Mirza Inquires TIME Correspondent about Interview with Hariri Murder Suspect

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General Prosecutor Saeed Mirza met on Monday with TIME magazine correspondent Nicholas Blanford over an article to which an interview with one of the four suspects in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination was added.

Blanford, one of the co-writers of the TIME article, has denied that he conducted the interview with the unidentified suspect, saying that he only wrote the article on the indictment published by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Hizbullah’s stance from it.

Media reports said Blanford arrived at the Justice Palace accompanied by his lawyer.

Mirza told al-Joumhouria daily that he would question Blanford on the issue and then take the necessary legal measures.

The suspect, a Hizbullah member, has said in the interview: “The Lebanese authorities know where I live, and if they wanted to arrest me they would have done it a long time ago. Simply, they cannot.”

Mirza has categorically denied that the prosecution or the police are aware of the place of residence of any of the four suspects and have not proceeded with the arrests as called for by the STL.

Comments 6
Thumb benzona 22 August 2011, 10:29

What a hypocrisy. Mirza knows very well that the suspects could be apprehended if the Lebanese authorities wanted to. The Time magazine proved that they still are in Lebanon... Et il prouve bien que le Hezbollah nous nargue. What a lame country...

Default-user-icon Truth (Guest) 22 August 2011, 10:30

Whatever conclusions the wouldbe inquiry reaches, it is a futile exercice to recover a non existant credibility with the STL. Just like a gearless car, in a dead motion , revving desperately!

Default-user-icon Valvolino (Guest) 22 August 2011, 12:56

This is a great story about a reporter who works for a magazine. The magazine publishes an "interview" that the reporter conducted but really DID NOT conduct. Now that's a trustworthy magazine. This is why I, being a dumb idiot like cheikh Imbecile and his Christian Sunnis and Lebanon Never First, collectively described as idiots, BELIEVE this story. Then they ask: why are we such losers? How can we be idiots and losers at the same time? These two attributes constitute a paradox in their empty brains! WHY?

Default-user-icon MUSTAPHA O. GHALAYINI (Guest) 22 August 2011, 14:14

ok mirza dont stop trying to inquire.
our president and prime minister are still inquiring about governing.
all the state is inquiring, and hassoun governing, and the clock is ticking.....

Default-user-icon i_ataoui (Guest) 22 August 2011, 18:58

Hezballah start to gather & distribute valueable info. about STL, the shameful fishy court whose mastermind tried to bring Lebanon into civil strife, but upon the persistence of the party, all who around this "Seniora STL", hopefully, a fair Lebanese justice will bring them up into jail, but not the freedom fighters who free Lebanon from occupation.

Missing abou.ali 22 August 2011, 21:27

> Ataoui! So, it is OK to kill and get AWAY with it? Hezbollah DID NOT LIBERATE anything! Hezbollah has occupied the country and you dumbidiot is playing in his hands, YOU and Silly General Aou and the rest of the Syrian affiliated thugs...