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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah "not concerned" in UN Hariri tribunal
2010-09-04
[Al Arabiya] The Iranian sock puppet party Hezbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday said a U.N. investigating the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri did "not concern" him, because it had dismissed data provided by his armed group.

"We have said that the tribunal and its prosecutor do not concern us and subsequently we are not concerned with answering the questions or requests of the prosecutor," Nasrallah said in a televised speech to mark the Iranian-inspired al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day.

"Weeks ago we said the resistance feels that it is being targeted, and we proposed a few ideas and revealed some evidence," said Nasrallah, who has accused Israel of the 2005 murder of Hariri.

"The prosecutor commented on this evidence by saying... it was insufficient," Nasrallah said.

On Aug. 9, Nasrallah produced several undated clips of aerial views of various areas in Leb that he said were intercepted from unmanned Israeli surveillance drones. The clips included footage of the site of the Hariri assassination, shot several years before the murder.

The Lebanese government on Aug. 17 submitted a copy of Hezbullies's alleged evidence to the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Leb, an international investigation into the Feb. 14, 2005 bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others in Beirut, in response to a request by office of prosecutor Daniel Bellemare.

But Bellemare's office said the evidence was incomplete and called for any remaining material to be submitted without delay.

"We gave what evidence we have to Lebanese jurisdiction based on the request of Lebanese jurisdiction," Nasrallah said Friday.

"If this jurisdiction has any questions, we are ready" to cooperate, he added.

"But if this jurisdiction is just a mailbox between us and the prosecutor, then we are not ready."
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