Lebanon Hezbullah tells STL they can't find the killers

The Hezbullah-dominated Lebanese government has told the Special Tribunal for Lebanon that it cannot find the four senior Hezbullah officials who have been indicted for the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in 2005. Lebanon informed the U.N.-backed court investigating the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri Tuesday that it has so far failed to arrest

Hariri indictment details released

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon has released details of the indictments in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. Pre-trial judge Daniel Fransen ordered the lifting of confidentiality on the full names, aliases, biographical information, photographs and charges against the individuals named in the indictment, the tribunal said in a statement.The four men named in

Hezbullah tries to distract attention from Hariri probe by threatening Israel

Hezbullah MP Muhammad Raad told the Beirut Daily Star on Wednesday that in the event that Israel attacks Lebanon, not one inch of Israel would be spared. “If Israel launches an attack, rockets of the resistance will cover all of Israel: even the city of Eilat won’t be spared,” Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammad Raad said, referring to the southern most port city of the Jewish state.Raad’

Nasrallah losing legitimacy

It may be hard to tell from where you and I sit, but Jonathan Spyer reports that as a result of the indictments by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbullah are losing legitimacy. In recent months, the movement’s support for the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, even as it brutally crushed an uprising by the Sunni majority, has further served to tarnish Hezbollah’s