One of the judges ordered Lebanon to hand over information about the other attacks. With the current Lebanese government dominated by Hizballah, good luck with that. An update on this story. "Lebanon tribunal orders probe of 3 more attacks," from the Jerusalem Post, August 19:
AMSTERDAM - The UN-backed Lebanon tribunal said on Friday it pursue investigations into three bomb attacks which it believes are connected to a separate bombing which killed Lebanese politician Rafik al-Hariri in 2005.
Daniel Fransen, the pre-trial judge for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), ordered the Lebanese authorities to hand over information about the attacks and assassination attempts on three other politicians -- Marwan Hamadeh, George Hawi, and Elias al-Murr.
Hamadeh is a former telecoms minister who survived an assassination attempt in 2004 while al-Murr, a former deputy prime minister and former defence minister, was wounded in a bombing in 2005.
Hawi, a former Communist Party chief and critic of Syria, was killed by a bomb in his car in Beirut in 2005.
"The (STL) prosecutor had presented prima facie evidence that each of the three cases are connected (to the Hariri killing), and are thus within the tribunal's jurisdiction," the court said in a statement.
The tribunal issued sealed arrest warrants for four members of the Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah in June over the assassination of Hariri, a billionaire Sunni Muslim politician and one time prime minister.
However, none of the four has been detained by Lebanese authorities and Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and Syria, says they will never be arrested.
So Lebannon is on the security council and EXPLOITED its position to prevent condemnation for yesterdays attacks that killed 8 Israelis AND is ALSO refusing to comply with the UN command (request?) that it cooperate with the UNs tribunal.
Why is the UN permitting assassins and terrorists a seat on the security council?
What will be the result of Hizbollah refusing to comply with the tribunal? Hizbollah obviously thinks the UN will do absolutely nothing.
When will we finally bulldoze that nest of vipers and eunichs into the east river and start an organization comprised of only solidly democratic, civilized countries?
Or at least force the organization to pick a more honest name.
Seriously, this organization has been around for over 50 years and much of the world is still a festering crap hole, both economically and morally.
I fail to see what it does that individual nations and other organizations don't do faster and more thuroughly.
Has it ever prevented any despot who was up to no good from doing exactly what they wanted?
Have they prevented one single conflict from escalating into war?
Has any despot or rogue nation decided to mend their ways because the UN said they were being naughty?
There must be something it does that individual organizations or nations cannot. But I don't know what that is.