The Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s (STL) recently amended indictment is “not worth the paper it is written on,” Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Nawwaf al-Moussawi said Monday.
Moussawi said during a political meeting that the STL was not established to achieve justice, but is a “diplomatic tool in judicial garb to achieve Israeli and American goals,” according to the National News Agency (NNA).
“No one can blackmail the Resistance in Lebanon,” he said, adding that “we are not ready to negotiate over [the indictment] or make concessions. The indictment is a thing of the past.”
He also said that “anyone in Lebanon or abroad who thinks that he can exploit [unrest in Syria] to eliminate or weaken the resistance is delusional.”
“If [such a person’s] military method failed in [the July War in] 2006, he is unable to use this stage, except as a kind of suicide that only the insane could contemplate.”
On Friday STL Prosecutor-General Daniel Bellemare filed an amended indictment that will replace the previous indictment that was filed in March.
Hezbollah has repeatedly criticized the STL as an American-Israeli tool, amid reports that the tribunal will indict party members in its investigation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination.
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