[Al Arabiya Latest] Hezbullies on Tuesday surrendered data allegedly implicating Israel in the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri to the Lebanese government, which in turn gave it to a U.N. court probing the killing, a source said."Hezbullies official Wafiq Safa today gave Lebanese Prosecutor General Said Mirza the data requested by the prosecutor of the (U.N.-backed) Special Tribunal for Leb," the judicial source said.
"The data has been transferred to the Beirut office of tribunal prosecutor Daniel Bellemare," the source added.
Bellemare on Wednesday called on Lebanese authorities to submit all material related to the murder in the possession of Hezbullies chief Hassan Nasrallah, who claims his arch-foe Israel was behind the February 14, 2005 bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others.
Hezbullies chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah last week displayed two-hour presentation of what he said was Israeli surveillance footage of routes used by Hariri, saying this pointed to Israel carrying out the suicide kaboom which killed the former prime minister and 22 others.
The Office of the Prosecutor at the U.N. tribunal asked Lebanese authorities to provide all information in Nasrallah's possession, including the footage.
Nasrallah displayed the footage a few weeks after he was told the Special Tribunal for Leb may indict some of the group's members over the Hariri killing, an allegation he categorically rejects.
He has strongly criticized the U.N. tribunal and attacked it as an "Israeli project", raising fears of renewed potential conflict between the Iranian-backed hard boy group and the U.S.- and Saudi-backed Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, Rafik's son.