‘US-backed court implicates Hezbollah’

30 June, 2011 12:23

shiitenews_US_backed_court_implicates_Hezbollah A Lebanese television station says the US-backed court probing former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri’s 2005 assassination has implicated Hezbollah members in the incident.

The controversial Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), which has been investigating the deaths for the past five years under the auspices of Washington, submitted a sealed indictment and arrest warrants to the Lebanese government on Thursday.

The Future Television, owned by the victim’s son Sa’ad Hariri’s Future Movement (al-Mustaqbal), said on Thursday that the indictment had named four members of the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah.

Hezbollah has strictly rejected any involvement in the incident and called the tribunal an â€œAmerican-Israeli project.â€