July 25, 2010 - Naharnet - Fatfat: Indictment Rumors Don't Mean There is Investigation Breach

MP Ahmed Fatfat stressed that talk about the upcoming indictments by the international tribunal does not mean there is an investigation breach into the suicide truck bombing which killed ex-Premier Rafik Hariri Hariri and 22 others.
"No one knows the content of the indictment. Everything else said (about the issue) is nothing but conclusions and media reports that are not based on facts," Fatfat told Sada al-Balad newspaper in remarks published Sunday.

"Prime Minister Saad Hariri does not know anything about the content of the indictment," he said, stressing that only Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare knows about his findings.

The lawmaker also denied remarks by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that the tribunal has dropped the possibility of Israel's involvement in Hariri's February 2005 assassination.

"We can't judge the work of the court before the issuance of results," Fatfat said, adding that the indictment of 4 or 5 rogue members from Hizbullah does not mean they carried out the entire operation to kill Hariri.

"This doesn't also mean that the party they belong to is accused," the MP told Sada al-Balad.