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German weekly
The Future Movement had no immediate comment on the charges against Hezbollah. Media owned by parliament member Saad Rafiq Hariri ignored the German report. Hezbollah denied any involvement in the assassination, stating, "It is nothing more than police fabrications concocted in the back room." The party added that it considers "the publication of these accusations and attempts to attribute them to sources close to the International Court to be damaging to the Court’s credibility and work, which requires it to act decisively and boldly towards those seeking to propagate falsifications."
Hariri was assassinated on Feb. 14, 2005, in a massive explosion.
The report asserts that Abd Al-Majid Ghamlush, a member of Hezbollah from the town of Rumin who had completed a training course in Iran, led investigators to learn of Hezbollah's involvement in the assassination through a mobile phone call to his girlfriend. Ghamlush has since disappeared and is perhaps no longer alive. The weekly added that his mistake led investigators to the man they suspect of masterminding the assassination, 45-year-old leader Hajj Salim from Nabatiyah in southern Lebanon, who commands Hezbollah's military wing.
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The report indicated that a special unit in the Lebanese security forces headed by Information Division Technical Branch Chief Wissam Eid, who was later assassinated, was the first to obtain the preliminary evidence that led the committee to this conclusion.
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2010-8-11
This International Court has been politicized since the very beginning. This has been clear. Such a court never was or will be a fair one. If it were fair, it would have included the hypothesis of Israel being the real criminal among its suspects. However, it has never assumed this. The court accused Syria, so that Syria would get out of Lebanon, which was achieved. The first goal of the court was achieved when Syria got out of Lebanon. Consequently, the Syrian support for Hezbollah stopped. When the assumption that Syria is responsible for the assassinations was no longer needed, the accusation was moved to Hezbollah, which became the main target of Israel and its allies outside and inside Lebanon, after Israel and its allies had failed, both inside and outside, to achieve their goals in the July war in 2006. It became disabled and embarrassed after Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the resistance and the master orator, provided evidence, proof and authentic documents, both in audio and video, which are considered evidence and can be considered the cornerstone and basis for the accusation against the Israeli enemy, which will find itself every day cornered and asking its allies and supporters in Egypt and Jordan, as well as the agent Abbas, to talk about the Palestinian peace process. We will only overcome Israel with the unity of all efforts; therefore, we ask the Lebanese government to be up to the level of responsibility.