Future bloc MP Khaled al-Daher addressed Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday saying “[one] is either for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon or against it.”
When asked about the absence of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea during Sunday’s March 14 meeting, Daher told LBC television that the latter’s visit to the United Arab Emirates was scheduled beforehand, adding that the reason for Hariri’s absence is because “he has been threatened.”
He also said that March 14 does not want to “use” the issue of the STL, adding that the sole thing that the coalition wants is to achieve justice.
The STL last week handed Lebanon's Attorney General Said Mirza arrest warrants for four members of the Iranian-and Syrian-backed Shia group in connection to the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Following the release of the indictment, Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ruled out the arrest of the four members indicted. He also rejected "each and every void accusation" made by the Netherlands-based court, which he said was heading for a trial in absentia.
The whereabouts of the four remain unknown.
A report published in June said Hariri is taking refuge in France because, according to US and Saudi intelligence, he might be killed by the Syrian regime to trigger war in Lebanon.
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