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| Hezbollah witnesses questioned in Hariri assassination |
| 2010-05-01 |
| International investigators working for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) have questioned Hezbollah witnesses in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, local daily Assafir said Friday. The newspaper quoted sources working with the tribunal as saying that the questioning by an investigation team from STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare's office took place earlier this week. Sources at the STL declined to give any details, but officials at the United Nations in New York told Assafir that the questioning of the Lebanese Shiite armed group witnesses was only technical. Other sources that spoke on condition of anonymity hailed the responsive approach of the Lebanese government and Hezbollah, describing outcome of investigator's work as "positive." Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said in March that the STL contacted several people who have close ties with Hezbollah and requested they appear before judicial authorities. He added that their number reached 12 comprising Hezbollah members and non-members, saying that the STL is to summon six more people. The German weekly Der Spiegel reported in May 2009 that the UN commission probing the murder of Hariri had new evidence that Hezbollah "planned and executed" the Beirut suicide bombing. |
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