indictment are Salim Ayyash, 47, Mustafa Badreddine, 50, Hussein Oneissi, 37 and Assad Sabra, 34. In his remarks to Future News, Hariri addressed Nasrallah, saying "you are transferring the indictment in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's liquidation from the four party members to the entire Shiite sect in an attempt to distort facts." Earlier in the day, Hariri urged Nasrallah to cooperate with the tribunal. "What is required of Hizbullah's leadership is simply to announce their disengagement with the accused. This stance will go down in history," he said in a statement released by his office. The long-awaited international indictment which was unsealed Wednesday offers no direct evidence linking the four Hizbullah suspects to Hariri's murder. The indictment relies heavily on circumstantial evidence such as telephone records. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Going for the old Scottish verdict of "Not Proven"? |
| Posted by: Kojo Sforza2443 2011-08-19 13:04 |