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<font size=4><b>Israel implicated in Hariri murder
</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">(two articles follow)<br><br>
</b></font><font size=3>Tuesday, August 10, 2010 <br>
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<a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/2010891991920480.html" eudora="autourl">
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/2010891991920480.html<br>
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</a></b>Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has implicated Israel
for the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime
minister.<br><br>
In a video address to journalists from an undisclosed location on Monday,
Nasrallah said he had evidence to prove Israel's complicity in
al-Hariri's assassination in a bomb explosion in the Lebanese capital,
Beirut.<br><br>
"He has not provided undisputed, solid proof that implicates
Israel," Al Jazeera's Rula Amin reporting from Beirut said.<br><br>
The Hezbollah leader, however, said that "there is enough evidence
pointing to Israel," our correspondent said.<br><br>
Al-Hariri and 22 others were killed on the Beirut seafront on February
14, 2005. <br><br>
The assassination sparked an international outcry and led to the
withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. <br><br>
The murder has been widely blamed on Syria, but Damascus has routinely
denied involvement.<br><br>
<b>Blaming Israel<br><br>
</b>Fawaz Gerges, a Middle East analyst, told Al Jazeera that Nasrallah
"talked about who has the most to benefit from the assassination ...
[by trying to] provide a very complex case by drawing a historical link
between Israel" and the killing.<br><br>
Nasrallah said Israel used spying and covert operations to attempt to
drive a wedge between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government.<br><br>
Among the material presented was what he described as Israeli
reconaissance footage intercepted by Hezbollah of areas frequented by
al-Hariri.<br><br>
Aaron Klein, a political commentator in Jerusalem, told Al Jazeera that
the contents of Nasrallah's rare speech were not surprising.<br><br>
"This is exactly what everybody in Israel was expecting, which was
to use the Jewish state as a scapegoat because he is up against a rock
and a hard place," Klein said.<br><br>
<b>UN probe<br><br>
</b>A
<a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/2010722195048884802.html">
UN court probing the assassination of al-Hariri</a>is planning to charge
Hezbollah members in the killing, Nasrallah said in July.<br><br>
Nasrallah criticised the UN investigation because it "does not look
into the possibility that Israel is implicated, we believe it is
biased".<br><br>
Our correspondent said that Hezbollah considers the tribunal "an
Israeli project to create strife in Lebanon".<br><br>
Impending charges from the international body had pushed Lebanon into a
"very sensitive phase", Klein said.<br><br>
Hezbollah fought a devestating war with Israel in 2006.<br><br>
Klein said that a UN verdict against Hezbollah would be "devastating
for them in terms of the internal politics" as it could spark anger
among other sectors of Lebanese society.<br><br>
Rula Amin said that "Hezbollah is trying to dismiss the findings of
international investigations. They want to discredit the basic
information that investigators had depended on in making their
conclusions".<br><br>
"He is trying to say that the findings are not credible and
politically motivated ... he is trying to do is build a case in which he
says Israel is a legitimate suspect," our correspondent said.<br>
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</font><font size=4><b>Hezbollah exposes Israeli hit men<br><br>
</b></font><font size=3>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:17:03 GMT<br>
<a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=138064§ionid=351020203" eudora="autourl">
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=138064§ionid=351020203</a>
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Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has presented evidence proving
that Israel masterminded the assassination of former Lebanese Prime
Minister Rafik Hariri. <br><br>
At a press conference in Beirut on Monday night, the Lebanese resistance
movement's secretary general presented video materials captured by
Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as well as recorded confessions by
Israeli fifth columnists substantiating that the February 14, 2005
assassination of Hariri in the capital was carried out on orders from Tel
Aviv. <br><br>
The Lebanese network Al-Manar aired the speech and incorporated the
evidence, showing intercepted footage of Hariri's house in the lead-up to
the massive car bombing which killed him and claimed the lives of 22
other people. <br><br>
The network showed videos, taken by the drones, monitoring the route that
Hariri used to take every day. <br><br>
The Lebanese Defense Ministry reports show Israeli warplanes and
reconnaissance aircraft flew over the area where Hariri was assassinated
on the day he was murdered, Nasrallah said.<br><br>
Al-Manar also aired film footage showing Israeli espionage agents
acknowledging their roles in the assassination. <br><br>
One of the Israeli operatives, Ahmad Hussein Nasrallah, "gave false
information to former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri through someone who
worked with Hariri in the security area," the Al-Manar narrator
stated, and added, "He said that Hezbollah wanted to assassinate
Rafik Hariri." <br><br>
Afterwards Al-Manar showed the agent admitting to the ruse. <br><br>
Syria was accused of being behind the plot to assassinate Hariri, which
undermined the tenuous ties between Damascus and Beirut and eventually
led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. <br><br>
The Hezbollah leader said Ahmed Nasrallah had sought to frighten the late
Lebanese premier with the allegations as part of a larger plot to drive
Syria out of Lebanon. <br><br>
He went on to say that the assassination was meant to spark a sectarian
and religious war in Lebanon, adding that if the United Nations tribunal
investigating the case fails to consider the new evidence, it will show
that the investigation has been politicized. <br><br>
Nasrallah had said last month that he had been informed by the slain
leader's son and successor, Saad Hariri, that the Special Tribunal for
Lebanon "will accuse some undisciplined [Hezbollah] members."
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He rejected the allegation and warned that the plot was part of "a
dangerous project that is targeting the resistance." <br><br>
The United Nations tribunal is expected to announce its findings by the
end of the year. <br><br>
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