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September 22, 2010

Now Lebanon - Nasrallah against STL investigating Rafik Hariri murder, Al-Akhbar reports - September 22, 2010

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday that Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a closed-door meeting held earlier in September that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is no longer the appropriate body to investigate the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The tribunal must be canceled, and we should go back to the Lebanese judiciary to resolve the matter, the daily quoted Nasrallah as saying.

He added that the evidence he provided in August on the assassination was able to convince the public that the STL only aims to serve US-Israeli goals.

On August 9, the Hezbollah chief presented alleged evidence of Israeli involvement in the Rafik Hariri murder, including footage he said came from Israeli Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) monitoring Rafik Hariri and a confession from a suspected Israeli spy.

The indictment itself does not mean much, rather the steps taken in the international arena after the indictment is issued are what is important, Nasrallah said.

-NOW Lebanon
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