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| Nasrallah: Israel tried to convince Hariri of Hezbollah plot |
| 2010-08-11 |
| [Ma'an] Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Monday that Israel attempted to convince the late Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri that the Shiite movement was plotting his assassination. Nasrallah said Israel began the scheme on 13 September 1993, adding that Hezbollah had located a Lebanese spy for Israel in 1996 who compiled information on the Shiite movement, and had access to Hariri's convoy. "We now discover that Israel has a large number of spies working in several institutions in Lebanon," Nasrallah said, referring to recent wave of arrests of suspected collaborators, largely in Lebanon's telecommunications industry. He added that Israel sought "any opportunity" to attack Lebanon. On Sunday, Hezobllah spokesman Ibrahim Mousawi told Ma'an that Nasrallah would evidence implicating Israel in Hariri's assassination, which he described as "comprehensive, revealing conclusive information." The news conference follows mounting political tension in Lebanon after reports suggesting that the UN tribunal set-up to investigate the 2005 car bombing which killed Hariri, would implicate Hezbollah in the hit. As a result, 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. |
| Posted by:Fred |