July 22, 2010 - Naharnet - Eyes Turned to Nasrallah Conference Week After Speech on Tribunal and Spies Stirred Controversy

All eyes are turned to a press conference that Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will make on Thursday almost a week after his speech stirred controversy in the country and raised fears over civil strife.
Nasrallah will hold his conference at the Shahed school hall on the airport road at 8:30 pm.
As Safir daily said that the Hizbullah secretary-general will make a well-toned stance that could also include a "big surprise" for the Lebanese.

It added he will unveil new information about the international tribunal and spy networks.

An Nahar newspaper also wondered whether Nasrallah would continue with what he started in his speech last Friday or whether he would call for calm.

On Friday, Nasrallah claimed Israel had complete control over Lebanon's telecommunications sector, calling for convicted spies to hang amid a widening probe into acts of espionage.

The Hizbullah leader linked the arrests of spies to the international probe into the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri, slamming the pending indictment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as "fabricated."

He also wondered whether the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau knew about telecom spy Charbel Qazzi before his arrest by the Army Intelligence.