04/11/2010
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is nothing but a tool in the hands of the West to achieve the American-Israeli scheme in the region…The announcement was made a long time ago by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah.
Nowadays, all actions and events are just confirming this “truth.”
That’s it. The final indictment to be released by the so-called “independent” tribunal probing the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri is believed to be the first step in the “implementation” of the “New Middle East,” the project declared by Washington since the July 2006 war.
When the Lebanese started uncovering the plot and voices were seriously raised to end the financing of the Tribunal, Washington chose to take the initiative without hesitation.
That’s it. Washington officially and proudly announced on Monday it has decided to give an additional $10 million to the tribunal, without any explanation.
"Efforts to discredit, hinder, or influence the tribunal's work must not be tolerated," US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said in a statement.
Rice said the tribunal can help deter further violence and put an end to a tragic era of impunity for political assassinations in Lebanon. "Until Lebanon is able to achieve this, it will be very difficult to secure the peace and stability that all Lebanese citizens deserve," Rice said.
AOUN TO AL-MANAR WEBSITE: STL TURNS TO BE PRESSING TOOLMember of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc MP Alain Aoun told Al-Manar website that the American increase of financial aid to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon carries a message in itself.
Aoun said that the US step was not surprising but rather expected, noting that the tribunal is turning to a tool in a huge regional game.
According to the Free Patriotic Movement lawmaker, the international community is seeking to keep and safeguard the tribunal not to maintain justice but to press all resistance forces in the region.
FERZLI TO AL-MANAR WEBSITE: US SEEKING TO RE-VIVIFY INDICTMENTFor his part, former Deputy Speaker Elie Ferzli said that the United States was seeking to re-vivify the supposed final indictment after all circulating news.
He told Al-Manar website that Washington was seeking, by increasing the aid to the international tribunal, to re-vivify the verdict and use it in the negotiating table with Iran.
Finally, and regardless of all meanings of the American step, one thing is sure is certain. The international tribunal is a politicized one, making “justice” nothing but a “victim.”
04/11/2010 Although the Lebanese National Opposition, along with other parties boycotted national dialogue session, the meeting convened Thursday at Baabda Presidential Palace. President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Speaker Nabih Berri met following the end of the session and agreed that the body’s participants would congregate again before November 22.
According to a statement issued by the president’s press office, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt, Tashnaq Party leader MP Hagop Pakradounian, Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun, Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammad Raad, Lebanese Democratic Party leader MP Talal Arslan, Syrian Social Nationalist Party leader MP Assad Hardane and Marada Movement leader MP Sleiman Franjieh did not attend Thursday's session.
The statement added that Jumblatt and Pakradounian did not attend because they are out of the country.
Media outlets reported that Sleiman met separately with Hariri and Berri. The President also met March 14 figures.
Opposition boycotted the dialogue session after PM Saad Hariri postponed a Cabinet session set to discuss the false witnesses' case, a key-issue leading to the "real" truth.
Although Berri, a leader in the opposition, attended the session, he told reporters that he took part in the talks aimed at discussing a national strategy for the country in his capacity as Parliament Speaker.
For his part, and as he left Baabda Palace, Hariri told reporters that he regretted the absence of party leaders "from talks to discuss a defense strategy and Israeli threats."
04/11/2010 The head of the Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Mohamad Raad told Al-Manar on Thursday that Hezbollah decided to boycott the national dialogue session held earlier during the day in a message of solidarity with the head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc MP Michel Aoun.
Answering a question about the reasons of his absence from the session, Raad said: “When MP Michel Aoun boycotts the session in protest of the Prime Minister and his bloc’s delaying of solutions in the false witnesses issue and when some opposition poles express solidarity with him, we find ourselves in Hezbollah as concerned before others to express solidarity with Aoun’s stance. Therefore, our absence was very normal in this context.”
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Michel Sleiman will preside over an empty 'dialogue'...
While Saad Hariri wraps up his 'last minute meeting with the Doke of York & Sarah Fergusson', .... Missing are, Hezbollah, Aoun, Frangieh, Jumblatt, the Armenians & the Syrian-Social-Nationalists ... On to the Council of Ministers and to the barricades?
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