Now Lebanon - Wahhab calls on March 8 ministers to resign if STL funding continues - September 5

Tawhid Movement leader Wiam Wahhab called on March 8 ministers to resign from the cabinet if Lebanon does not discontinue its funding for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) and if Lebanese judges do not withdraw from the tribunal, OTV reported on Sunday.

“Those who [support] the STL [support] an Israeli project”, he added.

“It seems that the liar [a reference to STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare] postponed the tribunal’s indictment until March because of political interference,” Wahhab said.

Bellemare told NOW Lebanon in an exclusive interview published Tuesday that the tribunal would not file in September an indictment in the case of the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri

Wahhab voiced hope that Prime Minister Saad Hariri serves as the premier for the whole country and criticized the PM for responding to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s Friday speech.

Nasrallah on Friday attacked what he said was political exploitation of the August 24 clashes in Beirut between supporters of Hezbollah and those of Sunni group Al-Ahbash, saying that “a knife was put in [Hezbollah’s] wound and twisted.”

Hariri responded to Nasrallah’s remarks by saying, “I am not the one holding a knife. I am the son of [former Prime Minister] Rafik Hariri, and I will remain modest.”

“Why do we lie to each other and believe the lie that [Lebanon is a state]?” Wahhab asked, adding that Lebanon is a farm, and not a state.