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| Hezbollah calls for boycott of UN tribunal |
| 2010-10-29 |
| The leader of Hezbullies called Thursday on all Lebanese to boycott the UN tribunal investigating the 2005 liquidation of a former prime minister, saying all information gathered by the team was being sent to Israel. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah spoke a day after a crowd of women attacked two UN investigators and a Lebanese interpreter as they gathered evidence at a private gynecology clinic in Beirut. The women scuffled with investigators and stole several items from them. The attack underscored the charged emotions behind the tribunal, which Hezbullies says is biased. Nasrallah did not address the violence at the clinic or whether Hezbullies had asked the crowd to gather, but he confirmed that the wives and relatives of Hezbullies commanders and officials were among the clinic's patients. The tribunal has not yet indicted any suspects in the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but speculation that the court could name members of Hezbullies has raised fears of violence between the heavily armed force and Prime Minister Saad Hariri's allies. The tribunal's president and the State Department on Wednesday said the investigation will not be deterred by the attack, which happened in Beirut's southern suburb of Ouzai, a Hezbullies stronghold. "Those who carried out this attack must know that violence will not deter the Special Tribunal for Leb, a court of law, from fulfilling its mandate," Judge Antonio Cassese said in a statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |