United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) Deputy Chief Liaison Officer Richard Hauser said on Thursday that the UNTSO has in its custody the computers that belonged to the international commission that investigated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination.
Referring to Hezbollah’s accusations that some computers belonging to the commission were transported through Israel from Lebanon’s Naqoura border crossing, Hauser said that “the computers were being duly transferred to other missions related to the UN.”
He added that the process was “a normal operation within the UN.”
Hauser said that the computers belonged to the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) that ended its mission in 2009, however, he added that “the computers belong to the UN and were sent to the UNTSO office and are still kept with it until today.”
The deputy chief liaison officer also said that the hard drives of the computers were removed and destroyed after the mission of the Rafik Hariri investigation commission ended.
“The transport of the [computers] was done transparently and on the basis of [protocol].”
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said last Saturday that after Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare was appointed, 97 computers that belonged to the international commission investigating the Rafik Hariri murder were transported through the Naqoura border crossing, taken through Israel and then to the Hague.
The STL indicted four members of the Iranian-and Syrian-backed Hezbollah in connection to the Rafik Hariri murder but Nasrallah ruled out the arrest of the four suspects from his party.
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