The March 14-led opposition will re-launch its periodic meetings in
order to announce its political stances that all the members agree on,
al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Friday.
Sources told the daily that the opposition leadership is rearranging
its way of tackling the issues to stimulate their opposing movement and
obstruct any attempts to block Lebanon’s commitment to the Special
Tribunal for Lebanon.
The STL was created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution, at
Lebanon's request, to try those responsible for ex-Premier Rafik
Hariri's assassination. He was killed in a suicide car bombing along
with 22 other people including a bomber on February 14, 2005.
A source affiliated with the March 14 general secretariat noted that
accusing Hizbullah members of involvement in the assassination is a
“major step.”
He added: “These accusations set the path of confrontations.”
However, the source said that the cabinet is the only side
authorized to pay the funding of the STL, stressing the opposition’s
refusal of any other solution.
In August, the court published a full indictment, saying it had enough evidence to put four members of Hizbullah on trial.
The four Hizbullah members are Salim Ayyash, 47, Mustafa Badreddine, 50, Hussein Oneissi, 37 and Assad Sabra, 34.
Ayyash and Badreddine face five charges including that of
"committing a terrorist act by means of an explosive device" and
homicide, while Oneissi and Sabra face charges of conspiring to commit
the same acts.
The whereabouts of the four men are currently unknown.
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