Hizbullah Unveils New Documents on Alleged Transfer of IT Equipment to Israel
Hizbullah has provided alleged proof and further details on documents revealing that U.N. investigators have transferred IT equipment to Israel through a loaded container.
On Saturday, al-Manar TV showed a document that the investigators probing ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination allegedly transferred the equipment when they moved their staff to the Netherlands in 2009.
This Monday, the Shiite party gave details on two more documents, with one asking for an exemption from Israeli taxes. The document was filled by Miho Hirose, a manager at UNTSO in Jerusalem, Hizbullah said.
It added that Israeli authorities had signed on the document to exempt the cargo loaded in container number 290530/6 from the taxes.
The other document unveiled to the media by Hizbullah is of a manifesto detailing the goods inside the container. It includes 77 desktop computers, 20 laptops and other IT equipment.
The party said that it released the information after doubts that the document showed on al-Manar on Saturday about the alleged transfer was fake or had no legal basis.
According to Hizbullah’s statement on Monday, Israel could have benefited from the transfer to copy the information inside the computers.
The info includes in addition to other things details about witnesses, the structure of the commission investigating Hariri’s Feb. 2005 murder and all telecommunications data in Lebanon since 2002.
Hizbullah said that Israel could have also retrieved information deleted from the equipment and planted programs or viruses that could damage or destroy networks that these computers would be linked with.
Such moves would allow Israel to use the information in its military and security projects and distort the investigation into Hariri’s murder, the party added.
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