July 17, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Houri: Nasrallah’s speech does not serve internal stability

Lebanon First bloc MP Ammar Houri told ANB television on Saturday that Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s Friday speech does not serve internal stability.

The MP’s comment comes after Nasrallah said that an indictment by the STL is an Israeli project designed to target Hezbollah by stirring up sectarian strife in Lebanon.

Houri said that the March 14 alliance disagrees with Hezbollah’s view of the tribunal as an Israeli project. “We disagree on many issues,” he said, adding that they also disagree on the details related to a possible upcoming STL indictment.

The MP also said that the tribunal does not only count on the telecommunications sector, referring to the claims of March 8 coalition figures that an STL indictment would be based only on evidence acquired from Lebanon’s communication networks.

Nasrallah and others have dismissed the validity of any possible evidence based on telecommunications, citing the arrest of three Alfa telecom employees since June on suspicions of having spied for Israel.