July 27, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Lebanon vs. STL, Succariyeh wants Future to choose

In an interview with NBN television on Tuesday, Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Walid Succariyeh offered a question to the Future Movement: “Which is more important, Lebanon or the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)?”

His remarks come as March 14 and March 8 alliance figures mull over the possibility that the STL could indict Hezbollah members in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and what consequences such an indictment could have.

In a speech last Thursday, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said some of his party members would be named in the tribunal’s formal charges. Earlier this month he questioned the STL’s credibility, calling it an “Israeli project” designed to create sectarian conflict in the country.

Succariyeh said that Nasrallah’s speech was not an escalation or a threat, but “a warning to the Lebanese that sedition is coming to Lebanon.”

The MP said that since Syria’s security is linked to Lebanon’s security, it is impossible to separate Syria from the Resistance. “Syria cannot break its alliance with the Resistance and Iran,” he added.