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| Hezbully MP calls for abolishing Hariri's tribunal |
| 2010-09-18 |
| (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Hezbullies MP Hassan Fadlallah said Thursday that the Special Tribunal for Leb (STL) over the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri should be abolished. Local MTV channel and news site Now Leb quoted Fadlallah as saying during a Parliamentary Finance and Budget Commission meeting that the tribunal should be abolished before the end of September. "Otherwise the matter will be very dangerous," he said. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... some Lebanese MPs walked out of the commission's evening session when pro-Hezbullies MPs insisted members to vote on a 2010 state budget clause related to STL funding. MPs close to Hezbullies are seeking a "political compromise over the STL, and March 14 Alliance MPs refuse this and affirm that the STL is unrelated to any political issue," said sources close to Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Tensions in Leb are rising as reports said the tribunal would accuse members of Hezbullies. Rafik Hariri, father of current Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, was killed in a car bomb on Feb. 14, 2005 in downtown Beirut. Syria and Hezbullies were widely accused of the killing, although both of them denied. Hezbullies chief Hassan Nasrallah in this March admitted that 12 Hezbullies members and people close to the group were summoned by the STL, while he insisted the group would cooperate with the investigation. |
| Posted by:Fred |