[An Nahar] Hizbullah will not take the initiative of starting any security mishap, but sometimes we must put an end to civil strife, by any means necessary, if others start it, the party's deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem... Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
stressed Thursday.
| Like they didn't start that last war with Israel by kidnapping Israeli soldiers? One or two more [Pyrrhic] victories like that and there won't be a solid roof in Lebanon. |
"We may receive an answer within two weeks," Hizbullah Numbah Two announced.
"Any indictment that accuses Hizbullah is an unjust indictment because we have nothing to do with this case whatsoever, and we even reject mere accusations," he added.
Qassem said that Prime Minister Saad Hariri "can exert his diplomatic and international efforts in order to reach the truth instead of an unjust accusation."
"Whoever is betting on a dispute between Hizbullah and Syria, or the possibility that Syria might use the party as a card to get certain gains, is delusional," Hizbullah's top official said.
He expressed his belief that what was published in the German weekly Der Spiegel "had aimed at testing Hizbullah's reaction so that they would be able to capitalize on such a reaction and close the holes in the indictment."
"The Intelligence Bureau of the Internal Security Forces was the source of some of the information obtained by the international investigation commission about Hizbullah's alleged role in the assassination," Qassem charged.
He revealed that his party has information that President Michel Suleiman would ask the ministers appointed by him in the current cabinet to abstain from voting on the issue of financing the STL should it be put to the vote of the cabinet.
On a separate note, Qassem accused the Lebanese Forces of stockpiling weapons and conducting military exercises, noting that Hizbullah possesses intelligence information in that regard.