Reuters:
"...Assad and Abdullah are alarmed by the political ferment set off by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah this month when he said Hariri had told him the tribunal would indict "rogue" members of the Shi'ite guerrilla group for his father's killing.
Nasrallah insists the government, which in principle supports the tribunal should reject any such indictments -- setting the scene for a paralyzing government crisis and revived Sunni-Shi'ite tensions, if not bloodshed as in 2008.
Lebanese media quoted Hezbollah's deputy chief Naim Kassem as saying a change of government might become an issue if Hezbollah members were the target of indictments which he called "a project of strife, concocted by those who accuse us."The Hague-based tribunal says talk of indictments is speculation and the prosecutor will file them when he is ready.
Hariri, then leading a broad anti-Syrian coalition, at first accused Damascus of killing his father. Syria denies this.
Since he became prime minister last year, Hariri has dropped his anti-Syrian rhetoric and has visited Damascus several times to forge a rapprochement with Assad that matched a prior Syrian-Saudi reconciliation..."
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