July 17, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Hobeich takes direct swipe at Nasrallah

In an interview with Future News on Saturday, Lebanon First bloc MP Hadi Hobeich said that those who claim they are targeted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) are condemning themselves, in a reference at Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Nasrallah said in a speech on Friday that an indictment by the STL into the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is an “Israeli project” designed to target Hezbollah by stirring up sectarian strife in Lebanon.

The Hezbollah chief also implicitly criticized the Internal Security Forces (ISF) – Information Branch for failing to arrest Alfa mobile phone company employee Charbel Kazzi, who was arrested by the Lebanese army intelligence last month as part of a national crackdown on suspected Israeli espionage rings launched in April 2009.

Addressing Nasrallah, Hobeich asked, “Have we forgotten the role of the Information Branch [played] in uncovering and arresting [Israeli] spies over the past two years?”