August 11, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Zahra: Nasrallah’s Zouk footage is after 2007

Lebanese Forces bloc MP Antoine Zahra told Future News television on Tuesday that the Zouk footage, presented by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during his Monday’s press conference, dates back to after 2007 as the road shown in Zouk was not a one way road until that year.

Nasrallah presented alleged evidence of Israeli involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, including footage he said came from Israeli Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) monitoring Rafik Hariri and a confession from a suspected Israeli spy.

“There is a campaign to [end] the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) by implying that it has [specific] aims,” Zahra said, adding that many political figures want the Lebanese government to cancel it.

Nasrallah said last month that the STL’s indictment was an “Israeli project” designed to target Hezbollah by stirring up sectarian strife in Lebanon.

Regarding arming the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), Zahra said, “We refuse any conditions [to be made] on arming the LAF,” adding that he wished for good relations between the US and Lebanon.

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, US Congress members announced on Monday that they were blocking Washington’s military aid to the LAF following last week’s Aadaiseh border clashes.