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STL requests fingerprints of all Lebanese nationals
The Lebanese authorities approved Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor General Daniel Bellemare’s request to provide him with “the fingerprints of all Lebanese nationals,” Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida has reported Friday.
This action could be related to a report published last May by the German magazine der Spiegel which revealed that Hezbollah is behind the assassination of Lebanon’s former PM Rafik Hariri who was killed in 2005
UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Interpol sign an agreement
The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Interpol reached a “more comprehensive agreement” on information sharing, the UN tribunal announced in a statement on Thursday.
The new agreement gives the UN tribunal access to Interpol’s databases and information system, said the statement. This agreement which was signed by STL President Antonio Cassese and INTERPOL Secretary-General Ronald Noble, is a more comprehensive cooperation agreement replacing the Interim Agreement which entered into force on Aug. 24, the statement added.
Meanwhile, the UN tribunal also announced the opening of its “Outreach Office” in Monteverde, east of the Lebanese capital.
The UN special tribunal was established on March 1, 2009 to try suspects that planned, facilitated and executed the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. He was killed along with 22 others in a suicide bombing in Beirut on Feb. 14, 2005. Xinhua
MP Hamadeh critcizes Syrian judicial system calls it a ’scam’
Democratic Gathering bloc MP and former minister Marwan Hamadeh told Voice of Lebanon radio station on Sunday that he is concerned about Lebanon as a whole, not the failure or success of its cabinet. He is concerned that Israel could strike a regional or international deal at the expense of Lebanon . He is also concerned that the Lebanese people will increase divisions among themselves through the use of arms .
Hamadeh , who miraculously survived an assassination attempt in 2004 for which Syria was blamed criticized the Syrian judicial system, calling it a scam.
He was referring to the warrants issued to 25 key Lebanese officials by a Syrian court in the case of the lawsuit by former General Security Director Jamil As-Sayyed
Sayyed who was one of the suspects in the assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri was released from jail last June for lack of insufficient evidence
Syria is setting tough conditions for hosting Jumblatt
According to Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa sources Syria would not host PSP leader MP Walid Jumblatt unless he makes a public apology on February 14,the day marking the 5th anniversary of the assassination of his friend former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Following the apology Syria reportedly wants Jumblatt to visit his foe , former President Emile Lahoud, whom Jumblatt despises immedsely
Syria reportedly has a long list of demands for Jumblatt but most of them have already been implemented.
According to local observers such demands by Syria are humiliating for the Lebanese leader who after all led the Cedar Revolution, for which he should never be apologetic
Hariri- Whoever assassinated all martyrs aimed at assassinating freedom in Lebanon
PM Saad Hariri told “MTV”: Whoever assassinated Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and President Rene Moawad and other martyrs aimed at assassinating freedom in Lebanon
Reuters Pictures of the Decade
A Lebanese girl looks through the window of a bus carrying women to visit the grave of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut’s Martyrs square March 20, 2005.
Reuters Pictures of the Decade
A Lebanese man shouts for help for a wounded man near the site of a car bomb explosion in Beirut February 14, 2005. A massive car bomb killed Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri along with 21 others.
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