Bulgaria Court Error Delays Trial of Hizbullah Bombing Suspects

W460

The trial over a deadly 2012 bombing of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, due to start on Monday, has been pushed back to November because of a procedural error, prosecutors said.

The opening was delayed because the Sofia court had failed to inform the victims' families of the start date, prosecutors told AFP.

The proceedings against two alleged suspects in the attack, who are on the run and being tried in absentia, will now start on November 10.

A Franco-Lebanese national, identified as Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, blew up a bus carrying Israeli tourists at the airport of the Black Sea coast resort of Burgas on July 18, 2012.

Five Israelis, their Bulgarian driver and the bomber himself died in the attack, which left 35 other Israelis injured.

Bulgarian authorities identified the attacker's alleged accomplices as two Lebanese men with links to Lebanon's Hizbullah, named as Australian passport holder Meliad Farah and Canadian citizen Hassan El Hajj Hassan.

The attack -- which both Israel and Bulgaria blamed on Hizbullah -- was the deadliest hit against Israelis abroad since 2004.

It played a role in a subsequent European Union decision to blacklist Hizbullah's military wing as a “terrorist organization.”

Comments 3
Thumb Hayek.Feghali.Abdelatif 26 September 2016, 18:40

False flag: The contemporary term false flag describes covert operations that are to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them.

Example of false flag:
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/137503

Examples of operations that appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them:

http://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/free-sunnis-baalbek-brigade
http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/20443
http://www.thenational.ae/world/syria/suicide-bombing-in-lebanon-kills-two-troops-security
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/03/17/Blast-hits-Hezbollah-stronghold-in-Lebanon-.html

Thumb shab 26 September 2016, 19:58

hehe

Thumb oompa-loompas 27 September 2016, 01:11

yup, everyone is a Mossad tool just like the Free Sunnis Baalbek Brigade was a Saudi tool and Michel Aoun used to be called a Zionist tool.. BTW has anyone interrogate any Hezbollah official about the murders and suicide terrorist attacks that were claimed by the Free Sunnis Baalbek Brigade, which it turns out was a Hezbollah front, no one else claimed responsibility for those.. It would be interesting to know why did Hezbollah kill, via suicide car bombs, two Lebanese soldiers in Aqabet Al-Jurd and two Hezbollah members in al-Fakiha and murder Hassan al Lakiss in Dahieh, was it worth it just to blame a Sunni group they invented? This sound just like what Michel Samaha was sent to do by Bashar and co.