Jerusalem, August 08: Accusing Israel of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Shi’ite militant faction Hezbullah has said that they will present evidence implicating the Jewish state in the 2005 murder, a media report said.
Speaking to Palestinian news agency Maan, Hezbullah spokesman Ibrahim Mousawi on Sunday said that his group’s leader, Hasan Nasrallah, would reveal “thunderous news” at a press conference scheduled for tomorrow, presenting what he called “comprehensive, revealing conclusive information” linking Israel to Hariri’s 2005 assassination.
A United Nations tribunal was established in 2007 to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri, who was killed in a massive bomb blast in Beirut, along with 20 other people.
The assassinated Lebanese leader is the father of current Premier Saad Hariri.
Hariri’s allies have accused Syria and its followers in Lebanon of being behind the murder, a charge Damascus has repeatedly denied.
Nasrallah last month had indicated that he has been informed by junior Hariri that the UN tribunal would indict some of his group’s members.
“Out of his keenness to ensure national unity, [Lebanese Premier Saad] Hariri told me that the UN tribunal indictment will be issued and will accuse some members of Hezbullah,” the shi’its militant faction’s chief had said.
Nasrallah charged that “there’s a new scheme that targets the resistance [Hezbullah], Lebanon and the region through the Special Tribunal for Lebanon”.
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Saudi Arabian King Abdullah met in July with Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman in an effort to diffuse the mounting political tension over possible indictments over the assassination.
–Agencies