He apparently forgot to blame the US. Perhaps that’s forthcoming in the next round of denials. More on this story. “Nasrallah implies Israel behind Hariri hit,” by Oren Kessler for the Jerusalem Post, July 2:
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday defended the four members of the terrorist organization charged with the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, praising the men as “brothers” — and implying that Israel’s hand was behind the UN tribunal that issued last week’s indictments.
Speaking from an undisclosed location, Nasrallah addressed the allegations for the first time since the UN court announced the indictments on Thursday.
Charges that Hezbollah was behind the 2005 killing of the prominent Sunni leader have already inflamed sectarian tensions in the small and fractious country.
Nasrallah lamented that charges had been brought against “brothers who have made history in resisting the Zionist occupation.”
“We mentioned the possibility of having Israel involved in the murder, and the fact that [Israeli] agents were present at the murder scene one day before the murder,” he said, according to a translation provided by the website Now Lebanon.
“No one in the STL [Special Tribunal for Lebanon] even asked the Israelis anything. This is normal — why? Because the tribunal, since its formation, had a precise goal, and no one was allowed to talk to the Israelis…
“Instead of investigating the Israelis, [the STL] gathered information from them. Imagine that Israel — instead of being under investigation — has become a source of information and [the tribunal] is cooperating with it.”…