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Hizbullah chief urges Lebanese to boycott STL investigation
By Elias Sakr -
The Daily Star, Lebanon
Friday, October 29, 2010
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=120915#axzz13jEKOkla


“I ask every official and every citizen in Lebanon to boycott those investigators and refrain from cooperating with them … because all that is presented is passed on to the Israelis,” Nasrallah said in the wake of an incident involving STL investigators and women at a medical clinic in the southern suburbs of Beirut.


“Continued cooperation … on the one hand helps to desecrate the country on all levels and on the other hand assaults the resistance,” he added.


Nasrallah said examinations of a gynecologist’s patient records, primarily records of prominent Hizbullah officials’ wives, is a breach of ethical, religious and humanitarian norms that is no longer acceptable.


“We reached a very critical point that cannot be ignored irrespective of any internal, political or foreign considerations … This is a turning point and what will follow will be different from before,” Nasrallah said.


He said current investigations by the UN-backed tribunal were attempts to collect information on Hizbullah rather than to investigate former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s murder “since the STL indictment was formulated back in 2006 to frame Hizbullah members.”


Nasrallah added that he had been informed “minutes” earlier that the US was pressing STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare to issue the indictment before December in a bid to deal a blow to Saudi-Syrian efforts to preserve stability in Lebanon and spark strife in the country.


In one of the first reactions to Nasrallah’s remarks, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said the comments were threats against the Lebanese state and called for an urgent meeting of Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s Cabinet.


“What Sayyed Nasrallah said is very dangerous and include threats against the Lebanese state, since there is a memorandum between Lebanon and the UN that compels Lebanese institutions to cooperate with the investigation,” Geagea told Al-Arabiya satellite news channel.


“The Cabinet was committed in its policy statement to the STL and to support it and I call for a government session very soon to evaluate whether we should continue with this government and its policy statement,” he added.





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